CHAPTER IX.

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THE WONDERFUL PROPERTIES OF THE TEST BOOK TAROTS.
HE strange properties of the Mystic Test Book are beautifully illustrated by means of the tarots made from its magic pages. The an- cients called these tarots " Magic " squares or "Magi" squares, and they are found carved upon stone upon ancient monuments. The squares thus found, however, are those made of ordin- ary numerals, because the ones made of the symbols of the Test Book are much more difficult to represent upon stone, besides being held as too sacred to be thus made public.
But the sacred quality is looked upon quite from a differ- ent standpoint now. The Order regards the Test Book and all the other matters connected with our religion and work as "sacred," only in the sense that all knowledge is sacred.
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We no longer look upon anything with that superstitious reverence that belongs to the childhood of races, when men saw a God or demon in everything that was the least bit out o£ the common.
It will be impossible, in this work, to give a full and com- prehensive treatise upon the subject, that will enable the student to find individual tarots for any and all birth dates, because the key birth tarots alone, from Avhich the test book tarot sare constructed, number six thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
The key tarots from which these 6,816 are constructed, number six hundred and forty-four, and they are only to be found in two books upon this planet. Therefore we only intend to give, in this work, elementary instruction upon a subject that is practically infinite in extent.
The simplest form of tarot known is the 3x3 number tarot.
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The horizontal lines, perpendicular lines and the diagonals from corner to corner each add up 15, which is equal to the figures in one row multiplied by the center figure, five.
In all odd numbered magic squares this law holds good.
We will now produce the same from leaves of the Mystic Test Book.
The spot value of the emblems, being the same as in the
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This is "perfect," because all the eight lines add up 54. That is, it is a perfect solar tarot, or physical tarot. But it is not a perfect spirit tarot in any manner whatsoever, for the first line at the left adds up 184, the next perpendicular line 95 and the last 54. The spirit results are mixed.
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Why is it, think 3^011, that the same tarot of cards, when made of different emblems, changes its properties? If one or more have this property, why not all?
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Again, when we find the spirit of these cards so complete- ly different from the solar values and spot values, why should they ever form a perfect tarot?
The reason is this, because these cards have divine proper- ties, or occult properties not possessed by any other book that ever existed upon our planet.
For the purpose of further illustration of this point we will again produce the sacred star and examine into its properties.
The tarot in the center shows the emblems of wisdom, run- ning from the quarter of labor to the quarter of knowledge.
The queen of love rules upon the point of the star where the four of hearts represents satisfaction in love and friend- ship. The knave of hearts is in the point of " power in love" and his position corresponds to the male birth house, that is, Aries.
The king of hearts is in the place of m,arriage, that is, the house of Gemini.
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the emblem of the Infinite Power, and Cancer, the emblem of the retrogression of the physical.
The ace of spades, the secret emblem, representative of the secret order, stands between the balances of Libra, and the Virgin of the sixth house upon one of the dark or " occult " points of the star.
The 2 of spades on another dark point represents " union in labor."
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All the points from the Magi card around to the left, form the sacred number that we gave on page 23 in the emblems of wisdom, which represents one-seventh of the number of the Infinite.
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The spot value of this row is just equal to 3 times 9, or 27, the same number that constitutes the sum of each row in the central tarot. But the solar values add up 144, the occult number 12x12 used so much in the mystic books of the Bible.
But, now observe the vast difference between the spirit values of the sacred number and the tarot. While the forraer=44+40+54+80+84+70, which equal 872 or 12 times 31, the latter, or tarot lines are but 126.
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The solar values add 66 against 144 on the points, while the spot values are the same. Again, take the cards on any two opposite points, light plus dark, positive and negative, and they invariably add up the same on all the points, thus we find that as different as the various values are, the co- ordinations are so perfect that each opposite pair of points
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balance with eacn of the others as shown in the following
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The three triangles together^l2 times 31=372. We wish to particularly impress upon the minds of our readers the fact that these numbers are not like mere words which are arbitrary and invented by human- beings, but on the contrary, these wonderful and astonishing mathematical relations, connected with the Test Book, dtxe divine attributes inherent in the very laivs of the Infinite. Therefore they are fixed facts, not only upon this particular earth; but upon all the planets that exist throughout the vast realms of space.
THE SIXTEEN" MAGIC TAROT.
The next tarot to the one we have been considering, and by far the most important, is the one containing sixteen squares or 4 times 4.
These are called " birth tarots," from the fact that every person born into the world has one as his or her ruling tarot. *
In all, there are many millions of these tarots, and the one belonging to any individual can only be found by a mathematical calculation.
Some person's tarots are perfect in spirit as well as the solar values. Others are very imperfect, while some are partly perfect in spirit and in some cases almost wholly so. The tarot of any person shows how well the astral or spirit is balanced to the mentality and physical.
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In some the solar values are low, while the spirit values are high. In others the law is reversed. But the strangest peculiarity of all is, that some of the cards have minus spirits or what is called "double astrals," while there are persons to correspond.
It is not generally known that there are, here and there, persons who actually have a double inner self or astral and that one is positive, the other negative. I hesitate to put forth such facts without going into details which support the claim, but I will be obliged to only give the mathemat- ical side of the questiqn in this work, or the relations of the tarot to man.
RULE FOR FINDING THE NEGATIVE SPIRIT OF A CARD,
"Subtract the positive spirit of the card from the number eighty-nine^ and give the remainder the minus sign.'"'
EXAMPLES OF DOUBLE ASTRALS.
Five of spades: positive 84, negative - - 5 Seven of hearts: positive 70, negative - 19
Nine of diamonds: positive 83, negative - 6
King of clubs: positive 82, negative - 7
As a matter of fact every card has a negative astral, and I am even inclined to believe that each and every human being has a negative spirit that comes uppermost under certain conditions, but the negatives of nearly all the cards do not appear to assert themselves only under very extra- ordinary circumstances.
In the same manner, the negative spirit of human beings generally keeps back, except in the case of some certain ones who appear, at least from a mathematical standpoint, to act under the negative astral nearly all the time. I
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have found several persons during our temple worK of the past three years, ivho act under the negative magnetic astral number and calculations must be made accordingly in their cases. This extends to planetary affects too.
The "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde," although written as a novel only, seems to be founded upon a fact in human nature.
The following examples of birth tarots are all taken from the Test Book at one time and they illustrate the various phases mentioned heretofore.
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One line of tarots, comprising 354,43b in number, are called "Century tarots," from the fact that their solar values add up just 100 on all the lines. But they are also wonderful examples of high spirit tarots, the astrals adding
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Class 122^ spot values add 44: solar values add 122: spirit values add 152; or exactly the Test Book number 52+100, the solar value of its mate given above. There are 54,528 of these tarots.
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together and subtract the negative from the sum. In this instance the negative used is that of the nine of diamonds. 75+42+41=158. 158—6=152. The cross line adds in same manner 152. In class 92 the spirits are perfect, adding 119, but using the negative spirit of the 5 of spades which is — 5. This series contains 27,564 tarots. This entire " book," which means 48 cards, 4x12, exclusive of the knaves, contains 436,224 tarots.
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divergence between the solar and spirit values, also from the fact that the astrals are all positive and perfect. This is class 96, number of tarots 109,056. Entire series 272,448. Spirits add up 248; more than two mid one-half times the solar values.
One peculiar series are called " Court Tarots " from the fact that they are composed of all the court cards.
EXAMPLE OF SOLAR COURT TAROTS NUMBER 124.
Up to the present time but 27,264 are known of the class number 124, but it is quite probable that this will be
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exceded. It belongs to a very large series, containing nearly half a million in number.
The solar values and spirit values of class 124 are very nearly balanced, 124 to 172.
NAMES OF THE FIVE " POINTS " OF A TAROT.
All tarots, of whatever number of squares, have five points, consisting of the four corners and the center. In odd numbered tarots, such as 9 or 25 square, the center square is one of the " points." But in even square tarots such as the 16 or 36, the center point is where the middle lines cross.
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HOW TAROT SQUARES COME UNDER THE PLANETS.
The male squares in a tarot are those forming a " Saint
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This line differs somewhat from the former conceptions held regarding the female squares. Later discoveries changing the rulings on some squares.
We see here illustrated the very original, conception of the cross X, and circle O; as emblems of sex.
Any tarot can be changed or transposed from a Mercury tarot to that of any other planet, by crossing the cards over uniformly in such a manner as to bring the place of the Ego to the square ruled hy the planet; but this change revolves the ego in the female circle constantly, if the tarot is a feminine tarot, and on the contrary the ego remains in the X, if the tarot is a male one.
If the changes are made in such a manner as to throw the ego from the O ^o the X, or vice versa, the tarot will be changed in its entire nature and in many cases rendered an imperfect one. At the least it will be thrown into another
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series or class, very different from its former solar rank.
The following series of seven cuts, exhibits in a graphic
manner the way changes are made from the primary, or
Mercury tarot, to each of the other planets. The lines drawn from one dot to another, signify that the emblems or figures in those squares are to be exchanged one with another.
In the illustration of Jupiter the crossing from corner to corner is indicated by arrows to save the confusion of lines.
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There are many other changes that could be shown upon diagrams, illustrating the movement of the numbers, in changing from series to series and class to class, but it is
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Should my time permit, I intend to get out a special work on tarotology, with all the key tarots, tables and directions, some time in the future. Such a work will require much time and labor.
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In an impersonal card tarot, the " ego square '' is always the one which is occupied by the card having the smallest solar value.
But in a personal tarot, the square occupied by the birth card of the person, is called the " Ego Square."
The following tarot, class 158 solar, is very remarkable from the fact that the spirit and solar values are so nearly alike. The solar value, 158, being actually greater than the spirit value, which is but 156.
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Class 158 contains 13,632 tarots. One class belonging to series 621 is somewhat remarkable for just the opposite quality, as its spirit is more than three times its solar value.
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There are other members of this series that are peculiar ill various directions. One of the tarots in another class is oiven below as a sample from same series.
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Strange to say, every class and series have their pecu- liarities in the same way that people and animals have theirs. Yet, like animals, and even vegetables, there is a law that runs through all, that is manifest to us upon examination in a certain geometrical form that exists with all tarots.
We will next give an example of a large class of tarots that belong in solar 96, same class as the one given a few pages back, that has a constant spirit of 248, positive. But, strange to say, this one, although of same solar class, is not spiritually perfect at all; some lines adding 70, some
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248 and some 159. There are a large number of " off spirit '' tarots, there being no less than a hundred t/iousand in one series. Persons who are born under the rulings of one of these species, are of changeable, mixed astral development and cannot be taught spiritual things scarcely at all.
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Another peculiar thing about this particular class of tarots is the fact that a transformation from one planet to another often changes certain squares to negatives and at the same time changes negatives to positives. In other words, the changes of the environment of the tarot changes its
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spiritual nature. Other tarots, given heretefore, do not change in spirit under environment.
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By the use of the negative of the 3 of spades the hori- zontal and perpendicular lines are brought to 159, but the cross lines X are each 248 and cannot be changed by negatives.
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