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WHY THE SIXTEEN SQUARE TAROTS ARE BIRTE TAROTS. CALCULATIONS REGARDING THEM.
I HE reason why the 4x4 tarots are considered as birth tarots, are many. We will give a few of them here, so that the reader can compre- hend in a measure what lies beyond our ordinary grasp.
In the first place, anything that is used by workers in the occult line, should have within itself con- formity to the motions of the heavenly bodies and time. Time is only an abstract, however, and does not really exist, for we can have no conception of time only as it measures the motion of something we are familiar with.
Thus we say " day " to express the fact that the earth has revolved once upon its axis. We say ^' year," as a con- venient way of stating that the earth has performed a
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revolution about the sun. Of course we can divide and sub-divide these expressions for convenience sake; but all fractions partake of the same quality as the whole.
We have shown how the Test Book conforms to time, which is really motion, so we will now show how the sixteen tarot conforms to time and motion.
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The tarot frame given here will be an excellent place for the owner of this book to enter his own mathematical tarot when he becomes possessed of it, thereby having it for pur- pose of study and permanent record.
The perpendicular, middle line, is the celestial meridian; the horizontal line that crosses it midway, is the line of the
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Apsides, both lines corresponding to the same ones used on the celestial sphere or the Zodiac. These lines, called the "Celestial Cross," ( + ) divide the tarot into four grand quarters, corresponding to the four seasons and the four quarters of the Zodiac, as well as the four chapters of the Test Book.
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The central part is the ^^ place of the sun,''^ and represents power and glory in the ancient symbolism. It too, is divided into four quarters, so that the tarot really expresses, not only the twelve houses of the Zodiac, but the four quarters at the same time.
The seven planets and the earth constitute with their satellites eight grand centers of vibratory force, or astral magnetism, in our solar system. The 4x4 tarot with its circle of planets in the female line and its cross, X, in the male line, represents them in their two-fold qualities, cor- responding to the positive and negative in nature.
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Birth tarot No. 1, mathematical, is formed from the numbers one to sixteen joined together under a certain law to form a complete and perfect tarot.
From this original Mercury tarot all the six thousand eight hundred and sixteen mathematical 4x4 birth tarots are constructed.
FOKMATION OF TAROT NUMBER ONE.
Begin at the upper left hand corner of the tarot frame and enter the numbers in regular order from left to right, but only those which fall in the male cross
Secondly, begin at the lower right hand corner and enter the numbers in the same manner from right to left, except that you only enter them in the vacant female circle
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We illustrate the tarot thus produced, showing the male numbers in black faced figures, the female in light. From this basic tarot all the Test Book tarots can be made.
Every perfect mathematical 16 tarot has the following peculiar properties:
1. The characteristic number, found by addition, is 34, which is composed of 3 and 4, which, in turn, add 7, the sacred number
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2. Every perpendicular and horizontal line, 8 in number add up 34 each.
3. The diagonal lines each add up 34.
4. The four sun squares in the center add just 34.
5. The four corner squares add exactly 34.
6. The two middle top squares + the two middle bottom squares equal 34.
7. The side squares, corresponding to the last, add up 34.
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Many millions of these tarots are very beautiful and regu- lar in form, and they are all interesting. The solar value of the Queen tarot is 171, spirit value 286, spot value 54, suit value 117, quarter value 15. All making perfect tarots when placed in frames by themselves.
The numbers of these tarots are simply beyond the human comprehension. It can be demonstrated by mathematics that a certain number of them could be constructed, but the number is so great that they never can be all constructed. They have the same peculiar properties belonging to the other tarots, only the poveers are greatly enhanced from the fact that a 6x6 tarot combines the properties of the 9 and 16 tarots together. .
Thus, we can form a 36 tarot by combining four 3x3 tarots in a proper manner, or we can make one by means of the tarot frame of card emblems as shown in the engraving.
The following cut exhibits a 36 tarot '• frame " for holding a 4x4 tarot. The one shown belongs to the " Century tarots." In the vacant square we produce an engraving which will be found useful to the student of phrenology and astrology combined, but we will not enter into an explanation here. It speaks for itself however.
Any one of the millions of century tarots will fit into the inside of this frame and form a perfect 36 tarot, provided the 16 tarots are made of cards not in the frame. But mil- lions of these frames can be formed, fitting around all sorts and classes of 16 tarots, making the permutations enormous.
One brother, who makes a study of 36 tarots, said: " The number that can be made of them, is like the sands of the sea for multitude/'
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Let us see if this is an exaggeration. One pound of fine sand contains about 700,000 "grains," or particles of sand, as found by counting and computation some years since.
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One ton contains, on that basis, fourteen billion grains. Oar earth would contain, provided its immense bulk was all made of sand, 84,966 septilUons of grains. But the number of 36 tarots that can be constructed from
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the Mystic Test Book is equal to the thirty-second permuta- tion, which is exactly:
268,130,836,933,693,530,167,218,012,160,000,000 or to express it in words, more than two hundred and sixty- three thousand millions of septillions. Therefore we are forced to the conclusion that the number of these tarots possible, is actually more than equal to the particles of sand that would be contained in three jnilUons of such globes as our earth.
If we look at it from another standpoint, we are none the less astonished, for we find that for all of the enormous number of perfect tarots, the number of ways that the Test