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Association of the masculine "principles": with divine authority. "The helmet indicates the rule of the Divine Will in the Universe, and its universal action in the creation of Life (eagle)."<ref>Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.</ref>
Association of the masculine "principles": with divine authority. "The helmet indicates the rule of the Divine Will in the Universe, and its universal action in the creation of Life (eagle)."<ref>Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.</ref>


BOS: Active/Yang/Positive/Masculine reinforcement of stereotypes:  "The man indicates the active; his position, however, shows that this activity is engendered by a superior term. The 1st arcanum, the Juggler, the active absolute, was represented standing, looking to the front; the 4th arcanum, active relative, is seated in profile."
Also law and order. Law versus chaos. "Any other approach can only destroy society. Today, we see this viewpoint embodied in an abstraction we call the 'system' . The Romans saw it more concretely in the personal figure of the Emperor, whom they described as the father of all his people."<Ref>Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 50.</ref>
 
Active/Yang/Positive/Masculine reinforcement of stereotypes:  "The man indicates the active; his position, however, shows that this activity is engendered by a superior term. The 1st arcanum, the Juggler, the active absolute, was represented standing, looking to the front; the 4th arcanum, active relative, is seated in profile."
<ref>Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.</ref>
<ref>Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.</ref>
"Trumps 3 and 4 of the Tarot represent the parents in their arche­typal roles. But just as the Empress signified the natural world, so the Emperor carries the wider significance of the social world 'mar­ried' to nature. He symbolizes the laws of society, both good and bad, and the power that enforces them."<Ref>Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 49.</ref>
"In readings the Emperor indicates (following the Rider pack image) the power of society, its laws and especially its authority to enforce those laws."<Ref>Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 52.</ref>


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The Empress is an Old Energy Archetype from the Masonic Tarot Deck. In the Book of Slavery, the archetype is typically used to enforce gender stereotypes. In the Book of Power, it is used to instruct on the power Formation, archetypes, and ideas.

Emperor Tarot Card Freemason's Deck

List of Old Energy Archetypes from the Masonic Tarot

Chariot, Death (archetype), Duality, Hermit, Hierophant, High Priestess, Judgement, Justice, Star, Strength, Sun (archetype), Temperance, The Devil, The Emperor, The Empress, The Fool, The Hanged Man, The Lovers, The Magician, The Moon, The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The World (old energy)

Related Terms

Old Energy Archetypes > Book of Slavery

Notes

Book of Power

BOP: "From the ethereal heights of the ideal, the constructive aspirant is thrown headlong into the land of action. (The test of the first symbolic journey.) It is the battlefield of life. Here swords cross. But the aspiring Initiate does not involve himself in the pointless battles of opinions and sides: he reserves his energy in order to be able to apply it in the shaping of the 'Cubic Stone'."[1]


Book of Slavery

Association of the masculine "principles": with divine authority. "The helmet indicates the rule of the Divine Will in the Universe, and its universal action in the creation of Life (eagle)."[2]

Also law and order. Law versus chaos. "Any other approach can only destroy society. Today, we see this viewpoint embodied in an abstraction we call the 'system' . The Romans saw it more concretely in the personal figure of the Emperor, whom they described as the father of all his people."[3]

Active/Yang/Positive/Masculine reinforcement of stereotypes: "The man indicates the active; his position, however, shows that this activity is engendered by a superior term. The 1st arcanum, the Juggler, the active absolute, was represented standing, looking to the front; the 4th arcanum, active relative, is seated in profile." [4]

"Trumps 3 and 4 of the Tarot represent the parents in their arche­typal roles. But just as the Empress signified the natural world, so the Emperor carries the wider significance of the social world 'mar­ried' to nature. He symbolizes the laws of society, both good and bad, and the power that enforces them."[5]

"In readings the Emperor indicates (following the Rider pack image) the power of society, its laws and especially its authority to enforce those laws."[6]

Footnotes

  1. Oswald Wirth, Tarot of the Magicians: The Occult Symbols of the Major Arcana That Inspired Modern Tarot (San Francisco. CA: Weiser Books, 1990).
  2. Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.
  3. Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 50.
  4. Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians (Wilshire Book Co, 1978), https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/index.htm.
  5. Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 49.
  6. Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 52.

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