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<blockquote class="definition">'''The Fool''' is an [[Old Energy Archetype]] from the [[Masonic Tarot Deck]]. In the [[Book of Slavery]] and [[Book of Power]], the archetype is used to reinforce the idea that we are all fools in a cosmic school here to learn our lessons and follow the rules so we can be rewarded in one way or another. </blockquote>

[[File:fool.jpg|250px|center|Fool Tarot Card Freemason's Deck]]

==List of Old Energy Archetypes from the [[Masonic Tarot]]==

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==Related Terms==

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==Notes==

===[[Book of Power]]=== 

[[Only the Chosen]]

Elitism: An "ordinary man." "Lower consciousness." <ref>Ouspensky, P. D. The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers. Mineola. St. Petersburg, Russia: Trood Print and Pub., 1913.</ref> Undeveloped. Excluded. External to the temple. 

Wirth provides an arrogant description of the fool as a "toy of occult powers," someone who is "easily influenced and it "incapable of resisting outside influences." "Subject to domination", with no free will. A slave<ref>Wirth, Oswald. Tarot of the Magicians: The Occult Symbols of the Major Arcana That Inspired Modern Tarot. San Francisco. CA: Weiser Books, 1990. p. 155</ref>. This person "does not count because of his lack of intellectual and moral existence."<ref>Wirth, Oswald. Tarot of the Magicians: The Occult Symbols of the Major Arcana That Inspired Modern Tarot. San Francisco. CA: Weiser Books, 1990. p. 153.</ref>

Golden Dawn Version: "The wolf shows that the negative area or shadow area, of the unconscious is under control, as the docile attitude of the wolf towards the child implies. "  <ref>Zalewski, Patrick, and Christine Zalewski. The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn. Aeon Books, 2008. p. 58.</ref>

"He is Man coming to perfection, knocking on the door of the Godhead in Kether.  <ref>Zalewski, Patrick, and Christine Zalewski. The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn. Aeon Books, 2008.p. 59.</ref>



===[[Book of Slavery]]=== 

A "journey" through life. A journey to enlightenment. The key figure in a "deep spiritual journey" 
<ref>Pollack, Rachel. Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Harper Collins, 1980. p. 155.</ref> A "journey in consciousness." (p. x). Through "experience" ... "we and the universe become one." (p. 110).

Perfection after effort " He is Man coming to perfection, knocking on the door of the Godhead in Kether." <ref>Zalewski, Patrick, and Christine Zalewski. The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn. Aeon Books, 2008. p. 59.</ref>

While most use the imagery of the fool to suggest the beginning of the fool's journey, Haich uses it to refer to the end, when someone has completed the journey. "This FOOL is man who has passed through the most advanced stages of human development on earth and has reached the highest level."<ref>Haich, Elisabeth. The Wisdom of Tarot. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1985. p. 157.</ref> There is a substantial portion of elitism in her descriptions. Normies cannot understand this on. "Thus, whoever has reached the goal must continue whether his primitive fellow-men 'bite' him or not. "<ref>Haich, Elisabeth. The Wisdom of Tarot. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1985. p. 160.</ref> One might consider the Golden Dawn [[Wheel of Fortune]] card here to see this elitism is a common theme in the [[Fool's Tarot]].

An element of truth in Haich's account of the Fool. ... "The FOOL is a man who HAS BECOME ONE in his conscious- ness with LOGOS, with CHRIST, with LIFE!""<ref>Haich, Elisabeth. The Wisdom of Tarot. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1985. p. 162.</ref>

Fool in School: "When he appears at the end of the sequence the Fool has completed his journey, and he passes gaily through the world, the appearance of which has been transformed by his own inner transformation" <ref> Douglas, Alfred. The Tarot: The Origins, Meaning, and Uses of the Cards. Canada: Penguin Books, 1991. p. 116.</ref>

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