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The High Priestess

Arcanum 2: The High Priestess
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The One unfolds into Two: the Divine Mother, the unfolding of the Father. She sits between the two columns of the temple, keeper of occult science.

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In the Master’s words

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What the card shows

In the Waters of Life the two columns of the Temple of Isis are shown; the white, Jakin and the black, Boaz. Each one has four levels indicating the Four Bodies of Sin; Physical, Vital, Astral and Mental. Above, a female Master appears seated between two larger columns.

— Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. 2

Its esoteric meaning

Arcanum number 2 is the Priestess, Occult Science. In the region of the Spirit, the One is the Father who is in Secret, the Two is the Divine Mother who is the Unfoldment of the Father. The Sacred Book of the Maya, the Popol Vuh, states that God created man first from clay and later from wood (the Atlantean race) but that they forgot their Fathers and Mothers, they forgot “The Heart of Heaven”.

— Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. 2

His synthesis

The Priestess: The Wife of the Magician “Occult Science. Favourable”.

— Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. 86, Prediction and synthesis

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