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The rigour of the Law: karma, teaching and the pentagram. The Hierarch wears the mask of justice only when he judges.
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What the card shows
In this card we find the Hierarch wearing his chain mail armour, supporting to the right the Staff of Power. The jackal mask he uses only when he is officiating, when he is administering Justice; it symbolises the Supreme Piety and Supreme Impiety of the Law.
— Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. 5
Its esoteric meaning
The number 5 is grandiose, sublime; it is the number of the rigour of the Law, it is the number of Mars and of war. Arcanum number 5 of the Tarot indicates the Teaching, Karma and the Explanation to us. It symbolises the fifth cycle, the fifth race, the fifth sun, the five tattwas, the five fingers, the five gospels, the five senses, the five cells of the cerebrum and the ovary, and the five aspects of the Divine Mother.
— Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. 5
His synthesis
The Hierarch: Rigor. The Law “Karma, Mars, War.”
— Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. 86, Prediction and synthesis