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The Return

Arcanum 22: The Return
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The crown of life: the return to the light. Truth plays the lyre, and every arcanum must be developed within.

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What the card shows

In the waters of life is the swastika cross symbolising the Muladhara chakra of four petals. A woman who represents Truth is playing a harp, plucking the sexual lyre of 9 strings in order to find the key note. In the upper part the 4 Gods of death: Mestha, Hapi, Tuamutef, and Qebhsennuf, representing the 4 elements, Earth, Water, Fire and Air; the 4 mysterious animals of sexual Alchemy.

— Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. 22

Its esoteric meaning

Arcanum number 22 is the Crown of Life, the return to the light, the incarnation in us of the truth. Beloved disciples, you need to develop each one of the 22 major Arcana of the Tarot within yourselves. You are Imitatus, that is, one whom others have placed upon the Path of the Razor’s Edge. Strive to achieve the state of Adeptus, he who is a product of his own works; who conquers the Science for himself, the Son of his own labour.

— Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. 22

His synthesis

The Return: The Truth, The Crown of Life “Triumph, Everything turns out well. Power. Force. Good Luck.”

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

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