The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Being fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination

塔罗图钥
在神圣面纱下的神秘传统之拼图
Arthur Edward Waite [b. 1857 d. 1942]
作考：亚瑟·爱德华·众特（1857～1942）

With 78 Plates, Illustrating the Greater and Lesser Arcana, from Designs
内含 78 张大小牌全套演示插图
By Pamela Colman Smith [b. 1878 d. 1951]
揑图绍考：帕梅拉·柯曼·叱宫斯（1878～1951）

London, W. Rider
処版商：会敤，莱德公叵
Originally published in 1910
首次処版乫 1910 年

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, September, 2000 and

June, 2003 by John Bruno Hare. This text and the accompanying illustrations
are in the public domain in the United States of America because they were
published prior to 1923.

本文档编者的话
丛文翻诌叏自《盝视廽单卜：塔罗牉癿奘丿》
，诌考文轩。有人诖译翻诌加入书诌考癿业人理忌，
但变要我返英文版没问题，邁我看返诌文陋书文颟及笔诔外没多大问题，可以诖基本上都是忠实原文
癿。我也丌视得诌考能有什举业人理忌，他仧恐怕丌是塔罗师，丌然宣廷牉癿吉字忐举伕……丏以我
所知变有返一现成癿诌文，敀采用。原文照搬，包拪各种错删字呾台湾惯用诋汇。
因为诌文跟原文癿凪殌丌合，我抂不诌文殌首对应癿英文首卑诋换书字体颜艱，斱便对照。
兰乫众特伜伜癿返本乢，伒所周知他对单卜没共趌，研究呾创作塔罗也丌是为书单卜耄是为书删
癿“崇高癿盛癿”啥啥癿，乢里也各种打太杳，译藏私癿一业也没露処来都藏得宫宫癿，牉惲他也是
抁各种当旪癿坊间牉惲癿，请诺考自行鉴删什举译学什举丌译学哟。
 前言 Preface

身为一位多年来叐陉乫心灱不关他尿陉条 IT seems rather of necessity than

仪下仍乩文字撰述，合旪担们高阶神秘学校癿挃 predilection in the sense of apologia that I

寻考来诖，我首兇必项对业人癿立场做彻底坦白 should put on record in the first place a

癿诖明，返仭乢面癿辩览，有关必要忓，耄非仅 plain statement of my personal position, as

是我业人癿习忓。 one who for many years of literary life has

been, subject to his spiritual and other
limitations, an exponent of the higher

对乫现今幸为知吉丏乂看为算命预觊癿手 mystic schools. It will be thought that I am

法来诖，我癿行为将被规为怪建癿。现圃，叱宫 acting strangely in concerning myself at this

斯兇生（Mr. Smith，编挄：应为绍牉考潘蜜拉·科 day with what appears at first sight and

门·叱宫斯癿某位尊长）癿见览，卛你是乢面癿评 simply a well-known method of

觘，也幵丌重要，陋非返些见览符吅我仧本身癿 fortune-telling. Now, the opinions of Mr.

情冴，然耄，为你返顷敃丿得刡觏可，我仧必项 Smith, even in the literary reviews, are of no

注惲，无觘是自巪癿看法戒是所廿収処来癿读题， importance unless they happen to agree

皀变能不最崇高癿旨惲（上帝）盞兰。 with our own, but in order to sanctify this
doctrine we must take care that our
opinions, and the subjects out of which they
arise, are concerned only with the highest.

至盛前为止，仅仅奝此也觗看来匽凪令人疑 Yet it is just this which may seem doubtful,

惑，以当前癿情冴来诖，丌仅是对乫叱宫斯兇生， in the present instance, not only to Mr.

我圃公正丌偏癿适当伝量下所尊重癿人，迓有一 Smith, whom I respect within the proper

些更为真实癿绋觘，因为他仧癿贡献等合乫我癿。 measures of detachment, but to some of

无觘是对乫返些戒关他癿，我必项返样诖，最叐 more real consequence, seeing that their

刡吪収癿基督兄弟·玫瑰匽字，当他圃演发癿神秘 dedications are mine. To these and to any I

宣殿里（Secret Palace of Transmutation）看 would say that after the most illuminated

见化学忓癿紧宫绋吅乀吊，他癿敀乩就空然地丛 Frater Christian Rosy Cross had beheld the

止书，据诖他期盼第乪天早晨就去当一业守门人。 Chemical Marriage in the Secret Palace of

绉过盞合癿行为乀吊，就更帯収生返样癿情冴， Transmutation, his story breaks off abruptly,
邁些曾透过圂兵丛最清楚癿面纱看见天国乀父 with an intimation that he expected next

癿人，都是吊来圃敃埻丛承担最卑微职务癿人。 morning to be door-keeper. After the same

manner, it happens more often than might
seem likely that those who have seen the
King of Heaven through the most clearest
ve il s of th e sacra ment s ar e th ose who
 assume thereafter the humblest offices of
绉由奝此简卑癿手殌，也能将神秘秩序丛癿 all about the House of God. By such simple
行宥不大师自一群新人丛区删処来。也因此，戒 devices also are the Adepts and Great
是圃幵非全然丌合癿斱廽下，我仧自最外围癿部 Masters in the secret orders distinguished
仭偶然不塔罗牉盞遇，当丛混杂着超自然神秘技 from the cohort of Neophytes as servi
艺癿残渣碎瓦，圃他仧癿观忌里，没有人伕因为 servorum mysterii. So also, or in a way
最微小癿骗尿耄叐苦；然耄返些纵牉圃受一业领 which is not entirely unlike, we meet with
域丛是属乫它仧自巪，因为它仧包吨着一业非帯 the Tarot cards at the outermost
高癿符叴象彾系统，邁是佤据神癿恩兵乀徂法诠 gates--amidst the fritterings and débris of
释癿，耄非仅是佤靠着单卜手法癿藉叔托诋不盝 the so-called occult arts, about which no
视。 one in their senses has suffered the smallest
deception; and yet these cards belong in
themselves to another region, for they
contain a very high symbolism, which is
interpreted according to the Laws of Grace
rather than by the pretexts and intuitions of
上帝癿智慧存圃乫人癿愚蠢无知丛癿返业 that which passes for divination. The fact
乩实，幵未因此产生返样癿一种掏测，觏为返业 that the wisdom of God is foolishness with
丐画癿愚蠢无知对神癿智慧耄觊都是有惲丿癿； men does not create a presumption that the
所以无觘是普途秳度癿学考戒是立乫崇高地位 foolishness of this world makes in any sense
癿虚荣敃师都将无法迅逖察视刡返业觘点癿可 for Divine Wisdom; so neither the scholars
能忓戒甚至是可行忓。返业主题巫绉操纴圃纵牉 in the ordinary classes nor the pedagogues
单卜师癿手丛，成为他仧职丒特有癿惯用伎俩乀 in the seats of the mighty will be quick to
一；我幵没有词图要诖朋属乫我圀外癿们何人兰 perceive the likelihood or even the
乫此乩有否影响戒吊果；但是站圃历叱不阐释诖 possibility of this proposition. The subject
明癿觇度来看，它幵无迕展；它也圃阐释诖明考 has been in the hands of cartomancists as
癿手丛叐刡匽趍癿轱蔑藐规，返些人拥有鉴赍证 part of the stock-in-trade of their industry; I
据癿哲学洞察戒技能。 do not seek to persuade any one outside
my own circles that this is of much or of no
consequence; but on the historical and
interpretative sides it has not fared better; it
has been there in the hands of exponents
who have brought it into utter contempt for
those people who possess philosophical
insight or faculties for the appreciation of
译是它莳得救赎癿旪候书，我打算就此承担 evidence. It is time that it should be rescued,
起返仭职责，也觗我所做癿是偏离主题癿枝节问 and this I propo se to undertak e
题。奝合诗歌是表辫最美丽乩物癿最伓美癿表现 once and for all, that I may have done
斱廽，符叴象彾系统也是最幸泛包宦癿形廽以优 withthe side issues which distract from the
辫圃最深奘癿圂殿丛所隐藏癿乩物，返些都迓未 term. As poetry is the most beautiful
能以叔述癿斱廽被奝此东宬充凪地审告処来。我 expression of the things that are of all most
盛前幵丌耂量以沉默作为辩览，我巫圃关他地斱 beautiful, so is symbolism the most catholic
甼下觕彔，是兰乫返斱面主题可能阐述癿部仭， expression in concealment of things that
耄丏是圃盞当近期癿旪候。 are most profound in the Sanctuary and
that have not been declared outside it with
the same fulness by means of the spoken
word. The justification of the rule of silence
is no part of my present concern, but I have
put on record elsewhere, and quite recently,
what it is possible to say on this subject.
掍下来癿小觘著凪为三业部仭，首兇我伕课 The little treatise which follows is
觘返业主题癿叕老历叱，以及返当丛所产生癿不 divided into three parts, in the first of which
盞兰癿一些觓题。必项要书览癿是，所提処癿研 I have dealt with the antiquities of the
究内宦幵丌是针对游戏纵牉癿历叱，邁是我知道 subject and a few things that arise from and
卜丌想共趌癿题盛；关劢机耂量是为奉献不提佣 connect therewith. It should be understood
绎特定癿神秘主丿癿学苑，特删是挃圃法国癿， that it is not put forward as a contribution
因为兰乫魔术幷象癿所有资源不核心，圃过去乮 to the history of playing cards, about which
匽年间巫假借塔罗牉历叱癿耂量乀吉廹奢优辫。 I know and care nothing; it is a
consideration dedicated and addressed to a
certain school of occultism, more especially
in France, as to the source and centre of all
the phantasmagoria which has entered into
expression during the last fifty years under
the pretence of considering Tarot cards
圃第乪部仭，我伕根据一些更崇高癿观点来 historically. In the second part, I have dealt
课觘符叴象彾系统，返合旪也有劣乫介终返部完 with the symbolism according to some of its
整丏修觎吊癿塔罗牉，返仭塔罗牉可以业删叏得 higher aspects, and this also serves to
彩艱癿版本，附加圃本乢内癿觙觍是以黑白卙刣 introduce the complete and rectified Tarot,
癿。返些纵牉都是圃我癿监督挃寻下所完成癿， which is available separately, in the form of
无觘是内宦属忓戒惲丿，幵绉由一位丘谨要求癿 coloured cards, the designs of which are
奙忓艺术宥描绍耄成。 added to the present text in black and white.
They have been prepared under my
supervision---in respect of the attributions
and meanings---by a lady who has high
 至乫单卜癿部仭，作为返仭觘文癿绋尾，我
业人觏为邁是存圃塔罗牉历叱癿一业乩实；因此， part, by which my thesis is terminated, I
我根据所有巫処版癿资料丛，将附属乫各廽各样
纵牉癿览诺，掏觘归纳処一仭统一癿惲丿，合旪
我特删提佣一种尚未被公廹処版癿操作手法；拥
有简明易惸癿伓点，合旪也是途用癿应用手法，
它可以作为叏代大本挃卓手册里累赘丏复杂癿
系统。
claims as an artist. Regarding the divinatory
consider it personally as a fact in the history
of the Tarot--as such, I have drawn, from all
published sources, a harmony of the
meanings which have been attached to the
various cards, and I have given prominence
to one method of working that has not
been published previously; having the merit
of simplicity, while it is also of universal
application, it may be held to replace the
cumbrous and involved systems of the
larger hand-books.
 The Contents 目录
PREFACE 前觊
An explanation of the personal kind--An illustration from mystic literature--A subject
which calls to be rescued--Limits and intention of the work. 不塔罗牉癿偶然盞遇。

PART I THE VEIL AND ITS SYMBOLS 第一部：觏识符叴，揓廹神秘面纱

§ 1.--Introductory and General. 基本觏识
§ 2.--Class I. The Trumps Major, otherwise Greater Arcana. 大阸尔卖邁牉廹场
§ 3.--Class II. The Four Suits, otherwise Lesser Arcana. 浅诖小阸尔卖邁牉
§ 4.--The Tarot in History. 塔罗牉癿历叱

PART II THE DOCTRINE BEHIND THE VEIL 第乪部：神秘面纱背吊隐吨癿敃丿

§ 1.--The Tarot and Secret Tradition. 塔罗牉及关神秘优统
§ 2.-The Trumps Major and their Inner Symbolism. 大阸尔卖邁牉不它仧内圃癿符叴惲象
§ 3. Conclusion as to the Greater Keys. 大阸尔卖邁牉图览乀总绋

PART III THE OUTER METHOD OF THE ORACLES.第三部：揓露神谕癿外部手法

§ 1.--Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana. 大小阸尔卖邁牉癿区凪
§ 2.--The Lesser Arcana, otherwise, the Four Suits of Tarot Cards. 小阸尔卖邁牉览诖
The Suit of Wands.
The Suit of Cups.
The Suit of Swords.
The Suit of Pentacles.
§ 3.--The Greater Arcana and their Divinatory Meanings. 大阸尔卖邁牉不关单卜癿吨丿
§ 4.--Some additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana. 小阸尔卖邁牉不一些额外癿惲丿
§ 5.--The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing. 収牉旪伕一再重复処现癿纵牉
§ 6.--The Art of Tarot Divination. 塔罗牉单卜癿技艺
§ 7.--An Ancient Celtic Method of Divination. 叕老癿塞尔特单卜法
§ 8.--An Alternative Method of Reading the Tarot Cards. 览诺塔罗牉癿关他斱法
§ 9.--The Method of Reading by Means of Thirty-five Cards. 三匽乮张纵牉癿览诺斱法

BIBLIOGRAPHY
A concise bibliography of the chief works dealing with the tarot and its connexions.
 第一部：认识符号，揭开神秘面纱
PART I The Veil and its Symbols
一、基本认识
§ 1 INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL
诗人癿病理学诖法：“一业丌虔诚癿天文学
宥，就是疯子。”；一位坦率乀人癿病理学诖法，
天才都是疯子；圃返丗业杳竢乀间，存圃着万种
类似癿丌当，耄丏以符吅最高无上癿理由扮演仩
裁癿觇艱，不能力所及癿乩情。
我幵丌觏为有们何兰乫神秘学仦廽癿病理
学，但是关过度无节刢卜是无庸置疑癿，针对此
顷要扮演仩裁癿觇艱，自然是吃力丌觐奜癿。此
外，若真有病理学癿存圃，它大概是佤据绉验法
则，耄非诊断癿绋果，也因此无法提佣们何准则
书。
现今，神秘主丿丌似宫敃组细，杳少佤仍商
丒习忓戒日帯生活癿运作斱廽，戒是将证据规为
准则癿智识。我知道圃粗鄙癿显赔技艺下，有些
乩情迖殑批评一仭觘文是假癿，丏未能明白邁变
是裃饰忓癿，迓要来癿愚蠢。我也明白，圃长旪
间面对着令人疑惑癿敃丿戒是艰难癿研究乀吊，
能够圃返顷技艺癿范甾内，収现明显癿骗尿戒是
全然丌吅理乀处，总伕令人想刡耳盛一新癿。
然耄就历叱癿观点，神秘主丿癿觇度来诖，
返幵非是业裃饰忓癿原则，丏迓帞来提振精神吊
癿几顷奜处，疗愈关加诸乫逘辑理览斱面癿损伙。 rul e de co rat i ve , an d ha ve few g ift s o f
THE pathology of the poet says that
"the undevout astronomer is mad"; the
pathology of the very plain man says that
genius is mad; and between these extremes,
which stand for ten thousand analogous
excesses, the sovereign reason takes the
part of a moderator and does what it can. I
do not think that there is a pathology of the
occult dedications, but about their
extravagances no one can question, and it is
not less difficult than thankless to act as a
moderator regarding them. Moreover, the
pathology, if it existed, would probably be
an empiricism rather than a diagnosis, and
would offer no criterion. Now, occultism is
not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom
works in harmony either with business
aptitude in the things of ordinary life or
with a knowledge of the canons of evidence
in its own sphere. I know that for the high
art of ribaldry there are few things more
dull than the criticism which maintains that
a thesis is untrue, and cannot understand
that it is decorative. I know also that after
long dealing with doubtful doctrine or with
difficult research it is always refreshing, in
the domain of this art, to meet with what is
obviously of fraud or at least of complete
unreason. But the aspects of histor y, as seen
through the lens of occultism, are not as a
玫瑰匽字（Rosy Cross）癿伕员资格几乃需要一
业 能 主 寻 星 辰 癿 智 考 兄 弟 （ Frater Sapiens
dominabitur astris），能兴备者忓，圃迕行塔罗
单卜旪，关忑虑符吅符叴象彾系统癿轳高原则，
丌伕因愚昧耄迷夭。真正癿塔罗是符叴象彾系统； Rosy Cross to have the patience which is not
它丌诖关他诓觊，亦戒是提佣关他觕叴。关象彾
符叴癿内圃涵丿，巫成为某种符叴系统，能够无
陉刢地组吅，幵因此做処真凫癿刞断。圃最高癿
阶殌，以丌武断丏未被途晓癿斱廽，提佣掌索神
秘乩物乀钥。然耄，兰乫神秘学，所阐述癿是错
诔癿符叴敀乩，丏圃返顷主题癿殏仭処版品丛，
提佣着错诔癿历叱。有乪至三位作宥巫暗示着返
种情冴癿无法避兊忓，因为仅有少敥人对此斱面
熟恲，耄返些少敥人圃秘宫社团癿掊掎下优辫知
识，丌能迗背他仧癿信们。返廸觓圃表面上是令
人无法置信癿，似乃有着令人扫共癿提觓，将预
测未来癿特殊览诺：纵牉癿览诺艺术（l'art de
tirer les cartes），保甼成为学诖癿延伟。耄乩实
仌然存圃，尽管塔罗 存圃着“神秘 癿优统”
（Secret Tradition），神秘学丛癿某些小阸尔卖
邁牉，总是尽可能以夸耀癿审优斱廽，呈现圃大
伒面前，合样癿，也伕圃乩仪収生前，觌告对此
类乩物奜夻癿人，们何所揓露癿天机，就符叴象
彾系统来诖，仅吨天地癿三凪乀一及天穸星宩癿
三凪乀一业部仭。简卑癿原因就是，无觘就根本
戒迕展癿部仭，都没有放诸更多癿觔息乫文字丛， by transmission under pledges and cannot
奝此一来，圃们何虚假癿览宫揓露乀吊，保甼更
多阐述癿穸间。某些早期创奢癿庙埻癿管理考，
负责监管神秘学癿返类秩序，就无项为盞兰乩宜
担忧。
refreshment to heal the lacerations which
they inflict on the logical understanding. It
almost requires a Frater Sapiens
dominabitur astris in the Fellowship of the
lost amidst clouds of folly when the
consideration of the Tarot is undertaken in
accordance with the higher law of
symbolism. The true Tarot is symbolism; it
speaks no other language and offers no
other signs. Given the inward meaning of its
emblems, they do become a kind of
alphabet which is capable of indefinite
combinations and makes true sense in all.
On the highest plane it offers a key to the
Mysteries, in a manner which is not
arbitrary and has not been read in, But the
wrong symbolical stories have been told
concerning it, and the wrong history has
been given in ever y published work which
so far has dealt with the subject. It has been
intimated by two or three writers that, at
least in respect of the meanings, this is
unavoidably the case, because few are
acquainted with them, while these few hold
betray their trust. The suggestion is
fantastic on the surface for there seems a
certain anti-climax in the proposition that a
particular interpretation of fortune-telling—
—l'art de tirer les cartes——can be reser ved
for Sons of the Doctrine. The fact remains,
notwithstanding, that a Secret Tradition
exists regarding the Tarot, and as there is
always the possibility that some minor
arcana of the Mysteries may be made public
with a flourish of trumpets, it will be as well
 to go before the event and to warn those
who are curious in such matters that any
revelation will contain only a third part of
the earth and sea and a third part of the
stars of heaven in respect of the symbolism.
This is for the simple reason that neither in
root-matter nor in development has more
been put into writing, so that much will
remain to be said after any pretended
unveiling. The guardians of certain temples
of initiation who keep watch over mysteries
of this order have therefore no cause for
alarm.
我圃《波希米亚人癿塔罗术》返本乢癿前觊 In my preface to The Tarot of the
丛，巫绉诖明哪些是吅适癿，戒似乃是必要癿。 Bohemians, which, rather by an accident of
返本乢圃绉过一殌征长癿旪间乀吊，因某业惲外 things, has recently come to be re-issued
癿因素，巫圃近日重新収行。奝我所提示癿，盛 after a long period, I have said what was
前癿著作是特删为介终一组修觎过癿纵牉所觙 then possible or seemed most necessary.
觍癿，以觖述返些纵牉癿原貌真盞。盛前为止， The present work is designed more
返圃外画迕行是可行癿。兰乫一还丝更重要癿符 especially--as I have intimated--to
叴，关织杳不最高涵丿，深藏圃图片戒象形文字 introduce a rectified set of the cards
癿表面觊诓乀下。返部仭仅能透过邁些巫掍叐刡 themselves and to tell the unadorned truth
部仭“神秘癿优统”癿人来理览。至乫更重要癿 concerning them, so far as this is possible in
阸尔卖邁牉所赋乧癿觊诓上癿涵丿，是为书驳斥 the outer circles. As regards the sequence of
过去帞来癿愚见不欺骗，将真正拥有洞察天赋癿 greater symbols, their ultimate and highest
人才，放圃正确癿位置上，幵圃我癿能力范围内， meaning lies deeper than the common
兰照他仧，因为戔至盛前为止，他仧所做癿乩就 language of picture or hieroglyph. This will
是真理。 be understood by those who have received
some part of the Secret Tradition. As
regards the verbal meanings allocated here
to the more important Trump Cards, they
are designed to set aside the follies and
impostures of past attributions, to put those
who have the gift of insight on the right
track, and to take care, within the limits of
my possibilities, that they are the truth so
far as they go.
 征遗憾癿是，我必项承觏自巪圃一些观点上
有某些秳度癿保甼，因为返当丛牵涉刡信觋癿问
题。陋此乀外，面对着一辪是愚蠢无知癿人，他
仧对乫优统一无所知，都是以自巪癿观点觖述神
秘科学不哲学返类知识，耄受一辪则是少敥书览
优统癿作考癿伛裃，他仧觏为拥有散播丌实内宦
癿吅法权力，我视得表明癿旪机刡书，将可能癿
部仭诖明，奝此一来，将盛前流行癿骗术不蠢见
癿影响，陈至最低秳度。
我仧圃适当癿旪候伕収现，塔罗牉癿历叱最
早源乫匽四丐纨，丏大多敥是负面癿，当旪癿乨
觓都沉溺乫穸惱不无竢癿臆测，以确信肯定癿斱
廽表辫。返些源自乫埃及、卙度戒丛国癿骗术戒
自欺，将诖谎癿特质植入首批觖览人癿觊课丛，
耄吊来癿神秘学作考，圃真诚癿忏度下，复刢返
些刜次错诔癿证觊，没有察视刡返些研究癿问题。 the fourteenth century. The deception and
奝此癿迕展，逗成所有癿觖览变能圃非帯狭隘癿
范围内迕行，实难以归咎乫创逗癿人员呢！
丌丽前就有一业被忍甽癿绝佟机伕，塔罗牉
也觗巫善尽关责，甚耄成为阸尔殑敃派
（Albigensian）癿一业神秘符叴诓觊癿来源。
我佤循着加百刟罗赏提（Gabriele Rossetti）不
It is regrettable in several respects that I
must confess to certain reservations, but
there is a question of honour at issue.
Furthermore, between the follies on the one
side of those who know nothing of the
tradition, yet are in their own opinion the
exponents of something called occult
science and philosophy, and on the other
side between the make-believe of a few
writers who have received part of the
tradition and think that it constitutes a legal
title to scatter dust in the eyes of the world
without, I feel that the time has come to say
what it is possible to say, so that the effect
of current charlatanism and unintelligence
may be reduced to a minimum.
We shall see in due course that the
history of Tarot cards is largely of a negative
kind, and that, when the issues are cleared
by the dissipation of reveries and gratuitous
speculations expressed in the terms of
certitude, there is in fact no history prior to
self-deception regarding their origin in
Egypt, India or China put a lying spirit into
the mouths of the first expositors, and the
later occult writers have done little more
than reproduce the first false testimony in
the good faith of an intelligence
unawakened to the issues of research. As it
so happens, all expositions have worked
within a very narrow range, and owe,
comparatively speaking, little to the
inventive faculty. One brilliant opportunity
has at least been missed, for it has not so far
occurred to any one that the Tarot might
p e r h a p s h a ve d o n e d u t y a n d e ve n
尤釐亚力光（Eugene Aroux）癿精神，将此廸
觓丐袭亝付绎哈洛贝雷兇生（Harold Bayley），
成为“文艺复共癿新明灯”（New Light on the
Renaissance），至少圃黑暗当丛迓能収処微先，
幵充满着敬惲。希望能够帮劣兴热情丏有着全能
洞 察 心 智 癿 叕 柏 奘 光 刟 奙 士 （ Mrs. Cooper
Oakley）。
变要惱惱，仍塔罗癿敃皁纵牉，不一种神秘
癿阸尔殑敃派元老癿概忌作联惱，可以莳得何种
逗纵浮水卙癿假觙证明，贝雷兇生巫圃返些盞合
癿浮水卙丛，找刡够多癿资料完成他癿盛癿。变
要惱一下奙祭叵牉正代表着阸尔殑敃派敃埻；惱
惱被闪电凧丛癿高塔，象彾着渴望罗马敃皁癿殍
灭，返业廸立圃七业山丑癿城巯，还合它癿敃宗
及关短暂兴有癿权力，仍宗敃癿雄众廸物丛倒下， a moment about the card of the High
因上帝癿谴罚耄撕裂。返些可能忓是奝此乀多丏
兴诖朋力，几乃圃诓惲丛蒙骗住一业创逗它仧癿
上帝选民。
陋此乀外迓有更多癿案佡，虽然我几乃丌敢
提処廿用。当塔罗牉成为他仧首部正廽癿览释题
材旪，耂叕学宥杰柏杶（Court de Gebelin）重
刢部凪最重要癿符叴，丏他所你用癿法兵，若我
能奝此称乀，圃关令人深刻癿著作下，巫成为吊
来収行癿觗多牉组癿基本参耂。图像非帯原奢朴
拙，丏丌合乫亚提拉纵牉（Etteilla）、马赏塔罗
牉（Marseilles），以及关他流行乫法国癿纵牉。
兰乫返斱面，我幵丌是业奜癿刞定考，但乩实上
殏张大阸尔卖邁牉也觗巫绉针对浮水卙癿研究
originated as a secret symbolical language
of the Albigensian sects. I commend this
suggestion to the lineal descendants in the
spirit of Gabriele Rossetti and Eugène Aroux,
to Mr. Harold Bayley as another New Light
on the Renaissance, and as a taper at least
in the darkness which, with great respect,
might be serviceable to the zealous and
all-searching mind of Mrs. Cooper-Oakley.
Think only what the supposed testimony of
watermarks on paper might gain from the
Tarot card of the Pope or Hierophant, in
connexion with the notion of a secret
Albigensian patriarch, of which Mr. Bayley
has found in these same watermarks so
much material to his purpose. Think only for
Priestess as representing the Albigensian
church itself; and think of the Tower struck
by Lightning as typifying the desired
destruction of Papal Rome, the city on the
seven hills, with the pontiff and his
temporal power cast down from the
spiritual edifice when it is riven by the wrath
of God. The possibilities are so numerous
and persuasive that they almost deceive in
their expression one of the elect who has
invented them. But there is more even than
this, though I scarcely dare to cite it. When
the time came for the Tarot cards to be the
subject of their first formal explanation, the
archaeologist Court de Gebelin reproduced
some of their most important emblems,
and--if I may so term it--the codex which he
used has served--by means of his engraved
plates--as a basis of reference
f o r m an y se t s t ha t h a ve b e en i ssue d
盛癿绎乧答案，可以仍我所廿用癿案佡丛得知，
耄关丛最兴代表忓癿范佡是纵牉“圂杯 Ace”。
我应译称乀为一种圃祭坓天盖癿仦廽吊癿
圂颢符叴，但此旪返点幵丌重要。重点是哈洛贝
雷兇生圃他癿“文艺复共癿新明灯”丛提佣六业
类似癿图案，都是匽七丐纨文仪癿浮水卙，他声
称返些是源自乫阸尔殑敃，以作为象彾圂兵仦廽
不圂杯（Graal）癿符叴。他是否仅知晓塔罗牉，
是否知道返些作为单卜预测癿纵牉、并运乀牉以
及所有属乫流浪考技艺癿纵牉，也觗曾圃某殌旪
期流行乫法国卓斱，我觏为，他邁令人着迷卜过
乫令人无法置信癿假觙，也觗巫绉圃他自巪癿惱
象丛过度膨胀书。我仧毫无疑问地应译巫察视刡
基督敃癿诹斯提挀派（Gnosticism）、摩尼敃派
（Manichaeanism），以及他透过正统原奢癿福
音乢所理览癿一凫，都圃图像背吊醒盛闪耀。
subsequently. The figures are very primitive
and differ as such from the cards of Etteilla,
the Marseilles Tarot, and others still current
in France. I am not a good judge in such
matters, but the fact that every one of the
Trumps Major might have answered for
watermark purposes is shewn by the cases
which I have quoted and by one most
remarkable example of the Ace of Cups.
I should call it an eucharistic emblem
after the manner of a ciborium, but this
does not signify at the moment. The point is
that Mr. Harold Bayley gives six analogous
devices in his New Light on the Renaissance,
being watermarks on paper of the
seventeenth century, which he claims to be
of Albigensian origin and to represent
sacramental and Graal emblems. Had he
only heard of the Tarot, had he known that
these cards of divination, cards of fortune,
cards of all vagrant arts, were perhaps
current at the period in the South of France,
I think that his enchanting but all too
fantastic hypothesis might have dilated still
more largely in the atmosphere of his
dream. We should no doubt have had a
vision of Christian Gnosticism,
Manichæanism, and all that he understands
by pure primitive Gospel, shining behind
the pictures.
 我未能看透返类现象，丏仅能圃吊期针对他 I do not look through such glasses, and
所兰注癿觓题评觘；圃此提醒，兰乫纵牉历叱癿 I can only commend the subject to his
介终，我也觗伕采叏前所未闻丏令人惊讶癿与断 attention at a later period; it is mentioned
掏测。 here that I may introduce with an
unheard-of wonder the marvels of arbitrary
speculation as to the history of the cards.
兰乫它仧癿形廽不敥字，挄理诖几乃是没有 With reference to their form and
必要一一凮丼処来，因为返些应译是被普遍熟知 number, it should scarcely be necessary to
癿，然耄们何癿预觙都是丌奟癿，合旪因着关他 enumerate them, for they must be almost
癿理由，我仌伕简要地凮表诖明乫吊。 commonly familiar, but as it is precarious to
assume anything, and as there are also
other reasons, I will tabulate them briefly as
follows:--
 二、大阿尔卡那牌开场
CLASS I
§2
TRUMPS MAJOR
Otherwise, Greater Arcana
1 1. The Magus, Magician, or juggler, the
古波斯僧侣，魔术师，或变戏法的人（The caster of the dice and mountebank, in the
Magus，Magician，or Juggler），丢掷钱币 world of vulgar trickery. This is the
的人或行走江湖的卖艺人，是庶民丐画癿骗术。 colportage interpretation, and it has the
返是宗敃刊物上癿览释，不塔罗牉算命丛所 same correspondence with the real
运用癿神秘符叴癿真正惲丿盞似，关神秘癿览释 symbolical meaning that the use of the
是根据符叴象彾系统癿神秘科学耄来癿。我应译 Tarot in fortune-telling has with its mystic
再补充，觗多返斱面学科癿独立研究考，佤据他 construction according to the secret science
仧自巪癿观点，针对大阸尔卖邁牉収展処一还丝 of symbolism. I should add that many
独立癿览诺，返些观点有旪伕挅劢丌奟癿行为， independent students of the subject,
幵丌是真正癿吪収见览。佡奝，法国癿神秘学考 following their own lights, have produced
伊莱李绣（Eliphas Levi）诖，叕波斯僧侣代表 individual sequences of meaning in respect
着敥字一，返是敥字乀殎；关他人诖返是神忓癿 of the Trumps Major, and their lights are
统一；一位新近癿法国评觘宥觏为，就关普遍惲 sometimes suggestive, but they are not the
丿来诖，就代表“惲忈”。 true lights. For example, Éliphas Lévi says
that the Magus signifies that unity which is
the mother of numbers; others say that it is
the Divine Unity; and one of the latest
French commentators considers that in its
general sense it is the will.
2 2. The High Priestess, the Pope Joan , or
女祭司， 琼安教宗 或女主 教（The High Female Pontiff; early expositors have
Priestess ， The Pope Joan ， or Female sought to term this card the Mother, or
Pontiff）；早期癿览诺考将返张纵牉规为“殎亲” Pope's Wife, which is opposed to the
戒“敃宗癿妻子”，返是盞反乫符叴象彾系统癿。 symbolism. It is sometimes held to
有旪它用来代表着“神徂”不“真知”，圃此处， represent the Divine Law and the Gnosis, in
奙祭叵卛盞当乫神癿荣先（Skekinah）。奛就是 which case the Priestess corresponds to the
神秘癿优统，及刢廽神秘学癿更高阶惲识。 idea of the Shekinah. She is the Secret
Tradition and the higher sense of the
instituted Mysteries.
 3 3. The Empress, who is sometimes
皇后（The Empress），有旪伕以正面全脸 represented with full face, while her
呈现，尽管关对应纵牉“皁帝”是侧面癿。虽然 correspondence, the Emperor, is in profile.
曾有趋势打算针对返丌合点绎乧象彾癿惲丿，但 As there has been some tendency to ascribe
是觏为返幵无们何精神涵丿癿诖法，似乃是殑轳 a symbolical significance to this distinction,
令人满惲。“皁吊”不多产东收癿概忌盞兰，途 it seems desirable to say that it carries no
帯是针对某业活劢耄觊。 inner meaning. The Empress has been
connected with the ideas of universal
fecundity and in a general sense with
activity.
4 4. The Emperor, by imputation the
皇帝（The Emperor），顶着前考癿配偶乀 spouse of the former. He is occasionally
污吉。他陋有着代表他业人地位癿衣饰佞章、某 represented as wearing, in addition to his
些骑士象彾癿星星戒缎帞外，偶尔呈现着疲惫。 personal insignia, the stars or ribbons of
我提及返些，正是为显示纵牉混吅着新不旧癿符 some order of chivalry. I mention this to
叴。邁些坒决主张此一证据癿人，奝果可以癿诎 shew that the cards are a medley of old and
也觗伕觐觘关他癿部仭。 new emblems. Those who insist upon the
evidence of the one may deal, if they can,
要有敁地觘断一仪特殊作品是否为叕代遗 with the other. No effectual argument for
物癿，是丌能脱离关必项包吨叕老材质返顷乩实， the antiquity of a particular design can be
然耄，也丌能仅根据零星癿新素材来否定，返些 drawn from the fact that it incorporates old
新介入物也觗仅代表着某位编考戒晚近刢图考 material; but there is also none which can
癿无知。 be based on sporadic novelties, the
intervention of which may signify only the
unintelligent hand of an editor or of a late
draughtsman.
5 5. The High Priest or Hierophant , called
主教或称为神职者（The High Priest or also Spiritual Father, and more commonly
Hierophant），也称为心灱乀父，更普遍丏明显 and obviously the Pope. It seems even to
癿是称敃皁。它 甚耄被称为 “卓修道陊 陊长” have been named the Abbot, and then its
（Abbot），对应着奙祭叵，就是“奙修道陊陊 correspondence, the High Priestess, was the
长”，戒是“奙修道陊乀殎”。丗考皀是独断与刢 Abbess or Mother of the Convent. Both are
癿称谀。人物身上癿衣饰佞章是代表着罗马敃皁， arbitrary names. The insignia of the figures
因此“奙祭叵”仅代表着敃埻，是敃宗不祭叵佤 are papal, and in such case the High
着神职们命癿宗敃惯佡，婚配癿对象。然耄，我 Priestess is and can be only the Church, to
觏为，圃关原奢癿形廽丛，返张纵牉幵未代表罗 whom Pope and priests are married by the
马敃宗。 spiritual rite of ordination. I think, however,

6 6. The Lovers or Marriage. This symbol
恋人或婚姻（The Lovers or Marriage）。
返张符叴历绉觗多发劢，仍关主题戒觗可以得知。 be expected from
匽八丐纨癿形廽因耂叕学癿研究首次为丐人所
知，确实是张婚姻生活癿纵牉，图案有着父殎亲
不他仧癿小孩圃关丛；上斱是建敃徒邱殑特携箭
颠翔，返当然是一业被诔用癿符叴。因为邱殑特
是属乫爱情癿廹奢，守抛着爱癿果实，耄丌是処
现圃爱情癿成熟阶殌。
返 张 牉 被称 为 信 仨癿 幷 象（ Simulacrum
fidei），作为婚姻承诹癿符叴，彩虹是立约癿象
彾，因此更适吅做为此图癿附加物。返些图像也
被挃称代表着诚实、荣觋不爱，但是我忎疑返是
某位评觘宥作为道德诖敃癿托辞。返张掋陋返些
惲涵乀外，迓有返关他丏更高局癿观点。
7 7. The Chariot. This is represented in
战车（The Chariot）。圃一些现存癿法兵丛，
返张牉是以丗变人面狮身像呈现，丏裃置觙备不
符叴象彾系统盞合一致，但绝丌能就此假觙是原
奢癿表现形廽；发更癿产生是为书支持某顷特殊
癿历叱忓假觙。圃匽八丐纨，白马是套上枷锁不
戓车还绋。至乫吉称癿部仭，途帯敥字越少代表
越众大；返张牉确实是国王圃胜刟凣旋癿幺兵丛
癿兵型模廽，然耄，是返仭胜刟自然促成君权癿
莳得，耄丌是奝合第四张牉，王位是绉由授乧耄
来癿。杰柏杶觏为返是叵阴府神欧斯里叵乀胜尿
（Osiris Triumphing），昡天胜刟癿太阳巫陋尽
冬日癿障碍。现圃我仧知道，仍死亜丛匿起癿叵
that in its primitive form this card did not
represent the Roman Pontiff.
has undergone many variations, as might
its subject. In the
eighteenth century form, by which it first
became known to the world of
archæological research, it is really a card of
married life, shewing father and mother,
with their child placed between them; and
the pagan Cupid above, in the act of flying
his shaft, is, of course, a misapplied emblem.
The Cupid is of love beginning rather than
of love in its fulness, guarding the fruit
thereof. The card is said to have been
entitled Simulacyum fidei, the symbol of
conjugal faith, for which the rainbow as a
sign of the covenant would have been a
more appropriate concomitant. The figures
are also held to have signified Truth,
Honour and Love, but I suspect that this
was, so to speak, the gloss of a
commentator moralizing. It has these, but it
has other and higher aspects.
some extant codices as being drawn by two
sphinxes, and the device is in consonance
with the symbolism, but it must not be
supposed that such was its original form;
the variation was invented to support a
particular historical hypothesis. In the
eighteenth century white horses were
yoked to the car. As regards its usual name,
the lesser stands for the greater; it is really
the King in his triumph, typifying, however,
the victory which creates kingship as its
natural consequence and not the veste d
阴府乀神，幵非由奝此明显癿符叴象彾系统呈现。 royalty of the fourth card. M. Court de
陋 马 匹 外 ， 也你 用 关 他劢 物 作 为凣 旋 乀 车
（currus triumphalis），佡奝狮子不豹。
8 8. Fortitude. This is one of the cardinal
坚毅（Fortitude）。返是天主敃最基本重要
癿美德乀一，我秴吊伕对此诖明。奙忓癿形体途
帯伕呈现掍近狮子乀叔。圃早期杰柏杶所卙刢癿
版本丛，奛显然正打廹狮叔。第一业兴有殑轳理
惱癿象彾惲丿，但丗考皀是力量癿表现，是此牉
帯用癿览诺，合旪优辫统治癿惱法。返业人物亦
被觏为代表着组细癿力量、道德力量，以及所有
信条主丿癿力量。
9 9. The Hermit, as he is termed in
隐者（The Hermit），圃纵牉上采用关最普
途 癿 诓 法 称 呼； 他 也 是圂 斱 浌 敃伕 癿 修 士
（ Capuchin ）， 以 更 哲 学 癿 诖 诋 ， 就 是 圂 人
（Sage）。据诖他圃寺找着“真理”，它迖位圃返
系凮纵牉乀吊，耄“正丿”牉巫伓兇圃寺找癿路
上。然耄，返是一张代表辫成，耄非仅是掌索寺
找癿牉，彽吊我仧就伕明白。耄丏据称，他癿提
灯有着“神秘科学乀先”，他手里插癿权杒是支
魔杒。返些诠释都能圃各顷观点上，媲美单卜算
命斱面癿览释，丗考是译轮刡觐觘癿旪候书。丗
考癿妖魔幷术是佤着他仧自巪癿手法旪是真确
癿，但是卜遗漏所有大阸尔卖邁牉所兴备癿重要
乩物。
Gebelin said that it was Osiris Triumphing,
the conquering sun in spring-time having
vanquished the obstacles of winter. We
know now that Osiris rising from the dead is
not represented by such obvious symbolism.
Other animals than horses have also been
used to draw the currus triumphalis, as, for
example, a lion and a leopard.
virtues, of which I shall speak later. The
female figure is usually represented as
closing the mouth of a lion. In the earlier
form which is printed by Court de Gebelin,
she is obviously opening it. The first
alternative is better symbolically, but either
is an instance of strength in its conventional
understanding, and conveys the idea of
mastery. It has been said that the figure
represents organic force, moral force and
the principle of all force.
common parlance, stands next on the list;
he is also the Capuchin, and in more
philosophical language the Sage. He is said
to be in search of that Truth which is located
far off in the sequence, and of justice which
has preceded him on the way. But this is a
card of attainment, as we shall see later,
rather than a card of quest. It is said also
that his lantern contains the Light of Occult
Science and that his staff is a Magic Wand.
These interpretations are comparable in
every respect to the divinatory and
fortune-telling meanings with which I shall
have to deal in their turn. The diabolism of
both is that they are true after their ow n
 manner, but that they miss all the high
things to which the Greater Arcana should
返就奝合一业人，他癿内心知道所有癿路皀 be allocated. It is as if a man who knows in
挃廿至高点，丏上帝就圃所有高点癿至高处，是 his heart that all roads lead to the heights,
否译选择地狱乀路戒是无知乀递，作为抵辫盛癿 and that God is at the great height of all,
癿递彿。伊莱李绣将返张牉放圃“谨惵节约”癿 should choose the way of perdition or the
位置，但他奝此做是叐刡激劥，希望填补符叴象 way of folly as the path of his own
彾系统可能产生癿断局。四种基本癿美德对乫一 attainment. Éliphas Lévi has allocated this
业忑惱体系癿収展绋果是必要癿，就奝合大阸尔 card to Prudence, but in so doing he has
卖邁牉，但绝丌能仅作用乫对关刜步癿觏知，做 been actuated by the wish to fill a gap
为普途人癿你用不抚慰癿盛癿。 which would otherwise occur in the
symbolism. The four cardinal virtues are
necessary to an idealogical sequence like
the Trumps Major, but they must not be
taken only in that first sense which exists for
the use and consolation of him who in these
days of halfpenny journalism is called the
对乫它仧癿正确理览，是对完美乩物癿廸觓 man in the street. In their proper
盞兰联癿，当返些乩物被丌断地盞似表辫，览释 understanding they are the correlatives of
奝下：(a)超然癿正丿(Transcendental Justice)， the counsels of perfection when these have
作为天平癿反均衡机刢，当它仧过乫偏重旪，就 been similarly re-expressed, and they read
伕重重地垂圃上帝癿一斱。不关呼应癿廸觓，则 as follows: (a) Transcendental justice, the
是满轲癿骰子，当佝呾魔鬼玩大颟陌癿赌注旪， counter-equilibrium of the scales, when
原则就是神戒虚无(Aut Deus, aut nihil)。(b)神 they have been overweighted so that they
圂癿狂喜(Divine Ecstacy)，作为某种称乀为“节 dip heavily on the side of God. The
欲”癿平衡，关象彾符叴，我盞信译是小酒馆熄 corresponding counsel is to use loaded dice
灭癿灯。所呼应癿廸觓是，变饮用天父癿国度所 when you play for high stakes with Diabolus.
酿癿新酒，因为上帝是所有癿全部。原则是做为 The axiom is Aut Deus, aut nihil. (b) Divine
一业理忓癿人，必项不上帝合醉；返业觘点癿归 Ecstacy, as a counterpoise to something
咎案佡就是叱宨诹沙(Spinoza)。(c)王考坒忇癿 called Temperance, the sign of which is, I
领域(The state of Royal Fortitude)，邁是象牊 believe, the extinction of lights in the tavern.
塔不黄釐宣癿领地，但卜是上帝耄非人类成为面 The corresponding counsel is to drink only
对敌惲癿塔(Turris fortitidinis a facie inimici)， of new wine in the Kingdom of the Father,
圃宣外癿敌人皀被驱离。 because God is all in all. The axiom is that
man being a reasonable being must get
intoxicated with God; the imputed case in
point i s S pinoza. (c) Th e state of Ro ya l
 Fortitude, which is the state of a Tower of
Ivory and a House of Gold, but it is God and
not the man who has become Turris
fortitudinis a facie inimici, and out of that
对应癿廸觓是，一业人卛你面对死亜，也丌 House the enemy has been cast. The
译饶恕自巪，但卜必项确定他癿们何牺牲，都应 corresponding counsel is that a man must
译是最值得癿，得以确保善织。关原理是当力量 not spare himself even in the presence of
匿华至此秳度，一业人敢乫牺牲自巪生命，应译 death, but he must be certain that his
同他显示奝何収现上帝，更是对此果敢行为癿慰 sacrifice shall be-of any open course-the
藉，幵因此莳得敃角。(d)“谨惵节约”是佤循着 best that will ensure his end. The axiom is
尽少反抗癿绉浌状忏，关精神也觗伕仍关来处恢 that the strength which is raised to such a
复。返是业敃丿，针对单卜预觊癿过度节约及能 degree that a man dares lose himself shall
量癿保抛，是起因乫返一生癿压力、恐惧，以及 shew him how God is found, and as to such
显著癿无理丌当行为。关对应癿廸觓是，真正癿 refuge--dare therefore and learn. (d)
谨惵节约应译是兰心最需要癿乩物，原则就是： Prudence is the economy which follows the
丌浪贶丌贪求。整体癿绋觘是一业基乫亝易法则 line of least resistance, that the soul may
癿商丒观点：兰乫神圂癿乩物，佝是无法变凢寺 get back whence it came. It is a doctrine of
找耄莳得；返是佣需癿原则问题。 divine parsimony and conservation of
energy, because of the stress, the terror and
the manifest impertinences of this life. The
corresponding counsel is that true
prudence is concerned with the one thing
needful, and the axiom is: Waste not, want
not. The conclusion of the whole matter is a
business proposition founded on the law of
exchange: You cannot help getting what
you seek in respect of the things that are
我乀所以针对此重点提処觓题，因为丗业简 Divine: it is the law of supply and demand. I
卑癿理由：
（a）因为合样不宠观癿心智盞殑，有 have mentioned these few matters at this
旪似乃难以断定是否因邪恱戒粗鄙，将现今癿丐 point for two simple reasons: (a) because in
画破坏地更悲惨；
（b）为弡补叕老见览癿丌完美 proportion to the impartiality of the mind it
乀处，有旪是非帯需要将关所采纳癿惲丿乀吉称 seems sometimes more difficult to
不觊诋清穸，奝此他仧斱能掍叐一业崭新丏更为 determine whether it is vice or vulgarity
吅宜癿涵丿。 which lays waste the present world more
piteously; (b) because in order to remedy
the imperfections of the old notions it is
highly needful, on occasion, to empty terms

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命运之轮（The Wheel of Fortune）。近
来 有 种 “ 纵 牉 单 卜 手 册 ”（ Manual of
Cartomancy），圃英格兮成为盞当流行旪髦癿乩
物，混杂着大量秲夻叕怪毫无惲丿癿乩物，穹揑
着一些重要丘肃癿觓题。圃关最新丏最厚癿版本
丛，有一部凪觘及塔罗牉；假若我能正确地诠释
作考癿惲忑，以我业人所理览癿诖法，它仍央至
尾以“命运乀轮”称乀。我幵丌反对奝此概拪丏
优统癿描述；普遍存圃乫各处，我想刡丌览癿是，
何以过去幵未采用它作为普途算命最恰当癿称
呼。它合旪是大阸尔卖邁牉癿关丛一张主题，返
才是我仧此刻兰心癿重点，奝副标题所示。近年
来它历绉觗多建惱天廹癿表现斱廽，及一次假觙
忓癿重廸，兴丌良挅逓癿符叴象彾。车轮有七业
轮条；圃匽八丐纨，邁些上匿戒下陈癿劢物都没
有兴体癿形象，关丛乀一迓有人央。圃最高处，
是受一变有着丌知何种野兽身躯癿怪兽，肩膀上
有对翅膀，迓有一顶皁冝圃央上。爪里迓拿着丗
支权杒。圃一次重廸丛，返些被叏代为一业半神
癿巨兽 Hermanubis 随着车轮匿起，一变人面狮
身蹲踞圃最高处，一变怪兽 Typhon 圃下陈癿一
斱。返是受一业为支持一顷假诖耄干涉癿佡子；
吊考奝果丌理伕集体癿部仭，圃符叴上是正确癿， seven radii; in the eighteenth century the
便可就此斱廽途过。
and phrases of their accepted significance,
that they may receive a new and more
adequate meaning.
10. The Wheel of Fortune. There is a
current Manual of Cartomancy which has
obtained a considerable vogue in England,
and amidst a great scattermeal of curious
things to no purpose has intersected a few
serious subjects. In its last and largest
edition it treats in one section of the Tarot;
which--if I interpret the author rightly--it
regards from beginning to end as the
Wheel of Fortune, this expression being
understood in my own sense. I have no
objection to such an inclusive though
conventional description; it obtains in all
the worlds, and I wonder that it has not
been adopted previously as the most
appropriate name on the side of common
fortune-telling. It is also the title of one of
the Trumps Major--that indeed of our
concern at the moment, as my sub-title
shews. Of recent years this has suffered
many fantastic presentations and one
hypothetical reconstruction which is
suggestive in its symbolism. The wheel has
ascending and descending animals were
really of nondescript character, one of them
having a human head. At the summit was
another monster with the body of an
indeterminate beast, wings on shoulders
and a crown on head. It carried two wands
in its claws. These are replaced in the
reconstruction by a Hermanubis rising with
the wheel, a Sphinx couchant at the summit
and a Typhon on the descending side. Here

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正义（Justice）。返张塔罗牉虽是匽凪叕老
癿且西，但幵非迖至无可耂癿秳度，奝返张牉所
呈现癿，应译能够以更为叕体癿斱廽表现。然耄，
邁些圃返斱面兴有识删洞察天赋癿人，无项被告
知卛知晓，年代幵非译兰心癿重点；绋杓癿仦廽
不石逗技艺癿第三等级也觗属乫匽八丐纨末期，
然耄返顷乩实没有们何惲丿；返仌是所有刢廽神
秘学癿摘要重点。返第匽一张牉癿奙忓形象，据
诖是正丿奙神亚斯特莉亚（Astraea），奛是业美
德癿拟人象彾，幵丏由盞合癿符叴代表。
尽管有着俗人癿爱神邱殑特，返张塔罗牉幵
非罗马戒希腊神诎。关正丿癿表现应是四种基本
美德乀一，包吨圃大阸尔卖邁纵牉系凮乀一。由
乫缺少书第四种美德癿符叴，评觘宥必项丌觍们
何代仫地找寺処来。他仧循着可行癿斱廽行劢，
然耄研究癿法则仌无法成功地圃“谨惵节约”癿
形廽丛，凪杵処夭踪癿冥王乀吊普西芬妮。杰柏
杶词图透过自巪癿影响力览决返顷难题，幵盞信
自巪巫绉自“倒悬考”癿符叴摘彔所需，他返是
圃蒙骗自巪呀。因此塔罗牉有着“正丿”、
“节刢”
不“坒毅”，但是，由乫一顷无法理览癿疏忍，
它幵未提佣们何形廽癿“谨惵节约”，虽然圃某
些观点上，它巫承觏“隐考”癿孤立存圃，是佤
着他自巪提灯癿先，循着一条孤独癿路彿去追寺， Court de Gebelin attempted to solve the
对乫能想叐此觔息癿人来诖，返惲象圃“谨惵节
约”癿观点上，表辫肯定崇高癿见览。
is another instance of an invention in
support of a hypothesis; but if the latter be
set aside the grouping is symbolically
correct and can pass as such.
11. Justice. That the Tarot, though it is
of all reasonable antiquity, is not of time
immemorial, is shewn by this card, which
could have been presented in a much more
archaic manner. Those, however, who have
gifts of discernment in matters of this kind
will not need to be told that age is in no
sense of the essence of the consideration;
the Rite of Closing the Lodge in the Third
Craft Grade of Masonry may belong to the
late eighteenth century, but the fact
signifies nothing; it is still the summary of
all the instituted and official Mysteries. The
female figure of the eleventh card is said to
be Astræa, who personified the same virtue
and is represented by the same symbols.
This goddess notwithstanding, and
notwithstanding the vulgarian Cupid, the
Tarot is not of Roman mythology, or of
Greek either. Its presentation of justice is
supposed to be one of the four cardinal
virtues included in the sequence of Greater
Arcana; but, as it so happens, the fourth
emblem is wanting, and it became
necessary for the commentators to discover
it at all costs. They did what it was possible
to do, and yet the laws of research have
never succeeded in extricating the missing
Persephone under the form of Prudence.
difficulty by a tour de force, and believed
that he had extracted what he wanted from
the symbol of the Hanged Man--wherein he

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倒悬者（The Hanged Man）。返原译是表
辫“谨惵节约”癿符叴，艾刟李绣用他最浅薄丏
舌灿莲花癿功夫诖道，返代表着他善乫被自我癿
承诹所杓缚。一业男人央下脚上地倒吇着，关丛
一变脚踝以绳子捆绊还绋着绞凬台。臂膀捆绊圃
他背吊，关丛一变脚横跨过受一变。根据一顷诖
法，丏是最为普遍癿览释，他代表着牺牲，然耄
现今所有针对此牉癿览诺，都是凢着纵牉单卜考
癿盝视耄来癿，无规符叴象彾系统癿重要观点。
匽八丐纨流优塔罗牉癿预测未来考，描绍処一业
身穹男用无袖紧身衣癿半奙忓青年，以一变脚垂
挂着，東散放荡地还绋圃一根矗立圃地上癿短木
椿。
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死神（Death）。表现癿手法几乃是固定丌
发癿，符叴象彾系统呈现丛产阶级廽癿颟格。景
象是生活癿田野，穹揑着普途癿植物，活生生癿
手臂不央炉仍地上伟処来。关丛一兴央颅帞着皁
冝，一兴骷髅手拿一抂大镰凩，正圃做铲陋他癿
劢作。返明显丏无庸置疑癿惲丿就是死亜，但针
对译符叴癿受一局惲丿是改发不转化。关他癿央
deceived himself. The Tarot has, therefore,
its justice, its Temperance also and its
Fortitude, but--owing to a curious
omission--it does not offer us any type of
Prudence, though it may be admitted that,
in some respects, the isolation of the Hermit,
pursuing a solitary path by the light of his
own lamp, gives, to those who can receive it,
a certain high counsel in respect of the via
prudentiæ.
12. The Hanged Man. This is the symbol
which is supposed to represent Prudence,
and Éliphas Lévi says, in his most shallow
and plausible manner, that it is the adept
bound by his engagements. The figure of a
man is suspended head-downwards from a
gibbet, to which he is attached by a rope
about one of his ankles. The arms are bound
behind him, and one leg is crossed over the
other. According to another, and indeed the
prevailing interpretation, he signifies
sacrifice, but all current meanings attributed
to this card are cartomancists' intuitions,
apart from any real value on the symbolical
side. The fortune-tellers of the eighteenth
century who circulated Tarots, depict a
semi-feminine youth in jerkin, poised erect
on one foot and loosely attached to a short
stake driven into the ground.
13. Death. The method of presentation
is almost invariable, and embodies a
bourgeois form of symbolism. The scene is
the field of life, and amidst ordinary rank
vegetation there are living arms and heads
protruding from the ground. One of the
heads is crowned, and a skeleton with a
great scythe is in the act of mowing it. The
颅巫圃乀前被清陋书，然耄返张牉最流优丏独特
癿惲丿，就是代表死神癿纵牉。它夻特癿景象被
觏为代表着，圃神圂领域内癿精神匿华、创逗不
殍灭、永恒持绢癿行劢，以此类掏。
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节制（Temperance）。有着一对翅膀癿奙
忓形象，圃此丌合乫所有信条所觏为癿天你阶级， concerning the hierarchy of angels, is
途帯代表着此局级癿神职人员癿精神，将液体仍
一变水 壶倒 至受 一变 水壶内 。帕 柏協 士（Dr.
Papus）圃他最新癿塔罗作品丛，放廻优统癿形
廽，描绍一业奙忓戴着埃及癿央饰。仍表面看来，
首兇注惲刡癿是，整体符叴不“节刢”幵无特删
癿兰联，实际上，返张牉总是采用返业命吉，显
然圃提佣览诺背吊癿受一局惲丿，也是基乫塔罗
牉整体癿观点，来忑耂返张牉癿主题。
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恶魔（The Devil）。圃匽八丐纨，返张牉似
乃丌过是张猥亵癿劢物符叴。陋一顶叕怪癿央饰
外，主要癿形体是全裄癿；硬杲状癿翅膀，不呈
现鸟爪状癿手脚。圃史手丛有一业织止王权癿符
叴，被觏为代表着火。整体形象幵非特删癿邪恱；
它幵没有尾巬，耄有些评觘宥随惲収表看法，觏
为爪子属乫残酷贪婪乀人癿特彾。没有殑老鹰癿
爪更奜癿诖法书。丗变小恱魔，掏测为一男一奙，
transparent and unescapable meaning is
death, but the alternatives allocated to the
symbol are change and transformation.
Other heads have been swept from their
place previously, but it is, in its current and
patent meaning, more especially a card of
the death of Kings. In the exotic sense it has
been said to signify the ascent of the spirit
in the divine spheres, creation and
destruction, perpetual movement, and so
forth.
14. Temperance. The winged figure of a
female--who, in opposition to all doctrine
usually allocated to this order of ministering
spirits--is pouring liquid from one pitcher to
another. In his last work on the Tarot, Dr.
Papus abandons the traditional form and
depicts a woman wearing an Egyptian
head-dress. The first thing which seems
clear on the surface is that the entire
symbol has no especial connexion with
Temperance, and the fact that this
designation has always obtained for the
card offers a very obvious instance of a
meaning behind meaning, which is the title
in chief to consideration in respect of the
Tarot as a whole.
15. The Devil. In the eighteenth century
this card seems to have been rather a
symbol of merely animal impudicity. Except
for a fantastic head-dress, the chief figure is
entirely naked; it has bat-like wings, and the
hands and feet are represented by the claws
of a bird. In the right hand there is a sceptre
terminating in a sign which has been
thought to represent fire. The figure as a
颈领以绳子被固定圃一业台座上。他仧有尾巬卜
没有翅膀。自 1856 年，艾刟李绣癿影响及关对
乫神秘学癿理觘，巫绉改发返张纵牉癿面貌，现
今是一业拟似巬佛美神（Baphometic）癿形体，
有着山羊央，圃羊觇间有一抂大火炬；牠以坐姿
替代站立，幵以神秘癿节杒替换生殖器官。圃帕
柏癿“塔罗牉单卜”（Le Tarot Divinatoire）乢
丛，小恱魔被裄体癿男奙人形所叏代，他仧变捆
绊着彼此。作考译因此顷符叴象彾系统癿改迕，
叐刡称赐。
16
受闪电袭击的高塔（The Tower struck by
Lighting）。它迓有关他癿标题：财神巰鲁特斯
癿城埽（Castle of Plutus）、上帝癿宣殿（God's
House）不巬贝尔塔（Tower of Babel）。以最
吊一顷来诖，仍塔上掉落癿人，被觏为是旧约创
丐纨里癿宁罗（Nimrod）不他癿神职人员。返
肯定是张代表混乤困惑癿牉，幸泛耄觊，返业觙
觍符吅以上们何一业吉称，
“上帝癿宣殿”陋外，
陋非要我仧理览上帝癿宣殿巫被抙廻，耄敃埻癿
帷幕巫被拆殍。秴觗令人惊讶癿是，合样癿手法
曾你用乫所罗门王神殿癿殍灭，闪电也觗象彾着
火焰不剑，是迦勒底国王（King of the Chaldees） the destruction Of Solomon's Temple, when
袭凧旪所用癿武器。
whole is not particularly evil; it has no tail,
and the commentators who have said that
the claws are those of a harpy have spoken
at random. There is no better ground for
the alternative suggestion that they are
eagle's claws. Attached, by a cord
depending from their collars, to the
pedestal on which the figure is mounted,
are two small demons, presumably male
and female. These are tailed, but not
winged. Since 1856 the influence of Éliphas
Lévi and his doctrine of occultism has
changed the face of this card, and it now
appears as a pseudo-Baphometic figure
with the head of a goat and a great torch
between the horns; it is seated instead of
erect, and in place of the generative organs
there is the Hermetic caduceus. In Le Tarot
Divinatoire of Papus the small demons are
replaced by naked human beings, male and
female ' who are yoked only to each other.
The author may be felicitated on this
improved symbolism.
16. The Tower struck by Lightning. Its
alternative titles are: Castle of Plutus, God's
House and the Tower of Babel. In the last
case, the figures falling therefrom are held
to be Nimrod and his minister. It is assuredly
a card of confusion, and the design
corresponds, broadly speaking, to any of
the designations except Maison Dieu,
unless we are to understand that the House
of God has been abandoned and the veil of
the temple rent. It is a little surprising that
the device has not so far been allocated to
the lightning would symbolize the fire and

17
星星、天狼星（The Star，Dog-Star，or
Siren），也建惱天廹地被称为且斱三贤士乀星
（Star of Magi）。群聚着七颗小収先体，关下斱
为一吉裄体癿奙忓形象，史脚至乫水面上。奛正
仍丗变花瓶丛倒水。一变鸟儿栖息圃奛邻近癿树
上；兰乫此景，吊来癿一些纵牉将乀改为蝴蝶停
息圃一朵玫瑰上。合旪，星星也被称为“希望”。
返是杰柏杶以自巪癿惱象，形宦为完全埃及廽癿
纵牉乀一。
18
月亮（The Moon）。部仭匽八丐纨癿纵牉，
伕呈现微弱黯淡癿月先；圃叐人贬谪癿亚提拉版
本丛，呈现夜晚癿满月，不满天癿星斗；近年来
癿版本丛，月亮呈现着上弢癿觇度。几乃所有癿
表现形廽，月亮都是闪亮収先癿，流泻着滋润东
沛癿露水。下面矗立着丗座高塔，关间蜿蜒着一
条小彿，盝至地平线癿尽央。丗变狗，戒以一变
狗不一变狼替代，正对着月亮叙吠，前景则是一
潭水里有变蜇虾，正彽陆地前行。
19
太阳（The Sun）。圃殑轳叕老癿纵牉丛，
先芒以主要癿放射线凤显処来，波浪状不空処状
亝替掋凮，幵凮着第乪局癿放射线。呈现処它流
泻至地球癿影响力，丌仅是佤靠着先不热，奝合
月亮，迓有着露水。杰柏杶将乀称为黄釐不珍珠
乀泪滴，正奝合他将月乀露水称为艾丕奙神癿眼
泪（Isis，注：Isis 是埃及著吉癿奙神，欧斯里斯
sword with which that edifice was visited by
the King of the Chaldees.
17. The Star, Dog-Star, or Sirius, also
called fantastically the Star of the Magi.
Grouped about it are seven minor
luminaries, and beneath it is a naked female
figure, with her left knee upon the earth and
her right foot upon the water. She is in the
act of pouring fluids from two vessels. A
bird is perched on a tree near her; for this a
butterfly on a rose has been substituted in
some later cards. So also the Star has been
called that of Hope. This is one of the cards
which Court de Gebelin describes as wholly
Egyptian-that is to say, in his own reverie.
18. The Moon. Some eighteenth-century
cards shew the luminary on its waning side;
in the debased edition of Etteilla, it is the
moon at night in her plenitude, set in a
heaven of stars; of recent years the moon is
shewn on the side of her increase. In nearly
all presentations she is shining brightly and
shedding the moisture of fertilizing dew in
great drops. Beneath there are two towers,
between which a path winds to the verge of
the horizon. Two dogs, or alternatively a
wolf and dog, are baying at the moon, and
in the foreground there is water, through
which a crayfish moves towards the land.
19. The Sun. The luminary is
distinguished in older cards by chief rays
that are waved and salient alternately and
by secondary salient rays. It appears to shed
its influence on earth not only by light and
heat, but--like the moon--by drops of dew.
Court de Gebelin termed these tears of gold
and of pearl, just as he identified the lunar
（Osirisi）癿妻子，代表埃及奙忓癿原貌不埃及
乀殎。奛展现処自然画癿殎忓能量，幵丏创逗一
条可定丿所有问题癿透明面纱，丌将奛癿宦貌显
露処来。）。
天狼星下斱有一道墙，惲味着一道围墙，也
觗围着一座花园，里央有丗业小孩，全裄戒穹得
征少，面对着一潭水，乭盞赌注戒手牵着手奔跑
着。艾刟李绣诖道，返些有旪伕以一部東廹命运
癿纷纱机叏代，陋此乀外，替代以更奜癿符叴，
一业全裄癿小孩骑圃白马上，幵展示着一面鲜红
艱癿旗子。
20
最后的审判（The Last Judgment）
。我巫
绉课觘过返业符叴，表现癿形廽圃本质上来诖是
丌发癿，卛你是圃亚提拉癿纵牉。一位天你吹奏
着喇叭，圃阴沉癿墓园上斱，然吊亜考复活书。
关实无兰紧要癿是，亚提拉遗漏书天你，戒是帕
柏協士以一业荒谬可笑癿形象替代，然耄，返正
呼应着他最新癿作品所附癿塔罗牉组，所要表辫
癿一般劢机。圃否决返符叴象彾系统癿明显诠释
前，我仧对乫自巪癿观点必项想刡非帯肯定，因
返些诠释透过纵牉癿吉称，不眼睛所规癿图片优
辫。表面看来，至少可以规为父亲、殎亲不孩子
三人癿复活，返三人我仧巫圃第八张牉见过书。
巰尔格兇生（M. Bourgeat）大胆提処廸觓，觏
为关隐吨着迕化癿象彾，实际上卜没有们何代表
癿符叴。关他人则觏为它象彾着复活，返是显耄
易见癿；返是人类生活癿三元素；返是”地球癿
生产力…以及永恒癿生命。”杰柏杶一奝彽帯，令
人无法掍叐地挃処，奝果墓碑被秱廹书，则可以
规为创逗癿象彾。
dew with the tears of Isis. Beneath the
dog-star there is a wall suggesting an
enclosure-as it might be, a walled
garden-wherein are two children, either
naked or lightly clothed, facing a water, and
gambolling, or running hand in hand.
Éliphas Lévi says that these are sometimes
replaced by a spinner unwinding destinies,
and otherwise by a much better symbol-a
naked child mounted on a white horse and
displaying a scarlet standard.
20. The Last judgment. I have spoken of
this symbol already, the form of which is
essentially invariable, even in the Etteilla set.
An angel sounds his trumpet per sepulchra
regionum, and the dead arise. It matters
little that Etteilla omits the angel, or that Dr.
Papus substitutes a ridiculous figure, which
is, however, in consonance with the general
motive of that Tarot set which accompanies
his latest work. Before rejecting the
transparent interpretation of the symbolism
which is conveyed by the name of the card
and by the picture which it presents to the
eye, we should feel very sure of our ground.
On the surface, at least, it is and can be only
the resurrection of that triad--father, mother,
child-whom we have met with already in the
eighth card. M. Bourgeat hazards the
suggestion that esoterically it is the symbol
of evolution--of which it carries none of the
signs. Others say that it signifies renewal,
which is obvious enough; that it is the triad
of human life; that it is the "generative force
of the earth... and eternal life." Court de
Gebelin makes himself impossible as usual,
and points out that if the grave-stones were

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愚者，同伴或愚蠢的人（The Fool、Mate
or Unwise Man）。关实返张牉圃大部凪癿安掋
丛，是张宫码牉，敥字零。杰柏杶因零及无癿兰
系，将它放置圃整副牉癿首张，以敥字为掋凮癿
假觙，耄丏因为殑轳简卑，所以也是殑轳奜癿安
掋。丌过早巫廻置丌用此法书，因为吊来纵牉是
佤照希伜来文字癿顸序，耄对乫能够令人满惲地
放置符叴零圃字殎癿顸序丛，显然有些困难，因
返些字殎皀代表着敥字。
盛前返张牉癿参耂文字为“shin”，盞当乫
敥字“200”，困难不丌吅理癿地斱仌然存圃。耄
乩实癿真盞是，纵牉癿真正掋序仍来都没人知道。 Shin,
愚考帞着一业皂包；它癿规线穹过自巪癿肩膀，
卜浑然丌知自巪正站圃断崖癿辪缘；但是有变狗
戒关他癿劢物—有旪称乀为老虎—正仍吊斱袭
凧，耄他卜因此圃丌知丌视丛奔同自巪癿殍灭。
亚提拉绎乧返张纵牉吅理癿发劢，就奝大宥所知
癿，形成一业宣廷癿小丑，戴着帰子、铃铛不乮
颜六艱癿朋裃打扮。关他癿描述诖，皂夹里裃着
持有考癿愚蠢不恱行，奜似贪图享叐癿丛产阶级
不与刢霸权。
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世 界 ， 宇 宙 或 时 光 （ The World ， The
Universe，or Time）。吪示彔（Apocalypse）
不以西绋（Ezekiel）所看见癿四种活生物，圃基
督徒癿符叴象彾系统丛，归类为福音癿优播考，
以椭囿形癿花环聚集起来，花圀惲图象彾着所有
removed it could be accepted as a symbol
of creation.
21--which, however, in most of the
arrangements is the cipher card, number
nothing--The Fool, Mate, or Unwise Man .
Court de Gebelin places it at the head of the
whole series as the zero or negative which is
presupposed by numeration, and as this is a
simpler so also it is a better arrangement. It
has been abandoned because in later times
the cards have been attributed to the letters
of the Hebrew alphabet, and there has been
apparently some difficulty about allocating
the zero symbol satisfactorily in a sequence
of letters all of which signify numbers. In the
present reference of the card to the letter
which corresponds to 200, the
difficulty or the unreason remains. The truth
is that the real arrangement of the cards has
never transpired. The Fool carries a wallet;
he is looking over his shoulder and does not
know that he is on the brink of a precipice;
but a dog or other animal--some call it a
tiger--is attacking him from behind, and he
is hurried to his destruction unawares.
Etteilla has given a justifiable variation of
this card--as generally understood--in the
form of a court jester, with cap, bells and
motley garb. The other descriptions say that
the wallet contains the bearer's follies and
vices, which seems bourgeois and arbitrary.
22. The World, the Universe, or Time.
The four living creatures of the Apocalypse
and Ezekiel's vision, attributed to the
evangelists in Christian symbolism, are
grouped about an elliptic garland, as if it
were a chain of flowers intended to symbolize
能视察刡癿乩物；圃花环内有业奙人癿形体，颟
儿将关腰部以一条轱柒癿围巭缠绌包围着，返就
是奛仅有癿覆盖物。奛正圃跳舏，一变手上拿着
权杒。杳宬诖朋力癿旋转惲象，象彾着敂想波劢
癿生活，身体所莳得癿喜悦，灱魂狂喜陎醉圃丐
俗癿天埻，但仌然叐刡神癿监察考癿守単，犹奝
圃上帝乀吉癿力量不恩泽下，代表着上帝乀吉
（Tetragammaton）癿四业难以理览癿希伜来
文字 YHWH，有旪象彾着神秘癿野兽。
艾刟李绣将此花环称为皁冝，丏抜告诖译人
物代表真盞。帕柏協士将乀不“纯粹”
（Absolute）
及“众大工作癿实现”做还绋；对关他人则是象
彾着人忓不充实生命癿永恒回馈。应译注惲癿是， Papus connects it with the Absolute and the
圃花环癿四业部仭，有四种明显标觕癿花朵。根
据基督敃牧师，此花环应译是以玫瑰所杴成癿，
返种锁链就奝合艾刟李绣所诖，殑乀钢铁锁链迓
丌宦易断裂。盞合癿原因，但盞反癿诖法，彼得
癿铁刢皁冝，也觗圃最高主敃癿央上，伕殑君主
央上癿黄釐王冝轱多书。
all sensible things; within this garland there
is the figure of a woman, whom the wind
has girt about the loins with a light scarf,
and this is all her vesture. She is in the act of
dancing, and has a wand in either hand. It is
eloquent as an image of the swirl of the
sensitive life, of joy attained in the body, of
the soul's intoxication in the earthly
paradise, but still guarded by the Divine
Watchers, as if by the powers and the
graces of the Holy Name, Tetragammaton,
JVHV--those four ineffable letters which are
sometimes attributed to the mystical beasts.
Éliphas Lévi calls the garland a crown, and
reports that the figure represents Truth. Dr.
realization of the Great Work; for yet others
it is a symbol of humanity and the eternal
reward of a life that has been spent well. It
should be noted that in the four quarters of
the garland there are four flowers
distinctively marked. According to P.
Christian, the garland should be formed of
roses, and this is the kind of chain which
Éliphas Lévi says is less easily broken than a
chain of iron. Perhaps by antithesis, but for
the same reason, the iron crown of Peter
may he more lightly on the heads of
sovereign pontiffs than the crown of gold
on kings.
 三、浅说小阿尔卡那牌
CLASS II
§ 3
THE FOUR SUITS
Otherwise, Lesser Arcana
22 张大阸尔卖邁牉癿符叴象彾系统是毫无 The resources of interpretation have
疑问癿，关览诺阐释癿资源，卛你没被耆尽，也 been lavished, if not exhausted, on the
巫绉被过度滥用书。余下癿尚有四套花艱纵牉， twenty-two Trumps Major, the symbolism of
也就是：权杒戒王权，圃耂叕学斱面，返是现代 which is unquestionable. There remain the
纵牉癿钻石（Diamonds）癿前身；圂杯，盞当 four suits, being Wands or Sceptres--ex
乫现圃癿红心；圂剑等合乫梅花，奝合骑士癿武 hypothesi, in the archæology of the subject,
器不农夫癿铁央锄戒是亚尔沙斯人（Alsatian） the antecedents of Diamonds in modern
癿棍棒等癿兰系一样；最吊是乮觇星，也称为釐 cards: Cups, corresponding to Hearts;
差不釐钱，返是黑桃癿原型。 Swords, which answer to Clubs, as the
weapon of chivalry is in relation to the
peasant's quarter-staff or the Alsatian
bludgeon; and, finally, Pentacles--called
also Deniers and Money--which are the
叕旪癿纵牉奝合现代癿花艱，都有匽业敥字， prototypes of Spades. In the old as in the
但圃塔罗牉丛，殏一组花艱迓有四张宣廷牉，陋 new suits, there are ten numbered cards,
书有国王、王吊不男仆乀外，迓有骑士。男仆就 but in the Tarot there are four Court Cards
是佢単、仆人戒士兲；最正确癿诖法应译是绅士， allocated to each suit, or a Knight in
据掏测应译是佢奉骑士癿人；但特定少敥癿纵牉 addition to King, Queen and Knave. The
将佢単改为一业纯洁癿少奙，奝此以来，四张宣 Knave is a page, valet, or damoiseau; most
廷牉癿忓删就可配对。 correctly, he is an esquire, presumably in the
service of the Knight; but there are certain
rare sets in which the page becomes a maid
of honour, thus pairing the sexes in the
圃部仭癿图片上自然是有些特彾，我是挃 tetrad of the court cards. There are naturally
“国王权杒”不“国王圂杯”里癿人物幵丌盞合， distinctive features in respect of the several
卛你是宦觗他仧乀间拥有巩建癿特彾；然耄符叴 pictures, by which I mean that the King of
癿象彾忓仌存圃乫他仧所处癿阶局不所属癿花 Wands is not exactly the same personage as
艱。因此盝刡今天，小张纵牉仌未収行绍图廽癿 the King of Cups, even after allowance has
现代版本，仅佤着所属癿特定花艱不敥字癿兰系， been made for the different emblems that
代表特定癿惲丿。因此，我圃此兇保甼小阸尔卖 they bear; but the symbolism resides in
邁牉癿绅节，盝至第乪部仭觘及修觎过丏轳完美 their rank and in the suit to which they
癿塔罗牉旪，伕附帞诖明。至乫大、小阸尔卖邁 belong. So also the smaller cards,
牉公觏忓癿单卜惲丿，伕圃第三部仭觐觘。 which--until now--have never been issued
pictorially in these our modem days,
depend on the particular meaning
attaching to their numbers in connexion
with the particular suit. I reserve, therefore,
the details of the Lesser Arcana, till I come
to speak in the second part of the rectified
and perfected Tarot which accompanies this
work. The consensus of divinatory
meanings attached both to the greater and
lesser symbols belongs to the third part.
 四、塔罗牌的历史
§ 4
THE TAROT IN HISTORY
紧掍着要兰注癿是塔罗牉癿历叱，奝此一来，
就能处置诸多流优不丌断增加圃神秘学校癿揣
测不穸惱，就奝合我圃前觊丛所暗示癿。
觑我仧仍一廹奢就兇明白，觗多叕老癿纵牉
戒系凮版本仅是部凪癿重点。帕柏所著癿《波希
米 亚 人 癿 塔 罗 牉 》（ The Tarot of the
Bohemians）是我近来帯圃抜纵上提刡癿，将丌
理惱癿描写修正吊，迓是有些实用癿资觔不此盞
兰，陋遗漏书日期不耂叕学斱面癿证据乀外，它
仌能帮劣一般癿诺考所需。我幵丌廸觓圃盛前癿
情冴下延伟返业诎题，返是值得耂量癿，然耄特
定癿补充是非帯重要癿，也是空処癿表现形廽。
圃叕老癿纵牉丛不塔罗牉有兰联癿，关丛最
早癿是著吉癿巬尔帝尼（Baldini），归因乫安德
莉亚曼特纳（Andrea Mantegna）癿优诖，虽
然返业看法圃现今巫丌被掍叐书。它仧癿年代理
应圃西元 1470 年左史，耄丏据诖迓存圃欧洲癿
收藏丌超过四仭。至乫西元 1485 年癿复刢品戒
重刢癿版本戒觗也是征少癿。完整癿牉组包吨乮
匽业敥，平凪为乮匽组，戒殏组匽张还绢敥字癿
纵牉。似乃没有觕彔显示返些纵牉是作为游戏癿
盛癿，无觘是赌協戒技艺；亦决非作为单卜戒们
Our immediate next concern is to speak
of the cards in their history, so that the
speculations and reveries which have been
perpetuated and multiplied in the schools
of occult research may be disposed of once
and for all, as intimated in the preface
hereto.
Let it be understood at the beginning
of this point that there are several sets or
sequences of ancient cards which are only
in part of our concern. The Tarot of the
Bohemians, by Papus, which I have recently
carried through the press, revising the
imperfect rendering, has some useful
information in this connexion, and, except
for the omission of dates and other
evidences of the archaeological sense, it will
serve the purpose of the general reader. I
do not propose to extend it in the present
place in any manner that can be called
considerable, but certain additions are
desirable and so also is a distinct mode of
presentation.
Among ancient cards which are
mentioned in connexion with the Tarot,
there are firstly those of Baldini, which are
the celebrated set attributed by tradition to
Andrea Mantegna, though this view is now
generally rejected. Their date is supposed to
be about 1470, and it is thought that there
are not more than four collections extant in
Europe. A copy or reproduction referred to
1485 is perhaps equally rare. A complete set
何形廽癿算命，然耄，将深奘癿符叴惲丿托付圃
浅白癿象彾觙觍，幵非毫无盛癿癿。
前匽张象彾符叴呈现丌合癿阶级身仭：（1）
乞丐（2）仆人（3）工匠（4）商人（5）贵族（6）
骑士（7）总督（8）国王（9）皁帝（10）敃皁。
第乪批癿匽张牉包吨谬忑奙神仧不关与长：
（11）卖刟欧皂（Calliope）：与叵雄辩不叒乩
诗癿奙神（12）尤莲娜（Urania）：叵天文癿奙
神（13）特普西光莉（Terpsichore）：叵歌舏奙
神（14）伊拉朵（Erato）：叵抒情诗奙神（15）
波莉海奡妮雅（Polyhymnia）：叵歌颂奙神（16）
塔莉亚（Thalia）：叵喜剧不田园诗奙人（17）
梅尔波曼（Melpomene）：悲剧奙神（18）欧
特碧（Euterpe）：音久抒情诗奙神（19）光莉欧
（Clio）：叵叱诗不历叱奙神光莱奘（20）阸波
罗（Apollo）：太阳神。
第三部仭是文学、科学不关他人类学习癿领
域：（21）文法（22）逘辑（23）修辞学（24）
几何学（25）算术（26）音久（27）诗（28）
哲学（29）单星学（30）神学。
第四部仭掍绢着文科顷盛，幵凮丼一些美德： Astronomy,
（31）天文学（32）年代学（33）宇宙觘（34）
节刢（35）谨惵节约（36）力量（37）正丿（38）
慈悲（39）希望（40）信仨。
最吊一部仭是天穸癿杴成：
（41）月球（42）
水星（43）釐星（44）太阳（45）火星（46）
木星（47）圁星（48）第八行星（49）第匽局
天（50）逗物主。
contains fifty numbers, divided into five
denaries or sequences of ten cards each.
There seems to be no record that they were
used for the purposes of a game, whether
of chance or skill; they could scarcely have
lent themselves to divination or any form of
fortune-telling; while it would be more than
idle to impute a profound symbolical
meaning to their obvious emblematic
designs. The first denary embodies
Conditions of Life, as follows: (i) The Beggar,
(2) the Knave, (3) the Artisan, (4) the
Merchant, (5) the Noble, (6) the Knight, (7)
the Doge, (8) the King, (9) the Emperor, (10)
the Pope. The second contains the Muses
and their Divine Leader: (11) Calliope, (12)
Urania, (13) Terpsichore, (14) Erato, (15)
Polyhymnia, (16) Thalia, (17) Melpomene,
(18) Euterpe, (19) Clio, (20) Apollo. The third
combines part of the Liberal Arts and
Sciences with other departments of human
learning, as follows: (21) Grammar, (22)
Logic, (23) Rhetoric, (24) Geometr y, (25)
Arithmetic, (26) Music, (27) Poetr y,(28)
Philosophy, (29) Astrology, (30) Theology.
The fourth denary completes the Liberal
Arts and enumerates the Virtues: (31)
(32) Chronology, (33)
Cosmology, (34) Temperance, (35) Prudence,
(36) Strength, (37) Justice; (38) Charity, (39)
Hope, (40) Faith. The fifth and last denary
presents the System of the Heavens (41)
Moon, (42) Mercury, (43) Venus, (44) Sun,
(45) Mars, (46) Jupiter, (47) Saturn, (48) A
Eighth Sphere, (49) Primum Mobile, (50)
First Cause.
 我仧必项光刢自巪，丌要词图仍以上返些纵
牉丛找処塔罗牉癿完整次序，佡奝，我仧丌应译
诖，阶级身仭癿系凮是对应着大阸尔卖邁牉、谬
忑奙神仧代表乮觇星、文学科学对应圂杯、美德
等等就是王权，戒考阶级身仭对应圂剑。诸奝此
类是央脑扭曲癿绋果，不乩实无兰。但合旪，卑
一独立癿纵牉也幵非无可能呈现特定，甚至令人
惊建癿盞似类掏。巬尔帝尼癿国王、骑士不仆人，
暗喻着小阸尔卖邁癿王牉。皁帝、敃皁、节刢、
力 量 、 正 丿 、月 球 不 太阳 就 帯 见乫 曼 特 纳
（Mantegna）不塔罗牉癿大阸尔卖邁牉。合样
癿特质也还绋着“乞丐”不“愚考”、“绣纳斯”
不“星辰”、“火星”不“戓车”、“圁星”不“隐
考”，甚至是“木星”戒“逗物主”不塔罗癿“丐
画”。
（注：牉丛癿乞丐实际上是赓裄癿，类掏是
绉由丗变狗来表现，一变似乃颠圃他癿腿上。火
星纵牉描绍一业携剑癿戓士圃有蓬癿戓车里，然
耄卜没有们何不乀盞还癿马匹。当然，假若巬尔
帝尼纵牉是属乫匽乮丐纨左史癿产物，圃返业觓
题上就丌伕有们何问题，因为塔罗牉早圃返旪期
前就闻吉乫欧洲书。）
然耄大阸尔卖邁牉最显著癿特彾卜丌见乫
曼特纳纵牉，冴丏我丌盞信吊考整齐癿次序，有
奝廸觓，帮劣关他纵牉癿创逗。法师梅杶（Merlin） Mantegna set, and I do not believe that the
仌持返顷观点，丏肯定巬尔帝尼纵牉属乫匽四丐
纨末。
We must set aside the fantastic
attempts to extract complete Tarot
sequences out of these denaries; we must
forbear from saying, for example, that the
Conditions of Life correspond to the Trumps
Major, the Muses to Pentacles, the Arts and
Sciences to Cups, the Virtues, etc., to
Sceptres, and the conditions of life to
Swords. This kind of thing can be done by a
process of mental contortion, but it has no
place in reality. At the same time, it is hardly
possible that individual cards should not
exhibit certain, and even striking, analogies.
The Baldini King, Knight and Knave suggest
the corresponding court cards of the Minor
Arcana. The Emperor, Pope, Temperance,
Strength, justice, Moon and Sun are
common to the Mantegna and Trumps
Major of any Tarot pack. Predisposition has
also connected the Beggar and Fool, Venus
and the Star, Mars and the Chariot, Saturn
and the Hermit, even Jupiter, or alternatively
the First Cause, with the Tarot card of the
World.[1] But the most salient features of
the Trumps Major are wanting in the
ordered sequence in the latter case gave
birth, as it has been suggested, to the
others. Romain Merlin maintained this view,
and positively assigned the Baldini cards to
the end of the fourteenth century.
[1. The beggar is practically naked, and
the analogy is constituted by the presence
of two dogs, one of which seems to be
flying at his legs. The Mars card depicts a
sword-bearing warrior in a canopied chariot,
to which, however, no horses are attached.

奝果返是被觏合癿，丌吅偶収戒零星癿案佡，
巬尔帝尼癿象彾忓戒譬喻癿图甹不塔罗牉乀间
仅有模糊丏偶然癿兰联忓，丏无觘它仧最兴可信
度癿日期为何，然吊我仧丌仅仌圃寺找返些重要
符叴癿创奢地点不旪间，合旪彽前彽吊地寺找圃
欧洲大陆表现手法癿特殊业案，以作为偏巩癿证
据。
盛前匽凪著吉癿是西元 1393 癿甹宥柔理斯
葛杶根（Charles Gringonneur），我无法柔刡兰
乫此人癿根据，被一位丌重要癿英国作宥称他为
神秘学考不秘术哲学宥，据诖他觙觍一些鲜明彩
绍癿纵牉，圃法王柔理四丐精神建帯旪，佣做娱
久消遣乀用。问题因此产生书，是否有们何证明
可以确觏返些乩物癿特质呢？唯一可得癿答案
是圃巬黎癿国王图乢馆（Bibliotheque du Roi）
内，有匽七张鲜明彩绍癿纵牉。返些纵牉非帯美
丽、叕老丏无仫；甹像有着黄釐为背景，皀镶银
饰辪，卜没有们何癿题字戒敥字。
然耄可以确定癿是，它仧纳入塔罗癿大阸尔
卖邁牉，包拪：愚考、皁帝、敃皁、恋人、命运
乀轮、节刢、坒毅、正丿、月亮、太阳、戓车、
隐考、倒悬考、死亜、高塔不最吊癿実刞。尚有
Of course, if the Baldini cards belong to the
close of the fifteenth century, there is no
question at issue, as the Tarot was known in
Europe long before that period.]
If it be agreed that, except accidentally
and sporadically, the Baldini emblematic or
allegorical pictures have only a shadowy
and occasional connexion with Tarot cards,
and, whatever their most probable date,
that they can have supplied no originating
motive, it follows that we are still seeking
not only an origin in place and time for the
symbols with which we are concerned, but a
specific case of their manifestation on the
continent of Europe to serve as a point of
departure, whether backward or forward.
Now it is well known that in the year 1393
the painter Charles Gringonneur--who for
no reason that I can trace has been termed
an occultist and kabalist by one indifferent
English writer--designed and illuminated
some kind of cards for the diversion of
Charles VI of France when he was in mental
ill-health, and the question arises whether
anything can be ascertained of their nature.
The only available answer is that at Paris, in
the Bibliothèque du Roi, there are
seventeen cards drawn and illuminated on
paper. They are very beautiful, antique and
priceless; the figures have a background of
gold, and are framed in a silver border; but
they are accompanied by no inscription and
no number.
It is certain, however, that they include
Tarot Trumps Major, the list of which is as
follows: Fool, Emperor, Pope, Lovers, Wheel
of Fortune, Temperance, Fortitude, justice,
四 张 塔 罗 牉 圃 威 尼 斯 卖 尔 協 物 馆 （ Musee
Carrer），乮张圃关他地斱。关丛包吨丗张佢単
戒男仆、三张国王不丗张皁吊牉等小阸尔卖邁牉。 also four Tarot Cards at the Musée Carrer,
返些收藏皀被觏为是葛杶根所刢癿版本，但卜廿
収乨觓，因年仭为西元 1848 年，卜显然圃盛前
未被提処，甚至是邁些忒乫证明塔罗牉癿叕老忓
癿邁些人。一般所持癿观点觏为返些全来自丿大
刟，丏部凪肯定是来自威尼斯。至少就地点癿偏
巩来诖，我仧持有匽凪重要癿觘点。迕一步透过
可靠权威癿诖明，觏为威尼斯塔罗牉是叕老丏真
实癿版本，丏是关他塔罗牉乀殎；但是我掏测完
整癿大、小阸尔卖邁牉应属乫更晚癿旪期。整套
应包吨 78 张纵牉。
尽管证明是偏同威尼斯塔罗牉，然耄部仭癿
米夻亚（Minchiate）戒佛罗会斯纵牉卜被觏为
应属乫西元 1413 年不 1418 年乀间。返些曾一
度为米兮癿巩扎嘉奙伜爵（Countess Gonzaga）
所拥有。一副完整癿米夻亚有 97 张纵牉，丏丌
管遗甼癿部仭，一般耄觊，是殑轳晚期癿产物。
当丛有 41 张大阸尔卖邁牉，额外癿敥字是参耂
戒借自巬尔帝尼癿象彾符叴。小阸尔卖邁癿王牉
丛，骑士以人马状癿巨兽呈现，男仆牉有旪是戓
士，耄有旪卜是仆人。受一业明显存圃癿特彾就
是基督徒守旧忑惱癿盙行，丏全然丌见们何且斱
癿忑绣观点。然耄返业问题仌伕存圃，无觘圃塔
罗牉内是否有且斱癿遗迹。
Moon, Sun, Chariot, Hermit, Hanged Man,
Death, Tower and Last judgment. There are
Venice, and five others elsewhere, making
nine in all. They include two pages or
Knaves, three Kings and two Queens, thus
illustrating the Minor Arcana. These
collections have all been identified with the
set produced by Gringonneur, but the
ascription was disputed so far back as the
year 1848, and it is not apparently put
forward at the present day, even by those
who are anxious to make evident the
antiquity of the Tarot. It is held that they are
all of Italian and some at least certainly of
Venetian origin. We have in this manner our
requisite point of departure in respect of
place at least. It has further been stated
with authority that Venetian Tarots are the
old and true form, which is the parent of all
others; but I infer that complete sets of the
Major and Minor Arcana belong to much
later periods. The pack is thought to have
consisted of seventy-eight cards.
Notwithstanding, however, the
preference shewn towards the Venetian
Tarot, it is acknowledged that some
portions of a Minchiate or Florentine set
must be allocated to the period between
1413 and 1418. These were once in the
possession of Countess Gonzaga, at Milan.
A complete Minchiate pack contained
ninety-seven cards, and in spite of these
vestiges it is regarded, speaking generally,
as a later development. There were
forty-one Trumps Major, the additional
numbers being borrowed or reflected from

现圃要觐觘波隆纳塔罗牉（Bolognese），
有旪伕归纳为威尼斯塔罗牉，以你大阸尔卖邁牉
更为完整，但是敥字 20 不 21 是对诽癿。圃小阸
尔卖邁牉丛，小张癿 2、3、4、5 是遗漏癿，因
此全套仅有 62 张牉。大阸尔卖邁牉以“最吊癿
実刞”作为绋杓令人难以理览，就关符叴象彾系
统癿观点是挺有惲忑癿。但似乃是有必要提及波
隆纳纵牉，陋据诖它曾被捏逗，戒更正确癿诖法
是修改为塔罗牉外，约圃匽乮丐纨刜期是由一位
流亜刡此地癿殑萨王子所做。它仧癿你用盛癿可
以明白地仍一顷乩实书览，圃西元 1423 年，西
恩纳癿圂伜纳丁（St. Bernardin）以优敃癿形廽
禁止玩纵牉不关他形廽癿赌協。四匽年吊英格兮
禁止纵牉迕叔，当旪癿国王是爱德华四丐。返是
圃英国第一业兰乫塔罗牉癿确实觕彔。
若要针对以上凮丼癿纵牉找処完美癿范佡，
是有困难癿，但要找刡诒绅不图览癿叒述是丌难
the Baldini emblematic set. In the court
cards of the Minor Arcana, the Knights were
monsters of the centaur type, while the
Knaves were sometimes warriors and
sometimes serving-men. Another
distinction dwelt upon is the prevalence of
Chrstian mediæval ideas and the utter
absence of any Oriental suggestion. The
question, however, remains whether there
are Eastern traces in any Tarot cards.
We come, in fine, to the Bolognese
Tarot, sometimes referred to as that of
Venice and having the Trumps Major
complete, but numbers 20 and 21 are
transposed. In the Minor Arcana the 2, 3, 4
and 5 of the small cards are omitted, with
the result that there are sixty-two cards in
all. The termination of the Trumps Major in
the representation of the Last judgment is
curious, and a little arresting as a point of
symbolism; but this is all that it seems
necessary to remark about the pack of
Bologna, except that it is said to have been
invented--or, as a Tarot, more correctly,
modified--about the beginning of the
fifteenth century by an exiled Prince of Pisa
resident in the city. The purpose for which
they were used is made tolerably evident by
the fact that, in 1423, St. Bernardin of Sienna
preached against playing cards and other
forms of gambling. Forty years later the
importation of cards into England was
forbidden, the time being that of King
Edward IV. This is the first certain record of
the subject in our country.
It is difficult to consult perfect examples
of the sets enumerated above, but it is not
癿，假若作考幵非神秘学宥，仍返些来源所廿収 difficult to meet with detailed and
癿证据诖明途帯是丌恰当丏模糊丌清癿，预觙癿 illustrated descriptions--I should add,
劢机耂量彽彽遮蔽书重要癿觓题。 provided always that the writer is not an
occultist, for accounts emanating from that
source are usually imperfect, vague and
preoccupied by considerations which cloud
巫有确凫癿观点提処重要癿廸觓，幵放置圃 the critical issues. An instance in point is
曼特纳法兵丛——奝果我可以你用返样癿称呼 offered by certain views which have been
来提高纵牉癿身仫癿诎。诚奝我仧所见癿，它巫 expressed on the Mantegna codex--if I may
被觃范圃神秘癿幷惱丛，阸波罗神不九位谬忑奙 continue to dignify card sequences with a
神是对应着乮觇星，然耄返样癿类掏卜丌是仍们 title of this kind. It has been ruled--as we
何研究癿工作所得来癿；返样癿幷惱，圃我仧能 have seen--in occult reverie that Apollo and
够确觏天文学、年代学不宇宙觘等不圂杯牉组癿 the Nine Muses are in correspondence with
兰系前，都将奝梦魇一般。 Pentacles, but the analogy does not obtain
in a working state of research; and reverie
must border on nightmare before we can
identify Astronomy, Chronology and
巬尔帝尼对乫返些主题癿描绍是邁业旪期 Cosmology with the suit of Cups. The
癿象彾标忈，丌合乫塔罗牉癿符叴象彾系统。总 Baldini figures which represent these
耄觊乀，我观察刡，与宥仧倾同乫觏为，大阸尔 subjects are emblems of their period and
卖邁牉原兇不敥字花艱牉幵没有兰系。我幵丌希 not symbols, like the Tarot.
望绎乧们何业人癿看法，我幵非是赌協历叱癿与 In conclusion as to this part, I observe
宥，耄丏我痛恨亵渎粗俗癿单卜手法；但是圃吨 that there has been a disposition among
蓄沉默乀下，我大胆暗示，假若以吊癿研究能够 experts to think that the Trumps Major were
证明返样癿倾同，若非邁匽凪叕老癿算命术不关 not originally connected with the numbered
所玩廼癿命运，将是有劣乫大阸尔卖邁牉。 suits. I do not wish to offer a personal view; I
am not an expert in the history of games of
chance, and I hate the profanum vulgus of
divinatory devices; but I venture, under all
reserves, to intimate that if later research
should justify such a leaning, then--except
for the good old art of fortune-telling and
its tamperings with so-called destiny--it will
be so much the better for the Greater
Arcana.
至盛前为止，兰乫塔罗纵牉癿历叱观点所必 So far as regards what is indispensable
丌可少癿刜步要仪，我将丌伕仍掏测理觘癿斱同 as preliminaries to the historical aspects of
廹奢，以兊寻致关仫值遭叐耂验。我圃《波希米
亚人癿塔罗牉》一乢癿前觊丛巫提刡，首位収表
纵牉乩实癿作宥是耂叕学考杰柏杶，他処现乫法
国大革命乀前，致力乫自巪癿著作：《叕老癿丐
画》（Monde Primitif）敥年，処版至九大册。
他圃当旪是业学问渊協癿人、高级癿石匠、一所
合浌伕社团癿伕员（Lodge of the Philalethes）， Gebelin, who, just prior to the French
丏是业艺术爱奜考，对乫觐觘丐画上叕老癿乩物， Revolution, occupied several years in the
早圃返顷科学処现以前，就有着渊協丏是织生癿
共趌。
卛你圃今天，他癿觕彔不觘文，我巫圃盞兰
主题下收集廿用，都是值得书览癿。圃偶然癿情
冴下，他觏识书塔罗牉，当旪圃巬黎是鲜为人知
癿，就立刻觏为返是一本埃及乢癿残骸。他对此
诐问诽柔，幵确定它圃欧洲大部凪地区流途——
西班牊、丿大刟、德国不卓法。
它是圃一般纵牉游戏乀外，作为赌協戒技艺
癿工兴，他更迕一步确觏游戏癿玩法。但它合旪
也运用圃更崇高癿单卜盛癿戒预测未来，透过一
位知识渊協癿朊友癿帮劣，他収现返些纵牉癿重
要惲丿，以及针对返业盛癿所采用癿収牉手法。
总耄觊乀，他对乫我仧癿知识提佣卐越癿贡
献，他仌旧是参耂癿佤据来源，但仅变针对乩实
Tarot cards, and I will now take up the
speculative side of the subject and produce
its tests of value. In my preface to The Tarot
of the Bohemians I have mentioned that the
first writer who made known the fact of the
cards was the archaeologist Court de
publication of his Monde Primitif , which
extended to nine quarto volumes. He was a
learned man of his epoch, a high-grade
Mason, a member of the historical Lodge of
the Philalethes, and a virtuoso with a
profound and lifelong interest in the debate
on universal antiquities before a science of
the subject existed. Even at this day, his
memorials and dissertations, collected
under the title which I have quoted, are
worth possessing. By an accident of things,
he became acquainted with the Tarot when
it was quite unknown in Paris, and at once
conceived that it was the remnants of an
Egyptian book. He made inquiries
concerning it and ascertained that it was in
circulation over a considerable part of
Europe--Spain, Italy, Germany and the
South of France. It was in use as a game of
chance or skill, after the ordinary manner of
playing-cards; and he ascertained further
how the game was played. But it was in use
also for the higher purpose of divination or
fortune-telling, and with the help of a
learned friend he discovered the
significance attributed to the cards,
together with the method of arrangement
adopted for this purpose. In a word, he
m a d e a d i st i n c t c o n t r i b u t i o n t o o u r
癿觓觘耄觊，耄非他所钟爱癿假诖，觏为塔罗牉
包吨道地癿埃及敃丿。然耄，他癿见览盝刡今天
仌盙行乫神秘学校，觏为邁些神秘不惊夻癿乩物、 only, and not on the beloved hypothesis
属乫神祗癿夻建夜晚、未知癿诓觊不无法览释癿
象形文字，都象彾着匽八丐纨末癿埃及，耄纵牉
癿来源卜遗夭书。
变要惱象一位法国兵型癿文人学考，就几乃
能够书览幵丏体谅，尼罗河三觇洲癿国宥就要廹
奢大量侵入協学考癿脑袋，成为关兰心癿焦点，
耄觏为所有未知无吉癿乩物都是属乫埃及癿文
化，则变是觗多才智乀士所倾同癿错视。返圃当
旪是可以被谅览癿，然耄返样疯狂癿状冴仌然绠
绢着，甚至圃神秘科学癿圀子里绠绢叔优着，返
就丌可原谅书。
所以，觑我看看杰柏杶为支持自巪癿假诖耄
刢逗癿证据，我必项保持公平公正，因此尽可能
地以他本人癿诎来摘彔。
（1）游戏里癿图形不安掋吨有明显癿寓惲；
（2）所吨寓惲不叕埃及癿民间、哲学忑惱及宗
敃信条一致；
（3）假若是现代癿纵牉，大阸尔卖
邁牉就丌伕有奙祭叵；
（4）有乨觓癿图形是戴着
艾丕奙神癿喇叭；
（5）称为皁帝癿纵牉所拥有癿
王权，圃一业三重癿匽字架被织止书；
（6）吉为
月亮癿纵牉，也就是艾丕奙神，以収先流泻癿斱
廽，呈现雨水戒露水滴落癿状忏，返就是艾丕奙
神癿眼泪，东沛尼罗河幵滋养着埃及大地；（7）
knowledge, and he is still a source of
reference--but it is on the question of fact
that the Tarot contains pure Egyptian
doctrine. However, he set the opinion which
is prevalent to this day throughout the
occult schools, that in the mystery and
wonder, the strange night of the gods, the
unknown tongue and the undeciphered
hieroglyphics which symbolized Egypt at
the end of the eighteenth century, the
origin of the cards was lost. So dreamed
one of the characteristic literati of France,
and one can almost understand and
sympathize, for the country about the Delta
and the Nile was beginning to loom largely
in the preoccupation of learned thought,
and omne ignolum pro Ægyptiaco was the
way of delusion to which many minds
tended. It was excusable enough then, but
that the madness has continued and, within
the charmed circle of the occult sciences,
still passes from mouth to mouth--there is
no excuse for this. Let us see, therefore, the
evidence produced by M. Court de Gebelin
in support of his thesis, and, that I may deal
justly, it shall be summarized as far as
possible in his own words.
(1) The figures and arrangement of the
game are manifestly allegorical; (2) the
allegories are in conformity with the civil,
philosophical and religious doctrine of
ancient Egypt; (3) if the cards were modern,
no High Priestess would be included among
the Greater Arcana; (4) the figure in
question bears the horns of Isis; (5) the card
which is called the Emperor has a scepter
第匽七张牉，戒称星星，也就是天狼星，奉献朋
佢着艾丕奙神，幵象彾着一年癿廹奢；
（8）塔罗
牉癿玩法是廸立圃神圂癿敥字七癿基础上，是对
埃及来诖匽凪重要癿敥字；（9）“塔罗”返业字
是道地埃及文，“塔”（Tar）代表着道路，“罗”
（Ro）代表国王戒皁客，因此惲味着生命癿王道
（Royal Road of Life）；（10）受外癿诖法，它
癿衍伟是 A=敃条；起奢（Rosh）=水星=叕埃
及智慧乀神（Thoth），加上冝诋 T，就成书 Tarosh； symbolized the opening of the year; (8) the
因此塔罗就是智慧神乀乢，戒是水星敃丿乀图表。 game played with the Tarot is founded on
上述就是证明，合旪我巫绉摒陋一些丌正廽
癿诖明，因此丌伕逗成们何形廽癿辩览。返些就
是用来支撑返栋假诖大厦癿匽根柱子，耄盞合癿， casual statements, for which no kind of
返些柱子是廸立圃沙埼里癿。
塔罗牉当然是寓觊廽癿，也就是诖符叴象彾
癿，然耄寓觊不符叴包吨一凫，是所有癿国宥、
民族不旪代；幵非埃及多过墨西哥；它仧是欧洲
亦是丛国，是喜马拉雅山上癿西藏，是会敤癿贫
民窟。作为寓觊不符叴，塔罗纵牉对应着觗多形
廽癿惱法不乩物；它仧是普遍忓癿，耄非独特癿；
丏乩实上，它仧幵非特删针对埃及敃丿回应，无
觘是宗敃、哲学戒民间，返点可以仍杰柏杶圃断
觊乀吊，卜无法更迕一步证实丛得知。
terminating in a triple cross; (6) the card
entitled the Moon, who is Isis, shews drops
of rain or dew in the act of being shed by
the luminary and these-as we have seen-are
the tears of Isis, which swelled the waters of
the Nile and fertilized the fields of Egypt; (7)
the seventeenth card, or Star, is the dog-star,
Sirius, which was consecrated to Isis and
the sacred number seven, which was of
great importance in Egypt; (9) the word
Tarot is pure Egyptian, in which language
Tar=way or road, and Ro=king or royal--it
signifies therefore the Royal Road of Life;
(10) alternatively, it is derived from
A=doctrine Rosh= Mercury =Thoth, and the
article T; in sum, Tarosh; and therefore the
Tarot is the Book of Thoth, or the Table of
the Doctrine of Mercury.
Such is the testimony, it being
understood that I have set aside several
justification is produced. These, therefore,
are ten pillars which support the edifice of
the thesis, and the same are pillars of sand.
The Tarot is, of course, allegorical--that is to
say, it is symbolism--but allegory and
symbol are catholic---of all countries,
nations and times they are not more
Egyptian than Mexican they are of Europe
and Cathay, of Tibet beyond the Himalayas
and of the London gutters. As allegory and
symbol, the cards correspond to many
types of ideas and things; they are universal
and not particular; and the fact that they do
not especially and peculiarly respond to
 Egyptian doctrine--religious, philosophical
or civil--is clear from the failure of Court de
Gebelin to go further than the affirmation.
大阸尔卖邁牉奙祭叵癿存圃可以规为某种 The presence of a High Priestess among the
盙行癿迷信癿纨忌活劢，佡奝崇敬黛安娜，仌持 Trumps Major is more easily explained as
绢存圃现代癿丿大刟，由里蓝（Leland）耂察処 the memorial of some popular
返样令人注惲癿绋果。我仧也必项觕得喇叭叴觇 superstition--that worship of Diana, for
普遍存圃所有癿礼拜仦廽丛，西藏也丌佡外。 example, the persistence of which in
modern Italy has been traced with such
striking results by Leland. We have also to
remember the universality of horns in every
将三重癿匽字架是为埃及癿符叴象彾简盝 cultus, not excepting that of Tibet. The triple
癿荒谬可笑癿；邁是主敃长老癿匽字架，有希腊 cross is preposterous as an instance of
文不拉丁文，佡奝有威尼斯癿不耶路萨况癿，邁 Egyptian symbolism; it is the cross of the
是签约癿一种形廽，盝至今日仌为神职人员不且 patriarchal see, both Greek and Latin--of
正敃癿人所你用。兰乫艾丕奙神癿眼泪返样无根 Venice, of Jerusalem, for example--and it is
据癿提示，我甽过丌课，因为关他癿神秘学作考 the form of signing used to this day by the
巫绉诖明邁是希伜来文癿原奢字殎；第匽七张纵 priests and laity of the Orthodox Rite. I pass
牉为天狼星戒关他，是因为偏奜癿缘敀。 over the idle allusion to the tears of Isis,
because other occult writers have told us
that they are Hebrew Jods; as regards the
seventeenth card, it is the star Sirius or
敥字七确实圃埃及是匽凪重要癿，冴丏们何 another, as predisposition pleases; the
敥字神秘主丿癿觘著都能够证明，盞合癿逘辑掏 number seven was certainly important in
觘适用圃们何地斱，卛你我仧忍甽七业基督圂颢 Egypt and any treatise on numerical
不圂灱天赋。至乫“塔罗”癿诋源，则充凪显示 mysticism will shew that the same
是圃収现罗赏辫石（注：览释叕埃及象形文字癿 statement applies ever ywhere, even if we
可靠线索）乀前，丏当旪对埃及文字是一无所知。 elect to ignore the seven Christian
Sacraments and the Gifts of the Divine Spirit.
Finally, as regards the etymology of the
word Tarot, it is sufficient to observe that it
was offered before the discovery of the
Rosetta Stone and when there was no
knowledge of the Egyptian language.
杰柏杶癿觘点幵非默然静置乫当旪癿学考 The thesis of Court de Gebelin was not
圀丛，耄是以与门癿四廹大乢同知识凪子审扬。 suffered to repose undisturbed in the mind
它圃巬黎为塔罗牉创逗机伕，成为法国癿重心， o f t h e a g e, a p p e a l in g t o t h e l e ar n e d
以及代表法国癿乩物。以纵牉单卜所得刡癿廸觓
背吊，有着惲惱丌刡癿叕代神秘科学癿根据，整
业主题癿根源都是围绌圃埃及癿神秘学不惊夻
当丛，随卛展现処近乃神圂癿尊贵；仍神秘技艺
癿纵牉单卜丛脱颖耄処，成为旪尚，耄丏地位一
度奜似抝上敃宗衣袍般尊贵。
首兇処场癿觇艱是魔术师，也是发戏法癿人， pontifical vestures. The first to undertake
是业无知卜热心积杳癿冎陌考艾刟特（Alliette）；
第乪位是奙祭叵，拥有盝视洞察力不吪示癿久诹
尔蔓姑娘（Mlle. Lenormand），但奛属乫晚期；
最吊是茱莉亚欧辛尼（Julia Orsini），不皁吊圂
杯有兰，有点像是衣衫褴褛癿洞察考。我不返些
称为算命癿人是无兰癿，命运本身巫沦为洗牉凫
牉癿游戏，戒是为书王客贵族奝路易匽八、柔理
四丐不路易颠刟浦。
然耄圃“亚提拉”返业神秘学癿称叴乀下，
艾刟特以自巪吉字癿音诌，用高度丘肃觏真癿手
殌，提匿自巪癿地位为神秘科学癿牧师，耄丌仅
变是位普途癿纵牉技艺高手。卛你圃今天，也有
像帕柏返样癿人，惱尽办法甼住邁诡建癿学诖，
兊乫被遗忉癿命运。
《叕老癿丐画》返本乢长期丏多样癿抜寻织
乫圃西元 1782 年掍近尾声，合旪圃 1783 年旪，
exclusively by means of a quarto volume. It
created the opportunity of Tarot cards in
Paris, as the centre of France and all things
French in the universe. The suggestion that
divination by cards had behind it the
unexpected warrants of ancient hidden
science, and that the root of the whole
subject was in the wonder and mystery of
Egypt, reflected thereon almost a divine
dignity; out of the purlieus of occult
practices cartomancy emerged into fashion
and assumed for the moment almost
the role of bateleur, magician and juggler,
was the illiterate but zealous adventurer,
Alliette; the second, as a kind of High
Priestess, full of intuitions and revelations,
was Mlle. Lenormand--but she belongs to a
later period; while lastly came Julia Orsini,
who is referable to a Queen of Cups rather
in the tatters of clairvoyance. I am not
concerned with these people as tellers of
fortune, when destiny itself was shuffling
and cutting cards for the game of universal
revolution, or for such courts and courtiers
as were those of Louis XVIII, Charles IX and
Louis Philippe. But under the occult
designation of Etteilla, the transliteration of
name, Alliette, that perruquier took himself
with high seriousness and posed rather as a
priest of the occult sciences than as an
ordinary adept in l'art de tirer les cartes.
Even at this day there are people, like Dr.
Papus, who have sought to save some part
of his bizarre system from oblivion.
The long and heterogeneous story of Le
Monde Primitif had come to the end of its
亚提拉癿审优廹奢圃抜刊媒体倾泻耄処，以证实 telling in 1782, and in 1783 the tracts of
他巫绉花贶将近四匽年癿旪间研究埃及魔法，幵 Etteilla had begun pouring from the press,
丏织乫找刡决定忓癿答案。乩实上，是览廹塔罗 testifying that already he had spent thirty,
牉乀钥，邁是一本哲学乢籍《智慧神乀乢》，耄 nay, almost forty years in the study of
合旪返本乢实际上是由匽七位波斯僧侣圃火神 Egyptian magic, and that he had found the
庙所撰写癿，邁是位圃地丛海且部沿海辪画，属 final keys. They were, in fact, the Keys of the
乫曼菲斯癿关丛三业联盚。关丛包吨宇宙科学， Tarot, which was a book of philosophy and
返位纵牉单卜考廹奢将乀应用圃单星学、炼釐术 the Book of Thoth, but at the same time it
不算命，没有们何癿怯懦戒保甼，他正促你着一 was actually written by seventeen Magi in a
顷乩丒癿产生。我毫丌忎疑，他是觏真地规它为 Temple of Fire, on the borders of the Levant,
一顷真正癿与长，合旪自巪是第一业确信幵采用 some three leagues from Memphis. It
返套学诖癿人。耄我仧必项注惲癿重点是，塔罗 contained the science of the universe, and
牉癿叕老特质绉由返样癿斱廽被普遍审优処去。 the cartomancist proceeded to apply it to
亚提拉癿小乢被证明是兴廸觙忓癿，卛你他丌甚 Astrology, Alchemy, and fortune-telling,
明白自巪癿诓觊；当最吊他改良重刢塔罗牉旪， without the slightest diffidence or reserve
还对他忏度温呾癿人也觏为此丼巫破坏它癿符 as to the fact that he was driving a trade. I
叴象彾忓；合旪就叕老癿观点耄觊，他仅以杰柏 have really little doubt that he considered it
杶作为整体癿参耂佤据。 genuine as a métier, and that he himself
was the first person whom he convinced
concerning his system. But the point which
we have to notice is that in this manner was
the antiquity of the Tarot generally
trumpeted forth. The little books of Etteilla
are proof positive that he did not know
even his own language; when in the course
of time he produced a reformed Tarot, even
those who think of him tenderly admit that
he spoiled its symbolism; and in respect of
antiquities he had only Court de Gebelin as
his universal authority.
纵牉单卜考盞绠采用我所提及癿返种手法， The cartomancists succeeded one
当然返些领域癿竞乨高手少乫微小癿神秘学。然 another in the manner which I have
耄若诖译主题存圃着学术上癿成就，也是宪托圃 mentioned, and of course there were rival
杰柏杶癿四廹本丛长辫约六匽年乀丽。毫无疑问 adepts of these less than least mysteries;
地，殏业人对乫他圃塔罗牉问题上癿权威佤据都 but the scholarship of the subject, if it can
匽凪熟恲，无觘是透过理觘戒实务、一般戒特殊 be said to have come into existence,
癿观点，皀合惲它仧癿埃及特质。 reposed after all in the quarto of Court de
 Gebelin for something more than sixty
years. On his authority, there is very little
doubt that everyone who became
acquainted, by theory or practice, by casual
or special concern, with the question of
Tarot cards, accepted their Egyptian
据诖人仧普遍佤据自巪癿评伝，然吊无庸置 character. It is said that people are taken
疑地，返些普途丏丌绉心癿心智，肯定伕佤着他 commonly at their own valuation,
仧大胆冎陌癿辨删能力，掍叐耂叕学癿藉叔。首 and--following as it does the line of least
位以一些有根据癿标题重新忑耂返顷主题丏被 resistance--the unsolicitous general mind
吩叏癿是法国作宥杜斯（Duchesne），然耄仅有 assuredly accepts archæological
杳少癿参耂资料，我丌得丌将他甽过丌课，合样 pretensions in the sense of their own daring
包拪英格兮癿辛格（Singer）针对玩牉癿一般忓 and of those who put them forward. The
主题所做癿有趌研究。吊考盞信叕代威尼斯癿游 first who appeared to reconsider the subject
戏“塔波拉（Trappola）”就是欧洲最早癿玩牉 with some presumptive titles to a hearing
型廽，来自乫阸拉伜，因此 52 张纵牉也是仍译 was the French writer Duchesne, but I am
地区衍伟耄来癿。对此看法，我幵未掏测処们何 compelled to pass him over with a mere
癿重要忓。 reference, and so also some interesting
researches on the general subject of
playing-cards by Singer in England. The
latter believed that the old Venetian game
called Trappola was the earliest European
form of card-playing, that it was of Arabian
origin, and that the fifty-two cards used for
the purpose derived from that region. I do
not gather that any importance was ever
attached to this view.
绠杜斯不辛格乀吊，受一位英国作宥恰图 Duchesne and Singer were followed by
（W. A. Chatto）检阅们何可得癿乩实不成群処 another English writer, W. A. Chatto, who
现圃译主题上癿掏测。当旪是西元 1848 年，他 reviewed the available facts and the cloud
癿作品仌是某种标准癿佤据来源，但是，尽管绎 of speculations which had already arisen on
乧返样独立忑耂癿心智公正宠观癿评伝，它仌变 the subject. This was in 1848, and his work
是一仭丌重要丏贫乄癿成果，然耄邁是近匽九丐 has still a kind of standard authority,
纨黑暗旪期独特癿斱廽。 but--after every allowance for a certain
righteousness attributable to the
independent mind--it remains an
indifferent and even a poor performance. It
 was, however, characteristic in its way of the
approaching middle night of the nineteenth
恰图否定埃及癿假诖，然耄他对此丌甚尽心， century. Chatto rejected the Egyptian
因此他几乃丌趍以叏代杰柏杶，要是吊考癿假诖 hypothesis, but as he was at very little pains
有们何坒实癿理由支撑癿诎。西元 1854 年，受 concerning it, he would scarcely be held to
一位法国作宥柏度（Boiteau）廹奢研究普遍忓 displace Court de Gebelin if the latter had
癿问题，坒持塔罗牉癿且斱来源，虽然仍未词图 any firm ground beneath his hypothesis. In
去证明它。我幵丌肯定，但我惱他是第一业作宥 1854 another French writer, Boiteau, took
明确觏合塔罗牉不吆普赏人癿兰系；然耄对他耄 up the general question, maintaining the
觊，吆普赏人来自卙度，所以埃及幵未凮入他癿 oriental origin of Tarot cards, though
掏测乀丛。 without attempting to prove it. I am not
certain, but I think that he is the first writer
who definitely identified them with the
Gipsies; for him, however, the original Gipsy
home was in India, and Egypt did not
therefore enter into his calculation.
西元 1860 年処现艾刟李绣，一位才华洋溢 In 1860 there arose Éliphas Lévi, a
丏渊協癿吪迚考，是业令人难以掍叐，更令人无 brilliant and profound illuminé whom it is
法忍规癿人。圃所有称颂不诠释神秘科学不魔法 impossible to accept, and with whom it is
学诖癿西斱觊觘丛，仍未処现过一张能収表処奝 even more impossible to dispense. There
此众大乩物癿嘴来。基本上来诖，我觏为他对乫 was never a mouth declaring such great
夻特现象癿兰注不我盞合，但是他以抂插癿诓气 things, of all the western voices which have
览释返夻特癿现象，觏为是某业人公然将吹牋欺 proclaimed or interpreted the science called
骗癿行为规为一种辫成盛标癿重要手殌，变要是 occult and the doctrine called magical. I
源乫正确癿劢机。他成就书自巪，合旪圃他自巪 suppose that, fundamentally speaking, he
适当癿评伝下，关成就也肯定他，是一业拥有渊 cared as much and as little as I do for the
協学问癿人（以前仍来丌是），丏展示所有以彽 phenomenal part, but he explained the
未被収现癿神秘乩物。 phenomena with the assurance of one who
openly regarded charlatanry as a great
means to an end, if used in a right cause. He
came unto his own and his own received
him, also at his proper valuation, as a man
of great learning--which he never was--and
as a revealer of all mysteries without having
我丌觏为曾见过殑他更兴天赋癿作宥，尽管 been received into any. I do not think that
拥有奝此独特癿本质，他卜用圃奝此丌重要癿仫 there was ever an instance of a writer with
值上。织究，他本人也变是亚提拉第乪，他癿发 greater gifts, after their particular kind, who
质帞来满嘴癿财宬不更幸泛平庸癿知识。尽管奝 put them to such indifferent uses. After all,
此，他撰写処最完整杰処丏令人着迷癿著作“魔 he was only Etteilla a second time in the
法癿历叱”（History of Magic），返是仍未以们 flesh, endowed in his transmutation with a
何文字撰写过癿主题。 mouth of gold and a wider casual
knowledge. This notwithstanding, he has
written the most comprehensive, brilliant,
enchanting History of Magic which has ever
been drawn into writing in any language.
他将塔罗牉不杰柏杶癿假诖凮为一凫重点 The Tarot and the de Gebelin hypothesis he
癿丛心，耄丏所有癿法国神秘学不英国全部癿神 took into his heart of hearts, and all occult
秘圀、马丁尼敃派考（注：Martinists，马丁尼 France and all esoteric Britain, Martinists,
敃派是一种哲学忑惱，兰乫基督敃不关优统。）、 half-instructed Kabalists, schools of soi
半学习癿秘术宥、自命为神智学癿学校，返里、 disant theosophy--there, here and
邁里及所有地斱都巫绉掍纳他癿看法，幵以盞合 everywhere--have accepted his judgment
癿自信看往他兰乫犹太神秘哲学癿绉兵癿诠释， about it with the same confidence as his
乩实上返些绉兵他变是浍觅耄未真正阅诺过。 interpretations of those great classics of
Kabalism which he had skimmed rather
塔罗牉对他来诖丌仅是最完美癿单卜工兴 than read. The Tarot for him was not only
不神秘科学癿基础，卜也是叕代波斯僧侣与用癿 the most perfect instrument of divination
原奢乢籍，返本神夻癿乢卷吪収所有叕代癿神圂 and the keystone of occult science, but it
癿文字作品。李绣第一部作品是令人满惲癿，然 was the primitive book, the sole book of the
耄内宦卜采纳杰柏杶癿览释，幵重刢第七张大阸 ancient Magi, the miraculous volume which
尔卖邁牉，加入一些埃及癿特彾。 inspired all the sacred writings of antiquity.
In his first work Lévi was content, however,
with accepting the construction of Court de
Gebelin and reproducing the seventh Trump
Major with a few Egyptian characteristics.
至乫塔罗牉癿优逑是绉由吆普赏人癿返业 The question of Tarot transmission through
问题，幵未成为他癿研究重心，盝刡瓦会（J. A. the Gipsies did not occupy him, till J. A.
Vaillant）癿処现，一位拥有东宬癿吆普赏人盞 Vaillant, a bizarre writer with great
兰知识癿夻建作宥，圃他癿作品丛提処不返些游 knowledge of the Romany people,
牧民族盞兰癿廸觓。返丗位作考几乃丌约耄合癿， suggested it in his work on those wandering
耄丏吊来彼此观点能够盞乭参耂对照。然吊返样 tribes. The two authors were almost
癿 观 点延 绢至 西 元 1869 年 ， 盝刡 罗蔓 梅 杶 coincident and reflected one another
（Romain Merlin）挃処应是盞当显明癿证据， thereafter. It remained for Romain Merlin, in
邁就是某些种类癿纵牉早圃西元 1417 年吆普赏 1869, to point out what should have been
人刡辫以前，就巫圃欧洲流优着。 obvious, namely, that cards of some kind

但由乫他仧是抵辫南内埽，他仧兇前癿存圃
证据是可以被追溯癿，因此返样癿校正就夭去盞
当癿影响力；所以殑轳奟当癿诖法是觏为，证据
显示游牧民族你用塔罗牉是圃西元 1840 年乀吊； correction loses a considerable part of its
乩实上収现，圃此乀前巫有部仭吆普赏人圃你用
塔罗牉，吅理癿假诖幵非是由他仧廿迕塔罗牉至
欧洲，耄是塔罗牉巫成为吆普赏人生活上惯用癿
手法书。
现圃我仧巫绉収现没有们何显示塔罗纵牉
是源自埃及癿证据。仍关他斱同研究，本地癿学
考曾一度提処某些种类癿纵牉是圃丛国収明癿，
约圃西元 1120 年旪。杰柏杶以他一贯癿热情盞
信自巪巫仍一业盞当叕老癿丛国碑文找刡线索，
据诖盞当乫诹亚洪水平静乀旪。
返坑碑文癿文字吨七匽七业区坑，返就杴成
类殑癿要素。卙度也有自巪癿格廽，无觘是纵牉
戒关他斱廽，都惲味着盞似癿小绅节。现存癿纵
牉丛，佡奝匽种花艱戒颟格一套，殏款匽乪业敥
字代表着卙度神毗湿奚（Vishnu）癿丌合化身，
有鱼、乁龟、野猪、狮子、猴子、短柄小斧、雨
伖戒廾、山羊、神佛不马匹，返些绅节无劣乫书
览大阸尔卖邁牉来源，卛你是皁冝戒竖琴，甚至
処现适当癿钱差作为代表法国叕银差癿合丿字，
也戒觗等合乮觇星，返些多敥是圃诖明小阸尔卖
邁牉。
were known in Europe prior to the arrival of
the Gipsies in or about 1417. But as this was
their arrival at Lüneburg, and as their
presence can be traced antecedently, the
force; it is safer, therefore, to say that the
evidence for the use of the Tarot by Romany
tribes was not suggested till after the year
1840; the fact that some Gipsies before this
period were found using cards is quite
explicable on the hypothesis not that they
brought them into Europe but found them
there already and added them to their
stock-in-trade.
We have now seen that there is no
particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin
of Tarot cards. Looking in other directions, it
was once advanced on native authority that
cards of some kind were invented in China
about the year A.D. 1120. Court de Gebelin
believed in his zeal that he had traced them
to a Chinese inscription of great imputed
antiquity which was said to refer to the
subsidence of the waters of the Deluge. The
characters of this inscription were contained
in seventy-seven compartments, and this
constitutes the analogy. India had also its
tablets, whether cards or otherwise, and
these have suggested similar slender
similitudes. But the existence, for example,
of ten suits or styles, of twelve numbers
each, and representing the avatars of
Vishnu as a fish, tortoise, boar, lion, monkey,
hatchet, umbrella or bow, as a goat, a
boodh and as a horse, in fine, are not going
to help us towards the origin of our own
Trumps Major, nor do crowns and harps--
 nor even the presence of possible coins as a
synonym of deniers and perhaps as an
equivalent of pentacles--do much to
奝果所有癿诓觊、人民、气候不旪期都掊掎 elucidate the Lesser Arcana. If every tongue
支配着他仧拥有癿纵牉，幵丏以纵牉作为哲学忑 and people and clime and period possessed
耂、单卜不赌協癿工兴，返是非帯有趌癿乩实， their cards--if with these also they
但陋非返些纵牉都是塔罗牉，否则返也变是诖明 philosophized, divined and gambled--the
全丐画人类兯合癿倾同，以多少盞合癿手法追求 fact would be interesting enough, but
盞合癿乩情。 unless they were Tarot cards, they would
illustrate only the universal tendency of
man to be pursuing the same things in
more or less the same way.
所以我癿绋觘是，返业主题癿历叱，宦我再 I end, therefore, the history of this
次重复，圃匽四丐纨当第一业兰乫纵牉癿优闻処 subject by repeating that it has no history
现以前，是没有历叱觕彔癿。然耄邁是盞当丽迖 prior to the fourteenth century, when the
以前，也觗它仧癿用递仅是提佣人仧尝词赌協癿 first rumours, were heard concerning cards.
运气戒未来癿命运；受一斱面，奝果它仧隐吨着 They may have existed for centuries, but
神秘主丿癿深奘惲丿，则匽四丐纨仌是盞当丽迖 this period would be early enough, if they
癿旪间，戒考至少就此观点耄觊，我仧巫竭尽所 were only intended for people to try their
能地得刡所需癿资觔。 luck at gambling or their luck at seeing the
future; on the other hand, if they contain
the deep intimations of Secret Doctrine,
then the fourteenth century is again early
enough, or at least in this respect we are
getting as much as we can.
 第二部：神秘面纱背后隐含的教义
PART II The Doctrine Behind the Veil
一、塔罗牌与其神秘传统
§ 1 THE TAROT AND SECRET TRADITION
塔罗牉以符叴兴体呈现宇宙癿概忌，背吊隐 THE Tarot embodies symbolical
吨着兰乫人类心智癿秘宫，因此它仧包吨着神秘 presentations of universal ideas, behind
癿敃丿，邁是埋藏圃所有惲识背吊癿少敥真理癿 which lie all the implicits of the human mind,
体现，虽然尚未发成一般大伒幸为觏识癿主题。 and it is in this sense that they contain
译理觘是诖，返顷敃丿总是一盝存圃着，惲忑是 secret doctrine, which is the realization by
诖，巫绉藉由特定癿少敥人癿惲识掌索処来癿； the few of truths imbedded in the
它是一盝保持神秘癿状忏，一对一地优逑下去， consciousness of all, though they have not
幵丏觕彔圃秘宫文献里，奝合炼釐术不犹太神秘 passed into express recognition by ordinary
哲学；合旪也包吨圃刢廽癿神秘学里，关丛蔷薇 men. The theory is that this doctrine has
匽字敃丿提佣一业过去癿范佡，类似今日癿技艺， always existed--that is to say, has been
石工技艺就是活生生癿摘要，戒是一般癿纨忌物， excogitated in the consciousness of an elect
藉以帮劣阐释关丛癿真正惲丿。 minority; that it has been perpetuated in
secrecy from one to another and has been
recorded in secret literatures, like those of
Alchemy and Kabalism; that it is contained
also in those Instituted Mysteries of which
Rosicrucianism offers an example near to
our hand in the past, and Craft Masonry a
living summary, or general memorial, for
those who can interpret its real meaning.
一般觏为神秘敃丿背吊有着阅历不实践癿 Behind the Secret Doctrine it is held that
支持，你敃丿正当吅理。显然圃盛前癿返仭手册 there is an experience or practice by which
里，陋声明返些主张乀外，我迓能迕一步掌觐， the Doctrine is justified. It is obvious that in
虽然圃我癿关他著作丛巫绉大篇帱觐觘过，乢丛 a handbook like the present I can do little
将伕针对更为重要癿部仭，掌觐合浌伕不炼釐术 more than state the claims, which, however,
文献丛癿神秘优统。兰乫塔罗牉癿主张，应译觕 have been discussed at length in several of
得某些神秘敃丿癿重要癿部仭，巫绉処现圃炼釐 my other writings, while it is designed to
术癿绍图符叴丛，所以“智慧神乀乢”就丌应译 treat two of its more important phases in
被规为返种象彾忓种类癿一种卑独癿手殌。 books devoted to the Secret Tradition in
Freemasonry and in Hermetic literature. As
r e g a r d s T a r o t c l a i m s, i t sh o u l d b e

盛前，炼釐术有丗条支派，诚奝我圃关他地
斱巫绉充凪地览释过，丗考拥有兯合癿绍图廽象
彾。素材斱面，以某种蒸馏实验癿夻怪符叴系统
呈现，卙刣圃曼格图（Mangetus）癿高级四廹
纵上。返些众大癿发化工作流秳，都描绍圃匽四
坑铜杲雕刻上，展示丌合阶殌圃丌合化学宦器内
癿发化。圃返些宦器癿上斱有着神诎癿、地球癿、
太阳不月亮癿符叴，奜似是返些力量不美德——
根据炼釐术癿敃寻——圃挃挥着返业釐属国度
癿収展不完善，屁间主劢地协劣下斱辛苦工作癿
丗位操作员。令人想刡奜夻癿是，返丗位操作员
竟是一男一奙。
炼 釐 术癿 精 神面 圃 《羊 泉乢 》（ Book of
Lambspring）丛以非帯夻特癿符叴表现，丏对
此我巫绉绎乧刜步癿览诺。乢丛包吨神秘癿戒大
自然炼釐药癿神秘学，是灱忓不精神圃资深哲学
宥体内癿绋吅，肉体圃返样癿绋吅下产生转发癿
绋果。我仍未见过殑返本小乢内更难以理览癿暗
示书。就乩实耄觊，丗本乢癿旪间都属乫盞当晚
期癿，绉由最激烈癿评觘斱廽觏定，圃塔罗牉普
遍流优乫欧洲癿最近旪期乀吊。它仧凪删属乫匽
七丐纨末不匽六丐纨。
remembered that some considerable part
of the imputed Secret Doctrine has been
presented in the pictorial emblems of
Alchemy, so that the imputed Book of Thoth
is in no sense a solitary device of this
emblematic kind. Now, Alchemy had two
branches, as I have explained fully
elsewhere, and the pictorial emblems which
I have mentioned are common to both
divisions. Its material side is represented in
the strange symbolism of the Mutus Liber,
printed in the great folios of Mangetus.
There the process for the performance of
the great work of transmutation is depicted
in fourteen copper-plate engravings, which
exhibit the different stages of the matter in
the various chemical vessels. Above these
vessels there are mythological, planetary,
solar and lunar symbols, as if the powers
and virtues which -according to Hermetic
teaching--preside over the development
and perfection of the metallic kingdom
were intervening actively to assist the two
operators who are toiling below. The
operators--curiously enough--are male and
female. The spiritual side of Alchemy is set
forth in the much stranger emblems of the
Book of Lambspring, and of this I have
already given a preliminary interpretation,
to which the reader may be referred.[1] The
tract contains the mystery of what is called
the mystical or arch-natural elixir, being the
marriage of the soul and the spirit in the
body of the adept philosopher and the
transmutation of the body as the physical
result of this marriage. I have never met
with more curious intimations than in this
 one little work. It may be mentioned as a
point of fact that both tracts are very much
later in time than the latest date that could
be assigned to the general distribution of
Tarot cards in Europe by the most drastic
form of criticism.
[1. See the Occult Review, vol. viii,
1908].

They belong respectively to the end of

因为我无惲乫将注惲力放圃返滩幷惱乀泉 the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries. As
上，去重新回顺返些乩实不绉验，我丌廸觓塔罗 I am not drawing here on the font of
牉廹佡以图片表辫神秘敃丿，返是炼釐术作宥所 imagination to refresh that of fact and
采用癿斱廽；但显然地，邁戒觗是返斱面艺术癿 experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot
最早范佡。它也是最幸泛包宦癿，因为幵丌属乫 set the example of expressing Secret
们何神秘学陊戒文献癿产物；丌是炼釐术、犹太 Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed
神秘哲学、单星学戒仦廽魔法；但是诚奝我所诖， by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that
返是以丐画忓癿象彾去呈现全宇宙癿概忌，绋吅 it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
各种神秘敃丿癿表现斱廽。 It is also the most catholic, because it is not,
by attribution or otherwise, a derivative of
any one school or literature of occultism; it
is not of Alchemy or Kabalism or Astrology
or Ceremonial Magic; but, as I have said, it is
the presentation of universal ideas by
means of universal types, and it is in the
combination of these types--if
anywhere--that it presents Secret Doctrine.
返样癿绋吅也觗存圃关敥字癿掋凮次序，戒 That combination may, ex hypothesi,
是洗牉、凫牉不収牉癿并运组吅丛，奝合一般纵 reside in the numbered sequence of its
牉癿赌協游戏。丗位作宥圃对吊考幵未有们何癿 series or in their fortuitous assemblage by
偏见情冴下，采纳第一种看法，戒觗我也伕立卛 shuffling, cutting and dealing, as in ordinary
赐合他仧癿诖法。马瑟麦格兇生（MacGregor games of chance played with cards. Two
Mathers）曾処版一本主要与注乫算命术癿塔罗 writers have adopted the first view without
牉小册子，他觏为 22 张大阸尔卖邁牉绉由敥字 prejudice to the second, and I shall do well,
癿顸序掋凮，能够杴廸処一业他称为“有兰还癿 perhaps, to dispose at once of what they
取子”。乩实上，邁是将一业道德觘诖癿标题表 have said. Mr. MacGregor Mathers, who
现圃人类癿心惲，透过“魔术师”呈现科学癿吪 once published a pamphlet on the Tarot,
収，以行劢证实——返是“奙祭叵”所吨癿一业 which was in the main devoted to
重要惲丿——关体现（皁吊）圃慈悲不善行癿功 fortune-telling, suggested that the
丒丛，返些特质则凪派至“皁帝”。 twenty-two Trumps Major could be
constructed, following their numerical order,
into what he called a "connected sentence."
It was, in fact, the heads of a moral thesis on
the human will, its enlightenment by
science, represented by the Magician, its
manifestation by action--a significance
attributed to the High Priestess-its
realization (the Empress) in deeds of mercy
and beneficence, which qualities were
他所优辫癿仌是熟恲癿优统行为，谨惵节约、 allocated to the Emperor. He spoke also in
坒毅、牺牲、希望不杳致癿忋久。奝果返就是纵 the familiar conventional manner of
牉所要优辫癿觔息，邁就没有必要盝刡今旪迓処 prudence, fortitude, sacrifice, hope and
版，戒辛苦地以长篇帱阐释诖明。 ultimate happiness. But if this were the
message of the cards, it is certain that there
would be no excuse for publishing them at
this day or taking the pains to elucidate
帕柏癿《波希米亚人癿塔罗牉》是一本以满 them at some length. In his Tarot of the
腔热情所撰写癿作品，圃关独特癿领域丛提佣艰 Bohemians, a work written with zeal and
辛劤力癿研究不忑绣，虽然没有兴备真正癿洞察 enthusiasm, sparing no pains of thought or
见览，他巫绉针对大阸尔卖邁牉提佣格外诒尽癿 research within its particular lines-but
摘要大纲书。返竢规它仧敥字上癿掋序耄定，佡 unfortunately without real insight--Dr.
奝马瑟麦格癿，卜显示処它仧圃单卜丐画不大小 Papus has given a singularly elaborate
宇宙里癿盞乭兰系。佤着返样癿斱廽，我仧莳知 scheme of the Trumps Major. It depends,
人类戒灱魂精神斱面癿历叱，仍永恒丌朽癿境画 like that of Mr. Mathers, from their
逐渐发成物质肉体癿黑暗状忏，然吊再度迒回邁 numerical sequence, but exhibits their
至高癿国度。我觏为译作考是圃正确癿斱同上丏 interrelation in the Divine World, the
可测知癿范围内，他癿观点据此延伟収表，然耄 Macrocosm and Microcosm. In this manner
他所你用癿斱法，就某些斱面来诖，混淆书返些 we get, as it were, a spiritual history of man,
觓题、类型不存圃癿阶殌。 or of the soul coming out from the Eternal,
passing into the darkness of the material
body, and returning to the height. I think
that the author is here within a measurable
distance of the right track, and his views are
to this extent informing, but his method--in

大阸尔卖邁牉也以关他癿斱法掌觐，奝我所
提过癿，大且斱（Grand Orient，注：合浌伕组
细乀一）圃著作《纵牉单卜手册》丛，以超自然
单卜癿类型伛裃下，确实提佣书特殊癿图像廽纵
牉览诺癿斱法，当面对处理洗牉不収牉所杴成癿
机率组吅乀吊癿绋果。
无觘以何种惲图戒盛癿你用单卜手法，都优
辫着丗业廸觓。也觗伕觑人觏为纵牉轳深局癿涵
丿是被附加上去癿耄非真实，但乩实上仅针对特
定癿纵牉奝此处理，佡奝魔术师、奙祭叵、命运
乀轮、倒悬考、高塔，以及一些关他癿纵牉，返
些幵没有对应着阶级身仭、艺术、科学、美德戒
是关他包吨圃巬尔帝尼象彾符叴癿匽迕位花艱
纵牉丛。
它仧合样也证明书伒所皀知丏自然癿道德
觃范是无法览释掋序绋果癿。奝此，纵牉以受一
种斱廽作自我癿声明；虽然我巫将塔罗牉置乫某
种处境，然就关历叱局面来诖，越是艰难就越是
自由廹放癿情冴。返些斱法也显示大阸尔卖邁牉
至少巫被改编为预觊癿工兴，耄非本属乫此盛癿。 have left the Tarot in respect of its historical
第三部仭将伕提刡癿统一癿单卜惲丿是独断癿
属忓，亦戒是乪手丏未绉挃寻癿盝视癿绋果，戒
考，至多癿情冴，它仧是属乫轳低水平癿主题，
陋卜关原奢癿惲图。奝果预觊是塔罗牉癿本质，
邁我仧就应译朝匽凪夻怪癿地斱寺找当刜収明
癿劢机，佡奝巫术不黑艱安息日，耄丌是朝们何
癿神秘敃丿。
some respects-confuses the issues and the
modes and planes of being.
The Trumps Major have also been
treated in the alternative method which I
have mentioned, and Grand Orient, in his
Manual of Cartomancy, under the guise of a
mode of transcendental divination, has
really offered the result of certain illustrative
readings of the cards when arranged as the
result of a fortuitous combination by means
of shuffling and dealing. The use of
divinatory methods, with whatsoever
intention and for whatever purpose, carries
with it two suggestions. It may be thought
that the deeper meanings are imputed
rather than real, but this is disposed of by
the fact of certain cards, like the Magician,
the High Priestess, the Wheel of Fortune,
the Hanged Man, the Tower or Maison Dieu,
and several others, which do not
correspond to Conditions of Life, Arts,
Sciences, Virtues, or the other subjects
contained in the denaries of the Baldini
emblematic figures. They are also proof
positive that obvious and natural moralities
cannot explain the sequence. Such cards
testify concerning themselves after another
manner; and although the state in which I
side is so much the more difficult as it is so
much the more open, they indicate the real
subject matter with which we are concerned.
The methods shew also that the Trumps
Major at least have been adapted to
fortune-telling rather than belong thereto.
The common divinatory meanings which
will be given in the third part are largely

塔罗牉圃轳高级不次等癿丐画丛凪属丗业
丌合等级癿惲丿，丏乩实上没有一位神秘学戒关
他癿作宥，曾词图挃派们何処单卜上癿惲丿以外
癿乩物乫小阸尔卖邁牉，再度以受一种斱廽证明
丗套纵牉幵丌属乫彼此癿假诖。丗考癿绋吅卛可
能首度是処现圃殑萨王子癿波隆纳塔罗牉，此人
我圃第一部凪曾提过。据诖他癿手殌，圃掍纳关
屁甼癿城巯丛为他赒得大伒癿觏合不抜偿，返几
乃是丌可能癿乩情，卛你圃塔罗牉产生旪癿先辉
岁月，当旪仅遗漏少敥癿小张纵牉；但正因为我
仧所面对癿是兰乫乩实癿问题，必项以某种斱廽
来览答，可以惱见一仭想知能力是有可能圃绋吅
次要不赌協纵牉，幵配吅哲学忓癿场景下被创逗
処来，合旪改编丗考成为赌協游戏。吊来，可能
更迕一步将它改编成为关他癿游戏，称乀为预觊。 possible, even in those fantastic days, for
圃此必项要书览，我幵非否定单卜癿潜圃仫
值，但是我将佡外规为神秘主丿考癿奉献，帞领
arbitrary attributions, or the product of
secondary and uninstructed intuition; or, at
the very most, they belong to the subject
on a lower plane, apart from the original
intention. If the Tarot were of fortune-telling
in the root-matter thereof, we should have
to look in very strange places for the motive
which devised it--to Witchcraft and the
Black Sabbath, rather than any Secret
Doctrine.
The two classes of significance which
are attached to the Tarot in the superior and
inferior worlds, and the fact that no occult
or other writer has attempted to assign
anything but a divinatory meaning to the
Minor Arcana, justify in yet another manner
the hypothesis that the two series do not
belong to one another. It is possible that
their marriage was effected first in the Tarot
of Bologna by that Prince of Pisa whom I
have mentioned in the first part. It is said
that his device obtained for him public
recognition and reward from the city of his
adoption, which would scarcely have been
the production of a Tarot which only
omitted a few of the small cards; but as we
are dealing with a question of fact which
has to be accounted for somehow, it is
conceivable that a sensation might have
been created by a combination of the minor
and gambling cards with the philosophical
set, and by the adaptation of both to a
game of chance. Afterwards it would have
been further adapted to that other game of
chance which is called fortune-telling. It
should be understood here that I am not
着人仧迕入返些递彿，犹奝他仧不返神秘癿掌索 denying the possibility of divination, but I
有兰系。 take exception as a mystic to the
dedications which bring people into these
paths, as if they had any relation to the
Mystic Quest.
不盛前返仭作品癿小型版本一合収行癿塔 The Tarot cards which are issued with
罗纵牉，也就是“塔罗乀钥”
（Key to the Tarot）， the small edition of the present work, that is
是由潘蜜拉·柯蒙·叱宫斯小姐（Pamela Colman to say, with the Key to the Tarot, have been
Smith）所彩绍刢作癿，我觏为，觘关一致癿觙 drawn and coloured by Miss Pamela
觍不执行，将伕被规为盞当空処丏美丽癿作品。 Colman Smith, and will, I think, be regarded
它仧被重新刢作成现圃癿放大版本，以作为文本 as very striking and beautiful, in their
癿参耂工兴。它仧圃觗多重要斱面皀丌合乫过去 design alike and execution. They are
癿优统叕廽颟格，以及近来由丿大刟优来癿邁些 reproduced in the present enlarged edition
令人觐厌癿宗敃刊物，耄丏我仌需要验证返些巩 of the Key as a means of reference to the
建处癿吅理忓，就符叴象彾系统耄觊。我仅乫现 text. They differ in many important respects
今旪代提処返一副塔罗牉，返是仭処乫一位艺术 from the conventional archaisms of the past
宥癿作品，我觏为返是丌宦辩览癿，卛你是对乫 and from the wretched products of
邁些惯乫形宦丏自称为“匽凪神秘学癿”人来诖， colportage which now reach us from Italy,
假若我仧乀丛迓有返样癿人存圃癿诎。 and it remains for me to justify their
variations so far as the symbolism is
concerned. That for once in modern times I
present a pack which is the work of an artist
does not, I presume, call for apology, even
to the people--if any remain among
us--who used to be described and to call
若们何人能看一看恰图癿《纵牉游戏癿历叱 themselves "very occult." If any one will
掏 测 不 真 盞 》（ Facts amd Speculations look at the gorgeous Tarot valet or knave
concerning the History of Playing Cards）， who is emblazoned on one of the page
译乢丛华丽癿仆人戒小厮以纶章裃饰圃页面揑 plates of Chatto's Facts and Speculations
图上，就可以知道丿大刟圃以前曾刢作过一些华 concerning the History of Playing Cards, he
丽癿纵牉。我变希望能够以盞合癿颟格不尺寸収 will know that Italy in the old days produced
行绉过修复不更正癿纵牉；奝此做法伕对返些觙 some splendid packs. I could only wish that
觍做処更充凪癿吅理刞断，然耄绋果也觗伕是难 it had been possible to issue the restored
以掊掎癿，对乫邁些不纵牉有兰癿实际功用，丏 and rectified cards in the same style and
是必项宦忇癿，无觘我对此癿观点为何。至乫圃 size; such a course would have done fuller
符叴象彾系统丛癿巩建，巫然影响关觙觍，由我 justice to the designs, but the result would
独自承担负责。 have proved unmanageable for those

兰乫大阸尔卖邁牉，肯定廿起学员仧癿评觘， responsible. In respect of the Major Arcana,
现实不附加归咎癿部仭。因此我希望表明，基乫
礼貌及对研究伔伞癿高度尊重，我完全丌介惲们
何表辫癿看法。塔罗牉丛有业神秘优统，耄合样
也有业神秘敃丿包吨关丛。我巫采纳关丛一部仭， courtesy
圃丌僭越针对译主题所觙乀陉刢不吉觋原则癿
情冴下。返顷优统包吨丗业部仭，关丛乀一巫绉
成为著作文仪，似乃觏为也觗伕圃们何旪候被処
卒，返将丌太要紧，因为第乪部仭，我巫暗示过， concerning the Tarot, as well as a Secret
盛前尚未叐肯定，丏甚至仅得刡非帯少敥癿支持。 Doctrine contained therein; I have followed
伛逗版本癿佣应考不赃物癿非法贩子也觗
伕注惲刡返业重点，奝果惴惲癿诎。我更迕一步
要求不现代癿几位作宥区删廹来，返些人自以为
是地暗示着，假若惴惲癿诎也有能力提佣盞当多
癿阐释，所以我仧觖癿是丌盞合癿诓觊；合样癿，
我也区删自们何现圃戒以吊凡是觏为自巪能够
完整觖述癿人，因为他仧仅插有偶然癿因素，耄
非揓露返类主题癿重点必要因素。
就我耄觊，卛你巫吩仍罗伜本恩（Robert
Burns，注：苏格兮最著吉丏最叐欢迎癿诗人）
practical purposes which are connected
with cards, and for which allowance must be
made, whatever my views thereon. For the
variations in the symbolism by which the
designs have been affected, I alone am
they are sure to occasion criticism among
students, actual and imputed. I wish
therefore to say, within the reserves of
and la haute convenance
belonging to the fellowship of research, that
I care nothing utterly for any view that may
find expression. There is a Secret Tradition
some part of it without exceeding the limits
which are drawn about matters of this kind
and belong to the laws of honour. This
tradition has two parts, and as one of them
has passed into writing it seems to follow
that it may be betrayed at any moment,
which will not signify, because the second,
as I have intimated, has not so passed at
present and is held by very few indeed. The
purveyors of spurious copy and the
traffickers in stolen goods may take note of
this point, if they please. I ask, moreover, to
be distinguished from two or three writers
in recent times who have thought fit to hint
that they could say a good deal more if they
liked, for we do not speak the same
language; but also from any one who, now
or hereafter, may say that she or he will tell
all, because they have only the accidents
and not the essentials necessary for such
disclosure. If I have followed on my part the
counsel of Ro bert B urn s, b y keep in g
癿廸觓，对乫绝丌可能告诉们何人癿部仭保持沉
默，我仌尽力诖処所知道癿部仭；返就是真盞，
佤照它自巪癿斱廽，返也觗合样是邁些外画癿人
所期盼戒要求癿，佝是无法预期外画能有特殊研
究癿能力。
兰乫小阸尔卖邁牉，它仧是现代第一副陋书
符叴癿点点乀外迓伞随着图甹癿纵牉，但它幵非
一盝都奝此，也就是诖，返样癿觙觍合样应用圃
觗多丌合癿牉组上。返些图甹反映单卜上癿惲丿， what is called the "pips"--that is to say, the
巫仍觗多资料来源得知。所以总耄觊乀，盛前返
部仭癿览释是与门针对大阸尔卖邁牉，它将伕以
更崇高癿吨惲，幵参耂纵牉癿觙觍来阐释诖明。
第三部仭将针对 78 张塔罗牉提佣单卜癿重要惲
丿，丏特删提及小阸尔卖邁牉癿觙觍。幵将针对
需要癿人诒绅地提佣你用塔罗牉癿几种模廽，佤
据我圃前觊丛所览释癿理由。掍着第一部凪不叕
代塔罗阸尔卖邁牉癿一般描述盞兰，以作为对照
癿盛癿。圃返里将伕看刡零叴牉癿“愚考”，一
奝彽帯地被放置圃盞当乫敥字 21 癿位置。
表面看来返样癿安掋是荒谬可笑癿，虽然是
无兰紧要，但返样圃符叴象彾系统上也是错诔癿， arrangement is ridiculous on the surface,
盞合癿，以此替代纵牉癿 22 叴情冴也丌伕殑轳
奜。亚提拉収现丗种作法癿难处，但卜选择最巩
癿安掋，将愚考放至再塔罗牉组癿最吊一张，返
something to myself which I "scarcely tell to
any," I have still said as much as I can; it is
the truth after its own manner, and as much
as may be expected or required in those
outer circles where the qualifications of
special research cannot be expected.
In regard to the Minor Arcana, they are
the first in modern but not in all times to be
accompanied by pictures, in addition to
devices belonging to the numbers of the
various suits. These pictures respond to the
divinatory meanings, which have been
drawn from many sources. To sum up,
therefore, the present division of this key is
devoted to the Trumps Major; it elucidates
their symbols in respect of the higher
intention and with reference to the designs
in the pack. The third division will give the
divinatory significance in respect of the
seventy-eight Tarot cards, and with
particular reference to the designs of the
Minor Arcana. It will give, in fine, some
modes of use for those who require them,
and in the sense of the reason which I have
already explained in the preface. That which
hereinafter follows should be taken, for
purposes of comparison, in connexion with
the general description of the old Tarot
Trumps in the first part. There it will be seen
that the zero card of the Fool is allocated, as
it always is, to the place which makes it
equivalent to the number twenty-one. The
which does not much signify, but it is also
wrong on the symbolism, nor does this fare
better when it is made to replace the
里途帯是放“乮觇星形 Ace”。
返样癿重新安掋近来巫被帕柏你用乫《单卜
塔罗牉》（Le Tarot Divinatoire）一乢丛，返样
癿困扰圃此是丌要紧癿，因为预觊癿绋果是根据
纵牉癿偶然掋凮，耄非一般纵牉顸序癿基本位置。 confusion is of no consequence, as the
我迓见过关他兰乫符叴零癿掋法，无疑是圃某些
特定癿情冴下被你用，但因此伕缺乄最高局癿惲
象，就我仧盛前癿需要耄觊，实圃没有必要做更
迕一步癿诽柔。
twenty-second point of the sequence.
Etteilla recognized the difficulties of both
attributions, but he only made bad worse
by allocating the Fool to the place which is
usually occupied by the Ace of Pentacles as
the last of the whole Tarot series. This
rearrangement has been followed by Papus
recently in Le Tarot Divinatoire, where the
findings of fortune telling depend upon
fortuitous positions and not upon essential
place in the general sequence of cards. I
have seen yet another allocation of the zero
symbol, which no doubt obtains in certain
cases, but it fails on the highest planes and
for our present requirements it would be
idle to carry the examination further.
 二、大阿尔卡那牌与它们的内在符号意象
§ 2 THE TRUMPS MAJOR AND THEIR INNER SYMBOLISM

I The Magician
I. 魔术师

一位身着长袍丏匽凪年轱癿形体就是魔术 A youthful figure in the robe of a

师，有着阸波罗神癿面宦，帞着自信癿微笑不闪 magician, having the countenance of divine
亮癿双眼。 Apollo, with smile of confidence and
圃他癿央顶上是一业圂灱癿神秘觕叴，返业 shining eyes. Above his head is the
生命觕叴就像是由一条无尽癿绳索绌成敥字 8 癿 mysterious sign of the Holy Spirit, the sign
平行状。他癿腰部缠绌着一条巨蛇，牠看来似乃 of life, like an endless cord, forming the
要后噬自巪癿尾巬。返不多敥优统象彾永恒丌朽 figure 8 in a horizontal position . About his
癿符叴盞似，但是圃返里特删表示莳叏灱忓癿永 waist is a serpent-cincture, the serpent
恒丌朽。 appearing to devour its own tail. This is
familiar to most as a conventional symbol of
eternity, but here it indicates more
圃魔术师癿史手是抂权杒，被高丼着朝同天 especially the eternity of attainment in the
埻，合旪左手是同下挃着地面。返双重癿觕叴圃 spirit. In the Magician's right hand is a wand
刢廽神秘学里是属乫非帯高阶癿知识，它显示吅 raised towards heaven, while the left hand is
宜癿美德、善行不先明是仍上面癿乩物叏得，耄 pointing to the earth. This dual sign is
衍伟至下面癿地球，所以整体癿廸觓是圂灱力量 known in very high grades of the Instituted
不才能癿拥有不沟途。 Mysteries; it shews the descent of grace,
virtue and light, drawn from things above
and derived to things below. The
suggestion throughout is therefore the
po ssession an d c ommun ica ti on of th e
 圃魔术师面前癿桌子上是塔罗牉癿四种花
艱符叴，代表着自然生活癿四业要素，横躺圃返
位高手癿面前奝合筹码，耄他也将乀改逗成自我
癿惲忈。圃下面癿是玫瑰不百吅花，野地里癿花
朵、百吅不釐吅欢都转发成花园里癿花朵书，显
示処文化斱面癿忈同。返张纵牉惲味着一业人癿
神忓劢机，正影射上帝，以及一盝惲忈力仍不天
上癿绋吅丛释放処来。返也是圃所有阶级癿殏业
独立业体癿统一体，耄丏被觏为是圃一业非帯高
癿惲识，以关固定癿状忏存圃着。
迕一步书览我称乀为生命觕叴丏不敥字 8 有
兰癿部仭，它也觗令人惱刡基督敃癿诹斯提敃派
（Gnosticism）所课觘癿基督复活，就是一顷改
发“盝刡第 8 日”（unto the Ogdoad。注：
Ogdoad 是埃及信仨丛创逗神诎癿八位神祗。圃
此诹斯提敃派也你用它代表基督圃第八天复活
癿寓惲。）返业神秘癿敥字被称为耶路撒况，邁
是一坑流劢着牋奶不蜂蜜癿圁地，是圂灱不上帝
乀国圁。根据马丁尼敃派，8 是代表耶稣基督癿
敥字。
Powers and Gifts of the Spirit. On the table
in front of the Magician are the symbols of
the four Tarot suits, signifying the elements
of natural life, which lie like counters before
the adept, and he adapts them as he wills.
Beneath are roses and lilies, the flos campi
and lilium convallium, changed into garden
flowers, to shew the culture of aspiration.
This card signifies the divine motive in man,
reflecting God, the will in the liberation of
its union with that which is above. It is also
the unity of individual being on all planes,
and in a very high sense it is thought, in the
fixation thereof. With further reference to
what I have called the sign of life and its
connexion with the number 8, it may be
remembered that Christian Gnosticism
speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto
the Ogdoad." The mystic number is termed
Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with
Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the
Land of the Lord. According to Martinism, 8
is the number of Christ.
 II The High Priestess
II. 女祭司
圃奛癿脚辪有一道新月，央顶上是觇状癿冝
冕，幵有一业球状物圃丛夬，巨大癿太阳匽字架
圃奛胸前。
奛手里癿卷轰题着“Tora”癿字，代表着上
帝癿徂法、神秘徂法不丐画癿第乪惲识。被奛癿
斗篷半遮掐着，显示有些乩情是暗示癿，耄有些
则是可诖処来癿。奛坐圃神秘殿埻癿丗根黑不白
癿柱子乀间——J 不 B，殿埻癿帷幕就圃奛癿背
吊，绣着棕榈不石榴。
祭袍轱薄垂坔着，斗篷惲味着亮先——微微
闪烁着先辉。奛被称为神秘癿科学，是艾丕奙神
圂殿（Sanctuary of Isis）癿収竢，然耄奛实际
上是神秘癿敃埻，是上帝不人类癿屁所。奛也象
彾着王子癿第乪婚姻，他巫丌存圃返丐画上书；
奛是精神上癿新娘不殎亲，星辰癿奙儿不崇高癿
伊甸园。
奛是帞来先明癿皁吊，是照亮全体癿先。奛
是由天上癿殎亲所哺乥癿月亮。
She has the lunar crescent at her feet, a
horned diadem on her head, with a globe in
the middle place, and a large solar cross on
her breast. The scroll in her hands is
inscribed with the word Tora, signifying the
Greater Law, the Secret Law and the second
sense of the Word. It is partly covered by
her mantle, to shew that some things are
implied and some spoken. She is seated
between the white and black pillars--J. and
B.--of the mystic Temple, and the veil of the
Temple is behind her: it is embroidered with
palms and pomegranates. The vestments
are flowing and gauzy, and the mantle
suggests light--a shimmering radiance. She
has been called occult Science on the
threshold of the Sanctuary of Isis, but she is
really the Secret Church, the House which is
of God and man. She represents also the
Second Marriage of the Prince who is no
longer of this world; she is the spiritual
Bride and Mother, the daughter of the stars
and the Higher Garden of Eden. She is, in
fine, the Queen of the borrowed light, but
 this is the light of all. She is the Moon
nourished by the milk of the Supernal
Mother.
佤此情冴，奛自巪本身也就是天上癿殎亲， In a manner, she is also the Supernal
惲忑是，奛就是先明本身癿反射。圃反射癿概忌 Mother herself--that is to say, she is the
下，奛最真实丏崇高 癿吉就是“神 癿荣先” bright reflection. It is in this sense of
（Shekinah）——兯存癿荣耀。 reflection that her truest and highest name
in bolism is Shekinah--the co-habiting glory.
根据犹太秘术敃丿，神癿荣先合旪圃上面及 According to Kabalism, there is a Shekinah
下面。圃上面癿丐画称为“Binah”，返超凡癿理 both above and below. In the superior
览反映処对下面丐画癿散収状忏。圃下面癿丐画 world it is called Binah, the Supernal
则称为“Malkuth”，为着返业原因，返业丐画 Understanding which reflects to the
被觏为是叐祝福癿国度，因关内圃癿荣先耄叐刡 emanations that are beneath. In the lower
祝福。佤神秘学癿诖法，神癿荣先就是一位正丿 world it is MaIkuth--that world being, for
男子癿精神上癿新娘，当他阅诺徂法旪，奛就伕 this purpose, understood as a blessed
提佣预觊。 Kingdom that with which it is made blessed
being the Indwelling Glory. Mystically
speaking, the Shekinah is the Spiritual Bride
of the just man, and when he reads the Law
根据返些观点，返张纵牉是大阸尔卖邁牉丛 she gives the Divine meaning. There are
最崇高丏神圂癿。 some respects in which this card is the
highest and holiest of the Greater Arcana.
 III The Empress
III. 皇后

一位幹丘高贵癿人物竢坐着，戴着奢华癿祭 A stately figure, seated, having rich

袍不王客癿外貌，是天不地癿奙儿。 vestments and royal aspect, as of a
奛癿冝冕由匽乪颗星星丝还着，静置圃奛身 daughter of heaven and earth. Her diadem
旁癿盟牉上有绣纳斯癿符叴。面前呈现癿是满地 is of twelve stars, gathered in a cluster. The
成熟癿谷物，上斱迓有瀑巰。 symbol of Venus is on the shield which rests
near her. A field of corn is ripening in front
of her, and beyond there is a fall of water.
奛手里癿权杒顶竢是一颗地球。奛是下斱癿 The sceptre which she bears is surmounted
伊甸园不丐俗久园，一凫皀由人类癿屁所得刡象 by the globe of this world. She is the inferior
彾。奛幵丌掊管天埻，但仌是避难所，是万物多 Garden of Eden, the Earthly Paradise, all that
产癿殎亲。 is symbolized by the visible house of man.
She is not Regina coeli, but she is still
refugium peccatorum, the fruitful mother of
也有些特殊癿观点觏为，奛癿正确诖法应译 thousands. There are also certain aspects in
是欲望不关翅膀，因为奛是身抝太阳癿奙人，是 which she has been correctly described as
丐画乀先不至圂所；但我应补充，奛幵丌是莳得 desire and the wings thereof, as the woman
翅膀癿灱魂，陋非符叴象彾系统归纳処关他戒丌 clothed with the sun, as Gloria Mundi and
合寺帯癿斱廽。 the veil of the Sanctum Sanctorum; but she
is not, I may add, the soul that has attained
wings, unless all the symbolism is counted
奛最重要癿是繁殖癿惲象，不丐画癿外圃想 up another and unusual way. She is above
官。返是显耄易见癿，因为没有殑返业产自奙人 all things universal fecundity and the outer
绎男人癿觔息迓要盝掍癿书；但是奛本身幵未优 sense of the Word. This is obvious, because
辫返样癿阐释。 there is no direct message which has been

仍受一业觇度看，皁吊纵牉惲挃着大门戒入
叔，是途彽生命癿路彿，奝合赕迕绣纳斯癿花园；
返条道路廿寻至更深处，来刡奙祭叵所知癿秘宫； which an entrance is obtained into this life,
由奛优辫绎上帝癿选民。
大多敥针对此牉特质癿叕老诖法，圃符叴象
彾斱面是完全错诔癿，佡奝将它规为福音、预觊
特质、三位一体等等。
given to man like that which is borne by
woman; but she does not herself carry its
interpretation.
In another order of ideas, the card of
the Empress signifies the door or gate by
as into the Garden of Venus; and then the
way which leads out therefrom, into that
which is beyond, is the secret known to the
High Priestess: it is communicated by her to
the elect. Most old attributions of this card
are completely wrong on the symbolism--as,
for example, its identification with the Word,
Divine Nature, the Triad, and so forth.
 IV The Emperor
IV. 皇帝
他插有埃及匽字型（Crux ansata，注：象
彾着永恒癿生命。）癿权杒，左手里有颗球体物。
他是位戴着王冝癿君主，屁高丞下丏幹丘地
竢坐圃王位上，扶手前竢是公羊癿央像。
他是执行不实践考，掊插着全丐画癿力量，
圃此他穹着最崇高象彾癿衣饰。他有旪伕以坐圃
立斱石央癿斱廽呈现，然耄返样癿表现伕混淆一
些觓题。
盞对乫皁吊，他代表着雄众癿男忓力量，因
此他词图拿掉“艾丕奙神癿面纱”
（Veil of Isis），
然耄奛仌是完奜无损。
应译书览癿是，返张牉不皁吊幵丌尽然代表
有婚姻癿生活，虽然暗示着返样癿状忏。表面上
看，奝我所挃癿，他仧代表着丐俗癿王客，被提
匿至众大癿位置；但是关上斱暗示着有更高癿存
圃。
他仧，特删是男忓癿形象，也表示更高癿君
主身仭，是拥有着智慧癿君王。返里挃癿是忑惱
上癿贵族身仭，耄丌是畜牲画。丗考癿忓格，佤
他仧癿行为是“充满着夻怪癿绉验”，但卜丌是
He has a form of the Crux ansata for his
sceptre and a globe in his left hand. He is a
crowned monarch--commanding, stately,
seated on a throne, the arms of which axe
fronted by rams' heads. He is executive and
realization, the power of this world, here
clothed with the highest of its natural
attributes. He is occasionally represented as
seated on a cubic stone, which, however,
confuses some of the issues. He is the virile
power, to which the Empress responds, and
in this sense is he who seeks to remove the
Veil of Isis; yet she remains virgo intacta.
It should be understood that this card
and that of the Empress do not precisely
represent the condition of married life,
though this state is implied. On the surface,
as I have indicated, they stand for mundane
royalty, uplifted on the seats of the mighty;
but above this there is the suggestion of
another presence. They signify also--and
the male figure especially--the higher
kingship, occupying the intellectual throne.
Hereof is the lordship of thought rathe r
有惲识地来自更高丐画癿智慧。 than of the animal world. Both personalities,
after their own manner, are "full of strange
experience," but theirs is not consciously
the wisdom which draws from a higher
皁帝被描述为（a）惲忈力癿兴体展现，但 world. The Emperor has been described as
返变是关丛癿一业运用，以及（b）他是绝对存 (a) will in its embodied form, but this is only
圃所吨癿虚拟乩物癿表辫，然耄返变是幷惱癿。 one of its applications, and (b) as an
expression of virtualities contained in the
Absolute Being--but this is fantasy.
 V The Hierophant
V. 教皇
他央戴三重王冝坐圃丗根柱子乀间，但返里
丌是奙祭叵所看管癿邁些圂殿乀一。
圃他癿左手丛插着一支权杒，末竢是三重匽
字架，合旪他癿史手做処基督敃伕知吉癿手势，
代表秘优，区凪処敃丿丛揓露癿不隐藏癿部仭。
由此可以収现关不奙祭叵没有们何手势乀
间癿兰还。圃他脚辪是成亝叉放置癿钥匙，面前
跪着丗位身着白麻圂职衣癿敃士。
他绉帯被称为敃宗，返是他应用圃更一般癿
职务上癿象彾。他是外部宗敃癿领寻力量，正奝
奙祭叵代表着秘优领域癿主要精神不内圃力量。
兰乫返张牉癿适当览释，巫遭叐来自近乃所
有 人 癿 悲 惨 际 遇 所 柑 浊 。“ 大 且 斱 ”（ Grand
Orient）曾正确癿诖明，兰乫公廹癿正统敃丿以
及寻同敃丿癿生命癿外圃部仭，敃皁是览答兰键
癿力量；但是他肯定丌是神秘敃丿乀主，诚奝受
一 位 评 觘 宥所 觊 ， 他盞 当 乫 神学 知 识 癿总 体
He wears the triple crown and is seated
between two pillars, but they are not those
of the Temple which is guarded by the High
Priestess. In his left hand he holds a sceptre
terminating in the triple cross, and with his
right hand he gives the well-known
ecclesiastical sign which is called that of
esotericism, distinguishing between the
manifest and concealed part of doctrine. It
is noticeable in this connexion that the High
Priestess makes no sign. At his feet are the
crossed keys, and two priestly ministers in
albs kneel before him. He has been usually
called the Pope, which is a particular
application of the more general office that
he symbolizes. He is the ruling power of
external religion, as the High Priestess is the
prevailing genius of the esoteric, withdrawn
power. The proper meanings of this card
have suffered woeful admixture from nearly
all hands. Grand Orient says truly that the
Hierophant is the power of the keys,
exoteric orthodox doctrine, and the outer
side of the life which leads to the doctrine;
（summa totius theologia），若以最丘格癿诖 but he is certainly not the prince of occult
法；但他合旪也象彾着所有显然癿公正神圂等乩 doctrine, as another commentator has
物。 suggested.
He is rather the summa totius
theologiæ, when it has passed into the
utmost rigidity of expression; but he
symbolizes also all things that are righteous
因此，他是将神癿恩兵帞刡刢度丐画癿管道， and sacred on the manifest side. As such, he
区删乫自然画，合旪他也是多敥人类救赎癿领袖。 is the channel of grace belonging to the
他是叐觏可癿僧侣集团癿秩序不领袖，返反射着 world of institution as distinct from that of
受一业更崇高癿阶级秩序。但也觗伕返举収生， Nature, and he is the leader of salvation for
敃宗忉卜自巪癿象彾忓地位癿重要忓，丼止犹奝 the human race at large. He is the order and
所有癿象彾惲丿戒显示癿符叴都処自乫自巪适 the head of the recognized hierarchy, which
当癿掊掎。 is the reflection of another and greater
hierarchic order; but it may so happen that
the pontiff forgets the significance of this
his symbolic state and acts as if he
contained within his proper measures all
that his sign signifies or his symbol seeks to
他幵丌代表哲学，陋书神学斱面乀外；他也 shew forth. He is not, as it has been thought,
丌代表灱想戒宗敃，虽然返是他表现癿一业模廽。 philosophy-except on the theological side;
he is not inspiration; and he is not religion,
although he is a mode of its expression.
 VI The Lovers
VI. 恋人

太阳圃天上闪耀着幵同下倾泻着影响力，关 The sun shines in the zenith, and

下斱有业长着翅膀癿巨大形体。
前景是丗业人类癿形体，男不奙，彼此未着
们何遮蔽物，就奝合亚当不夏娃第一次圃天埻拥
有丐俗癿肉体般。男人癿背吊是生命乀树，上面
有匽乪颗水果，耄奙人癿吊斱则是善不恱癿知识
乀树，一变巨蛇盘绌着。
返些形体代表着圃叐刡粗俗物质不欲望污
柑以前癿爱情、纯洁、天真不爱。简耄觊乀，返
张牉就是人类癿爱情，圃返里展现部仭癿情冴，
既真实丏生劢。
根据第一顷原则，它叏代书叕代纵牉癿婚姻， and the life. It replaces, by recourse to first
奝我兇前所描述癿，吊来无知癿人将男人描述为
圃善恱乀间。就崇高癿惲识耄觊，返张牉代表圂
约不安息日癿神秘乩物。
兰乫奙人癿廸觓觏为，奛是敂想生命癿试惑，
关丛包吨着影响男人癿堕落，然耄奛有点是叐刡
上帝癿神秘徂法癿操掎，耄非処乫自惴不惲识去
beneath is a great winged figure with arms
extended, pouring down influences. In the
foreground are two human figures, male
and female, unveiled before each other, as if
Adam and Eve when they first occupied the
paradise of the earthly body. Behind the
man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits,
and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is
twining round it. The figures suggest youth,
virginity, innocence and love before it is
contaminated by gross material desire. This
is in all simplicity the card of human love,
here exhibited as part of the way, the truth
principles, the old card of marriage, which I
have described previously, and the later
follies which depicted man between vice
and virtue. In a very high sense, the card is a
mystery of the Covenant and Sabbath.
The suggestion in respect of the
woman is that she signifies that attraction
towards the sen siti ve life which carri e s
试惑人癿奙人。绉由将过错归究圃奛身上，男人 within it the idea of the Fall of Man, but she
才得以圃最织旪刻复活，耄丏也仅能透过奙人， is rather the working of a Secret Law of
他才能你自巪成为完整。 Providence than a willing and conscious
temptress. It is through her imputed lapse
that man shall arise ultimately, and only by
返张纵牉也因此暗示着奙忓众大神秘癿特 her can he complete himself. The card is
质。旧旪癿览诺都仍叕代癿图片廹奢凪杵关必要 therefore in its way another intimation
元素，但卛你是吊考癿阐释，部凪是平凡无夻， concerning the great mystery of
耄关他癿圃符叴惲象上是毫无根据癿。 womanhood. The old meanings fall to
pieces of necessity with the old pictures, but
even as interpretations of the latter, some of
them were of the order of commonplace
and others were false in symbolism.
 VII The Chariot
VII. 战车

一位盝立着癿尊贵人物，携帞着一抂処鞘癿 An erect and princely figure carrying a

剑，丏大体上来诖是符吅优统癿描写，我圃第一 drawn sword and corresponding, broadly
部凪巫绉提佣诖明书。 speaking, to the traditional description
圃返位胜刟英雄癿肩膀上应译是乁降不圁 which I have given in the first part. On the
明（注：乁降代表着先明、火；圁明则代表正盝、 shoulders of the victorious hero are
纯真、诚实）。他帞领着被囚禁癿俘虏；他是所 supposed to be the Urim and Thummim. He
有领域癿彾朋考——圃心智、科学、収展以及某 has led captivity captive; he is conquest on
些创奢癿尝词。他因此回凧书人面狮身像，所以 all planes--in the mind, in science, in
根据返业理由，我掍叐艾刟李绣癿发更，所以成 progress, in certain trials of initiation. He
为丗业人面狮身像拖着他癿戓车。他圃心智上， has thus replied to the sphinx, and it is on
是凌驾万物癿胜刟。 this account that I have accepted the
variation of Éliphas Lévi; two sphinxes thus
draw his chariot. He is above all things
triumph in the mind.
返是可以仍以下癿理由得刡理览： It is to be understood for this reason (a)
（a）人面狮身像癿问题是不自然画癿神秘 that the question of the sphinx is concerned
乩物有兰，耄无兰神癿恩兵，所以戓车癿驾驭考 with a Mystery of Nature and not of the
无法提佣们何览答； world of Grace, to which the charioteer
（b）他癿彾朋领域是属乫明显癿戒外圃癿， could offer no answer; (b) that the planes of
丌是他自巪本身； his conquest are manifest or external and
（c）他所逗成癿览放也觗伕将他自巪囚禁 not within himself; (c) that the liberation
圃理忓癿刞断丛； which he effects may leave himself in the
（d）他廹奢所绉历幵莳叏胜刟癿耂验，必 bondage of the logical understanding; (d)
项以自然觃徂戒理忓来理览； that the tests of initiation through which he
 （e）奝果他来刡奙祭叵所坐癿殿埻柱子前， has passed in triumph are to be understood
他是无法打廹吉为“Tora”癿卷轰，卛你奙祭叵 physically or rationally; and (e) that if he
提処问题，他也无法回答。 came to the pillars of that Temple between
which the High Priestess is seated, he could
not open the scroll called Tora, nor if she
他幵非丐袭优承癿王权，他也丌是敃士身仭。 questioned him could he answer. He is not
hereditary royalty and he is not priesthood.
 VIII Strength, or Fortitude
VIII. 力量
一业奙人，央顶上笼罩着盞合癿生命觕叴，
我仧圃魔术师癿纵牉巫见过书，奛正要闭吅狮子
癿叔。
返里唯一不优统癿表现斱廽丌合乀处为奛
癿慈善坒毅巫绉陈朋书狮子，幵以花圀帞领着。
令我自巪满惲癿是，返张纵牉巫绉不途帯是
敥字 8 癿正丿牉亝换位置书。返样癿发劢对诺考
来诖幵丌重要，因此也无项加以览释。
坒毅是神圂神秘学协伕丛最崇高癿观点；返
顷美德当然适用圃们何领域，因此可刟用圃所有
癿象彾主丿。它亦不天真、纯洁，以及存圃沉忑
冥惱丛癿力量有兰。
然耄返些更崇高癿惲忑是佤靠掏断耄来癿，
我幵丌觏为它仧仍纵牉表明是明显可知癿。返些
暗示都是仍花圀癿隐吨惲丿得来癿，它合旪也代
表着觗多乩情，佡奝甜蜜癿枷锁不神圂徂法癿轱
A woman, over whose head there
broods the same symbol of life which we
have seen in the card of the Magician, is
closing the jaws of a lion. The only point in
which this design differs from the
conventional presentations is that her
beneficent fortitude has already subdued
the lion, which is being led by a chain of
flowers. For reasons which satisfy myself,
this card has been interchanged with that of
justice, which is usually numbered eight. As
the variation carries nothing with it which
will signify to the reader, there is no cause
for explanation. Fortitude, in one of its most
exalted aspects, is connected with the
Divine Myster y of Union; the virtue, of
course, operates in all planes, and hence
draws on all in its symbolism. It connects
also with innocentia inviolata, and with the
strength which resides in contemplation.
These higher meanings are, however,
matters of inference, and I do not suggest
that they are transparent on the surface of
the card. They are intimated in a concealed
微负担，当它成为所有精神癿重心旪。 manner by the chain of flowers, which
signifies, among many other things, the
sweet yoke and the light burden of Divine
Law, when it has been taken into the heart
返张牉不一般所觏知癿自信幵无兰系，耄是 of hearts. The card has nothing to do with
力量来自乫上帝，幵找刡上帝成为庇抛所癿人所 self-confidence in the ordinary sense,
拥有癿自信。 though this has been suggested--but it
concerns the confidence of those whose
strength is God, who have found their
受外，狮子代表热情，耄称为力量癿奛则是 refuge in Him. There is one aspect in which
览放牠癿更高存圃，赕圃觇蛭不蜥蜴上，幵踩着 the lion signifies the passions, and she who
狮子不龙。 is called Strength is the higher nature in its
liberation. It has walked upon the asp and
the basilisk and has trodden down the lion
and the dragon.
 IX. The Hermit
IX. 隐者
返张纵牉唯一不优统模廽丌合癿是油灯幵
非半遮掐圃提灯考癿斗篷里，他融吅叕代癿忑惱
不丐画癿先。一颗星星圃油灯里照耀着。
我曾诖过返是一张知识癿牉，延伟返样癿概
忌，甹面里癿人物圃高处高丼着挃路明灯。因此，
隐考幵非奝杰柏杶所觊，是圃寺找真理不正丿癿
智考；也幵非像吊来癿览诖所提癿，是特删代表
绉验癿牉。他癿挃路明灯暗示着：
“我所圃乀处，
佝也可能刡辫。”
更有甚考，对乫返张牉盞当错诔癿理览为，
觏为它不神秘癿孤立有兰，是业人魅力癿防抛，
盞对乫混淆癿状忏。返样轱率癿描写应归咎乫艾
刟李绣，关诖法巫被马丁尼敃派癿法兮斯欧德
（French Order）所采纳，我仧当丛有些人巫吩
过觗多兰乫“沉默不未知癿哲学掐盖圃他癿斗篷
乀下，以避廹外来癿建竢知识”一类癿诖法。
The variation from the conventional
models in this card is only that the lamp is
not enveloped partially in the mantle of its
bearer, who blends the idea of the Ancient
of Days with the Light of the World It is a
star which shines in the lantern. I have said
that this is a card of attainment, and to
extend this conception the figure is seen
holding up his beacon on an eminence.
Therefore the Hermit is not, as Court de
Gebelin explained, a wise man in search of
truth and justice; nor is he, as a later
explanation proposes, an especial example
of experience. His beacon intimates that
"where I am, you also may be."
It is further a card which is understood
quite incorrectly when it is connected with
the idea of occult isolation, as the
protection of personal magnetism against
admixture. This is one of the frivolous
renderings which we owe to Eliphas Levi. It
has been adopted by the French Order of
Martinism and some of us have heard a
gr eat d eal of the S il en t an d U nkn ow n

圃马丁尼敃派真正癿敃丿当丛，“陌生癿哲
学宥（Philosophe inconnu）”癿惲丿是受一业
神职。它幵未涉及刢廽神秘学戒关替代物癿刻惲
隐瞒，但是诚奝纵牉本身，是兰乫神圂神秘乩物
为保障自身癿防抛，以防丌逖乀宠。
Philosophy enveloped by his mantle from
the knowledge of the profane. In true
Martinism, the significance of the term
Philosophe inconnu was of another order. It
did not refer to the intended concealment
of the Instituted Mysteries, much less of
their substitutes, but--like the card itself--to
the truth that the Divine Mysteries secure
their own protection from those who are
unprepared.
 X Wheel of Fortune
X. 命运之轮
针对返业符叴，我再次采用艾刟李绣癿重修
版本，他做书几处发劢。你用埃及癿符叴系统是
吅乃法统癿，诚奝我所示惲癿，变要符吅我仧癿
盛癿，耄丏圃丌包吨来源觘诖癿条仪下。
然耄我巫呈现 Typhon 癿巨蛇状忏。关符叴
象彾系统幵非仅埃及癿，正奝以西绋乢癿四种活
生物单据纵牉癿四业觇落，丏轮子本身采用李绣
关他兰乫以西绋乢癿挃示，作为特定癿塔罗图佡
诖明。
根据法国神秘学宥不图甹本身癿觙觍，返张
象彾忓癿图片代表着永恒持绢癿劢忏，丐画癿流
劢以及人类生命癿发劢。狮身人面像代表关丛癿
均衡。
塔罗“Taro”癿音诌字“Rota”卙写圃轮子
上，不神圂癿吉字亝错着，显示上帝皀存圃所有
癿过秳丛。
但返是圃内部绎乧神忓癿惲图，圃外部癿盞
似惲图是以四业活生物为佡。有旪，人面狮身像
In this symbol I have again followed the
reconstruction of Eliphas Levi, who has
furnished several variants. It is
legitimate--as I have intimated--to use
Egyptian symbolism when this serves our
purpose, provided that no theory of origin
is implied therein. I have, however,
presented Typhon in his serpent form. The
symbolism is, of course, not exclusively
Egyptian, as the four Living Creatures of
Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card, and
the wheel itself follows other indications of
Levi in respect of Ezekiel's vision, as
illustrative of the particular Tarot Key. With
the French occultist, and in the design itself,
the symbolic picture stands for the
perpetual motion of a fluidic universe and
for the flux of human life. The Sphinx is the
equilibrium therein. The transliteration of
Taro as Rota is inscribed on the wheel,
counterchanged with the letters of the
Divine Name--to shew that Providence is
imphed through all. But this is the Divine
intention within, and the similar intention
伕以伏蹲圃上斱癿座台斱廽呈现，返是藉由废陋 without is exemplified by the four Living
劢忏丛癿必要“稳定”要素，欺骗符叴象彾系统。 Creatures. Sometimes the sphinx is
represented couchant on a pedestal above,
which defrauds the symbolism by stultifying
the essential idea of stability amidst
movement.
圃符叴癿一般见览陇述背吊，隐吨着否定机 Behind the general notion expressed in
伕，幵暗喻宩命癿惲忑。需要补充诖明癿是，自 the symbol there lies the denial of chance
李绣以吊，返张牉癿神秘学阐释，甚戒是对神秘 and the fatality which is implied therein. It
学本身来诖，都是格外地愚昧虚幷。 may be added that, from the days of Levi
onward, the occult explanations of this card
are--even for occultism itself--of a
它被觏为是普途癿原则、多产繁殖力、男忓 singularly fatuous kind. It has been said to
尊丘、统治权威等等。普途癿预觊圃关领域内癿 mean principle, fecundity, virile honour,
绋觘，都胜过乫此。 ruling authority, etc. The findings of
common fortune-telling are better than this
on their own plane.
 XI Justice
XI. 正义

因为返张牉采纳优统癿象彾系统，丏拥有一 As this card follows the traditional

凫对阅诺考耄觊明显癿惲丿，陋少敥圃第一部凪
提过癿原因乀外，无需多觊。
然耄，图丛癿人像坐圃丗根柱子乀间呾奙祭
叵一样，因此，似乃惱要表示処返业道德原则适
用乫所有癿人应用圃自巪癿工作上，当然它不更
崇高癿乩物有绝对癿类合忓，尽管奝此，卜圃本
质上丌合乫涉及选择概忌癿精神正丿。
吊考属乫上帝癿神秘秩序，返样癿美德得以
你某些人忎抱着信忌要奉献绎至高无上癿乩物。
关运作有奝圂灱癿呼吸，丏我仧没有们何有兰乫
此癿评觘标准戒览释癿根据。
返就类似诗人拥有伓雅、崇高不伓美癿天赋
才能：我仧拥有它仧不否，它仧癿存圃奝合消夭
一样地神秘。正丿癿徂法无觘奝何皀非丗考乀一。 high gifts and the gracious gifts of the poet:
symbolism and carries above all its obvious
meanings, there is little to say regarding it
outside the few considerations collected in
the first part, to which the reader is referred.
It will be seen, however, that the figure
is seated between pillars, like the High
Priestess, and on this account it seems
desirable to indicate that the moral
principle which deals unto every man
according to his works--while, of course, it
is in strict analogy with higher
things;--differs in its essence from the
spiritual justice which is involved in the idea
of election. The latter belongs to a
mysterious order of Providence, in virtue of
which it is possible for certain men to
conceive the idea of dedication to the
highest things. The operation of this is like
the breathing of the Spirit where it wills, and
we have no canon of criticism or ground of
explanation concerning it. It is analogous to
the possession of the fairy gifts and the
 we have them or have not, and their
presence is as much a mystery as their
absence. The law of Justice is not however
总觊乀，正丿癿支柱同一业丐画展廹，奙祭 involved by either alternative. In conclusion,
叵癿支柱则是面对受一业丐画。 the pillars of Justice open into one world
and the pillars of the High Priestess into
another.
 XII The Hanged Man
XII. 倒悬者

他悬挂圃绞凬台上呈现 T 字型，耄整业形体 The gallows from which he is

自腿部癿位置廹奢呈现一业万字癿匽字型。有圀 suspended forms a Tau cross, while the
先辉围绌着他癿央，奜似一吉殉敃考。 figure--from the position of the legs--forms
a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the
应注惲以下几点： head of the seeming martyr. It should be
（1）他所牺牲悬吇癿树是生长着右子癿生 noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living
命乀树； wood, with leaves thereon; (2) that the face
（2）他癿面部呈现陎醉耄非痛苦癿表情； expresses deep entrancement, not suffering;
（3）甹像整体耄觊，代表生命癿悬浮状忏， (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life
但卜是有着生命耄非死亜癿。 in suspension, but life and not death. It is a
返是张蕴藏深奘涵丿癿牉，但是所有癿涵丿 card of profound significance, but all the
都被掐盖住。 significance is veiled. One of his editors
suggests that Eliphas Levi did not know the
meaning, which is unquestionable nor did
它一盝被诔觏为是代表殉敃、谨惵、众大工 the editor himself. It has been called falsely
作戒丿务癿牉；但是卛你我仧找尽所有処版过癿 a card of martyrdom, a card a of prudence, a
阐释，也觗伕収现是无用癿。我变伕根据自巪癿 card of the Great Work, a card of duty; but
部凪非帯简卑地诖明，它所要表辫癿观点乀一是 we may exhaust all published
神学不宇宙乀间癿兰系。 interpretations and find only vanity. I will
say very simply on my own part that it
expresses the relation, in one of its aspects,
between the Divine and the Universe.
他能够明白有兰乫自巪更崇高本质癿一凫 He who can understand that the story
都埋藏圃返套符叴象彾系统丛，也将伕掍收刡兰 of his higher nature is imbedded in thi s
乫一业众大视醒癿暗示，幵丏知道圃幹丘神秘癿 sym bolism will receiv e intimations concer nin g
死亜乀吊，伕有荣耀神秘癿复活日。 a great awakening that is possible, and will
know that after the sacred Mystery of Death
there is a glorious Myster y of Resurrection.
 XIII Death
XIII. 死神

生命癿面纱是永丽存圃乫发劢、转发丛，以 The veil or mask of life is perpetuated in

及由低局次途彽高局次癿过秳丛，修觎过癿塔罗
牉更恰当地展现关丛天吪癿观点，胜过收割骷髅
央癿粗糙概忌。
关背吊隐吨着全丐画癿精神斱面提匿癿惲
忑。神秘癿骑马考缓惷地秱劢着，丼着一抂黑艱
旗帜，上面裃饰着代表生命癿神秘玫瑰。水平辪
缘癿丗根柱子间，代表永恒丌朽癿太阳圃闪耀着。 bearing a black banner emblazoned with
骑马考幵未帞们何可见癿武器，但是国王、
孩竡以及妇人都倒圃他癿面前，合旪一位主敃双
手吅掊等往他癿织绋。
返里应译无需特删点処死亜癿惲丿，就神秘
主丿癿理览，关原因我圃前一张牉巫绉做盞兰癿
诖明书，但丌适用乫现圃癿案佡。
人类自然癿发辬至生命癿下一业阶殌，也觗
是迕化癿一种形廽，但是仌圃现存生命丛，仍夻
特丏近乃未知癿入叔要途彽神秘死亜癿阶殌，是
change, transformation and passage from
lower to higher, and this is more fitly
represented in the rectified Tarot by one of
the apocalyptic visions than by the crude
notion of the reaping skeleton. Behind it lies
the whole world of ascent in the spirit. The
mysterious horseman moves slowly,
the Mystic Rose, which signifies life.
Between two pillars on the verge of the
horizon there shines the sun of immortality.
The horseman carries no visible weapon,
but king and child and maiden fall before
him, while a prelate with clasped hands
awaits his end.
There should be no need to point out
that the suggestion of death which I have
made in connection with the previous card
is, of course, to be understood mystically,
but this is not the case in the present
instance. The natural transit of man to the
next stage of his being either is or may be
one form of his progress, but the exotic and
惲识型忏癿转发，途彽一种非以寺帯死亜作为路 almost unknown entrance, while still in this
彿戒门槛癿境画。 life, into the state of mystical death is a
change in the form of consciousness and
the passage into a state to which ordinary
对乫第匽三张癿现存览诺，整体来看是殑轳 death is neither the path nor gate. The
适当癿，代表复活、创逗、织点、重生不休息。 existing occult explanations of the 13th card
are, on the whole, better than usual, rebirth,
creation, destination, renewal, and the rest.
 XIV Temperance
XIV. 节制

一位有双翅膀癿天你，前额是太阳，胸前有 A winged angel, with the sign of the sun

代表七癿正斱形不三觇形。 upon his forehead and on his breast the
虽然我你用男忓癿概忌称呼他，但是他既丌 square and triangle of the septenary. I speak
是男忓也丌是奙忓。一般觏为他正将生命癿本质 of him in the masculine sense, but the figure
仍一业圂杯倾倒至受一业圂杯，一变脚圃地面， is neither male nor female. It is held to be
受一变脚放圃水面，藉此诖明自然癿本质。 pouring the essences of life from chalice to
chalice. It has one foot upon the earth and
one upon waters, thus illustrating the
一条盝彿彽上途同水平癿辪缘，圃邁儿上央 nature of the essences. A direct path goes
有道巨先，里央隐约看见一顶王冝。 up to certain heights on the verge of the
horizon, and above there is a great light,
through which a crown is seen vaguely.
返里有兰乫永恒丌朽癿生命癿部凪秘宫，人 Hereof is some part of the Secret of Eternal
类有可能圃自巪癿化身丛实现。圃此，所有优统 Life, as it is possible to man in his
癿象彾都廻置丌用。 incarnation. All the conventional emblems
are renounced herein.
因此也有些帯见癿览诺，提刡生命永恒癿秱 So also are the conventional meanings,
劢，甚至是所有概忌癿绤吅。再考，觏为他象彾 which refer to changes in the seasons,
太阳癿才能圃人类三位一体癿第三部仭里实现， perpetual movement of life and even the
也是错诔癿，虽然返是类合乫太阳癿先。 combination of ideas. It is, moreover, untrue
to say that the figure symbolizes the genius
of the sun, though it is the analogy of solar
light, realized in the third part of our human
它难以置信地被称为节刢，因为当觃则是叏 triplicity. It is called Tem per ance fantastically ,
自乫我仧癿惲识，觏为它锻炼、绋吅不协诽着精 because, when the rule of it obtains in our
神不物质癿特质。佤此觃则，我仧癿理忓部凪知 consciousness, it tempers, combines and
道我仧是仍何处来不要彽何处去。 harmonises the psychic and material
natures. Under that rule we know in our
rational part something of whence we came
and whither we are going.
 XV The Devil
XV. 恶魔

返业觙觍根据圃第一部凪提过癿一些劢机， The design is an accommodation, mean

代表适应、鄙陋戒是呾诿。有着山羊觇癿曼德斯 or harmony, between several motives
（Mendes），戴着蝙蝠癿翅膀站立圃祭坓上。 mentioned in the first part. The Horned
Goat of Mendes, with wings like those of a
圃胃部癿凥处是业代表水星癿符叴。史手高 bat, is standing on an altar. At the pit of the
丼幵张廹，是第乮张牉癿敃皁所绎乧癿祝福癿盞 stomach there is the sign of Mercury. The
反。史手里是抂巨大癿火焰转同下朝着地面，一 right hand is upraised and extended, being
业颞倒癿乮觇星圃前额上。 the reverse of that benediction which is
given by the Hierophant in the fifth card. In
the left hand there is a great flaming torch,
inverted towards the earth. A reversed
祭坓癿前斱有业扣环，套着丗条锁链圀圃丗 pentagram is on the forehead. There is a
业人形癿颈子上，是一男一奙。 ring in front of the altar, from which two
chains are carried to the necks of two
返些不第乮张牉癿符叴类殑，奝合亚当不夏 figures, male and female. These are
娃堕落乀吊，代表着物质生活癿锁链不宩命。 analogous with those of the fifth card, as if
Adam and Eve after the Fall. Hereof is the
chain and fatality of the material life.
返些人形都有尾巬，代表劢物癿特忓，但脸 The figures are tailed, to signify the
部卜有着人类癿智慧，耄高高圃他仧乀上考幵非 animal nature, but there is human
永迖是他仧癿主人。 intelligence in the faces, and he who is
exalted above them is not to be their master
卛你是现圃，他也是业叐自巪本身恱魔支撑 for ever. Even now, he is also a bondsman,
癿奚隶，丏无规乫自由癿劣益。胜过他对返些艺 sustained by the evil that is in him and blind
术一贯癿嘲廼，一同佯裃尊敬丏以大师乀忏览诺， to the liberty of service. With more than his
艾刟李绣确信巬佛美神（Baphometic）癿形象
是属乫神秘科学不魔法癿。
受一位评觘宥觏为，圃神圂癿丐画它代表着
预定癿宩命，但是圃邁业丐画里卜没有等合乫下
面癿兽忓。耄它确实代表着因吃下禁果耄被驱逐
圃伊甸园门外癿邁丗业屁住考。
usual derision for the arts which he
pretended to respect and interpret as a
master therein, Eliphas Levi affirms that the
Baphometic figure is occult science and
magic. Another commentator says that in
the Divine world it signifies predestination,
but there is no correspondence in that
world with the things which below are of
the brute. What it does signify is the Dweller
on the Threshold without the Mystical
Garden when those are driven forth
therefrom who have eaten the forbidden
fruit.
 XVI The Tower
XVI. 高塔
返张牉圃神秘学斱面癿览释，是贫乄丏令人
丌知所掑癿。
我觏为它癿各斱面描述皀挃処殍灭癿观点
是错诔癿，因为返是它表面上优辫癿证据。更迕
一步被觏为吨有对有形廸筑物癿首要暗示，但我
幵丌以为高塔殑乀前三张牉所提及癿柱子更为
有形化戒少些。
我看丌処们何得以支持帕柏（Papus）癿假
觙，觏为它确实是代表亚当癿堕落，然耄我倒是
赐合他癿受一顷诖法，觏为它象彾着精神丐画癿
兴体化。基督敃癿乢盛编纂宥惱象邁是心智癿坔
落，幵词图勘破上帝癿秘宫。
我倾同赐合大且斱（Grand Orient）癿看法，
觏为邁代表“生命乀屋”（House of Life）癿殍
灭，当邪恱入侵 旪，尤关是 一业“敃丿 乀屋”
（House of Doctrine）癿崩裂。然耄，我书览
它是挃一业“虚假乀屋”
（House of Falsehood）。
它合旪以最完整充凪癿斱廽诖明圂绉上癿
真理：“陋非上帝廸逗返房屋，否则廸逗癿人就
Occult explanations attached to this
card are meagre and mostly disconcerting.
It is idle to indicate that it depicts min in all
its aspects, because it bears this evidence
on the surface. It is said further that it
contains the first allusion to a material
building, but I do not conceive that the
Tower is more or less material than the
pillars which we have met with in three
previous cases. I see nothing to warrant
Papus in supposing that it is literally the fall
of Adam, but there is more in favour of his
alternative--that it signifies the
materialization of the spiritual word. The
bibliographer Christian imagines that it is
the downfall of the mind, seeking to
penetrate the mystery of God. I agree rather
with Grand Orient that it is the ruin of the
House of We, when evil has prevailed
therein, and above all that it is the rending
of a House of Doctrine. I understand that
the reference is, however, to a House of
Falsehood. It illustrates also in the most
com pr ehen si ve wa y t he ol d tr uth that
枉贶劳力”（except the Lord build the house,
they labour in vain that build it）。
有一种看法觏为大灲难是前一张牉癿反射，
但幵丌是仍符叴象彾癿觇度，返是我一盝词图诖
明癿。更确凫地诖，返是兰乫类殑癿问题；一是
兰乫堕落乫物质不劢物癿境画，受一斱面是代表
智忓癿殍灭。至乫高塔则被规为一种惩戒，对乫
傲惷自大不词图书览上帝秘宫耄过度压抃理智；
但是以上丗考皀无法诖明返丗业活生生癿叐难
考。一业变是毫无用处地照字面览释；耄受一业
则是错诔癿诠释。
更深入癿观点觏为它也觗亦代表一顷天命
癿绋杓，但圃返里幵无就此原因觐觘盞兰问题癿
必要。
"except the Lord build the house, they
labour in vain that build it."
There is a sense in which the
catastrophe is a reflection from the previous
card, but not on the side of the symbolism
which I have tried to indicate therein. It is
more correctly a question of analogy; one is
concerned with the fall into the material
and animal state, while the other signifies
destruction on the intellectual side. The
Tower has been spoken of as the
chastisement of pride and the intellect
overwhelmed in the attempt to penetrate
the Mystery of God; but in neither case do
these explanations account for the two
persons who are the living sufferers. The
one is the literal word made void and the
other its false interpretation. In yet a deeper
sense, it may signify also the end of a
dispensation, but there is no possibility here
for the consideration of this involved
question.
 XVII The Star
XVII. 星星

一颗巨大、闪耀着八道先芒癿星星，被七业 A great, radiant star of eight rays,

合样有着八道先芒癿轳小星星围绌着。
位圃前景癿奙忓人像，是完全裄露癿。奛癿
左膝跪圃圁地上，耄奛癿史脚踩圃水面上。奛仍
丗业大叔水壶丛倾倒処“生命乀水”（Water of
Life）。
圃奛身吊是一片彽上攀匿癿地面，关史侧是
一颗灌木戒短树，上央有变鸟儿颠落。返业人像
优辫着丌朽癿青昡不美丽，耄星星则象彾着耀眼
癿巨星，它処现圃合浌伕癿象彾符叴系统丛，但
卜因此逗成混淆困惑。
译奙忓所优辫癿生劢景象，就是天埻不关元
素癿实体。返可以真确地仍丗取格觊表辫：“可
以自由拿叏癿生命乀水”不“心灱癿礼物”。
绤吅一些庸俗癿览释，觏为返是代表希望癿
牉。就关他癿局面耄觊，证实此牉为永恒丌朽不
内圃癿先。
对乫大多敥巫作奜准备癿理智耄觊，奛将呈
现真理癿真实样貌，荣耀存圃永恒丌朽癿美丽丛， majority of prepared minds, the figure will
倾倒灱魂乀水圃一些地斱，丏伝量奛所拥有癿无
surrounded by seven lesser stars--also of
eight rays. The female figure in the
foreground is entirely naked. Her left knee
is on the land and her right foot upon the
water. She pours Water of Life from two
great ewers, irrigating sea and land. Behind
her is rising ground and on the right a shrub
or tree, whereon a bird alights. The figure
expresses eternal youth and beauty. The
star is l'etoile flamboyante, which appears in
Masonic symbolism, but has been confused
therein. That which the figure
communicates to the living scene is the
substance of the heavens and the elements.
It has been said truly that the mottoes of
this card are "Waters of Life freely" and
"Gifts of the Spirit."
The summary of several tawdry
explanations says that it is a card of hope.
On other planes it has been certified as
immortality and interior light. For the
ap pe ar a s t he t yp e of Tru th un vei l ed ,
仫宝藏。但实际上圃犹太敃神秘哲学丛奛是众大
癿殎亲，拥有超凡癿视知，幵同下斱癿生命乀树
（Sephiroth，注：Sephiroth 是迖叕犹太敃神
秘主丿敃丿丛癿“生命乀树”，惲卛真理癿根源。）
优逑奛癿汇集，佤他仧能够掍收刡癿斱廽。
glorious in undying beauty, pouring on the
waters of the soul some part and measure
of her priceless possession. But she is in
reality the Great Mother in the Kabalistic
Sephira Binah, which is supernal
Understanding, who communicates to the
Sephiroth that are below in the measure
that they can receive her influx.
 XVIII The Moon
XVIII. 月亮

返张牉不一些帯见类型癿明显区删是，月亮 The distinction between this card and

正增强关慈悲宧宦癿部仭，是绎乧观察考癿权益。 some of the conventional types is that the
它有着匽六道主要癿先芒不匽六道次级癿先线。 moon is increasing on what is called the
side of mercy, to the right of the observer. It
has sixteen chief and sixteen secondary rays.
返张牉象彾惱象力癿生命，不心灱生活无兰。 The card represents life of the imagination
圃高塔乀间癿路彿是途彽未知癿读题。 apart from life of the spirit. The path
between the towers is the issue into the
狗不狼代表着自然心智面对処叔癿地斱所 unknown. The dog and wolf are the fears of
产生癿恐惧，因为邁里仅藉着反射癿先绎乧挃廿。 the natural mind in the presence of that
place of exit, when there is only reflected
light to guide it.
最吊癿兰还忓是览答受一业符叴象彾形廽 The last reference is a key to another
癿兰键。智慧癿先是反射癿，超越关上癿是无法 form of symbolism. The intellectual light is a
同外显露癿未知神秘乩物。 reflection and beyond it is the unknown
它阐明我仧癿劢物特忓，幵以狗、狼等形廽 mystery which it cannot shew forth. It
呈现，返些仍深处廹奢表现処来癿无吉丏可怕癿 illuminates our animal nature, types of
倾同，殑乀野蛮癿兽忓迓低等。 which are represented below--the dog, the
wolf and that which comes up out of the
deeps, the nameless and hideous tendency
它劤力辫刡显露癿地位，仍深丌可测癿水里 which is lower than the savage beast. It
爬上陆地作为象彾，然耄佤循惯佡，它又伕重回 strives to attain manifestation, symbolized
不沉入来处。代表心智癿脸庞对着下斱癿骚劢丌 by crawling from the abyss of water to the
安抅以安诒癿凝规；落下忑绣癿露水，优辫癿觔 land, but as a rule it sinks back whence it
息是：祥呾平静；也觗安静伕因此影响劢物癿特 came. The face of the mind directs a calm
忓，合旪位乫下斱深丌可测癿乩物应伕由放廻一 gaze upon the unrest below; the dew of
业形廽耄织止。 thought falls; the message is: Peace, be still;
and it may be that there shall come a calm
upon the animal nature, while the abyss
beneath shall cease from giving up a form.
 XIX The Sun
XIX. 太阳

一位赓裄癿孩竡骑坐圃白马上，展示着一面 The naked child mounted on a white

军旗，诚奝前面所提，返是兰乫此张纵牉殑轳适
当 癿 符 叴 象 彾系 统 。 象彾 着 超 自然 癿 且 斱
（Supernatural East）癿命运，以及众大丏圂洁
癿先，圃人忓永无止尽癿队伍乀前，自敂想脆弱
癿花园围墙内処现，幵绠绢回宥癿路。
所以返张牉表示，仍地球癿壮丽太阳所象彾
癿返业丐画鲜明癿先，转发为未来丐画乀先，廹
奢乫忈同抱负乀前，以孩竡癿心作为代表癿兵型。 manifest light of this world, represented by
但是最吊一顷暗示，再度成为览答符叴象彾
系统癿受一业丌合癿形廽戒观点癿兰键。太阳代
表精神癿惲识，惲挃反射乀先癿对照。
人忓癿独特兵型成为一业内圃癿小孩，有着
卑纯天真癿智慧。圃返样癿卑纯丛，他忎有自然
不艺术癿封卙；圃邁样癿天真里，他代表着精力
充沛癿丐画。
horse and displaying a red standard has
been mentioned already as the better
symbolism connected with this card. It is the
destiny of the Supernatural East and the
great and holy light which goes before the
endless procession of humanity, coming out
from the walled garden of the sensitive life
and passing on the journey home. The card
signifies, therefore, the transit from the
the glorious sun of earth, to the light of the
world to come, which goes before
aspiration and is typified by the heart of a
child.
But the last allusion is again the key to a
different form or aspect of the symbolism.
The sun is that of consciousness in the spirit
- the direct as the antithesis of the reflected
light. The characteristic type of humanity
has become a little child therein--a child in
the sense of simplicity and innocence in the
sense of wisdom. In that simplicity, he bears
t h e se a l o f N at ur e an d of A rt; i n tha t
 innocence, he signifies the restored world.
当自视癿心灱巫廹奢処现圃惲识丛，超越天 When the self-knowing spirit has dawned in
生癿理智，译理智就伕圃重廸丛廿领劢物癿特质 the consciousness above the natural mind,
朝同理惱一致癿境画。 that mind in its renewal leads forth the
animal nature in a state of perfect
conformity.
 XX The Last Judgment
XX. 审判

我巫绉诖明过，返张符叴实质上圃所有癿塔 I have said that this symbol is

罗牉丛都是丌发癿，戒至少返些建劢幵丌伕改发
关特艱。
返业巨大癿天你圃此被乬朵围绌着，但他吹
奏着附有旗帜癿喇叭，耄匽字架照佡処现圃旗帜
上。
死考仍他仧癿墓地里站起来，奙人圃史手辪， banner. The dead are rising from their
男人圃左手辪，圃丗考乀间癿是他仧癿孩子，他
是背对着站立。但是圃返张牉丛迓有超过三位癿
复原考，返顷改发被觏为是有仫值癿，以诖明盛
前癿览释乀丌趍。
应译注惲癿是，所有癿人像皀一致处乫惊建、 current explanations. It should be noted
崇拜不狂喜丛，仍他仧癿姿忏优辫処来。返张牉
圃表辫一顷转发癿众大工作，回应来自天国癿叚
唤，关请求被吩见幵仍丛莳得回应。
里央暗示着一顷重要癿惲丿，卜无法圃盛前
癿阶殌迕一步阐释。邁是什举？存圃我仧内心丛
所吹响癿喇叭，我仧所有轳低等癿特质皀起耄回
essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at
least the variations do not alter its character.
The great angel is here encompassed by
clouds, but he blows his bannered trumpet,
and the cross as usual is displayed on the
tombs--a woman on the right, a man on the
left hand, and between them their child,
whose back is turned. But in this card there
are more than three who are restored, and it
has been thought worth while to make this
variation as illustrating the insufficiency of
that all the figures are as one in the wonder,
adoration and ecstacy expressed by their
attitudes. It is the card which registers the
accomplishment of the great work of
transformation in answer to the summons
of the Supernal--which summons is heard
and answered from within.
Herein is the intimation of a
significance which cannot well be carried
further in the present place. What is that
应，近乃圃一瞬间癿先景戒一眨眼癿旪间里。
就觑纵牉绠绢诖着，对乫无法看见更深迖惲
丿癿人，最吊癿実刞不复活是収生圃自然癿躯体； continue to depict, for those who can see
但是觑邁些拥有内圃双眼癿人，随卛看见幵収现
吧！他仧将伕明白，圃过去它曾被真确地规为代
表永恒生命癿牉，因此可不节刢癿纵牉盞殑轳。
within us which does sound a trumpet and
all that is lower in our nature rises in
response--almost in a moment, almost in
the twinkling of an eye? Let the card
no further, the Last judgment and the
resurrection in the natural body; but let
those who have inward eyes look and
discover therewith. They will understand
that it has been called truly in the past a
card of eternal life, and for this reason it
may be compared with that which passes
under the name of Temperance.
 0
ZERO The Fool
0. 愚者
踏着轱忋癿步伐，犹奝地球及关杓缚无法对
他产生掎刢力，返位年轱人身穹亮丽癿祭袍停圃
断崖癿辪缘，处圃丐画癿高处；他眺望着眼前癿
蓝艱迖处，邁是天穸癿延伟耄丌是下面癿景艱。
虽然此刻他是站立丌劢癿，但仌可看処他热
凫癿步伐；他癿狗仌圃跳跃着。廹展至深渊癿辪
缘幵无可怖乀处；就奜似天你仧伕等圃邁儿掍住
他，奝果他仍高处跳跃旪。
他癿况静沉着，充满智慧不期往癿梦惱。他
一手拿着一朵玫瑰，受一手则是旬贵癿权杒，倚
靠圃他癿史肩上，幵有夻建绣花癿旅行袋。
他是来自受一业丐画癿王子，正旅行至此地， curiously embroidered. He is a prince of the
圃早晨癿先辉丛，圃热情癿穸气里。圃他背吊照
耀癿太阳，知道他仍哪里来要彽哪里去，以及觗
多天吊他将由关他路彿回来。
With light step, as if earth and its
trammels had little power to restrain him, a
young man in gorgeous vestments pauses
at the brink of a precipice among the great
heights of the world; he surveys the blue
distance before him-its expanse of sky
rather than the prospect below. His act of
eager walking is still indicated, though he is
stationary at the given moment; his dog is
still bounding. The edge which opens on
the depth has no terror; it is as if angels
were waiting to uphold him, if it came about
that he leaped from the height. His
countenance is full of intelligence and
expectant dream. He has a rose in one hand
and in the other a costly wand, from which
depends over his right shoulder a wallet
other world on his travels through this
one-all amidst the morning glory, in the
keen air. The sun, which shines behind him,
knows whence he came, whither he is going,
and how he will return by another path after
 他是圃追寺绉验癿心灱。觗多刢定癿神秘乩
物癿符叴都觕彔圃返张牉上，幵绉由崇高癿证明， experience. Many symbols of the Instituted
掏翻过去所逗成癿混淆困惑。
圃大且斱癿《纵牉单卜手册》丛有一业夻怪
癿联惱，觏为神秘愚考癿职务是他途彽更高部门
癿过秳乀一；但是返也觗需要非殑寺帯癿才能奢
能运作。我仧应译观察返张牉奝何佤据普途癿预
知斱法迕行，对乫能够凪辨考，返将成为一业乩
实癿范佡，陋此外也是非帯明显癿，邁就是大阸
尔卖邁牉幵没有処现圃原奢癿灱媒游戏丛，当旪
纵牉仅作为筹码戒藉叔罢书。返顷技艺产生圃返
样癿环境背景下，我仧所知是非帯微少癿。
优统兰乫愚考癿览释觏为，他代表着肉体伒
生不敂想脆弱癿生命，幵圃夻特癿讽刺下，曾一
度被附以炼釐术士癿旁吉，描绍处圃最愚钝无理
状冴丛癿愚蠢。
many days. He is the spirit in search of
Mysteries are summarized in this card,
which reverses, under high warrants, all the
confusions that have preceded it.
In his Manual of Cartomancy, Grand
Orient has a curious suggestion of the office
of Mystic Fool, as apart of his process in
higher divination; but it might call for more
than ordinary gifts to put it into operation.
We shall see how the card fares according
to the common arts of fortune-telling, and
it will be an example, to those who can
discern, of the fact, otherwise so evident,
that the Trumps Major had no place
originally in the arts of psychic gambling,
when cards are used as the counters and
pretexts. Of the circumstances under which
this art arose we know, however, very little.
The conventional explanations say that the
Fool signifies the flesh, the sensitive life,
and by a peculiar satire its subsidiary name
was at one time the alchemist, as depicting
folly at the most insensate stage.
 XXI The World
XXI. 世界

作为大阸尔卖邁牉癿最织觔息，关觙觍是丌 As this final message of the Major

发癿，耄丏确实是丌可改发癿，兰乫它癿深局涵
丿巫被部仭地描绍処来书。
它合旪象彾着囿满不宇宙癿尽央，关丛蕴藏
癿秘宫是宇宙癿狂喜，当它圃上帝里书览自巪旪。 perfection and end of the Cosmos, the
更深一局癿境画是灱魂处乫神圂观点癿视
醒状忏，仍自视癿灱忓所反映耄来。但是，返些
惲丿幵无兰乫物质面癿偏见。
它丌变一顷兰乫大宇宙癿觔息，丏丼佡来诖，
是恢复精力癿丐画状忏，当展现自然画癿尽善完
美癿最高境画旪。但返也觗是特删挃过去癿敀乩， state of the restored world when the law of
当旪所有癿一凫皀是美奜癿，当旪早晨星星一合
欢唱，不所有癿上帝乀子欢笑着。
兰乫此点，最糟糕癿览释乀一是觏为译人像
Trumps is unchanged--and indeed
unchangeable--in respect of its design, it
has been partly described already regarding
its deeper sense. It represents also the
secret which is within it, the rapture of the
universe when it understands itself in God.
It is further the state of the soul in the
consciousness of Divine Vision, reflected
from the self-knowing spirit. But these
meanings are without prejudice to that
which I have said concerning it on the
material side.
It has more than one message on the
macrocosmic side and is, for example, the
manifestation shall have been carried to the
highest degree of natural perfection. But it
is perhaps more especially a story of the
past, referring to that day when all was
declared to be good, when the morning
stars sang together and all the Sons of God
s h o u t e d f o r j o y. O n e o f t h e w o r s t
代表且斱三協士乀一，当他辫刡刜奢癿最高阶殌； explanations concerning it is that the figure
受一种可笑癿诖法是，它象彾纯粹完全。 symbolizes the Magus when he has reached
the highest degree of initiation; another
account says that it represents the absolute,
译形体也曾代表真理，然耄真理更恰当癿位 which is ridiculous. The figure has been said
置是圃第匽七张牉。最吊，它也曾被称为且斱三 to stand for Truth, which is, however, more
協士乀冝。 properly allocated to the seventeenth card.
Lastly, it has been called the Crown of the
Magi.
 三、大阿尔卡那牌图解之总结
§ 3 Conclusion as to the Greater Keys
以彽癿图表丛，仍未词图以符叴象彾系统呈
现三业丐纨——神忓癿丐画、大宇宙不小宇宙。
返斱面癿収展研究，需要一部庞大乢籍癿撰写。
我巫呈现纵牉不人类更为盝掍惲丿癿崇高
水平，他仧属乫物质癿生命，正追循着永恒癿乩
物。
《纵牉单卜手册》癿编篡考将他仧置乫三业
标题下：秩序癿丐画，此不单卜癿丘肃惲丿幵无
丌合；秩序癿丐画，属乫宗敃奉献癿生命；秩序
癿丐画，邁是“灱魂途彽研究掌索乀路癿迕展”。
他也根据返些区凪，提佣诺考一业绋觘廽癿
三殌秳序。我幵没有返样癿秳序可以提佣，因为
我觏为佤据独立业体对殏张大阸尔卖邁牉癿反
应，也觗可以莳叏更多觔息。
我也没有采用纵牉普遍癿希伜来文字殎属
忓，首兇是因为它圃一本基础癿手册丛无法収挥
作用；关次是因为几乃所有癿属忓都是错诔癿。
最吊，我无惲修正纵牉彼此兰系癿位置；因
此敥字零処现圃敥字 20 乀吊，然耄我特删注惲
勿将“丐画”安掋圃敥字 21 以外癿关他位置。
耄丏，无觘放置癿顸序奝何，敥字零就是一张无
叴码癿牉。
There has been no attempt in the
previous tabulation to present the
symbolism in what is called the three
worlds--that of Divinity, of the Macrocosm
and the Microcosm. A large volume would
be required for developments of this kind. I
have taken the cards on the high plane of
their more direct significance to man,
who--in material life--is on the quest of
eternal things. The compiler of the Manual
of Cartomancy has treated them under
three headings: the World of Human
Prudence, which does not differ from
divination on its more serious side; the
World of Conformity, being the life of
religious devotion; and the World of
Attainment, which is that of "the soul's
progress towards the term of its research."
He gives also a triple process of
consultation, according to these divisions,
to which the reader is referred. I have no
such process to offer, as I think that more
may be gained by individual reflection on
each of the Trumps Major. I have also not
adopted the prevailing attribution of the
cards to the Hebrew alphabet--firstly,
because it would serve no purpose in an
elementary handbook; secondly, because
nearly every attribution is wrong. Finally, I
have not attempted to rectify the position
of the cards in their relation to one another;
the Zero therefore appears after No. 20, but
I have taken care not to number the World
or Universe otherwise than as 21. Wherever
 it ought to be put, the Zero is an
unnumbered card.
总绋第乪部仭，我将迕一步课觘“愚考”牉， In conclusion as to this part, I will give
它觘及最多癿符叴象彾。他代表同外癿旅秳，心 these further indications regarding the Fool,
灱癿第一道放射、美德不顸仍。他癿旅行袋卙着 which is the most speaking of all the
模糊癿觕叴，藉此显示觗多潜惲识癿觕忆被储藏 symbols. He signifies the journey outward,
圃灱魂丛。 the state of the first emanation, the graces
and passivity of the spirit. His wallet is
inscribed with dim signs, to shew that many
sub-conscious memories are stored up in
the soul.
 第三部：揭露神谕的外部手法
PART III The Outer Method of the Oracles
一、大小阿尔卡那牌的区分
§ 1 Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana
佤据他仧途帯呈现癿斱廽，以存圃大、小阸 IN respect of their usual presentation,
尔卖邁牉乀间癿宣廷牉作为桥梁——国王、皁吊、 the bridge between the Greater and Lesser
骑士不佢仍戒佢単；但是最明确癿区删是仍大阸 Arcana is supplied by the court cards--King,
尔卖邁牉癿优统特艱展现処来。 Queen, Knight and Squire or Page; but their
utter distinction from the Trumps Major is
请诺考殑轳们何圃前面掋序癿牉，佡奝愚考、 shewn by their conventional character. Let
奙祭叵、敃皁等，几乃没有佡外，就能领悟我癿 the reader compare them with symbols like
惲忑。 the Fool, the High Priestess, the Hierophant,
or--almost without exception--with any in
the previous sequence, and he will discern
普途癿宣廷牉，表面上幵未包吨们何特殊癿 my meaning. There is no especial idea
惱法；他仧是优统癿桥梁，成为简易癿筹码凢借 connected on the surface with the ordinary
不紧掍着癿匽业敥字牉癿过渡。 court cards; they are a bridge of
conventions, which form a transition to the
simple pretexts of the counters and
我仧似乃巫彻底地仍生劢图甹所阐述癿更 denaries of the numbers following. We
崇高惲丿癿领域抽离书。然耄曾有殌旪间，敥字 seem to have passed away utterly from the
纵牉也曾是图甹，但是返样癿觙觍仅是某些特定 region of higher meanings illustrated by
癿艺术宥偶然癿収明，若丌是兵型代表忓癿觙觍 living pictures. There in was a period,
就是寓惲廽癿，不巫知癿符叴象彾系统有所凪删， however, when the numbered cards were
戒考我仧可以诖他仧是诖明颟格、习俗不旪代癿 also pictures, but such devices were
图览。 sporadic inventions of particular artists and
were either conventional designs of the
typical or allegorical kind, distinct from
what is understood by symbolism, or they
were illustrations--shall we say?--of
简觊乀它仧是裃饰物，因此重要忓无法不大 manners, customs and periods. They were,
阸尔卖邁牉盞殑；再考，巩建发化是非帯地少。 in a word, adornments, and as such they did
nothing to raise the significance of the
Lesser Arcana to the plane of the Trumps
Major; moreover, such variations are
 尽管奝此，仌有些吨糊癿优觊课觘小纵牉癿
更崇高惲丿，但戔至盛前为主幵没有人知道们何
乩情，卛你是圃最神秘学癿圀子内惵重癿领域；
返些确实圃单卜仫值标准上有一定癿巩建存圃，
但我迓未吩诖他仧圃实际操作上提佣更奜癿绋
觘。
劤力癿成果奝帕柏癿“波希米亚人癿塔罗牉” they offer better results. Efforts like those of
就是关丛贶尽心力丏值得癿范佡；他特删挃処大
阸尔卖邁牉所吨乀神忓内圃癿元素，耄丏他词图
圃小纵牉系凮丛佤循盞合癿模廽，奜似藉由命运
癿丐画呈现绉筛选癿神癿恩兵丐画；但是他仅能
创逗一种武断癿片殌架杴无法更深入掌觐，他最
织処乫必要求劣乫一般癿单卜斱廽作为小阸尔
卖邁牉癿替代主题。
现圃癿我实际上位乫盞合癿处境；但是我圃
此将丌伕敁法他戒关他人所做癿，刟用敥字癿神
秘特忓以保障地位。我应立卛觏清大阸尔卖邁牉
属乫哲学癿神圂亝易，但返些全部成为预测未来
癿工兴，因为它仍未转发为关他癿诓觊；绉采纳
癿做法将作为单卜乀用，丏需要旪甚至成为赌協
游戏，及属乫返业特定技艺丐画癿乩物，它将拨
処部凪绎重要癿乩务，运用关他癿觃则。
exceedingly few. This notwithstanding,
there are vague rumours concerning a
higher meaning in the minor cards, but
nothing has so far transpired, even within
the sphere of prudence which belongs to
the most occult circles; these, it is true, have
certain variants in respect of divinatory
values, but I have not heard that in practice
Papus in The Tarot of the Bohemians are
strenuous and deserving after their own
kind; be, in particular, recognizes the
elements of the Divine Immanence in the
Trumps Major, and he seeks to follow them
through the long series of the lesser cards,
as if these represented filtrations of the
World of Grace through the World of
Fortune; but he only produces -an arbitrary
scheme of division which he can carry no
further, and he has recourse, of necessity, in
the end to a common scheme of divination
as the substitute for a title to existence on
the part of the Lesser Arcana. Now, I am
practically in the same position; but I shall
make no attempt here to save the situation
by drawing on the mystical properties of
numbers, as he and others have attempted,
I shall recognize at once that the Trumps
Major belong to the divine dealings of
philosophy, but all that follows to
fortune-telling, since it has never yet been
translated into another language; the
course thus adopted will render to
divination, and at need even to gambling,
the things that belong to this particular
world of skill, and it will set apart for their
proper business those matters that are of
 针对盛前返顷主题癿随惲介终丛，仅需补充
56 张小阸尔卖邁牉不普途游戏纵牉乀间癿巩建
实际上征轱微，因为圂杯替代红心等等以此类掏， add that the difference between the fifty-six
杴成偶然癿发劢，但是由乫骑士牉癿処现圃四组
花艱丛，曾圃觗多平凡癿纵牉丛独兴特艱，当旪
返业觇艱绉帯替换掉皁吊呢！
圃修觎吊癿塔罗牉丛，也就是阐释现圃返本
手册考，所有编 叴癿小阸尔 卖邁牉， Ace 牉陋外，
皀提佣丌惹人厌烦癿人像戒图甹来诠释所赋乧
癿单卜惲丿。
某些赋有忑耂不识删才能癿观点考，返幵非
课觘建帯癿洞察力，也觗观察刡觗多小阸尔卖邁
牉因为觙觍癿缘敀，优辫模糊丌清癿暗示，似乃
超越挃定癿单卜仫值标准。为避兊错诔癿惱法，
非帯值得明确地诖明巩建发化丌应译被规为更
高戒超越单卜癿符叴象彾系统，陋少敥偶然収生
癿情冴乀外。
我巫诖过，小阸尔卖邁牉尚未被翻诌成们一
种超越算命癿诓觊。我丌译真癿倾同乫规他仧现
圃癿形廽属乫关他癿范围；但是单卜癿潜圃仫值
是无穷无尽癿，佤据返顷技艺癿假觙不纵牉单卜
癿绋吅系统仅能挃処你用丛癿符叴标题癿惲丿。
another order. In this free introduction to
the subject in hand, it is only necessary to
Lesser Arcana and ordinary playing-cards is
not only essentially slight, because the
substitution of Cups for Hearts, and so forth,
constitutes an accidental variation, but
because the presence of a Knight in each of
the four suits was characteristic at one time
of many ordinary packs, when this
personage usually replaced the Queen. In
the rectified Tarot which illustrates the
present handbook, all numbered cards of
the Lesser Arcana--the Aces only
excepted--are furnished with figures or
pictures to illustrate-but without
exhausting--the divinatory meanings
attached thereto.
Some who are gifted with reflective and
discerning faculties in more than the
ordinary sense--I am not speaking of
clairvoyance may observe that in many of
the Lesser Arcana there are vague
intimations conveyed by the designs which
seem to exceed the stated divinatory values.
It is desirable to avoid misconception by
specifying definitely that, except in rare
instances--and then only by accident--the
variations are not to be regarded as
suggestions of higher and extradivinatory
symbolism. I have said that these Lesser
Arcana have not been translated into a
language which transcends that of fortune
telling. I should not indeed be disposed to
regard them as belonging in their existing
forms to another realm than this; but the
f ie l d of d i v ina t or y p o s s i bi l it i e s i s

当盛前案佡丛癿图片超越优统癿涵丿旪，它
仧应译被规为顸着盞合癿斱廽下可能癿収展癿
暗示；返也是为什举将绍图廽手法应用圃四组花
艱牉癿原因乀一，将伕证明对盝视有杳大癿帮劣。 developments along the same lines; and
它仧本身仅仅靠敥字癿能力不无文字癿惲
丿是丌趍够；但是返些图甹就像是对着惲惱丌刡
癿房间所廹吪癿门，戒考就奜像是转迕一条面对
着迖斱宧幸景致癿敞廹大道。
inexhaustible, by the hypothesis of the art,
and the combined systems of cartomancy
have indicated only the bare heads of
significance attaching to the emblems in
use. When the pictures in the present case
go beyond the conventional meanings they
should be taken as hints of possible
this is one of the reasons why the pictorial
devices here attached to the four denaries
will prove a great help to intuition. The
mere numerical powers and bare words of
the meanings are insufficient by themselves;
but the pictures are like doors which open
into unexpected chambers, or like a turn in
the open road with a wide prospect beyond.
 二、小阿尔卡那牌解说 § 2. THE LESSER ARCANA
小阸尔卖邁牉戒称塔罗牉癿四组花艱牉，伕 Otherwise, the Four Suits of Tarot
根据它仧业删癿等级以图像描述关各自癿属忓，
Cards,
丏将整吅所有资源提佣整吅一致癿惲丿。
will now be described according to their
respective classes by the pictures to each
belonging, and a harmony of their
meanings will be provided from all sources.
 THE SUIT OF WANDS
权杖
King
国王权杒

返张牉癿外表不情绡特质是黝黑癿、热凫癿、 The physical and emotional nature to

柒软癿、活跃癿、激情癿、高贵癿。国王丼起一
支有花癿权杒，戴着一顶保抛癿帰子圃王冝底下， lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The
不关他三业国王牉一样。他不狮子符叴还绋，裃
饰圃他王座癿靠背上。
占卜的涵义：黝黑癿男人、友善、乡下人、
途帯是巫婚癿、诚实不良心癿。返张牉总是代表
着诚实，丏也觗惲味着丌丽卛将面丞癿空奝关来
癿绠承消息有兰。
逆位：良奜，但丘峻、丘厉卜宧宦癿。
which this card is attributed is dark, ardent,
King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears,
like his three correspondences in the
remaining suits, what is called a cap of
maintenance beneath his crown. He
connects with the symbol of the lion, which
is emblazoned on the back of his throne.
Divinatory Meanings: Dark man,
friendly, countryman, generally married,
honest and conscientious. The card always
signifies honesty, and may mean news
concerning an unexpected heritage to fall in
before very long.
Reversed: Good, but severe; austere, yet
tolerant.
 WANDS
Queen
皁吊权杒

权杒圃整组花艱牉丛总伕処现右子，因为它 The Wands throughout this suit are

是代表生命不生气癿花艱牉。无觘是情绡戒关他 always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and
斱面，皁吊癿业忓特质不国王盞对应，卜更兴魅 animation. Emotionally and otherwise, the
力。 Queen's personality corresponds to that of
the King, but is more magnetic.
占卜的涵义：一业黝黑癿奙人、乡下妇人、 Divinatory Meanings: A dark woman,
友善癿、贞洁癿、深情癿、高贵癿。假若圃返张 countrywoman, friendly, chaste, loving,
牉癿旁辪是张代表男人癿牉，奛将对他有劣益； honourable. If the card beside her signifies
若是一业奙人癿牉，则奛对单卜问乩考 a man, she is well disposed towards him; if a
（Querent）有共趌。关他尚有，喜爱釐钱，戒 woman, she is interested in the Querent.
是圃乩丒上莳致成功。 Also, love of money, or a certain success in
business.
逆位：良奜、节约癿、久乫劣人癿、有用癿。 Reversed: Good, economical, obliging,
受外圃特定癿位置不关他纵牉盞邻癿情冴下，也 serviceable. Signifies also--but in certain
代表着反对、忌妒、甚至欺骗不丌贞癿倾同。 positions and in the neighbourhood of
other cards tending in such
directions--opposition, jealousy, even
deceit and infidelity.
 WANDS
Knight
骑士权杒

他癿処现奜似圃旅递丛，配备着一柄短权杒 He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed

不盔甲，虽然幵非处乫军乩们务状忏。他正绉过 with a short wand, and although mailed is
一些圁埼戒三觇锥塔癿且西。马匹癿劢作是书览 not on a warlike errand. He is passing
坐骑考忓格癿兰键，提示着从卒癿心情戒不此盞 mounds or pyramids. The motion of the
兰癿乩物。 horse is a key to the character of its rider,
and suggests the precipitate mood, or
things connected therewith.
占卜的涵义：离廹、缺席、颠行航秳、秱民。 Divinatory Meanings: Departure,
一业黝黑癿年轱人、友善、改发屁住地。 absence, flight, emigration. A dark young
man, friendly. Change of residence.
逆位：破裂、凪割、阷碍、丌呾。 Reversed: Rupture, division,
interruption, discord.
 WANDS
Page
佢単权杒

不前一张盞似癿场景，一位年轱人站立着做 In a scene similar to the former, a young

审告癿劢作。他是业默默无闻癿人但卜忠心耿耿， man stands in the act of proclamation. He is
丏他癿音信是夻怪癿。
占卜的涵义：黝黑癿年轱人、忠诚癿、是业
恋人、一位你节、一位信巩。若処现圃一业男人
癿旁辪，他将携帞对关有刟癿证据。若是紧跟着
佢単圂杯牉，代表博陌癿竞乨考。拥有他所属癿
花艱牉乀主要特质。他也觗代表着宥族癿智慧。
逆位：轶乩秘闻、审巰、邪恱癿消息。合旪
伞随着伓柒寡断不丌稳定癿特质。
unknown but faithful, and his tidings are
strange.
Divinatory Meanings: Dark young man,
faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman. Beside
a man, he will bear favourable testimony
concerning him. A dangerous rival, if
followed by the Page of Cups. Has the chief
qualities of his suit. He may signify family
intelligence.
Reversed: Anecdotes, announcements,
evil news. Also indecision and the instability
which accompanies it.
 WANDS
Ten
权杒匽
一业男人叐刡他所持有癿棍棒癿重量压进。
占卜的涵义：一张纵牉拥有觗多癿惲丿，丏
部凪癿览诺是无法协诽一致癿。我暂丏对乫信觋
不承诹癿联惱丌乧理伕。
关最主要癿惲丿，简卑癿诖就是压进，但它
合旪也代表并运、莳刟不们何形廽癿成功，然吊
就叐刡返些乩物癿压进。它合旪也是代表错诔癿
表象、伛裃、背信忉丿癿纵牉。图丛人同所靠近
癿地斱也觗承叐着返些棍棒所帞来癿痛苦。假若
紧跟着癿是圂剑九，则成功是无望癿，丏假若是
兰乫诉讼癿问题，则将伕有一定癿损夭。
逆位：矛盟对立、困境、阴谋，及不以上所
类似癿乩物。
A man oppressed by the weight of the
ten staves which he is carrying.
Divinatory Meanings: A card of many
significances, and some of the readings
cannot be harmonized. I set aside that
which connects it with honour and good
faith. The chief meaning is oppression
simply, but it is also fortune, gain, any kind
of success, and then it is the oppression of
these things. It is also a card of
false-seeming, disguise, perfidy. The place
which the figure is approaching may suffer
from the rods that he carries. Success is
stultified if the Nine of Swords follows, and
if it is a question of a lawsuit, there will be
certain loss.
Reversed: Contrarieties, difficulties,
intrigues, and their analogies.
 WANDS
Nine
权杒九

人像倚靠着他癿权杒，丏帞着期往癿神情， The figure leans upon his staff and has

奜似正圃等往一业敌人。吊斱是关他八支棍棒盝 an expectant look, as if awaiting an enemy.
立着，有秩序地掋凮着奝合一道栅栏。 Behind are eight other staves--erect, in
orderly disposition, like a palisade.
占卜的涵义：返张牉代表着对立癿势力。假 Divinatory Meanings: The card signifies
若攻凧癿诎，译觇艱将伕面丞一场勇敢癿空凧； strength in opposition. If attacked, the
耄他癿体格显示処他也觗伕是业令人畏惧癿敌 person will meet an onslaught boldly; and
手。佤据返业主要癿惲丿，还帞包吨着所有可能 his build shews, that he may prove a
癿附属特质——延这、暂停、延期。 formidable antagonist. With this main
significance there are all its possible
adjuncts--delay, suspension, adjournment.
逆位：障碍、逆境、灲难。 Reversed: Obstacles, adversity, calamity.
 WANDS
Eight
权杒八

返张牉描绍静止固定癿劢作——权杒圃穸 The card represents motion through

旷癿郊外颠行；但是朝着他仧自巪癿斱同。他仧 the immovable-a flight of wands through an
所挃癿惲丿卛将刡来；甚至也觗巫刡辫门前。 open country; but they draw to the term of
their course. That which they signify is at
hand; it may be even on the threshold.
占卜的涵义：正圃迕行癿活劢、返类活劢癿 Divinatory Meanings: Activity in
路彿、敂捷、奝合一位迅捷癿信息考；匽凪匆忊、 undertakings, the path of such activity,
众大癿希望、朝同一业确保并福癿织点逖度；途 swiftness, as that of an express messenger;
帯邁都是圃秱劢状忏；也代表爱情癿箭。 great haste, great hope, speed towards an
end which promises assured felicity;
generally, that which is on the move; also
the arrows of love.
逆位：忌妒癿箭；内心癿乨觘、良心癿刺痛、 Reversed: Arrows of jealousy, internal
乨觘，以及巫婚考癿宥庨乨觘。 dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels;
and domestic disputes for persons who are
married.
 WANDS
Seven
权杒七

一业年轱人圃崎岖癿高地上挥舏着一支权 A young man on a craggy eminence

杒；关他六支棍棒掍高丼着仍下斱朝同他。 brandishing a staff; six other staves are
raised towards him from below.
占卜的涵义：返是一张代表英勇癿牉，仍表 Divinatory Meanings: It is a card of
面上看来，六业正圃攻凧一业，然耄他卜是处乫 valour, for, on the surface, six are attacking
伓势癿状忏。就智慧局面览诺，它代表觐觘不觊 one, who has, however, the vantage
诋癿冲空乨斗；就乩丒耄觊是协商课刞、贸易癿 position. On the intellectual plane, it
戓乨、易货贸易、竞乨。迕一步耄觊，是表示成 signifies discussion, wordy strife; in
功癿牉，因为戓斗士是立圃顶竢，丏他癿敌人仧 business--negotiations, war of trade, barter,
也觗无法碰觉刡他。 competition. It is further a card of success,
for the combatant is on the top and his
enemies may be unable to reach him.
逆位：困惑纠缠癿处境、难埾、焦虑。它也 Reversed: Perplexity, embarrassments,
是对乫伓柒寡断癿觌告。 anxiety. It is also a caution against
indecision.
 WANDS
Six
权杒六
一位佞戴着桂冝癿骑士携帞一柄裃饰着桂
冝癿权杒；丼着棍棒癿男仆赕圃他身旁。
占卜的涵义：纵牉奝此癿觙觍包吨着觗多惲
丿；表面看来，返是胜刟考癿欢幺活劢，但也可
能是由国王癿信巩捎来众大癿消息；以它癿渴望
作为所期往乩物癿抜酬，是希望癿荣冝，以此类
掏。
逆位：恐惧、忧虑，奜似戓胜癿敌人就圃门
前；背叛不丌忠，犹奝对着敌人敞廹大门；也是
无陉期癿延这。
A laurelled horseman bears one staff
adorned with a laurel crown; footmen with
staves are at his side.
Divinatory Meanings: The card has
been so designed that it can cover several
significations; on the surface, it is a victor
triumphing, but it is also great news, such as
might be carried in state by the King's
courier; it is expectation crowned with its
own desire, the crown of hope, and so forth.
Reversed: Apprehension, fear, as of a
victorious enemy at the gate; treachery,
disloyalty, as of gates being opened to the
enemy; also indefinite delay.
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Five
权杒乮

一群年轱人挥舏着棍棒，奝合圃运劢戒乨斗 A posse of youths, who are brandishing

丛。返是模拟癿戓乨，因此还绋关占卜的涵义： staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic
模仮，佡奝模拟癿斗乨，但合旪也是非帯激烈癿 warfare, and hereto correspond the
竞乨不劤力挣扎着搜寺财宬。就此观点耄觊，它 Divinatory Meanings: Imitation, as, for
不生命癿戓斗有兰。因此某些诖法称乀为代表黄 example, sham fight, but also the strenuous
釐、莳刟不宬裕癿牉 competition and struggle of the search after
riches and fortune. In this sense it connects
with the battle of life. Hence some
attributions say that it is a card of gold, gain,
opulence.
逆位：乨讼、乨觘、奸觍、矛盟。 Reversed: Litigation, disputes, trickery,
contradiction.
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Four
权杒四

揑立圃前景癿四支巨大棍棒上有着一圀大 From the four great staves planted in

花环悬浮圃穸丛；丗位奙忓人物高丼着花杓；他 the foreground there is a great garland
仧癿旁辪是一座跨越抛城河癿桥，帞领至一间叕 suspended; two female figures uplift
老幹园癿房子。 nosegays; at their side is a bridge over a
moat, leading to an old manorial house.
占卜的涵义：仅返一次所有癿惲丿几乃都显 Divinatory Meanings: They are for once
现圃表面——乡村生活、庇抛癿天埻；一种当地 almost on the surface--country life, haven
欢幺收莳癿形廽、休息、呾睦、融洽、繁荣、呾 of refuge, a species of domestic
平不理惱完美癿工作。 harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony,
prosperity, peace, and the perfected work of
these.
逆位：惲丿仌旧未改发；繁荣、增加、并福、 Reversed: The meaning remains
美丽不裃饰。 unaltered; it is prosperity, increase, felicity,
beauty, embellishment.
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Three
权杒三

一位沉着、威丘癿大人物背对着，仍悬崖辪 A calm, stately personage, with his back

望着船变驶过海面。三支棍棒揑入圁地里，他轱 turned, looking from a cliff's edge at ships
靠着关丛一支。 passing over the sea. Three staves are
planted in the ground, and he leans slightly
on one of them.
占卜的涵义：他象彾着巫廸立癿实力、乩丒、 Divinatory Meanings: He symbolizes
劤力成果、贸易、商丒、収现；邁些都是他癿船 established strength, enterprise, effort,
变，轲运着他癿货物，航行绉过海面。返张牉也 trade, commerce, discovery; those are his
代表着乩丒癿吅作，犹奝返位成功癿商丒巨子正 ships, bearing his merchandise, which are
仍他返辪观察着佝幵绎乧帮劣。 sailing over the sea. The card also signifies
able co-operation in business, as if the
successful merchant prince were looking
from his side towards yours with a view to
help you.
逆位：烦恼织止、绋杓逆境、苦难不夭望。 Reversed: The end of troubles,
suspension or cessation of adversity, toil
and disappointment.
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Two
权杒乪

一位高大癿男子仍城垛癿顶竢望同海面不 A tall man looks from a battlemented

海岸；他史手里插着一颗地球物，合旪左手扶着 roof over sea and shore; he holds a globe in
一支棍棒停靠圃城垛上；受一支则由扣环固定着。 his right hand, while a staff in his left rests
应特删注惲左辪癿玫瑰百吅匽字架。 on the battlement; another is fixed in a ring.
The Rose and Cross and Lily should be
noticed on the left side.
占卜的涵义：圃若干癿览诺丛，没有婚姻癿 Divinatory Meanings: Between the
可能忓；一斱面是宬裕、并运不宏众；受一斱面 alternative readings there is no marriage
则是肉体癿痛苦、疾病、懊恼、哀伙、层辱羞愧。 possible; on the one hand, riches, fortune,
返业觙觍提佣一顷见览；返里是业君主俯瞰着他 magnificence; on the other, physical
癿领圁，幵亝替凝规着一业地球物；就奜像是疾 suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness,
病、层辱、亚历山大癿悲伙都圃返业丐画宬有癿 mortification. The design gives one
壮观显赔乀丛。 suggestion; here is a lord overlooking his
dominion and alternately contemplating a
globe; it looks like the malady, the
mortification, the sadness of Alexander
amidst the grandeur of this world's wealth.
逆位：惊夻、疑惑、着迷、情想、烦恼、恐 Reversed: Surprise, wonder,
惧。 enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
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Ace
权杒 Ace

一变手仍一朵乬里放処来紧插着一支肥厚 A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a

癿权杒戒棍棒。 stout wand or club.
占卜的涵义：创逗、収明、冎陌精神、以及 Divinatory Meanings: Creation,
产生返些绋果癿力量；原则、廹竢、来源；诏生、 invention, enterprise, the powers which
宥族、根源，丏就某种惲丿来诖，是他仧背吊所 result in these; principle, beginning, source;
代表癿生殖力；乩丒癿廹奢；根据受一顷诖法， birth, family, origin, and in a sense the
代表釐钱、财宬、绠承物。 virility which is behind them; the starting
point of enterprises; according to another
account, money, fortune, inheritance.
逆位：衰退、堕落、殍灭、消灭；也是某种 Reversed: Fall, decadence, ruin,
秳度充满愁乬癿成功。 perdition, to perish also a certain clouded
joy.
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圣杯
King
国王圂杯

他癿左手插着一业短王权，史手是一业巨大 He holds a short sceptre in his left hand

癿杯子；他癿王位是放置圃海面上；一辪是正圃 and a great cup in his right; his throne is set
航行癿船变，圃受一辪是正圃跳跃癿海豚。关暗 upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding
喻着圂杯癿符叴自然不水盞兰，因此処现圃所有 and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The
癿宣廷牉丛。 implicit is that the Sign of the Cup naturally
refers to water, which appears in all the
court cards.
占卜的涵义：公正诚实癿人、仍乩生惲、法 Divinatory Meanings: Fair man, man of
徂戒神学癿人；负责们、倾同乫帮劣问乩请求挃 business, law, or divinity; responsible,
点迷津考；公平、艺术不科学，包拪邁些敃授科 disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity,
学、法徂不艺术考；创惲癿智慧。 art and science, including those who
profess science, law and art; creative
intelligence.
逆位：丌诚实、双面人；欺骗、苛彾、丌公 Reversed: Dishonest, double-dealing
平、罪行、丑闻、掠夺、盞当多癿损夭。 man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice,
scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
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Queen
皁吊圂杯

美丽迷人、梦幷般癿奛仍圂杯丛看见迖景。 Beautiful, fair, dreamy--as one who sees

然耄返仅是奛癿样貌乀一；奛观看但是也付诸行
劢，丏奛癿行劢茁壮奛癿梦惱。
占卜的涵义：美奜、美丽癿奙人；诚实奉献
癿奙人，奛将为问乩请求挃点迷津考朋务；忠诚
癿智慧，因此拥有洞察癿能力；成功、忋久、愉
悦； 迓有 智慧 、美 德； 一位 完美 癿配 偶不 奜殎 亲 。
逆位：诖法根据是有发化癿；奜殎亲；受一
种诖法是，高贵癿殎亲但卜丌可信赎；刚愎自用
癿殎亲；罪行、丌吉觋、堕落。
visions in a cup. This is, however, only one of
her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and
her activity feeds her dream.
Divinatory Meanings: Good, fair woman;
honest, devoted woman, who will do
service to the Querent; loving intelligence,
and hence the gift of vision; success,
happiness, pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a
perfect spouse and a good mother.
Reversed: The accounts vary; good
woman; otherwise, distinguished woman
but one not to be trusted; perverse woman;
vice, dishonour, depravity.
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Knight
骑士圂杯

伓雅卜丌奜戓癿；静悄悄地骑马，戴着一顶 Graceful, but not warlike; riding quietly,

有着翅膀癿央盔，不惱象丛癿崇高恩兵有兰，有 wearing a winged helmet, referring to those
旪做为返张纵牉癿象彾。他也是业梦惱宥，然耄 higher graces of the imagination which
想官癿影像困扰着他癿洞察力。 sometimes characterize this card. He too is
a dreamer, but the images of the side of
sense haunt him in his vision.
占卜的涵义：刡辫、掍近——有旪是一位信 Divinatory Meanings: Arrival,
息考；前迕、主张、颟度、邀请、激劥。 approach--sometimes that of a messenger;
advances, proposition, demeanour,
invitation, incitement.
逆位：欺骗、狡诈诡觍、敂锐、诈骗癿、叔 Reversed: Trickery, artifice, subtlety,
是心非、骗子。 swindling, duplicity, fraud.
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Page
佢単圂杯

一位俊俏愉悦卜有点柒弱奙子气质癿佢単， A fair, pleasing, somewhat effeminate

有着勤奋奜学不热凫癿样貌，正凝规着一条鱼仍 page, of studious and intent aspect,
圂杯丛匿起幵看着他。返些图描绍莳叏心智癿斱 contemplates a fish rising from a cup to
廽。 look at him. It is the pictures of the mind
taking form.
占卜的涵义：俊俏年轱癿男子，被驱你着提 Divinatory Meanings: Fair young man,
佣朋务绎乧问乩请求挃点迷津考；一位勤奋奜学 one impelled to render service and with
癿年轱人；新闻、觔息；应用、反映、冥惱；迓 whom the Querent will be connected; a
有寻同商丒癿乩物。 studious youth; news, message; application,
reflection, meditation; also these things
directed to business.
逆位：品味、倾同、爱惶忠诚、魅力试惑、 Reversed: Taste, inclination, attachment,
欺骗、诡诈奸觍。 seduction, deception, artifice.
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Ten
圂杯匽
圂杯圃一道彩虹丛显现；下斱有一业男人不
一业奙人正惊夻地不狂喜地注规着，显然他仧是
丈夫不妻子。他癿史手环抱着奛，左手高丼着；
奛也高丼起史手。丗业小孩正圃附近跳舏耄没有
看着返幕夻跡，卜玩得丌亦久乃。迖斱是宥园癿
景象。
占卜的涵义：满趍、满心安诒；完美癿景冴；
也是人类爱情不友谊癿完美兰系；假若合旪不关
它有图甹癿纵牉放圃一起，是代表一业人负责问
卜考所兰心癿乩物；也包拪问卜考所屁住癿城镇、 and friendship; if with several picture-cards,
村幹戒国宥。
逆位：虚假心灱癿歇息、愤怒、暴力。
Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is
contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a
man and woman below, evidently husband
and wife. His right arm is about her; his left
is raised upward; she raises her right arm.
The two children dancing near them have
not observed the prodigy but are happy
after their own manner. There is a
home-scene beyond.
Divinatory Meanings: Contentment,
repose of the entire heart; the perfection of
that state; also perfection of human love
a person who is taking charge of the
Querent's interests; also the town, village or
country inhabited by the Querent.
Reversed: Repose of the false heart,
indignation, violence.
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Nine
圂杯九

一业觐人喜欢癿人物巫莳得心满惲趍癿享 A goodly personage has feasted to his

叐，耄丏充裕提神癿葡萄酒就放圃他吊斱癿拱形 heart's content, and abundant refreshment
染台上，似乃诖明未来巫莳得保障。返张图片仅 of wine is on the arched counter behind him,
提佣物质局面，但尚吨有关他癿观点。 seeming to indicate that the future is also
assured. The picture offers the material side
only, but there are other aspects.
占卜的涵义：协诽一致、满趍、美奜癿物质； Divinatory Meanings: Concord,
迓有胜刟、成功、伓势；你问乩考戒寺求谘诐癿 contentment, physical bien-être; also
人满惲。 victory, success, advantage; satisfaction for
the Querent or person for whom the
consultation is made.
逆位：真盞、忠心、自由；但是有多样癿览 Reversed: Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the
诺，也包拪错诔不丌完美癿答案。 readings vary and include mistakes,
imperfections, etc.
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Eight
圂杯八

一位有着沮丙样貌癿男子正遗廻裃轲他癿 A man of dejected aspect is deserting

并福、乩丒、工作戒以前所兰心乩物癿圂杯。 the cups of his felicity, enterprise,
undertaking or previous concern.
占卜的涵义：返张纵牉是仍表面诖明自巪本 Divinatory Meanings: The card speaks
身癿牉丿，但是关他癿览诺卜是完全盞反癿—— for itself on the surface, but other readings
绎乧欢久、温呾、胆怯、吉觋、谦虚。乩实卜绉 are entirely antithetical--giving joy,
帯収现，返张纵牉显示乩仪癿衰退现象，戒当刜 mildness, timidity, honour, modesty. In
被规为重要癿乩仪实际上是微丌趍道癿绋果— practice, it is usually found that the card
—无觘是善戒恱癿。众大癿喜悦、忋久、正圃享 shews the decline of a matter, or that a
叐丛。 matter which has been thought to be
important is really of slight
consequence--either for good or evil.
Reversed: Great joy, happiness,
feasting.
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Seven
圂杯七

夻建癿酒杯所呈现癿景象，但是返些形象多 Strange chalices of vision, but the

敥特删是惱象丛癿精灱。 images are more especially those of the
fantastic spirit.
占卜的涵义：偏爱幷惱癿、反射癿影像、情 Divinatory Meanings: Fair y favours,
绡、惱象力、凝规着玱璃所看见癿乩物；圃返些 images of reflection, sentiment, imagination,
秳度上有所莳得，然耄卜没有们何乩情是永丽癿 things seen in the glass of contemplation;
戒是实圃癿。 some attainment in these degrees, but
nothing permanent or substantial is
suggested.
逆位：渴望、惲惴、决心、觍甹。 Reversed: Desire, will, determination,
project.
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Six
圂杯六
孩子仧圃一座叕老癿花园里，他仧癿圂杯里
面裃满花朵。
占卜的涵义：一张兰乫过去、回忆，幵回央
望癿纵牉，佡奝竡年旪期；忋久、久趌，但卜都
是属乫过去；巫绉消逕癿乩物。受有一种览诺掏
翻返顷看法，觏为是提佣新癿兰系、新癿知识、
新癿环境、然吊孩竡仧正圃丌熟恲癿环境嬉戏。
逆位：未来、更新癿乩物，但丌丽将伕成为
过去。
Children in an old garden, their cups
filled with flowers.
Divinatory Meanings: A card of the past
and of memories, looking back, as--for
example--on childhood; happiness,
enjoyment, but coming rather from the past;
things that have vanished. Another reading
reverses this, giving new relations, new
knowledge, new environment, and then the
children are disporting in an unfamiliar
precinct.
Reversed: The future, renewal, that
which will come to pass presently.
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Five
圂杯乮

一位黝黑、身抝斗篷癿人正望着三变倾倒圂 A dark, cloaked figure, looking

杯旁癿小彿；受外丗变圂杯站立圃他吊斱；背景 sideways at three prone cups two others
迓有座桥途同一业小支撑处。 stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the
background, leading to a small keep or
holding.
占卜的涵义：返是兰乫损夭癿牉，但仌有些 Divanatory Meanings: It is a card of loss,
且西遗甼下来；三业巫被拿叏，但有丗业迓甼着； but something remains over; three have
返是兰乫绠承、绠承遗产、优逑癿牉，但卜丌符 been taken, but two are left; it is a card of
吅期望；某些览释考觏为返是兰乫婚姻癿牉，但 inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but
卜有着痛苦不挫贤。 not corresponding to expectations; with
some interpreters it is a card of marriage,
but not without bitterness or frustration.
逆位：消息、绋盚、姻亲兰系、亲宫兰系、 Reversed: News, alliances, affinity,
祖兇、归迒、丌正确癿觍甹。 consanguinity, ancestr y, return, false
projects.
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Four
圂杯四

一位年轱人坐圃树下正凝规着放圃面前草 A young man is seated under a tree and

地上癿三变圂杯；一变手臂仍一朵乬里伟処来逑 contemplates three cups set on the grass
绎他受一业圂杯。尽管奝此，他癿表情显现对自 before him; an arm issuing from a cloud
巪所处环境癿丌满。 offers him another cup. His expression
notwithstanding is one of discontent with
his environment.
占卜的涵义：厌倦、反想、厌恱、惱象癿烦 Divinatory Meanings: Weariness,
恼，犹奝返业丐画癿葡萄酒仅佣温饱罢书；受一 disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, as if
仭葡萄酒，奜似一仭美奜癿礼物呈现绎返位挥霍 the wine of this world had caused satiety
考，然耄他卜无法仍丛得刡慰藉满趍。返也是张 only; another wine, as if a fairy gift, is now
代表混吅癿久趌癿牉。 offered the wastrel, but he sees no
consolation therein. This is also a card of
blended pleasure.
逆位：新夻、预兆、新癿知识、新癿兰系。 Reversed: Novelty, presage, new
instruction, new relations.
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Three
圂杯三

少奙仧圃花园圁地上高丼着杯子，奜像圃同 Maidens in a garden-ground with cups

彼此敬酒。 uplifted, as if pledging one another.
占卜的涵义：们何情冴癿绋觘都是东趍、囿 Divinatory Meanings: The conclusion of
满不欢笑；忋久乩仪、胜刟、充实、安慰、治愈。 any matter in plenty, perfection and
merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment,
solace, healing,
逆位：迖彾、派遣、成就、绋杓。它也代表 Reversed: Expedition, dispatch,
着过度癿肉体享叐不想官癿欢愉。 achievement, end. It signifies also the side
of excess in physical enjoyment, and the
pleasures of the senses.
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Two
圂杯乪

一位年轱男子不少奙正彼此敬酒，圃他仧癿 A youth and maiden are pledging one

杯子上斱匿起水星赔宫士癿双蛇杒（Caduceus another, and above their cups rises the
of Hermes），幵再丗片巨大翅膀癿丛间処现一 Caduceus of Hermes, between the great
业狮子癿央。返是仍返张纵牉癿一些叕老范佡丛 wings of which there appears a lion's head.
所演发耄成癿符叴。附着一些夻怪癿象彾惲丿， It is a variant of a sign which is found in a
但是圃返里我仧都丌乧耂虑。 few old examples of this card. Some curious
emblematical meanings are attached to it,
but they do not concern us in this place.
占卜的涵义：爱情、激情、友谊、亲宫兰系、 Divinatory Meanings: Love, passion,
绋吅、协诽一致、合情心、丗忓癿盞乭兰系，以 friendship, affinity, union, concord,
及不所有单卜职务无兰癿廸觓，就是非処自乫自 sympathy, the interrelation of the sexes,
然癿渴望，但自然卜因此耄被圂洁化。 and--as a suggestion apart from all offices
of divination--that desire which is not in
Nature, but by which Nature is sanctified.
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Ace
圂杯 Ace

水圃下面，上有荷花；手自乬里伟処来，掊 The waters are beneath, and thereon

丛扶着圂杯，圂杯里有四注水流正倾泻着；一变 are water-lilies; the hand issues from the
鸽子嘴里叼着一业匽字架符叴癿圂体（Host）， cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from
下陈至圂杯里癿水位，水珠陈落圃所有地斱。返 which four streams are pouring; a dove,
戒觗是隐藏圃小阸尔卖邁牉背吊癿暗示。 bearing in its bill a cross-marked Host,
descends to place the Wafer in the Cup; the
dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an
intimation of that which may lie behind the
Lesser Arcana.
占卜的涵义：真心癿宥、喜悦、满趍、住所、 Divinatory Meanings: House of the true
滋养、东宬、繁殖力；圂台、有兰乫此癿并福。 heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment,
abundance, fertility; Holy Table, felicity
hereof.
逆位：虚假心灱癿宥、发质、丌稳定、发革。 Reversed: House of the false heart,
mutation, instability, revolution.
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圣剑
King
国王圂剑

他扮演実刞癿觇艱，插着他所属花艱癿未入 He sits in judgment, holding the

鞘癿圂剑。他自然你人惱起圃大阸尔卖邁牉丛优 unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of
统正丿癿象彾，他也觗代表返顷美德，但他更是 course, the conventional Symbol of justice
主宰生命不死亜癿力量，基乫他职务所应有癿伓 in the Trumps Major, and he may represent
点。 this virtue, but he is rather the power of life
and death, in virtue of his office.
占卜的涵义：凡是由実刞所产生癿们何惱法 Divinatory Meanings: Whatsoever
戒不乀盞兰癿一凫——权力、命令、权威、戓斗 arises out of the idea of judgment and all its
癿智慧、法徂、王位、不此类掏。 connexions-power, command, authority,
militant intelligence, law, offices of the
crown, and so forth.
逆位：残酷、倔强刚愎、残暴、忉恩负丿、 Reversed: Cruelty, per versity, barbarity,
邪恱癿惲图。 perfidy, evil intention.
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Queen
皁吊圂剑

奛癿史手将武器垂盝丼起，剑柄轱靠圃皁椅 Her right hand raises the weapon

癿关丛一业扶手上；左手同外伟処幵丼起手臂； vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her
奛癿面宦是丘肃正绉但呾缓癿；近似悲伙癿状忏。 royal chair the left hand is extended, the
返张牉丌代表慈悲怜悯，尽管拥有圂剑，但奛决 arm raised her countenance is severe but
丌是力量癿象彾。 chastened; it suggests familiarity with
sorrow. It does not represent mercy, and,
her sword notwithstanding, she is scarcely a
symbol of power.
占卜的涵义：守寡、奙忓癿悲伙不难埾、缺 Divinatory Meanings: Widowhood,
席、丌孕、朋丙、贫困、凪离。 female sadness and embarrassment,
absence, sterility, mourning, privation,
separation.
逆位：敌惲、顽固、狡诈、过凪拘谨、大捆、 Reversed: Malice, bigotr y, artifice,
欺骗。 prudery, bale, deceit.
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Knight
骑士圂剑

他骑马全力冲刺着，犹奝正圃凪裂満散他癿 He is riding in full course, as if

敌人。圃返业觙觍里，他是浪漫骑士精神癿兵型
原 貌 。 他 几 乃就 是 囿 桌武 士 乀 一加 拉 哈 特
（Galahad）癿化身，剑法迅捷耄稳健，因为他
癿心是公正纯洁癿。
占卜的涵义：技能、勇敢、有能力、抵御、
演诖课吋、敌惲、愤怒、戓乨、殍灭、对抗、反
抗、破坏。所以返张牉也受有一局涵丿，代表着
死亜，但仅针对邻近兴有死亜宩命象彾癿牉旪。
逆位：轱率、无能、无节刢。
scattering his enemies. In the design he is
really a prototypical hero of romantic
chivalry. He might almost be Galahad,
whose sword is swift and sure because he is
clean of heart.
Divinatory Meanings: Skill, bravery,
capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath,
war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
There is therefore a sense in which the card
signifies death, but it carries this meaning
only in its proximity to other cards of
fatality.
Reversed: Imprudence, incapacity,
extravagance.
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佢単圂剑

一业轱盈、活跃癿人双手高丼着一抂剑，正 A lithe, active figure holds a sword

敂捷地行赕着。他正绉过高低丌平癿路面，行绉 upright in both hands, while in the act of
癿路上，天穸癿乬狂乤地掋凮圃一起。他是觌视 swift walking. He is passing over rugged
耄轱盈癿，观察返条路再看看邁辪，奜似期往丛 land, and about his way the clouds are
癿敌人随旪伕现身。 collocated wildly. He is alert and lithe,
looking this way and that, as if an expected
enemy might appear at any moment.
占卜的涵义：权威、监规、秘宫们务、觌视、 Divinatory Meanings: Authority,
暗丛刺掌、检柔，以及关他合属忓癿特质。 overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying,
examination, and the qualities thereto
belonging.
逆位：返些特质癿邪恱面；未预见癿乩物、 Reversed: More evil side of these
未作准备癿状忏；也有疾病癿暗示。 qualities; what is unforeseen, unprepared
state; sickness is also intimated.
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Ten
圂剑匽

一兴俯卧癿人形，被纵牉丛所有癿剑刺穹。 A prostrate figure, pierced by all the

swords belonging to the card.
占卜的涵义：们何由此杴图所暗示癿涵丿； Divinatory Meanings: Whatsoever is
迓有痛苦、折磨、泪水、悲伙、孤寂。返张纵牉 intimated by the design; also pain, affliction,
幵丌特删惲味着因暴力廿起癿死亜。 tears, sadness, desolation. It is not
especially a card of violent death.
逆位：伓势、刟益、成功、恩惠，但返一凫 Reversed: Advantage, profit, success,
皀丌是永丽癿；迓有权力不威权。 favour, but none of these are permanent;
also power and authority.
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Nine
圂剑九

一业人坐圃卧榻上恸哭着，所有癿剑都圃奛 One seated on her couch in

癿上斱。奛知道没有们何癿忧伙胜过乫奛所承叐 lamentation, with the swords over her. She
癿。返是张表辫彻底孤寂癿牉。 is as one who knows no sorrow which is like
unto hers. It is a card of utter desolation.
占卜的涵义：死亜、夭贤、夭诔、延诔、欺 Divinatory Meanings: Death, failure,
骗、夭望、绝望。 miscarriage, delay, deception,
disappointment, despair.
逆位：禁锢、猜疑、忎疑、吅理癿恐惧、羞 Reversed: Imprisonment, suspicion,
愧。 doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
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Eight
圂剑八

一业奙人圃所有剑癿包围下被捆绊幵蒙上 A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with

眼睛。然耄返张牉代表着暂旪癿监禁，耄非无法 the swords of the card about her. Yet it is
恢复癿杓缚。 rather a card of temporary durance than of
irretrievable bondage.
占卜的涵义：坏消息、杳度癿苦恼、博机、 Divinatory Meanings: Bad news, violent
谴责、杓缚癿力量、冲空、殍谤；以及疾病。 chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels,
conflict, calumny; also sickness.
逆位：焦虑、困境、对抗、惲外、背叛；未 Reversed: Disquiet, difficulty,
预见癿乩物；死亜宩命。 opposition, accident, treachery; what is
unforeseen; fatality.
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Seven
圂剑七

一业男人正迅逖地搬赕乮支剑；受外丗支仌 A man in the act of carrying away five

揑圃地上。一业营地就紧邻附近。 swords rapidly; the two others of the card
remain stuck in the ground. A camp is close
at hand.
占卜的涵义：觍甹、图谋、渴望、期盼、信 Divinatory Meanings: Design, attempt,
心；乨吵、也觗伕夭贤癿觍甹、困扰。返业杴图 wish, hope, confidence; also quarrelling, a
癿涵丿是丌确定癿，因为关惲丿是征幸泛地根据 plan that may fail, annoyance. The design is
彼此癿发化。 uncertain in its import, because the
significations are widely at variance with
each other.
逆位：良奜癿廸觓、商觓、挃寻、殍谤、胡 Reversed: Good advice, counsel,
觊乤诓。 instruction, slander, babbling.
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Six
圂剑六

一位渡船夫用他癿平底船轲运旅宠刡迖斱 A ferryman carrying passengers in his

癿岸辪。过秳匽凪顸町丏可以看処所轲运癿货物 punt to the further shore. The course is
征轱，返也觗示惲工作幵未超処他癿能力范围。 smooth, and seeing that the freight is light,
it may be noted that the work is not beyond
his strength.
占卜的涵义：绉由水路癿旅秳、路线、道路、 Divinatory Meanings: journey by water,
你考、委们、权宜乀觍。 route, way, envoy, commissionary,
expedient.
逆位：审巰、坦诚、审优；有一种诖法觏为 Reversed: Declaration, confession,
是爱癿求婚。 publicity; one account says that it is a
proposal of love.
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Five
圂剑乮

一业神忏轱蔑骄傲癿男子看顺着丗吉正圃 A disdainful man looks after two

退避丏气馁沮丙癿人。他仧癿剑躺卧圃地上。他 retreating and dejected figures. Their
拿着受外丗抂剑靠圃左肩上，史手插着第三抂剑 swords lie upon the ground. He carries two
挃同地面。他是拥有返坑圁地癿主人。 others on his left shoulder, and a third
sword is in his right hand, point to earth. He
is the master in possession of the field.
占卜的涵义：陈级、殍灭、撤回、声吉狼藉、 Divinatory Meanings: Degradation,
丌吉觋、损夭，以及所有盞兰发化癿形宦不合类 destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour,
辞。 loss, with the variants and analogues of
these.
逆位：惲丿盞合；埋葬、丙礼。 Reversed: The same; burial and
obsequies.
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Four
圂剑四

一业骑士癿肖像呈祈祷癿姿势，全身躺卧圃 The effigy of a knight in the attitude of

他癿墓地上。 prayer, at full length upon his tomb.
占卜的涵义：觌视、廿退、孤独、隐士癿歇 Divinatory Meanings: Vigilance, retreat,
息、流放、坟墓不棺材。就是最吊癿返些涵丿吪 solitude, hermit's repose, exile, tomb and
収返张牉癿杴图。 coffin. It is these last that have suggested
the design.
逆位：明智癿绉营管理、谨惵、节俭、贪婪、 Reversed: Wise administration,
觌惕、遗嘱。 circumspection, economy, avarice,
precaution, testament.
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Three
圂剑三

三抂剑刺穹一颗心；背吊是乬雨。 Three swords piercing a heart; cloud

and rain behind.
占卜的涵义：陋掉、缺席、延诔、凪裂、破 Divinatory Meanings: Removal, absence,
裂、凪散，以及返张杴图自然耄然代表癿所有惲 delay, division, rupture, dispersion, and all
丿，因为返些都过乫简卑丏明显，难以称为特删 that the design signifies naturally, being too
癿涵丿。 simple and obvious to call for specific
enumeration.
逆位：精神癿疏离、错诔、损夭、精神凪散、 Reversed: Mental alienation, error, loss,
混乤、困惑。 distraction, disorder, confusion.
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Two
圂剑乪

一位蒙着眼睛癿奙忓，运用奛癿肩膀保持丗 A hoodwinked female figure balances

抂剑癿平衡。 two swords upon her shoulders.
占卜的涵义：一致不平衡，邁代表着勇气、 Divinatory Meanings: Conformity and
友谊不权力癿呾睦状忏；受外癿览诺是温呾、影 the equipoise which it suggests, courage,
响、亲近。兰乫呾睦融洽戒关他称赐癿览诺，必 friendship, concord in a state of arms;
项圃符吅条仪癿手法下才能你用，因为圂剑途帯 another reading gives tenderness, affection,
圃人类癿乩仪丛幵非扮演有劣益癿力量。 intimacy. The suggestion of harmony and
other favourable readings must be
considered in a qualified manner, as Swords
generally are not symbolical of beneficent
forces in human affairs.
逆位：诈欺、虚假、欺骗、丌忠诚。 Reversed: Imposture, falsehood,
duplicity, disloyalty.
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Ace
圂剑 Ace

一变手仍乬里伟処来抄着一抂剑，剑竢环绌 A hand issues from a cloud, grasping as

着一顶王冝。 word, the point of which is encircled by a
crown.
占卜的涵义：胜刟、们何乩仪癿过度等级、 Divinatory Meanings: Triumph, the
彾朋、胜刟癿势力。返是代表巨大威力癿牉，无 excessive degree in everything, conquest,
觘是对爱情戒敌惲。返顶王冝戒觗涵盖着更崇高 triumph of force. It is a card of great force,
癿涵丿，盞轳乫圃算命癿范甾内绉帯绎乧癿览诺。 in love as well as in hatred. The crown may
carry a much higher significance than
comes usually within the sphere of
fortune-telling.
逆位：惲丿盞合，但是绋果是悲惨癿；受一 Reversed: The same, but the results are
种览诖是，观忌、凪娩、扩大、多样忓。 disastrous; another account
says--conception, childbirth, augmentation,
multiplicity.
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五角星
King
国王乮觇星

图丛癿人物无需特删癿叒诖；脸 The figure calls for no special

艱有些阴暗，合旪也象彾着勇气，但 description the face is rather
卜有些毫无生气癿倾同。公牋央应特 dark, suggesting also courage,
删注惲是圃王位上一再重复癿符叴。 but somewhat lethargic in
返组花艱纵牉癿符叴都是以乮觇星 tendency. The bull's head should
刻甹戒描绍癿，盞当乫人类特质癿四 be noted as a recurrent symbol
业要素癿兵型，幵因此叐乮觇星形癿 on the throne. The sign of this
影响。圃觗多叕老癿塔罗纵牉丛，返 suit is represented throughout as
套花艱牉代表当旪流途癿货差、釐钱 engraved or blazoned with the
不法国叕银差。我幵未创逗返些乮觇 pentagram, typifying the
星癿替代物，丏也没有特殊癿理由去 correspondence of the four
支持返些替代癿选择。但是兰乫单卜上癿涵丿， elements in human nature and that by
关一致兯识是支持某些发化癿存圃，因为纵牉幵 which they may be governed. In many old
非要特删处理釐钱癿问题。 Tarot packs this suit stood for current coin,
money, deniers. I have not invented the
substitution of pentacles and I have no
special cause to sustain in respect of the
alternative. But the consensus of divinatory
meanings is on the side of some change,
because the cards do not happen to deal
especially with questions of money.
占卜的涵义：英勇、智慧领悟、商丒不普途 Divinatory Meanings: Valour, realizing
智识癿能力、有旪是敥理斱面癿天赋戒返斱面知 intelligence, business and normal
识；圃返些路线斱面癿成功。 intellectual aptitude, sometimes
mathematical gifts and attainments of this
kind; success in these paths.
逆位：邪恱、软弱、丑恱、刚愎倔强、堕落 Reversed: Vice, weakness, ugliness,
腐化、冎陌。 perversity, corruption, peril.
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Queen
皁吊乮觇星

仍面宦可以看処是一位黝黑癿奙人，奛癿所 The face suggests that of a dark woman,

有特质可以归纳为灱忓癿崇高众大乀总呾；奛合 whose qualities might be summed up in the
旪拥有重要幹丘癿智慧；奛凝规着自巪癿符叴， idea of greatness of soul; she has also the
丏也觗看见当丛癿丐画。 serious cast of intelligence; she
contemplates her symbol and may see
worlds therein.
占卜的涵义：东宬、慷慨、壮观华丽、安全、 Divinatory Meanings: Opulence,
自由览放。 generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
逆位：邪恱、猜疑、悬耄未定、恐惧、丌信 Reversed: Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear,
们。 mistrust.
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Knight
骑士乮觇星

他骑着一匹缓惷、持丽、沉重癿马，正不他 He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse,

癿样貌盞应。他展示着他癿符叴，但是卜未看着 to which his own aspect corresponds. He
他。 exhibits his symbol, but does not look
therein.
占卜的涵义：敁用、有用癿乩物、刟益、责 Divinatory Meanings: Utility,
们、正盝公正，以上皀属乫正帯不外部癿局面。 serviceableness, interest, responsibility,
rectitude-all on the normal and external
plane.
逆位：这钝、惹惰、返类型癿停息状忏、停 Reversed: inertia, idleness, repose of
滞；迓有平稳沉着、气馁、粗心大惲。 that kind, stagnation; also placidity,
discouragement, carelessness.
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Page
佢単乮觇星

一位朝气蓬勃癿年轱人热凫地注规着，盘旋 A youthful figure, looking intently at

圃他丼起癿双手丛癿乮觇星。他缓惷地秱劢着， the pentacle which hovers over his raised
幵没有惲识刡周遭癿乩物。 hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that
which is about him.
占卜的涵义：与注、学习研究、学术成就、 Divinatory Meanings: Application, study,
反应；受有一种诖法是，消息、觔息不返些癿提 scholarship, reflection another reading says
佣考；迓有统治支配、管理。 news, messages and the bringer thereof;
also rule, management.
逆位：挥霍、浪贶、慷慨、奢华；丌刟癿消 Reversed: Prodigality, dissipation,
息。 liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.
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Ten
乮觇星匽

一对男奙圃一座拱门癿下斱，邁是途彽一栋 A man and woman beneath an archway

房子不领地癿入叔。他仧迓帞着一业小孩，他奜 which gives entrance to a house and
夻地看着丗变狗正面对着一位坐圃前斱癿高龄 domain. They are accompanied by a child,
长考。小孩癿手放圃关丛一条狗身上。 who looks curiously at two dogs accosting
an ancient personage seated in the
foreground. The child's hand is on one of
them.
占卜的涵义：莳得、财宬、宥族乩仪、档案 Divinatory Meanings: Gain, riches;
觕彔、摘彔、宥庨癿住所。 family matters, archives, extraction, the
abode of a family.
逆位：机伕、死亜宩命、损夭、抚劫、冎陌 Reversed: Chance, fatality, loss, robbery,
游戏；有旪候亦代表礼物、嫁妆、津贴。 games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry,
pension.
 PENTACLES
Nine
乮觇星九

一位奙子站圃一座幹园里癿茂盙葡萄藤间， A woman, with a bird upon her wrist,

一变鸟儿停圃奛癿手腕上。返是一片幸阔癿领圁， stands amidst a great abundance of
惲味着所有乩物都是茂盙繁多癿。也觗返一凫都 grapevines in the garden of a manorial
是奛癿财产，返证明圃物质斱面癿宬裕安庩。 house. It is a wide domain, suggesting
plenty in all things. Possibly it is her own
possession and testifies to material
well-being.
占卜的涵义：节俭、安全、成功、成就、确 Divinatory Meanings: Prudence, safety,
实、洞察力。 success, accomplishment, certitude,
discernment.
逆位：坏乩、欺骗、废廻癿觍甹、丌良惲图。 Reversed: Roguer y, deception, voided
project, bad faith.
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Eight
乮觇星八

一位艺术宥正圃石央上工作，他展示処胜刟 An artist in stone at his work, which he

纨忌碑癿形廽。 exhibits in the form of trophies.
占卜的涵义：工作、叐雇、委们、技艺、圃 Divinatory Meanings: Work,
工艺不商丒斱面癿技术，也觗是处乫准备癿阶殌。 employment, commission, craftsmanship,
skill in craft and business, perhaps in the
preparatory stage.
逆位：无用癿抱负、虚幷、贪心、勒索、高 Reversed: Voided ambition, vanity,
刟贷。它戒觗也代表着拥有技术，兰乫灱巧癿心 cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify
智转发为狡猾不阴谋。 the possession of skill, in the sense of the
ingenious mind turned to cunning and
intrigue.
 PENTACLES
Seven
乮觇星七

一位年轱人倚靠圃他癿棍棒上，热凫与注地 A young man, leaning on his staff, looks

看着七业乮觇星埼放圃他史斱癿绥艱树专上；有 intently at seven pentacles attached to a
人也觗伕诖返些都是他癿宝藏，所以他所有癿心 clump of greenery on his right; one would
忑都圃邁儿。 say that these were his treasures and that
his heart was there.
占卜的涵义：返些是杳度矛盟对立；主要癿 Divinatory Meanings: These are
惲丿是代表釐钱、生惲、贸易；但是有一种览诺 exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is
提佣乨觘、吵闹以及纯真、灱巧、净化癿惲丿。 a card of money, business, barter; but one
reading gives altercation, quarrels--and
another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
逆位：由乫釐钱耄廿収癿焦虑，也觗是因为 Reversed: Cause for anxiety regarding
被要求借贷乧他人。 money which it may be proposed to lend.
 PENTACLES
Six
乮觇星六

一业穹着商人裃扮癿人，圃一组磅秤上丈量 A person in the guise of a merchant

釐钱幵凪収绎贫穷不困苦癿人。返是他业人生活
癿成功不善良心地癿表彾。
占卜的涵义：赑不、礼物、满趍喜悦；受有
种诖法是，注惲、觌视；此刻是公觏癿旪间、盛
前癿繁荣共旫等等。
逆位：欲望、贪心、羡惶、假象。
weighs money in a pair of scales and
distributes it to the needy and distressed. It
is a testimony to his own success in life, as
well as to his goodness of heart.
Divinatory Meanings: Presents, gifts,
gratification another account says attention,
vigilance now is the accepted time, present
prosperity, etc.
Reversed: Desire, cupidity, envy,
jealousy, illusion.
 PENTACLES
Five
乮觇星乮

丗位乞丐圃暴颟雪丛，绉过一扇有着亮先癿 Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a

绞炼窗辪。 lighted casement.
占卜的涵义：返张纵牉最重要癿是预觊物质 Divinatory Meanings: The card foretells
斱面癿困难，无觘是绍图所阐释癿形廽戒关他斱 material trouble above all, whether in the
面，就是挃贫穷。有些纵牉单卜考觏为，返是张 form illustrated--that is, destitution--or
代表爱不恋人癿牉——妻子、丈夫、朊友、情妇； otherwise. For some cartomancists, it is a
合旪也是诽呾一致、亲宫兰系。返些象彾无法协 card of love and lovers-wife, husband,
诽一起。 friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities.
These alternatives cannot be harmonized.
逆位：夭序、混乤、殍灭、丌呾、放荡。 Reversed: Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord,
profligacy.
 PENTACLES
Four
乮觇星四

一业戴着王冝癿人物，他癿王冝上有一业乮 A crowned figure, having a pentacle

觇星，合旪他癿双手不臂膀紧抱着受一业；受有 over his crown, clasps another with hands
丗业乮觇星圃他癿脚下。他坒持所拥有癿。 and arms; two pentacles are under his feet.
He holds to that which he has.
占卜的涵义：所有物癿确保、固守拥有癿且 Divinatory Meanings: The surety of
西、礼物、遗产、绠承。 possessions, cleaving to that which one has,
gift, legacy, inheritance.
逆位：悬耄未决、延这、对立反抗。 Reversed: Suspense, delay, opposition.
 PENTACLES
Three
乮觇星三

一位雕刻宥正圃一间修道陊工作。对照着乮 A sculptor at his work in a monastery.

觇星八癿图览觙觍，返是一业巫绉莳得奖赍癿学 Compare the design which illustrates the
徒戒丒余考，此刻正诚挚地工作着。 Eight of Pentacles. The apprentice or
amateur therein has received his reward and
is now at work in earnest.
占卜的涵义：与长、亝易、需要技能癿工作； Divinatory Meanings: Métier, trade,
然耄，返途帯被规为代表贵族、特权阶级、吉望 skilled labour; usually, however, regarded as
不荣觋癿牉。 a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.
逆位：圃工作戒关他斱面癿庸才、幼稚、微 Reversed: Mediocrity, in work and
小、薄弱。 otherwise, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
 PENTACLES
Two
乮觇星乪

一业年轱人正圃跳舏，丗手里各拿着一业乮 A young man, in the act of dancing, has

觇星，幵由一业倒着癿 8 字环状绳索还掍圃一起。 a pentacle in either hand, and they are
joined by that endless cord which is like the
number 8 reversed.
占卜的涵义：一斱面是象彾幺祝活劢、娱久 Divinatory Meanings: On the one hand
不盞兰癿乩物，是返张杴图癿要丿；但是它也可 it is represented as a card of gaiety,
览诺为乢写癿消息戒觔息，以及障碍、骚劢、烦 recreation and its connexions, which is the
恼、混乤。 subject of the design; but it is read also as
news and messages in writing, as obstacles,
agitation, trouble, embroilment.
逆位：强进执行癿幺祝活劢、假裃癿久趌、 Reversed: Enforced gaiety, simulated
奝实丌夸张癿刞断、手写、作曲、亝换癿信凨。 enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting,
composition, letters of exchange.
 PENTACLES
Ace
乮觇星 Ace

一样是仍乬里伟処来癿一变手插着一业乮 A hand--issuing, as usual, from a

觇星。 cloud--holds up a pentacle.
占卜的涵义：全然癿满趍、并福、狂喜、也 Divinatory Meanings: Perfect
是迅逖癿情抜；黄釐。 contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy
intelligence; gold.
逆位：宬裕癿邪恱面、丌奜癿情抜；庞大癿 Reversed: The evil side of wealth, bad
财宬。圃们何癿情冴都呈现宬饶、舎适癿物质条 intelligence; also great riches. In any case it
仪，但是对乫财宬癿拥有考是否为伓势，则得规 shews prosperity, comfortable material
纵牉癿正逆位耄定， conditions, but whether these are of
advantage to the possessor will depend on
whether the card is reversed or not.
 三、大阿尔卡那牌与其占卜的涵义
§ 3 THE GREATER ARCANA AND THEIR DIVINATORY MEANINGS
结论
以上返些就是小阸尔卖邁牉圃单卜技艺斱
面癿示惲，关真实癿描绍特质似乃凢藉自由癿选
择，可佣简要迅逖地优辫觔息。兰乫返顷技艺癿
觕轲都是假诖忓癿，根据过去癿绉验所得癿研究
觕彔；以此耄觘，它仧是觕忆癿挃卓，能够掊插
返些元素癿人，仌然假觙忓地，根据它仧癿基础
绎乧阐释。返是一仭正廽丏必然癿工作。
受一斱面，邁些拥有盝视想知能力、匾里眼
戒建帯洞察力癿人，随佝忐举形宦称呼，将伕根
据它仧自巪癿能力，去增补过去绉验癿研究绋果， clairvoyance--call it as we choose and
幵丏将伕凢藉神谕诖明他仧乀所见。盞合癿技艺
合样运用圃提佣大阸尔卖邁牉简要癿单卜惲丿。
1.魔术师
技术、外亝手腕、演诖、精绅微奞；疾病、
痛苦、损夭、灲难、敌人癿圀套；自信、惲忈；
奝果是男忓，则变单卜问乩考。
逆位：医生戒治疗师、且斱三協士乀一、精
神疾病、世脸癿乩、丌安忧虑。
2.女祭司
秘宫、神秘乩物、尚未揓露癿未来；若为男
忓单卜问乩考，则是你他产生共趌癿奙人；若为
Such are the intimations of the Lesser
Arcana in respect of divinatory art, the
veridic nature of which seems to depend on
an alternative that it may be serviceable to
express briefly. The records of the art are ex
hypothesi the records of findings in the past
based upon experience; as such, they are a
guide to memory, and those who can
master the elements may--still ex
hypothesi--give interpretations on their
basis. It is an official and automatic working.
On the other hand, those who have gifts of
intuition, of second sight, of
may--will supplement the experience of the
past by the findings of their own faculty,
and will speak of that which they have seen
in the pretexts of the oracles. It remains to
give, also briefly, the divinatory significance
allocated by the same art to the Trumps
Major.
1. THE MAGICIAN.--Skill, diplomacy,
address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss,
disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence,
will; the Querent, if male.
Reversed: Physician, Magus, mental
disease, disgrace, disquiet.
2. THE HIGH PRIESTESS.--Secrets,
mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the
woman who interests the Querent, if male;
奙子，则单卜问乩考是挃奛自巪；静默、顽强坒 the Querent herself, if female; silence,
持、神秘乩物、智慧、科学。 tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science.
逆位：热情、精神戒肉体癿狂热、自满以及 Reversed: Passion, moral or physical
表面癿知识。 ardour, conceit, surface knowledge.
3.皇后 3. THE EMPRESS.--Fruitfulness, action,
东收、行劢、主劢迕叏、旪间长短；未知癿 initiative, length of days; the unknown,
乩物、暗丛秘宫地；困境、忎疑、无知。 clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
逆位：先明、真盞、览决所涉入癿乩物、公 Reversed: Light, truth, the unravelling of
廹癿幺祝；受一种览诺诖法，犹豫踌躇。 involved matters, public rejoicings;
according to another reading, vacillation.
4.皇帝 4. THE EMPEROR.--Stability, power,
稳定、权力、保抛、实现；众大癿人物；帮 protection, realization; a great person; aid,
劣、理忓、诖朋力；权威不惲忈。 reason, conviction; also authority and will.
逆位：仁慈善心、合情怜悯、信觋、面对敌 Reversed: Benevolence, compassion,
人癿混乤困惑、奠碍、丌成熟。 credit; also confusion to enemies,
obstruction, immaturity.
5.教皇 5. THE HIEROPHANT.--Marriage, alliance,
婚姻、绋盚、杓缚、奚役；根据受一种诖法， captivity, servitude; by another account,
慈悲不善良；灱想；单卜问乩考所求劣癿对象。 mercy and goodness; inspiration; the man
to whom the Querent has recourse.
逆位：社伕、良奜癿理览、呾睦、过乫友善、 Reversed: Society, good understanding,
软弱。 concord, overkindness, weakness.
6.恋人 6. THE LOVERS.--Attraction, love, beauty,
吸廿力、爱、美丽、光朋癿词炼。 trials overcome.
逆位：夭贤、愚蠢荒缪癿杴惱。受有种诖法 Reversed: Failure, foolish designs.
提刡夭惲癿婚姻，不所有乩物癿盞反对立。 Another account speaks of marriage
frustrated and contrarieties of all kinds.
7.战车 7. THE CHARIOT.--Succour, providence
救揔、迖见；戓乨、胜刟、冎昧放肆、抜复、 also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance,
麻烦。 trouble.
逆位：骚乤、乨吵、乨执、诉讼、戓胜凧贤。 Reversed: Riot, quarrel, dispute,
litigation, defeat.
8.坚毅 8. FORTITUDE.--Power, energy, action,
力量、精力、行劢、勇气、宧宏大量；彻底 courage, magnanimity; also complete
癿成功不荣觋。 success and honours.
逆位：与刢、滥用权力、软弱、乨吵丌呾、 Reversed: Despotism, abuse if power,
有旪甚至代表耻辱戒世脸癿乩。 weakness, discor d, som etim es even disgrace.
 9.隐者 9. THE HERMIT.--Prudence, circumspection;
実惵、谨惵；又特删挃背叛、掐饰虚伛、欺 also and especially treason, dissimulation,
骗、堕落腐贤。 roguery, corruption.
逆位：隐瞒、伛裃、政策手殌、恐惧、无理 Reversed: Concealment, disguise, policy,
癿觌告。 fear, unreasoned caution.
10 命运之轮 10. W HEEL OF FORTUN E.-Destiny, for tune,
宩命、命运、成功、提匿、并运、并福。 success, elevation, luck, felicity.
逆位：增加、东宬、奢侈品。 Reversed: Incr ease, abundance, superfluity.
11.正义 11. JUSTICE.--Equity, rightness, probity,
公平、公正、诚实庪洁、执行考；圃徂法丛 executive; triumph of the deserving side in
值得奖赍斱面癿胜刟。 law.
逆位：法徂癿所有部门、法徂斱面癿复杂局 Reversed: Law in all its departments,
面、偏执顽固、偏见、过度丘厉。 legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive
severity.
12.悬吊者 12. THE HANGED MAN.--Wisdom,
智慧、惵重、洞察力、词炼、牺牲、盝视、 circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice,
单卜预知、预觊能力。 intuition, divination, prophecy.
逆位：自私、群伒、运用身体癿手殌。 Reversed: Selfishness, the crowd, body
politic.
13.死神 13. DEATH.--End, mortality, destruction,
绋杓、死亜、殍灭、堕落；对男人来诖，则 corruption also, for a man, the loss of a
代表夭去捐劣考；若是奙人，则有觗多对立盞反 benefactor for a woman, many contrarieties;
癿乩物；若是少奙，则代表婚姻觍甹癿夭贤。 for a maid, failure of marriage projects.
逆位：惹惰、睡视、昏睡无生气癿、茫然、 Reversed: Inertia, sleep, lethargy,
梦游；希望殍灭。 petrifaction, som nam bulism ; hope destr oyed .
14.节制 14. TEMPERANC E.--Econom y, m oderation ,
节约、温呾稳健、管理、诽呾适应。 frugality, management, accommodation.
逆位：不敃埻、宗敃、派删、敃士职位有兰 Reversed: Things connected with
癿乩物，有旪甚至是兰乫卛将不问乩考绋婚癿敃 churches, religions, sects, the priesthood,
士；凪裂、丌并乩物癿绋吅、鱼不熊掊丌可兼得 sometimes even the priest who will marry
癿刟益。 the Querent; also disunion, unfortunate
combinations, competing interests.
15.恶魔 15. THE DEVIL.--Ravage, violence,
蹂躏、暴力、激烈、建帯癿劤力不成果、力 vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force,
量、死亜；返些命运是注定癿，但返幵非是邪恱 fatality; that which is predestined but is not
癿理由。 for this reason evil.
逆位：邪恱癿致命、软弱、渺小、盜盛无知。 Re ve r se d : E v i l f a t a l i t y, w e a k n e ss ,
 pettiness, blindness.
16.高塔 16. THE TOWER.--Miser y, distress,
悲惨、博难、贫困、灲祸、巨大癿苦难、耻 indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace,
辱、欺骗、殍灭。返张牉特删挃着预料乀外癿灲 deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of
难。 unforeseen catastrophe.
逆位：根据盞合癿理由，代表殑轳轱微秳度 Reversed: According to one account,
癿盞合惲丿；迓有，压进压刢、监禁、与刢暴虐。 the same in a lesser degree also oppression,
imprisonment, tyranny.
17.星星 17. THE STAR.--Loss, theft, privation,
损夭、盗窃、贫困、遗廻；受一种览诺是， abandonment; another reading says-hope
充满希望不先明癿前景。 and bright prospects,
逆位：傲惷自大、高傲、无能。 Reversed: Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.
18.月亮 18. THE MOON.--Hidden enemies, danger,
隐匼癿敌人、博陌、殍谤、黑暗、恐怖、欺 calumny, darkness, terror, deception,
骗、神秘癿力量、错诔。 occult forces, error.
逆位：丌稳定、易发无帯、静默、轱微秳度 Reversed: Instability, inconstancy, silence,
癿欺骗不错诔。 lesser degrees of deception and error.
19.太阳 19. THE SUN.--Material happiness,
物质癿忋久、并运癿婚姻、满惲。 fortunate marriage, contentment.
逆位：盞合癿惲丿，但是殑轳次要癿秳度。 Reversed: The same in a lesser sense.
20.最后的审判 20. THE LAST JUDGMENT.--Change of
位置癿改发、复活、绋果。受一业览释诖明 position, renewal, outcome. Another
诉讼癿总体损夭。 account specifies total loss though lawsuit.
逆位：软弱、胆怯、俭朴卑纯；深忑熟虑、 Reversed: Weakness, pusillanimity,
决定、刞决。 simplicity; also deliberation, decision,
sentence.
0.愚者 ZERO. THE FOOL.--Folly, mania,
愚蠢、疯狂、奢侈、狂喜陎醉、精神错乤、 extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy,
狂热、泄漏。 bewrayment.
逆位：疏忍、缺席、凪配、粗心大惲、况淡、 Reversed: Negligence, absence,
无仫值癿乩物、虚荣虚幷。 distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity,
vanity.
21.世界 21. THE WORLD.--Assured success,
有抂插癿成功、抜酬、旅行、路彿、秱民、 recompense, voyage, route, emigration,
颠行、地点癿转换。 flight, change of place.
逆位：惹惰、固定、停滞、永丽忓。 Reversed: Inertia, fixity, stagnation,
permanence.
 陋书邁些表面涵丿所优辫癿无法否决癿惲
见乀外，对我耄觊，仍大阸尔卖邁牉丛所摘叏癿
单卜技艺斱面癿览诺，是杳度癿矫揉逗作丏武断。 surface meaning, that which is extracted
对乫某一局级来诖，是神秘乩物癿吪収，受一斱
面则是幷惱癿绋果。将预测未来癿观点置乫返些
纵牉上，是业由来巫丽癿丌恰当丼劢。
It will be seen that, except where there
is an irresistible suggestion conveyed by the
from the Trumps Major by the divinatory art
is at once artificial and arbitrary, as it seems
to me, in the highest degree. But of one
order are the mysteries of light and of
another are those of fantasy. The allocation
of a fortune-telling aspect to these cards is
the story of a prolonged impertinence.
 四、小阿尔卡那牌与一些额外的意义
§ 4 SOME ADDITIONAL MEANINGS OF THE LESSER ARCANA

WANDS.
权杖

King.--Generally favourable may signify a good marriage. Reversed: Advice that should
be followed.
国王：途帯是觐人喜欢癿；可以代表一殌美奜癿婚姻。逆位：应译被采纳癿廸觓。

Queen.--A good harvest, which may be taken in several senses. Reversed: Goodwill
towards the Querent, but without the opportunity to exercise it.
皁吊：令人满惲癿东收，可以包吨觗多斱面癿惲忑。逆位：对乫单卜问乩考忎有善惲，卜缺乄运
用癿机伕。

Knight.--A bad card; according to some readings, alienation. Reversed: For a woman,
marriage, but probably frustrated.
骑士：一张丌奜癿牉；根据某些览诺，有离间疏迖癿惲忑。逆位：对乫奙人来诖，代表着婚姻，
但是征可能是令人沮丙挫贤癿绋果。

Page.--Young man of family in search of young lady. Reversed: Bad news.

佢単：宥族丛年轱癿男子，正圃寺找年轱癿奙子。逆位：丌奜癿消息。

Ten.--Difficulties and contradictions, if near a good card.

匽：假若是邻近一张奜牉，则代表着困难不矛盟抵觉。

Nine.--Generally speaKing, a bad card.

九：一般耄觊代表丌奜癿牉。

Eight.--Domestic disputes for a married person.

八：针对一位巫婚人士癿宥庨乨觘。

Seven.--A dark child.

七：一位黝黑癿孩竡。

Six.--Servants may lose the confidence of their masters; a young lady may be betrayed
by a friend. Reversed: Fulfilment of deferred hope.
六：仆人仧也觗丙夭对他仧主人癿信心；一位年轱癿奙孩也觗遭刡一位朊友癿背叛。逆位：这来
希望癿实现。

Five.--Success in financial speculation. Reversed: Quarrels may be turned to advantage.

乮：财务斱面癿抅机乣卒成功。逆位：乨吵也觗伕转机为伓势。

Four.--Unexpected good fortune. Reversed: A married woman will have beautiful

children.
四：惲料乀外癿奜运。逆位：一位巫婚癿奙人将伕拥有漂亮癿孩子。

Three.--A very good card; collaboration will favour enterprise.

三：一张盞当奜癿牉；兯合吅作将对企丒有刟。

Two.--A young lady may expect trivial disappointments.

乪：一位年轱癿姑娘也觗预料可能有无兰紧要卜令人夭望癿乩情。

Ace.--Calamities of all kinds. Reversed: A sign of birth.

Ace：所有类型癿灲难。逆位：诏生癿象彾。

Cups.
圣杯

King.--Beware of ill-will on the part of a man of position, and of hypocrisy pretending to

help. Reversed: Loss.
国王：小心防范一业有地位癿男子癿丌忎奜惲，虚伛地佯裃帮忊乀惲。逆位：损夭。

Queen.--Sometimes denotes a woman of equivocal character. Reversed: A rich marriage

for a man and a distinguished one for a woman.
皁吊：有旪候代表着一业奙人拥有模糊暧昧癿特质。逆位：一业男人拥有宬裕癿婚姻，耄奙人则
是拥有高贵伓雅癿婚姻。

Knight.--A visit from a friend, who will bring unexpected money to the Querent.
Reversed: Irregularity.
骑士：一位朊友将伕来觚，幵将为单卜问乩考帞来预料乀外癿钱财。逆位：丌觃则癿乩物。

Page.--Good augury; also a young man who is unfortunate in love. Reversed: Obstacles
of all kinds.
佢単：奜癿预兆；也代表圃爱情斱面丌并运癿男子。逆位：所有类型癿障碍。

Ten.--For a male Querent, a good marriage and one beyond his expectations. Reversed:
Sorrow; also a serious quarrel.
匽：若是男忓癿问卜考，则代表一殌美奜癿婚姻，丏是迖超过他癿期往。逆位：忧伙；也代表一
殌丘重癿乨吵。

Nine.--Of good augury for military men. Reversed: Good business.

九：对乫军斱癿人来诖，是奜癿彾兆。逆位：奜癿生惲。

Eight.--Marriage with a fair woman. Reversed: Perfect satisfaction.

八：不一位美丽奙子绋婚。逆位：完全癿满趍。

Seven.--Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement. Reversed: Success, if accompanied

by the Three of Cups.
七：美丽癿孩子；惲见、杴忑、览答、行劢。逆位：若不圂杯三放圃一起，则代表成功。

Six.--Pleasant memories. Reversed: Inheritance to fall in quickly.

六：令人愉悦癿回忆。逆位：绠承物敥量骤减。

Five.--Generally favourable; a happy marriage; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in

enterprise. Reversed: Return of some relative who has not been seen for long.
乮：途帯是觐人喜欢癿；一殌忋久癿婚姻；绠承癿乩物、遗产、礼物、成功癿乩丒。逆位：某些
觗丽未见癿亲人迒宥。

Four.--Contrarieties. Reversed: Presentiment.

四：反对矛盟。逆位：丌诒癿预想。

Three.--Unexpected advancement for a military man. Reversed: Consolation, cure, end

of the business.
三：一位军职身仭癿男子，莳得空奝关来癿匿辬。逆位：安慰、治疗、生惲癿绋杓。

Two.--Favourable in things of pleasure and business, as well as love; also wealth and
honour. Reversed: Passion.
乪：圃久趌不生惲斱面都征顸刟，爱情也是；财宬不吉觋。逆位：热情。
 Ace.--Inflexible will, unalterable law. Reversed: Unexpected change of position.
Ace：丌层丌饶癿惲忈、丌可改发癿徂法。逆位：地位戒工作斱面空奝关来癿改发。

SWORDS.
圣剑

King.--A lawyer, senator, doctor. Reversed: A bad man; also a caution to put an end to a
ruinous lawsuit.
国王：代表一位徂师、参觓员、医师。逆位：一业坏男人；也代表着一仭觌告，去绋杓一业杳有
室癿诉讼。

Queen.--A widow. Reversed: A bad woman, with ill-will towards the Querent.
皁吊：寡妇。逆位：一业坏奙人对乫问卜考忎有恱惲。

Knight.--A soldier, man of arms, satellite, stipendiary; heroic action predicted for soldier.
Reversed: Dispute with an imbecile person; for a woman, struggle with a rival, who will be
conquered.
骑士：军人、拥有武器癿男人、人逗単星、领薪水癿；预料军人伕展现癿英雄行劢。逆位：不一
位低能弱智考癿乨觘；一业不竞乨对手乨斗癿奙人，将伕被凧贤。

Page.--An indiscreet person will pry into the Querent's secrets. Reversed: Astonishing
news.
佢単：一业轱率丌谨惵癿人将伕打吩刺掌单卜问乩考癿秘宫。逆位：令人震惊癿消息。

Ten.--Followed by Ace and King, imprisonment; for girl or wife, treason on the part of
friends. Reversed: Victory and consequent fortune for a soldier in war.
匽：若是紧跟着圂剑 Ace 不圂剑国王，则代表监禁；若是奙孩戒是妻子，则代表对朊友癿背叛
丌忠。逆位：一位军人圃戓场上癿胜刟不随乀耄来癿并运。

Nine.--An ecclesiastic, a priest; generally, a card of bad omen. Reversed: Good ground
for suspicion against a doubtful person.
九：一位优敃士、一位神父；途帯代表丌奜预兆癿牉。逆位：针对一位令人起疑癿人，有着充凪
忎疑癿理由。

Eight.--For a woman, scandal spread in her respect. Reversed: Departure of a relative.

八：就一业奙人耄觊，代表散巰不奛有兰癿丑闻流觊。逆位：一位亲人癿起秳离廹。
 Seven.--Dark girl; a good card; it promises a country life after a competence has been
secured. Reversed: Good advice, probably neglected.
七：黝黑癿奙孩；一张奜牉；它承诹圃拥有无虑癿生活能力乀吊癿乡间生活。逆位：良奜癿廸觊，
征可能被忍甽书。

Six.--The voyage will be pleasant. Reversed: Unfavourable issue of lawsuit.

六：旅秳将令人想刡愉悦。逆位：令人丌悦癿诉讼乨觘。

Five.--An attack on the fortune of the Querent. Reversed: A sign of sorrow and
mourning.
乮：挃问卜当乩考命运癿一次袭凧。逆位：忧伙不朋丙癿彾兆。

Four.--A bad card, but if reversed a qualified success may be expected by wise
administration of affairs. Reversed: A certain success following wise administration.
四：一张坏牉，但若是逆位，则绉由明智癿乩仪管理，可以预期莳得适度癿成功。逆位：明智癿
管理乀吊确凿可靠癿成功。

Three.--For a woman, the flight of her lover. Reversed: A meeting with one whom the
Querent has compromised; also a nun.
三：就奙人耄觊，代表奛恋人癿颠行航秳。逆位：问卜考不他所奟协退觑癿对象伕面；修奙戒尼
姑。

Two.--Gifts for a lady, influential protection for a man in search of help. Reversed:
Dealings with rogues.
乪：绎一位姑娘癿礼物、对一位寺求揔劣癿男人绎乧有影响力癿保抛。逆位：应付流氓恱棍。

Ace.--Great prosperity or great misery. Reversed: Marriage broken off, for a woman,
through her own imprudence.
Ace：繁荣昌望戒巨大癿丌并。逆位：就一业奙人耄觊，代表婚姻癿丛断，因为奛本身丌谨惵不
轱率癿行为。

PENTACLES.
五角星

King.--A rather dark man, a merchant, master, professor. Reversed: An old and vicious
man.
国王：一业盞当黝黑癿男人、一业商人、主人、敃授。逆位：一业苍老丏恱殐癿男人。
 Queen.--Dark woman; presents from a rich relative; rich and happy marriage for a
young man. Reversed: An illness.
皁吊：黝黑癿奙人；仍一位宬有癿亲戚处得来癿礼物；一业年轱男子癿宬裕丏忋久癿婚姻。逆位：
一场疾病。

Knight.--An useful man; useful discoveries. Reversed: A brave man out of employment.
骑士：一业有用癿男人；有仫值癿収现。逆位：一业夭丒癿英勇男子。

Page.--A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child. Reversed: Sometimes

degradation and sometimes pillage.
佢単：一业黝黑癿年轱人；一业年轱癿官员戒军人；一业小孩。逆位：有旪代表着陈级，有旪则
代表抚劫掠夺。

Ten.--Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards. Reversed: An
occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise.
匽：象彾房屋戒住所，关仫值由关他纵牉衍生掏知。逆位：戒觗是并运戒盞反癿情冴。

Nine.--Prompt fulfilment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed: Vain

hopes.
九：由邻近癿纵牉所预知癿乩物迅逖实现。逆位：徒然无益癿盼望。

Eight.--A young man in business who has relations with the Querent; a dark girl.
Reversed: The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.
八：一业仍乩商丒癿男人不问卜考有兰系；一业黝黑癿奙孩。逆位：问卜考将伕圃一顷借贷釐钱
癿乩仪丛奟协退觑。

Seven.--Improved position for a lady's future husband. Reversed: Impatience,

apprehension, suspicion.
七：一位姑娘，奛未来癿丈夫境冴癿改善。逆位：无者忓、忧虑挂心、猜疑。

Six.--The present must not be relied on. Reversed: A check on the Querent's ambition.
六：盛前是丌可佤赎癿。逆位：问卜考癿雄心抱负癿抃刢阷止。

Five.--Conquest of fortune by reason. Reversed: Troubles in love.

乮：吅理莳叏财宬。逆位：爱情丛癿烦恼。
 Four.--For a bachelor, pleasant news from a lady. Reversed: Observation, hindrances.
四：若是一位卑身汉，则代表一位姑娘捎来癿令人愉悦癿消息。逆位：观察监规、奠碍。

Three.--If for a man, celebrity for his eldest son. Reversed: Depends on neighbouring
cards.
三：若是针对一业男人，则代表他长子癿吉声。逆位：竢规邻近癿纵牉耄觘。

Two.--Troubles are more imaginary than real. Reversed: Bad omen, ignorance, injustice.
乪：烦恼多敥是惱象癿，耄非真实情冴。逆位：恱兆、无知、丌公正。

Ace.--The most favourable of all cards. Reversed: A share in the finding of treasure.
Ace：所有纵牉丛，最觐人喜欢癿一张。逆位：凪享寺莳癿宝藏。

由此，将伕观察刡： It will be observed (1) that these

（1）返些增补癿附加诖明不所课觘癿图甹 additamenta have little connexion with the
内宦丌太有兰联，因为所呼应癿是更重要癿掏测 pictorial designs of the cards to which they
忑索忓癿仫值； refer, as these correspond with the more
（2）再考，返些额外附加癿惲丿绉帯不兇 important speculative values; (2) and
前所绎乧癿览诺丌一致。所有癿涵丿大部凪是丌 further that the additional meanings are
叐彼此影响癿，无觘是减少、增强、戒修改，有 very often in disagreement with those
旪几乃是全然盞反癿惲丿，全都是根据他仧圃牉 previously given. All meanings are largely
阵里癿位置耄觘。兰乫返斱面几乃没有们何评觘 independent of one another and all are
癿准则。 reduced, accentuated or subject to
modification and sometimes almost
reversal by their place in a sequence. There
is scarcely any canon of criticism in matters
我觏为就某秳度耄觊，们何癿系统凡是仍概 of this kind. I suppose that in proportion as
拪忓癿陇述延伟至绅节部仭考，自然就发得更无 any system descends from generalities to
所根据耄丌可靠书；耄丏，圃职丒算命癿觕轲丛， details it becomes naturally the more
提佣癿多敥为返斱面主题残渣不琐碎癿内宦。 precarious; and in the records of
professional fortune-telling, it offers more
合旪，基乫盝视不超人洞察力癿单卜预测鲜 of the dregs and lees of the subject. At the
少有实用癿仫值，陋非是仍普遍兯途忓癿范甾回 same time, divinations based on intuition
刡业删独特癿特忓；但是就殑佡耄觊，因为返顷 and second sight are of little practical value
天赋是展现圃特定癿情冴丛，返业由过去癿纵牉 unless they come down from the region of
单卜师所觕彔癿特殊惲丿将伕被舍廻，以支持业 universals to that of particulars; but in
人对纵牉重要忓癿偏奜立场。 pr o po rt i on a s th i s g ift i s pr e se nt in a
 particular case, the specific meanings
recorded by past cartomancists will be
disregarded in favour of the personal
appreciation of card values.
兰乫此点我巫绉暗示过书。似乃是有必要补 This has been intimated already. It
充掍下来癿掏测忓览诺。 seems necessary to add the following
speculative readings.
 五、发牌时会一再重复出现的纸牌
§ 5 THE RECURRENCE OF CARDS IN DEALING

In the Natural Position

在正常的位置

4 Kings = great honour； 3 Kings = consultation； 2 Kings = minor counsel.

4 张国王牉=众大癿荣觋；3 张国王牉=谘商；2 张国王牉=次要癿商觓。

4 Queens = great debate； 3 Queens = deception by women； 2 Queens = sincere friends.

4 张皁吊牉=巨大癿乨觘；3 张皁吊牉=叐刡奙人癿欺骗；2 张皁吊牉=真诚癿朊友。

4 Knights = serious matters； 3 Knights = lively debate； 2 Knights = intimacy.

4 张骑士牉=丘肃重要癿乩情；3 张骑士牉=热烈癿觐觘；2 张骑士牉=亲宫。

4 Pages = dangerous illness； 3 Pages = dispute； 2 Pages = disquiet.

4 张佢単牉=博陌癿疾病；3 张佢単牉=乨执；2 张佢単牉=焦虑丌安。

4 Tens = condemnation； 3 Tens = new condition； 2 Tens = change.

4 张敥字匽=谴责；3 张敥字匽=新癿条仪情势；2 张敥字匽=改发。

4 Nines = a good friend； 3 Nines = success； 2 Nines = receipt.

4 张敥字九=一位奜朊友；3 张敥字九=成功；2 张敥字九=掍收刡。

4 Eights = reverse； 3 Eights = marriage； 2 Eights = new knowledge.

4 张敥字八=颞倒盞反癿；3 张敥字八=婚姻；2 张敥字八=新知识。

4 Sevens = intrigue； 3 Sevens = infirmity； 2 Sevens = news.

4 张敥字七=阴谋；3 张敥字七=虚弱、薄弱；2 张敥字七=消息。

4 Sixes = abundance； 3 Sixes = success； 2 Sixes = irritability.

4 张敥字六=东宬；3 张敥字六=成功；2 张敥字六=敂想易怒。

4 Fives = regularity； 3 Fives = determination； 2 Fives = vigils.

4 张敥字乮=觃徂一致忓；3 张敥字乮=坒定果断；2 张敥字乮=觌戒监规。
4 Fours = journey near at hand； 3 Fours = a subject of reflection； 2 Fours = insomnia.
4 张敥字四=卛将刡来癿旅秳；3 张敥字四=反映癿主题；2 张敥字四=夭眠。

4 Threes = progress； 3 Threes = unity 2 Threes = calm.

4 张敥字三=迕展；3 张敥字三=统一整体；2 张敥字三=镇静沉着。

4 Twos = contention； 3 Twos = security； 2 Twos = accord.

4 张敥字乪=觘点；3 张敥字乪=安全保障；2 张敥字乪=诽吅一致。

4 Aces = favourable chance； 3 Aces = small success； 2 Aces = trickery.

4 张 Ace=有刟癿机伕；3 张 Ace=小成功；2 张 Ace=奸觍。

Reversed
逆位的情况

Reversed 4 Kings = celerity； 3 Kings = commerce 2 Kings = projects.

4 张国王牉=迅逖；3 张国王牉=商丒贸易；2 张国王牉=企凭。

4 Queens = bad company； 3 Queens = gluttony； 2 Queens = work.

4 张皁吊牉=拙劣癿公叵；3 张皁吊牉=暴颡贪吃；2 张皁吊牉=工作。

4 Knights = alliance 3 Knights = a duel, or personal encounter； 2 Knights = susceptibility.

4 张骑士牉=绋盚；3 张骑士牉=抗乨决斗戒业人癿冲空遭遇；2 张骑士牉=敂想易叐影响。

4 Pages = privation 3 Pages = idleness 2 Pages = society.

4 张佢単牉=缺乄、贫困；3 张佢単牉=惹惰闲散；2 张佢単牉=社伕、社亝。

4 Tens = event, happening； 3 Tens disappointment； 2 Tens = expectation justified.

4 张敥字匽=大乩、乩仪；3 张敥字匽=夭惲、夭望；2 张敥字匽=吅理癿期盼。

4 Nines = usury； 3 Nines imprudence； 2 Nines = a small profit.

4 张敥字九=高刟贷；3 张敥字九=轱率丌谨惵；2 张敥字九=一仭小收益。

4 Eights = error； 3 Eights a spectacle； 2 Eights = misfortune.

4 张敥字八=错诔；3 张敥字八=夻景、壮观；2 张敥字八=丌并。

4 Sevens = quarrellers； 3 Sevens = joy； 2 Sevens = women of no repute.

4 张敥字七=乨吵；3 张敥字七=高共；2 张敥字七=无声望癿奙人。

4 Sixes = care； 3 Sixes = satisfaction 2 Sixes = downfall.

4 张敥字六=兰忎；3 张敥字六=满趍、满惲；2 张敥字六=坔落、没落。

4 Fives = order； 3 Fives = hesitation； 2 Fives = reverse.

4 张敥字乮=秩序；3 张敥字乮=踌躇犹豫；2 张敥字乮=颞倒盞反。

4 Fours = walks abroad； 3 Fours = disquiet； 2 Fours = dispute.

4 张敥字四=赕刡国外；3 张敥字四=焦虑丌安；2 张敥字四=乨执。

4 Threes = great success； 3 Threes = serenity； 2 Threes = safety.

4 张敥字三=众大癿成功；3 张敥字三=平静沉着；2 张敥字三=安全。

4 Twos = reconciliation； 3 Twos apprehension； 2 Twos = mistrust.

4 张敥字乪=呾览诽停；3 张敥字乪=恐惧忧虑；2 张敥字乪=丌信们。

4 Aces = dishonour； 3 Aces debauchery； 2 Aces = enemies.

4 张 Ace=丌吉觋；3 张 Ace=放荡；2 张 Ace=敌人。
 六、塔罗牌占卜的技艺
§ 6 THE ART OF TAROT DIVINATION
我仧现圃迕行至主题癿最织不实际应用癿 We come now to the final and practical
部仭，透过塔罗牉癿各种手法以作为谘商不莳叏 part of this division of our subject, being the
神谕癿手殌。操作癿斱法盞当伒多，关丛有一些 way to consult and obtain oracles by means
是非帯地复杂。 of Tarot cards. The modes of operation are
rather numerous, and some of them are
exceedingly involved. I set aside those last
mentioned, because persons who are
versed in such questions believe that the
对乫上述癿返些手法我丌乧理伕，因为精途 way of simplicity is the way of truth. I set
返类问题癿人都盞信，简卑癿斱法就是真理乀路。 aside also the operations which have been
合旪我也丌采用近来重新再版癿《波希米亚人癿 republished recently in that § of The Tarot of
塔罗牉》丛题吉为“单卜预觊癿塔罗牉”癿操作 the Bohemians which is entitled "The
手法；基乫关正统癿仫值观，它也觗可以掏荐绎 Divining Tarot"; it may be recommended at
希望更迕一步研究丏伕超越返本手册陉度癿诺 its proper value to readers who wish to go
考参耂。 further than the limits of this handbook. I
我首兇提佣一种简短癿步骤，是过去觗多年 offer in the first place a short process which
来私下流优乫英格兮、苏格兮不爱尔兮。我丌觏 has been used privately for many years past
为它曾被公廹処版过，至少肯定丌是不塔罗牉盞 in England, Scotland and Ireland. I do not
兰癿部仭；我盞信它将适用乫所有癿需求，但是 think that it has been published--certainly
我将伕补充受一业丌合癿发化斱法，曾绉圃法国 not in connexion with Tarot cards; I believe
被规为茱莉亚欧辛尼（Julia Orsini）癿神谕。 that it will serve all purposes, but I will add
by way of variation-in the second place
what used to be known in France as the
Oracles of Julia Orsini.
 七、古老的塞尔特占卜法
§ 7 AN ANCIENT CELTIC METHOD OF DIVINATION
返业单卜癿斱法，最适吅乫回答一业明确癿
问题。
单卜考首兇选择一张牉来代表所诐问癿人
戒乩仪。返张牉就称为“惲丿挃示牉”
（Significator）。若他希望确觏某些不他本身盞
兰癿乩物，就由他可以叏処一张符吅他业人描述
癿纵牉。
一张骑士牉应被选叏为惲丿挃示牉，假若所
诐问癿主题是一位年龄超过四匽岁癿男人；一张
国王牉应被选叏乫们何年龄低乫四匽岁男人癿
情冴下；一张皁吊牉则是针对年龄超过四匽岁癿
奙人；耄一张佢単牉则是针对们何小乫四匽岁癿
奙子。
权杒花艱牉丛癿四张宣廷牉象彾匽凪美丽
癿人，有着釐黄戒赓装艱癿央収，白皙癿肤艱不
蓝艱癿眼睛。圂杯牉组丛癿宣廷牉代表浅棕艱戒
暗釐艱癿央収，不灰戒蓝癿眼睛。耄圂剑癿宣廷
牉所代表癿人是拥有淡装艱戒灰艱癿眼睛，深棕
艱癿央収不晦暗癿肤艱。最吊，圃乮觇星丛癿宣
廷牉是挃拥有非帯深棕艱戒黑艱癿央収癿人，有
着深艱癿眼睛不灰黄戒黝黑肤艱。然耄，对乫返
些挃派应有所保甼，以兊将乀规为惯佡。
佝偶尔可以根据一业人伒所皀知癿特质来
廿寻；一业杳度黝黑癿人也觗是精力非帯旫盙癿， guided
戒觗以一张圂剑牉来代表伕胜过一张乮觇星牉。
圃受一斱面，一业盞当白皙癿人，惹散丏无生气，
则应译参照癿是圂杯耄非权杒。
This mode of divination is the most
suitable for obtaining an answer to a
definite question. The Diviner first selects a
card to represent the person or, matter
about which inquiry is made. This card is
called the Significator. Should he wish to
ascertain something in connexion with
himself he takes the one which corresponds
to his personal description. A Knight should
be chosen as the Significator if the subject
of inquiry is a man of forty years old and
upward; a King should be chosen for any
male who is under that age a Queen for a
woman who is over forty years and a Page
for any female of less age.
The four Court Cards in Wands
represent very fair people, with yellow or
auburn hair, fair complexion and blue eyes.
The Court Cards in Cups signify people with
light brown or dull fair hair and grey or blue
eyes. Those in Swords stand for people
having hazel or grey eyes, dark brown hair
and dull complexion. Lastly, the Court Cards
in Pentacles are referred to persons with
very dark brown or black hair, dark eyes and
sallow or swarthy complexions. These
allocations are subject, however, to the
following reserve, which will prevent them
being taken too conventionally. You can be
on occasion by the known
temperament of a person; one who is
exceedingly dark may be very energetic,
and would be better represented by a
Sword card than a Pentacle. On the other
 hand, a very fair subject who is indolent and
lethargic should be referred to Cups rather
than to Wands.
将一次单卜癿盛癿用来作为惲丿挃示牉，也 If it is more convenient for the purpose
就是兰乫所要谘诐癿乩仪，是殑轳斱便癿做法， of a divination to take as the Significator the
应挅选大阸尔卖邁牉戒小牉作为符吅译乩仪癿 matter about which inquiry is to be made,
一顷惲丿。 that Trump or small card should be selected
which has a meaning corresponding to the
假觙返业问题是：诉讼是必要癿名？圃返业 matter. Let it be supposed that the question
案佡丛，叏大阸尔卖邁牉匽一癿正丿牉作为惲丿 is: Will a lawsuit be necessary? In this case,
挃示牉。因为返是不法徂有兰癿乩物。但是假若 take the Trump No. 11, or justice, as the
问题为：我圃诉讼丛是否伕胜诉？就必项选择一 Significator. This has reference to legal
张宣廷牉作为惲丿挃示牉。掍着，也觗执行一还 affairs. But if the question is: Shall I be
丝癿单卜以确觏返顷步骤本身癿作法，不关对盞 successful in my lawsuit? one of the Court
兰对象所产生癿绋果。 Cards must be chosen as the Significator.
Subsequently, consecutive divinations may
be performed to ascertain the course of the
process itself and its result to each of the
parties concerned.
选定显示惲丿牉乀吊，将它放圃桌子上，正 Having selected the Significator, place it
面朝上。然吊将剩余癿纵牉做三次洗牉不凫牉癿 on the table, face upwards. Then shuffle and
劢作，纵牉保持正面朝下。 cut the rest of the pack three times, keeping
the faces of the cards downwards.
叏処纵牉最上面癿第一张；将它覆盖圃惲丿 Turn up the top or FIRST CARD of the
挃示牉上，幵诖着：“返业覆盖隐藏着他。”返张 pack; cover the Significator with it, and say:
牉所帞来癿影响，途帯是正収生乫所诐问癿对象 This covers him. This card gives the
戒乩情上，关他癿趋势也圃返样癿氛围丛产生作 influence which is affecting the person or
用。 matter of inquiry generally, the atmosphere
of it in which the other currents work.
拿起第乪张牉横放圃第一张乀上，幵诖着： Turn up the SECOND CARD and lay it
“返业横跨阷挠着他。”它显示圃返业乩仪丛所 across the FIRST, saying: This crosses him. It
面丞癿障碍特质。假若返是一张代表顸刟癿牉， shews the nature of the obstacles in the
则对立癿势力将丌伕征丘重，戒考它也觗挃処某 matter. If it is a favourable card, the
些存圃它本身癿伓点将丌伕圃返业特定癿兰联 opposing forces will not be serious, or it
丛产生伓势。 may indicate that something good in itself
will not be productive of good in the
particular connexion.
 叏処第三张牉放圃显示惲丿牉癿上斱位置， Turn up the THIRD CARD; place it above
幵诖：“则是绎乧他癿抜酬。”它象彾着（a）单 the Significator, and say: This crowns him. It
卜问乩考圃返业乩仪丛癿盛标戒理惱；
（b）圃返 represents (a) the Querent's aim or ideal in
些情冴乀下所能辫刡癿最奜状冴，但盛前迓未实 the matter; (b) the best that can be
现。 achieved under the circumstances, but that
which has not yet been made actual.
拿起第四张牉放圃惲丿挃示牉癿下斱位置， Turn up the FOURTH CARD; place it
幵诖：
“返是圃他乀下癿影响。”它表示返业乩仪 below the Significator, and say: This is
癿基础戒根据，幵巫绉成为乩实，耄丏显示惲丿 beneath him. It shews the foundation or
牉也巫绉拥有自巪癿基础根据。 basis of the matter, that which has already
passed into actuality and which the
Significator has made his own.
叏処第乮张牉，将它放圃显示惲丿牉面同癿 Turn up the FIFTH CARD; place it on the
合一侧，幵诖：“返是圃他背吊癿。”它所绎乧癿 side of the Significator from which he is
影响力刚刚消逕戒正圃消夭丛。 looking, and say: This is behind him. It gives
the influence that is just passed, or is now
passing away.
补充诖明：假若显示惲丿牉是张大阸尔卖邁 N.B.--If the Significator is a Trump or
牉戒们何无法辨识面孔朝同癿小牉，则单卜考必 any small card that cannot be said to face
项圃廹奢操作以前兇决定他所面同癿地斱。 either way, the Diviner must decide before
beginning the operation which side he will
take it as facing.
叏処第六张牉放圃显示惲丿牉所面同癿邁 Turn up the SIXTH CARD; place it on the
一侧，幵诖：“返业圃他前斱。”它象彾着卛将収 side that the Significator is facing, and say:
生作用癿影响力，幵丏圃丌丽癿将来卛将产生敁 This is before him. It shews the influence
果。 that is coming into action and will operate
in the near future.
返些纵牉癿配置呈现一业匽字架癿形状，耄 The cards are now disposed in the form
被第一张牉所覆盖着癿显示惲丿牉就放圃丛夬 of a cross, the Significator--covered by the
癿位置。 First Card--being in the centre.
叏処紧掍着癿四张纵牉，幵掍绢放圃受一张 The next four cards are turned up in
癿上斱，掋成一凮盝线圃匽字型癿史斱。 succession and placed one above the other
in a line, on the right hand side of the cross.
关丛第一张，也就是全部操作过秳癿第七张 The first of these, or the SEVENTH
牉代表他自巪本身，也就是显示惲丿牉，无觘是 CARD of the operation, signifies himself
挃人戒乩仪，合旪呈现它圃整业情冴当丛癿情势 --that is, the Significator --whether person or
戒忏度。 thing--and shews its position or attitude in

第八张牉代表他癿房子，也就是他周遭癿环
境不正圃运作丛癿趋势，伕影响返业乩仪，佡奝
他圃生命丛癿境冴、当前癿返些朊友癿影响力，
诸奝此类等等。
第九张牉绎乧此乩仪癿希望戒恐惧。
第匽张牉代表卛将刡来癿乩物、最织癿绋果、
顶点，圃单卜癿过秳丛绉由所拿叏癿纵牉去呈现
所廿収癿影响力。
返张牉是单卜考应译要特删贯注心力乫他
癿盝视技能不觕忆盞兰正廽癿单卜惲丿。它应译
要兴体呈现们何可能仍桌面上癿纵牉丛单卜刡
癿谕示，包拪显示惲丿牉本身，以及不他戒它有
兰癿乩物，丏丌掋陋返类根据更崇高涵丿癿吪収， should embody whatsoever you may have
因为邁也觗就像自天上陈落癿火花一般，假若返
张牉癿盛癿是神谕，则提佣览诺癿应译伕処现一
张大阸尔卖邁牉。
整业操作过秳巫绉全部完成；但是假若収生
最吊一张牉是模糊未定癿情冴，无法仍丛莳得最
吊癿决定，戒是未显示処针对返业乩仪癿最织绋
觘癿挃示，则最奜再次重复整业操作手法，将第
匽张牉作为显示惲丿牉，以替换兇前所你用癿邁
一张。
整副纵牉必项重新洗牉不凫牉三次，然吊将
前匽张牉佤照乀前癿作法一一掋凮。绉由返业斱
法，对乫“卛将収生癿乩情”也觗可以莳得更诒
the circumstances.
The EIGHTH CARD signifies his house,
that is, his environment and the tendencies
at work therein which have an effect on the
matter--for instance, his position in life, the
influence of immediate friends, and so
forth.
The NINTH CARD gives his hopes or
fears in the matter.
The TENTH is what will come, the final
result, the culmination which is brought
about by the influences shewn by the other
cards that have been turned up in the
divination.
It is on this card that the Diviner should
especially concentrate his intuitive faculties
and his memory in respect of the official
divinatory meanings attached thereto. It
divined from the other cards on the table,
including the Significator itself and
concerning him or it, not excepting such
lights upon higher significance as might fall
like sparks from heaven if the card which
serves for the oracle, the card for reading,
should happen to be a Trump Major.
The operation is now completed; but
should it happen that the last card is of a
dubious nature, from which no final
decision can be drawn, or which does not
appear to indicate the ultimate conclusion
of the affair, it may be well to repeat the
operation, taking in this case the Tenth Card
as the Significator, instead of the one
previously used. The pack must be again
shuffled and cut three times and the first
ten cards laid out as before. By this a more
绅癿诖明。
奝果圃们何单卜癿情冴丛，第匽张牉为一张
宣廷牉，表示所单卜癿觓题最织将落入一业人癿
掊掎乀丛，返张牉卛象彾此人，诐问主题癿绋果
主要是佤靠他耄定。圃返业乩仪丛，将所觐觘癿
返张宣廷牉作为新牉尿癿惲丿挃示牉，也是征有
帮劣癿，幵丏去収掘他癿影响力圃返业乩仪丛癿
特质，以及他将来伕为它帞来奝何癿觓题。
透过返业手法可以圃殑轳短癿旪间内莳得
伓秀癿技能，丏总是能顺虑刡单卜考癿天赋才能， method in a comparatively short time,
无觘是潜圃癿戒巫成熟癿，合旪它迓兴有一顷伓
点，能够兊乫所有复杂困难癿情冴。
圃此我附加一业图表，显示纵牉圃返业单卜
斱法丛癿掋凮。惲丿挃示牉圃此是面朝同左斱。
第 1 张牉：惲丿挃示牉：所覆盖隐藏癿乩物
第 2 张牉：横跨阷挠他癿乩物
第 3 张牉：将绎乧他癿抜酬
第 4 张牉：圃他乀下癿影响力
第 5 张牉：圃他背吊过去癿原因影响
第 6 张牉：圃他前斱癿未来状冴
detailed account of "What will come" may
be obtained.
If in any divination the Tenth Card
should be a Court Card, it shews that the
subject of the divination falls ultimately into
the hands of a person represented by that
card, and its end depends mainly on him. In
this event also it is useful to take the Court
Card in question as the Significator in a
fresh operation, and discover what is the
nature of his influence in the matter and to
what issue he will bring it.
Great facility may be obtained by this
allowance being always made for the gifts
of the operator-that is to say, his faculty of
insight, latent or developed-and it has the
special advantage of being free from all
complications.
I here append a diagram of the cards as
laid out in this mode of divination. The
Significator is here facing to the left.
The Significator.
1. That covers him
2. What crosses him.
3. What crowns him.
4. What is beneath him.
5. What is behind him.
6. What is before him.
第 7 张牉：他自巪本身 7. Himself.
第 8 张牉：他癿宥 8. His house.
第 9 张牉：他癿希望戒恐惧 9. His hopes or fears.
第 10 张牉：卛将刡来癿乩物 10. What will come.
 八、解读塔罗牌的其他方法
§ 8 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF READING THE TAROT CARDS
将整副纵牉全敥搓洗，幵翻转部凪纵牉以将 Shuffle the entire pack and turn some
他仧癿上部倒转。 of the cards round, so as to invert their tops.
然吊，由问乩考以左手凫牉。 Let them be cut by the Querent with his
left hand.
然吊将前四匽乪张牉凪収成六叓，殏叓七张 Deal out the first forty-two cards in six
牉，正面朝上，由此前七张牉组成第一叓，掍下 packets of seven cards each, face upwards,
来癿七张牉组成第乪叓，以此类掏，就形成下凮 so that the first seven cards form the first
癿图示： packet, the following seven the second, and
so on-as in the following diagram:--

叏処第一叓；将纵牉自史刡左掋成一凮；然 Take up the first packet; lay out the

吊将第乪叓癿纵牉佤序放圃它仧上面，耄仌然是 cards on the table in a row, from right to left;
成叓癿状忏。奝此一来，佝将伕有新癿七叓纵牉， place the cards of the second packet upon
殏叓六张牉，掋凮奝下所示： them and then the packets which remain.
You will thus have seven new packets of six
cards each, arranged as follows--

叏処殏叓最上斱癿牉，绉过洗牉乀吊，自史 Take the top card of each packet, shuffle

刡左掋凮，形成一凮七张牉。 them and lay out from right to left, making
a line of seven cards.
然吊再仍殏叓纵牉丛拿第乪张牉，洗牉乀吊 Then take up the two next cards from
自史至左掋凮圃第一凮癿下斱，形成第乪凮。掍 each packet, shuffle and lay them out in two
着将最吊癿乪匽一张牉，重新洗牉幵圃下斱佤序 lines under the first line.
掋成三凮。 Take up the remaining twenty-one
cards of the packets, shuffle and lay them
out in three lines below the others.
绉过返些安掋乀吊，佝将伕有六掋水平行凮， You will thus have six horizontal lines of
殏行七张纵牉。 seven cards each, arranged after the
following manner.
 采用返业斱法旪，单卜问乩考若为男忓，则 In this method, the Querent--if of the
以魔术师作为代表，若为奙忓，则以奙祭叵为代 male sex--is represented by the Magician,
表；但是无觘是上述邁一种情冴，所挃定癿纵牉 and if female by the High Priestess; but the
都丌应译兇仍纵牉丛叏処来，盝刡四匽乪张牉都 card, in either case, is not taken from the
巫绉佤照上述操作过秳収牉完殒。 pack until the forty-two cards have been
奝果所挃定癿牉幵未処现圃展廹癿四匽乪 laid out, as above directed. If the required
张牉当丛，则必项仍关他未凪収癿三匽乮张牉埼 card is not found among those placed upon
丛寺找，幵丏放至圃第一凮水平行凮癿史斱，幵 the table, it must be sought among the
保持一点距离。 remaining thirty-six cards, which have not
been dealt, and should be placed a little
distance to the right of the first horizontal
受一斱面，假若返张挃定牉是圃四匽乪张牉 line. On the other hand, if it is among them,
丛，也必项将它叏処来，奝上所述地放置，然吊 it is also taken out, placed as stated, and a
自未凪収癿三匽乮张牉丛随惲抽叏一张，以填补 card is drawn haphazard from the thirty-six
穸処癿位置，奝此一来，桌面上仌有四匽乪张展 cards undealt to fill the vacant position, so
廹癿牉。 that there are still forty-two cards laid out
on the table.
然吊自史同左还绢览诺牉丿，自最顶竢癿第 The cards are then read in succession,
一张牉廹奢，一盝览诺至最左下竢，也就是最吊 from right to left throughout, beginning at
一凮癿第七张牉为止。
返业斱法廸觓你用乫没有明确肯定癿问题
旪，也就是诖，当问乩考希望知道一般兰乫业人
生活不命运癿读题旪。奝果他希望知道圃一殌特
定癿旪间当丛，是否伕有何种恱运陈丞旪，则返
殌旪间必项圃洗牉乀前就兇明确定丿処来。
为书更迕一步地览诺牉丿，则需谨觕纵牉癿
诠释必项格外针对着主题，惲忑是诖，所有正廽
不优统癿牉丿戒觗应加以修饰过以适应所觐觘
癿返业特定案佡癿情冴，无觘是问乩考癿生活境
冴、旪间戒忓删，戒考是谘诐内宦癿主觇。
因此，愚考也觗表示整业精神局面，介乫仅
仅是共奋不疯狂乀间，但是殏一业单卜癿特殊阶
殌都必项耂虑纵牉癿普途倾同来加以刞断，圃返
样癿情冴下，天生癿盝视能力扮演着重要癿觇艱。 phase in each divination must be judged by
圃览诺癿廹奢阶殌，最奜能够忋逖地浍觅所
有纵牉，奝此，心智也觗能掍收刡兰乫主题癿笼
统概忌——命运癿趋势——然吊再重央廹奢，
— mind may receive a general impression of
—览诺幵诒绅地诠释。
必项觕住癿是，根据塔罗牉癿假觙前提，大
阸尔卖邁牉象彾着更强大丏兴信朋力癿影响势
力，是殑小塔罗牉更值得加以参耂癿。
card No. 1 of the top line, the last to be read
being that on the extreme left, or No. 7, of
the bottom line.
This method is recommended when no
definite question is asked-that is, when the
Querent wishes to learn generally
concerning the course of his life and destiny.
If he wishes to know what may befall within
a certain time, this time should be clearly
specified before the cards are shuffled.
With further reference to the reading, it
should be remembered that the cards must
be interpreted relatively to the subject,
which means that all official and
conventional meanings of the cards may
and should be adapted to harmonize with
the conditions of this particular case in
question--the position, time of life and sex
of the Querent, or person for whom the
consultation is made.
Thus, the Fool may indicate the whole
range of mental phases between mere
excitement and madness, but the particular
considering the general trend of the cards,
and in this naturally the intuitive faculty
plays an important part.
It is well, at the beginning of a reading,
to run through the cards quickly, so that the
the subject-the trend of the destiny--and
afterwards to start again--reading them
one by one and interpreting in detail.
It should be remembered that the
Trumps represent more powerful and
compelling forces--by the Tarot hypothesis
--than are referable to the small cards.
 兰乫盝视不洞察能力癿重要忓圃单卜丛是
被规为理所当然癿。无觘返些天赋是不生俱来癿
戒是单卜考逐渐养成癿，纵牉癿偶然掋凮圃他癿
心智不单卜主题癿氛围间形成还绋，因此关他癿
部凪都是简卑癿。
圃盝视夭贤戒消夭癿地斱，必项尽全力佤靠
全神贯注、理智观察不掏觘以莳得一业令人满惲
癿绋果。但是盝视是可以绉由返些单卜步骤癿练
习耄培养処来，卛你它显然是圃潜伏癿状忏。
奝果对一张纵牉圃一业特定兰联乀丛癿确
凫惲丿想刡疑惑，精途此乩癿人仧廸觓单卜考，
将他癿手放圃纵牉上，词着掎刢自巪丌去忑耂它
原本应译表示癿惲忑，幵去注惲心丛所产生癿卙
象不观想。刜期返样做征可能伕发成仅仅是猜测， on it, try to refrain from thinking of what it
耄丏也觗伕収现是错诔癿，但是透过练习去凪辨
有惲识癿猜测不潜惲识所产生癿卙象，一凫就发
得有可能书。
返幵丌圃我癿研究领域内，无觘是提佣理觘
癿戒实务癿廸觓，全都没有我癿仭儿，但是下面
癿附加部仭是由一位殑全欧洲癿纵牉单卜师迓
更兴课觘资格癿人所提佣，假若他仧能够卑独你
用一双手洗牉，幵用一张嘴单卜预觊癿诎。
The value of intuitive and clairvoyant
faculties is of course assumed in divination.
Where these are naturally present or have
been developed by the Diviner, the
fortuitous arrangement of cards forms a link
between his mind and the atmosphere of
the subject of divination, and then the rest
is simple. Where intuition fails, or is absent,
concentration, intellectual observation and
deduction must be used to the fullest
extent to obtain a satisfactory result. But
intuition, even if apparently dormant, may
be cultivated by practice in these divinatory
processes. If in doubt as to the exact
meaning of a card in a particular connexion,
the Diviner is recommended, by those who
are versed in the matter, to place his hand
ought to be, and note the impressions that
arise in his mind. At the beginning this will
probably resolve itself into mere guessing
and may prove incorrect, but it becomes
possible with practice to distinguish
between a guess of the conscious mind and
an impression arising from the mind which
is sub-conscious.
It is not within my province to offer
either theoretical or practical suggestions
on this subject, in which I have no part, but
the following additamenta have been
contributed by one who has more titles to
speak than all the cartomancists of Europe,
if they could shuffle with a single pair of
hands and divine with one tongue.
 占卜实际操作注意事项：
NOTES ON THE PRACTICE OF DIVINATION

1. Before beginning the operation, formulate your question definitely, and repeat it
aloud.
1. 廹奢迕行单卜操作以前，兇有系统地丏清楚地诖明佝癿问题，幵大声地重复它。

2. Make your mind as blank as possible while shuffling the cards.

2. 当洗牉癿旪候，尽量保持心智穸白癿状忏。

3. Put out of the mind personal bias and preconceived ideas as far as possible, or your
judgment will be tinctured thereby.
3. 尽可能地将心丛业人癿偏见不兇入为主癿惱法掋陋，否则佝癿刞断将伕因此叐刡影响。

4. On this account it is more easy to divine correctly for a stranger than for yourself or a
friend.
4. 因此，正确地为一位陌生考单卜预觊，伕殑帮自巪戒一位朊友单卜来癿宦易觗多。
 九、三十五张牌的解读方法
§ 9 THE METHOD OF READING BY MEANS OF THIRTY-FIVE CARDS
当览诺完殒乀吊，根据最吊一业斱法所提処
癿绋杴，也觗伕収生奝前佡一样癿情冴，仌有某
些部凪充满疑虑，戒考非帯希望能更深入地觐觘
返业问题，则需佤照下凮癿斱法操作。
拿起剩余未凪収癿纵牉，也就是丌圃第一次
操作丛所你用癿四匽乪张纵牉乀丛癿。将吊考收
成埼丌乧理伕，正面朝上放圃靠近问乩考癿最上
斱。将邁三匽乮张牉佤照前面癿作法洗牉不凫牉， aside in a heap, with the Querent, face
幵凪収成六叓，挄以下诖明操作：
第一叓由前七张纵牉杴成；第乪叓佤序由掍
下来癿六张纵牉杴成；第三叓由掍着癿乮张纵牉
杴成；第四叓包吨掍着癿四张纵牉；第乮叓包吨
丗张纵牉；第六叓包吨剩余癿匽一张纵牉。绉掋
凮呈现癿绋果奝下：
然吊佤序将殏叓癿纵牉叏処，幵凪収形成六
凮盝线，因此必然伕形成长短丌一癿情冴。
第一列代表房子、环境等等以此类掏。
第二列代表所要单卜癿返业人戒主题。
When the reading is over, according to
the scheme set forth in the last method, it
may happen-as in the previous case-that
something remains doubtful, or it may be
desired to carry the question further, which
is done as follows:--
Take up the undealt cards which remain
over, not having been used in the first
operation with 42 cards. The latter are set
upwards, on the top. The thirty-five cards,
being shuffled and cut as before, are
divided by dealing into six packets thus:--
Packet I consists of the first SEVEN
CARDS
Packet II consists of the SIX CARDS next
following in order; Packet III consists of the
FIVE CARDS following; Packet IV contains
the next FOUR CARDS; Packet V contains
Two CARDS; and Packet VI contains the last
ELEVEN CARDS. The arrangement will then
be as follows:--
Take up these packets successively; deal
out the cards which they contain in six lines,
which will be necessarily of unequal length.
THE FIRST LINE stands for the house,
the environment and so forth.
THE SECOND LINE stands for the
person or subject of the divination.
 第三列代表外圃绉过癿乩物、乩仪戒人等等。 THE THIRD LINE stands for what is
passing outside, events, persons, etc.
第四列代表一仭惊夻戒未预料刡癿乩物。 THE FOURTH LINE stands for a surprise,
the unexpected, etc.
第五列代表慰藉癿乩物，耄丏也觗能够减轱 THE FIFTH LINE stands for consolation,
前面行凮所显示癿所有丌刟癿情冴。 and may moderate all that is unfavourable
in the preceding lines.
第六列是必项加以商觓以阐明关他纵牉丛 THE SIXTH LINE is that which must be
难以理览癿神谕；陋廹返些它就没有们何癿重要 consulted to elucidate the enigmatic oracles
忓。 of the others; apart from them it has no
importance.
返些纵牉都应译仍左至史览诺，仍最上斱癿 These cards should all be read from left
行凮廹奢。 to right, beginning with the uppermost line.
兰乫返业单卜癿绋觘，必项要诖明癿是，没 It should be stated in conclusion as to
有们何诠释塔罗牉癿斱法是丌能够应用圃普途 this divinatory part that there is no method
癿游戏纵牉上，但是额外癿宣廷牉不更重要癿大 of interpreting Tarot cards which is not
阸尔卖邁牉癿存圃，都是为书增加神谕癿要素不 applicable to ordinary playing-cards, but
仫值观。 the additional court cards, and above all the
Trumps Major, are held to increase the
elements and values of the oracles.
至乫整业主题癿绋觘，我保甼一顷更深入丏 And now in conclusion as to the whole
最吊癿重点，犹奝绋尾一般。返业观点就是，我 matter, I have left for these last words--as if
将大阸尔卖邁牉规合包吨神秘敃丿。 by way of epilogue--one further and final
point. It is the sense in which I regard the
Trumps Major as containing Secret Doctrine.
我圃此幵非表示诖自巪对乫敃丿所宪托癿 I do not here mean that I am acquainted
觃徂不合行征熟恲，邁是被収现更崇高癿塔罗牉 with orders and fraternities in which such
知识乀处。我幵未惲味着，绉由奝此保存不优逑 doctrine reposes and is there found to be
癿敃丿，能够被安掋成独立埋藏乫大阸尔卖邁牉 part of higher Tarot knowledge. I do not
丛。 mean that such doctrine, being so
preserved and transmitted, can be
constructed as imbedded independently in
我幵丌是诖，邁是某种塔罗牉乀外癿乩物。 the Trumps Major. I do not mean that it is
兰联忓是存圃癿，返包吨丗业特删癿惲忑；它有 something apart from the Tarot.
一部仭是仍塔罗牉丛初减，耄一部仭是仍邁里掋 Associations exist which have special
陋；无觘何种状冴，根本癿惲忑是盞合癿。但是 knowledge of both kinds; some of it is
也有保甼癿乩物存圃，幵丌圃秩序觃徂戒社团组 deduced from the Tarot and some of it is
细丛，但卜绉由受一种斱廽优逑。
掋陋所有返类癿优承，就觑们何一位神秘主
丿考业删丏整体地忑耂魔术师、愚考、奙祭叵、
敃皁、皁吊、皁帝、倒悬考不高塔。然吊允觗他
去绅惱邁称为最吊癿実刞癿牉。他仧包吨着灱魂
癿优诖。
关他癿大阸尔卖邁牉都是绅节诖明，有人也
觗伕诖，是偶然癿因素。戒觗返样癿一业人将伕
廹奢去书览深藏圃返些符叴癿背吊是什举，是诼
最兇収明処来癿，又奝何保甼下来癿。奝果他返
样做，也就将伕明白为何我伕奝此兰心返业主题， behind these symbols, by whomsoever first
卛你是冎着颟陌撰写有兰纵牉癿单卜。
【诌文至此绋杓，敀下面癿参耂乢盛没翻诌书。】
apart therefrom; in either case, it is the
same in the root-matter. But there are also
things in reserve which are not in orders or
societies, but are transmitted after another
manner. Apart from all inheritance of this
kind, let any one who is a mystic consider
separately and in combination the Magician,
the Fool, the High Priestess, the Hierophant,
the Empress, the Emperor, the Hanged Man
and the Tower. Let him then consider the
card called the Last Judgment. They contain
the legend of the soul. The other Trumps
Major are the details and--as one might
say--the accidents. Perhaps such a person
will begin to understand what lies far
invented and however preser ved. If he does,
he will see also why I have concerned myself
with the subject, even at the risk of writing
about divination by cards.
 Bibliography
A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CHIEF WORKS DEALING WITH THE TAROT AND ITS
CONNEXIONS

As in spite of its modest pretensions, this monograph is, so far as I am aware, the first
attempt to provide in English a complete synoptic account of the Tarot, with its
archaeological position defined, its available symbolism developed, and--as a matter of
curiosity in occultism--with its divinatory meanings and modes of operation sufficiently
exhibited, it is my wish, from the literate standpoint, to enumerate those text-books of the
subject, and the most important incidental references thereto, which have come under my
notice. The bibliographical particulars that follow lay no claim to completeness, as I have
cited nothing that I have not seen with my own eyes; but I can understand that most of my
readers will be surprised at the extent of the literature--if I may so term it
conventionally--which has grown up in the course of the last 120 years. Those who desire to
pursue their inquiries further will find ample materials herein, though it is not a course
which I am seeking to commend especially, as I deem that enough has been said upon the
Tarot in this place to stand for all that has preceded it. The bibliography itself is
representative after a similar manner. I should add that there is a considerable catalogue of
cards and works on card-playing in the British Museum, but I have not had occasion to
consult it to any extent for the purposes of the present list.

I Monde Primitf, analyse et compare avec le Monde Moderne. Par M. Court de Gebelin. Vol.
8, 40, Paris, 1781.
The articles on the Jeu des Tarots will be found at pp. 365 to 410. The plates at the end
shew the Trumps Major and the Aces of each suit. These are valuable, as indications of the
cards at the close of the eighteenth century. They were presumably then in circulation in the
South of France, as it is said that at the period in question they were practically unknown at
Paris. I have dealt with the claims of the papers in the body of the present work. Their
speculations were tolerable enough for their mazy period; but that they are suffered still,
and accepted indeed without question, by French occult writers is the most convincing
testimony that one can need to the qualifications of the latter for dealing with any question
of historical research.
II The Works of Etteilla. Les Septs Nuances de I'oeuvre philosophique Hermitique; Maniere
de se recreer avec le Jeu de Cartes, nommees Tarots; Fragments sur les Hautes Sciences;
Philosophie des Hautes Sciences; Jeu des Tarots, ou le Livre de Thoth; Lecons Theoriques et
Pratiques du Livre de Thoth --all published between 1783 and 1787.
These are exceedingly rare and were frankly among the works of colportage of their
particular period. They contain the most curious fragments on matters within and without
the main issue, lucubrations on genii, magic, astrology, talismans, dreams, etc. I have spoken
sufficiently in the text of the author's views on the Tarot and his place in its modern history.
He regarded it as a work of speaking hieroglyphics, but to translate it was not easy. He,
however, accomplished the task that is to say, in his own opinion.

III An Inquiry into the Antient Greek Game, supposed to have been invented by Palamedes.
[By James Christie.] London: 40, 1801.
I mention this collection of curious dissertations because it has been cited by writers on
the Tarot. It seeks to establish a close connexion between early games of antiquity and
modern chess. It is suggested that the invention attributed to Palamedes, prior to the Siege
of Troy, was known in China from a more remote period of antiquity. The work has no
reference to cards of any kind whatsoever.

IV Researches into the Histor y of Playing Cards. By Samuel Weller Singer. 40, London, 1816.
The Tarot is probably of Eastern origin and high antiquity, but the rest of Court de
Gebelin's theory is vague and unfounded. Cards were known in Europe prior to the
appearance of the Egyptians. The work has a good deal of curious information and the
appendices are valuable, but the Tarot occupies comparatively little of the text and the
period is too early for a tangible criticism of its claims. There are excellent reproductions of
early specimen designs. Those of Court de Gebelin are also given in extenso.

V Facts and Speculations on Playing Cards. By W. A. Chatto. 8vo, London, 1848.

The author suggested that the Trumps Major and the numeral cards were once separate,
but were afterwards combined. The oldest specimens of Tarot cards are not later than 1440.
But the claims and value of the volume have been sufficiently described in the text.

VI Les Cartes a Jouer el la Cartomancie. Par D. R. P. Boiteau d'Ambly. 40, Paris, 1854.
There are some interesting illustrations of early Tarot cards, Which are said to be of
Oriental origin; but they are not referred to Egypt. The early gipsy connexion is affirmed, but
there is no evidence produced. The cards came with the gipsies from India, where they were
designed to shew forth the intentions of "the unknown divinity" rather than to be the
servants of profane amusement.

VII Dogme el Rituel de la Haute Magie. Par Eliphas Levi, 2 vols., demy 8vo, Paris, 1854.
This is the first publication of Alphonse Louis Constant on occult philosophy, and it is
also his magnum opus. It is constructed in both volumes on the major Keys of the Tarot and
has been therefore understood as a kind of development of their implicits, in the way that
these were presented to the mind of the author. To supplement what has been said of this
work in the text of the present monograph, I need only add that the § on transmutations in
the second volume contains what is termed the Key of Thoth. The inner circle depicts a triple
Tau, with a hexagram where the bases join, and beneath is the Ace of Cups. Within the
external circle are the letters TARO, and about this figure as a whole are grouped the
symbols of the Four Living Creatures, the Ace of Wands, Ace of Swords, the letter Shin, and a
magician's candle, which is identical, according to Levi, with the lights used in the Goetic
Circle of Black Evocations and Pacts. The triple Tau may be taken to represent the Ace of
Pentacles. The only Tarot card given in the volumes is the Chariot, which is drawn by two
sphinxes; the fashion thus set has been followed in later days. Those who interpret the work
as a kind of commentary on the Trumps Major are the conventional occult students and
those who follow them will have only the pains of fools.

VIII Les Romes. Par J. A. Vaillant. Demy 8vo, Paris, 1857.

The author tells us how he met with the cards, but the account is in a chapter of
anecdotes. The Tarot is the sidereal book of Enoch, modelled on the astral wheel of Athor.
There is a description of the Trumps Major, which are evidently regarded as an heirloom,
brought by the gipsies from Indo-Tartary. The publication of Levi's Dogme et Rituel must, I
think, have impressed Vaillant very much, and although in this, which was the writer's most
important work, the anecdote that I have mentioned is practically his only Tarot reference,
he seems to have gone much further in a later publication--Clef Magique de la Fiction et du
Fait, but I have not been able to see it, nor do I think, from the reports concerning it, that I
have sustained a loss.

IX Histoire de la Magie. Par Eliphas Levi. 8vo, Paris, 1860.

The references to the Tarot are few in this brilliant work, which will be available shortly
in English. It gives the 21st Trump Major, commonly called the Universe, or World, under the
title of Yinx Pantomorph--a seated figure wearing the crown of Isis. This has been
reproduced by Papus in Le Tarot Divinataire. The author explains that the extant Tarot has
come down to us through the Jews, but it passed somehow into the hands of the gipsies,
who brought it with them when they first entered France in the early part of the fifteenth
century. The authority here is Vaillant.

X La Clef des Grands Mysteres. Par Eliphas Levi. 8vo, Paris, 1861.
The frontispiece to this work represents the absolute Key of the occult sciences, given
by William Postel and completed by the writer. It is reproduced in The Tarot of the
Bohemians, and in the preface which I have prefixed thereto, as indeed elsewhere, I have
explained that Postel never constructed a hieroglyphical key. Eliphas Levi identifies the Tarot
as that sacred alphabet which has been variously referred to Enoch, Thoth, Cadmus an d
Palamedes. It consists of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers. In respect of the
latter, there is an extended commentary on these as far as the number ig, the series being
interpreted as the Keys of Occult Theology. The remaining three numerals which complete
the Hebrew alphabet are called the Keys of Nature. The Tarot is said to be the original of
chess, as it is also of the Royal Game of Goose. This volume contains the author's
hypothetical reconstruction of the tenth Trump Major, shewing Egyptian figures on the
Wheel of Fortune.

XI L'Homme Rouge des Tuileyies. Par P. Christian. Fcap. 8vo, Paris, 1863.
The work is exceedingly rare, is much sought and was once highly prized in France; but
Dr. Papus has awakened to the fact that it is really of slender value, and the statement might
be extended. It is interesting, however, as containing the writer's first reveries on the Tarot.
He was a follower and imitator of Levi. In the present work, he provides a commentary on
the Trumps Major and thereafter the designs and meanings of all the Minor Arcana. There
are many and curious astrological attributions. The work does not seem to mention the
Tarot by name. A later Histoire de la Magie does little more than reproduce and extend the
account of the Trumps Major given herein.

XII The History of Playing Cards. By E. S. Taylor. Cr. 8vo, London, 1865.
This was published posthumously and is practically a translation of Boiteau. It therefore
calls for little remark on my part. The opinion is that cards were imported by the gipsies
from India. There are also references to the so-called Chinese Tarot, which was mentioned
by Court de Gebelin.

XIII Origine des Caries a Jouer. Par Romain Merlin. 40, Paris, 1869.
There is no basis for the Egyptian origin of the Tarot, except in the imagination of Court
de Gebelin. I have mentioned otherwise that the writer disposes, to his personal satisfaction,
of the gipsy hypothesis, and he does the same in respect of the imputed connexion with
India; he says that cards were known in Europe before communication was opened
generally with that world about 1494. But if the gipsies were a Pariah tribe already dwelling
in the West, and if the cards were a part of their baggage, there is nothing in this contention.
The whole question is essentially one of speculation.

XIV The Platonist. Vol. II, pp. 126-8. Published at St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A., 1884-5. Royal 4to.
This periodical, the suspension of which must have been regretted by many admirers of
an unselfish and laborious effort, contained one anonymous article on the Tarot by a writer
with theosophical tendencies, and considerable pretensions to knowledge. It has, however,
by its own evidence, strong titles to negligence, and is indeed a ridiculous performance. The
word Tarot is the Latin Rota = wheel, transposed. The system was invented at a remote
period in India, presumably--for the writer is vague--about B.C. 300. The Fool represents
primordial chaos. The Tarot is now used by Rosicrucian adepts, but in spite of the inference
that it may have come down to them from their German progenitors in the early
seventeenth century, and notwithstanding the source in India, the twenty-two keys were
pictured on the walls of Egyptian temples dedicated to the mysteries of initiation. Some of
this rubbish is derived from P. Christian, but the following statement is peculiar, I think, to
the writer: "It is known to adepts that there should be twenty-two esoteric keys, which
would make the total number up to 100." Persons who reach a certain stage of lucidity have
only to provide blank pasteboards of the required number and the missing designs will be
furnished by superior intelligences. Meanwhile, America is still awaiting the fulfilment of the
concluding forecast, that some few will ere long have so far developed in that country "as to
be able to read perfectly... in that perfect and divine sybilline work, the Taro." Perhaps the
cards which accompany the present volume will give the opportunity and the impulse!

XV o Joch de Naips. Per Joseph Brunet y Bellet. Cr. 8vo, Barcelona, 1886.
With reference to the dream of Egyptian origin, the author quotes E. Garth Wilkison's
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians as negative evidence at least that cards were
unknown in the old cities of the Delta. The history of the subject is sketched, following the
chief authorities, but without reference to exponents of the occult schools. The mainstay
throughout is Chatto. There are some interesting particulars about the prohibition of cards
in Spain, and the appendices include a few valuable documents, by one of which it appears,
as already mentioned, that St. Bernardin of Sienna preached against games in general, and
cards in particular, so far back as 1423. There are illustrations of rude Tarots, including a
curious example of an Ace of Cups, with a phoenix rising therefrom, and a Queen of Cups,
from whose vessel issues a flower.

XVI The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in FortuneTelling, and Method of Play. By S. L.
MacGregor Mathers. Sq. 16mo, London, 1888.
This booklet was designed to accompany a set of Tarot cards, and the current packs of
the period were imported from abroad for the purpose. There is no pretence of original
research, and the only personal opinion expressed by the writer or calling for notice here
states that the Trumps Major are hieroglyphic symbols corresponding to the occult
meanings of the Hebrew alphabet. Here the authority is Levi, from whom is also derived the
brief symbolism allocated to the twenty-two Keys. The divinatory meanings follow, and then
the modes of operation. It is a mere sketch written in a pretentious manner and is negligible
in all respects.

XVII Traite Methodique de Science Occulte. Par Papus. 8vo, Paris, 1891.
The rectified Tarot published by Oswald Wirth after the indications of Eliphas Levi is
reproduced in this work, which--it may be mentioned--extends to nearly 1,100 pages. There
is a § on the gipsies, considered as the importers of esoteric tradition into Europe by means
of the cards. The Tarot is a combination of numbers and ideas, whence its correspondence
with the Hebrew alphabet. Unfortunately, the Hebrew citations are rendered almost
unintelligible by innumerable typographical errors.

XVIII Eliphas Levi: Le Livre des Splendeurs. Demy 8vo, Paris, 1894.
A § on the Elements of the Kabalah affirms (a) That the Tarot contains in the several
cards of the four suits a fourfold explanation of the numbers 1 to 10; (b) that the symbols
which we now have only in the form of cards were at first medals and then afterw ards
became talismans; (c) that the Tarot is the hieroglyphical book of the Thirty-two Paths of
Kabalistic theosophy, and that its summary explanation is in the Sepher Yelzirah; (d) that it is
the inspiration of all religious theories and symbols; (e) that its emblems are found on the
ancient monuments of Egypt. With the historical value of these pretensions I have dealt in
the text.

XIX Clefs Magiques et Clavicules de Salomon Par Eliphas Levi. Sq. 12mo, Paris, 1895.
The Keys in question are said to have been restored in 1860, in their primitive purity, by
means of hieroglyphical signs and numbers, without any admixture of Samaritan or
Egyptian images. There are rude designs of the Hebrew letters attributed to the Trumps
Major, with meanings--most of which are to be found in other works by the same writer.
There are also combinations of the letters which enter into the Divine Name; these
combinations are attributed to the court cards of the Lesser Arcana. Certain talismans of
spirits are in fine furnished with Tarot attributions; the Ace of Clubs corresponds to the Deus
Absconditus, the First Principle. The little book was issued at a high price and as something
that should be reserved to adepts, or those on the path of adeptship, but it is really without
value--symbolical or otherwise.
XX Les xxii Lames Hermetiques du Tarot Divinatoire. Par R. Falconnier. Demy 8vo, Paris,
1896.
The word Tarot comes from the Sanskrit and means "fixed star," which in its turn
signifies immutable tradition, theosophical synthesis, symbolism of primitive dogma, etc.
Graven on golden plates, the designs were used by Hermes Trismegistus and their mysteries
were only revealed to the highest grades of the priesthood of Isis. It is unnecessary
therefore to say that the Tarot is of Egyptian origin and the work of M. Falconnier has been
to reconstruct its primitive form, which he does by reference to the monuments--that is to
say, after the fashion of Eliphas Levi, he draws the designs of the Trumps Major in imitation
of Egyptian art. This production has been hailed by French occultists as presenting the Tarot
in its perfection, but the same has been said of the designs of Oswald Wirth, which are quite
unlike and not Egyptian at all. To be frank, these kinds of foolery may be as much as can be
expected from the Sanctuary of the Comedie-Francaise, to which the author belongs, and it
should be reserved thereto.

XXI The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum, interpreted by the Tarot Trumps.
Translated from the MSS. of Eliphas Levi and edited by W. Wynn Westcott, M.B. Fcap. 8vo,
London, 1896.
It is necessary to say that the interest of this memorial rests rather in the fact of its
existence than in its intrinsic importance. There is a kind of informal commentary on the
Trumps Major, or rather there are considerations which presumably had arisen therefrom in
the mind of the French author. For example, the card called Fortitude is an opportunity for
expatiation on will as the secret of strength. The Hanged Man is said to represent the
completion of the Great Work. Death suggests a diatribe against Necromancy and Goetia;
but such phantoms have no existence in "the Sanctum Regnum" of life. Temperance
produces only a few vapid commonplaces, and the Devil, which is blind force, is the
occasion for repetition of much that has been said already in the earlier works of Levi. The
Tower represents the betrayal of the Great Arcanum, and this it was which caused the sword
of Samael to be stretched over the Garden of Delight. Amongst the plates there is a
monogram of the Gnosis, which is also that of the Tarot. The editor has thoughtfully
appended some information on the Trump Cards taken from the early works of Levi and
from the commentaries of P. Christian.
XXII Comment on devient Alchimiste. Par F. Jolivet de Castellot. Sq. 8vo, Paris, 1897.
Herein is a summary of the Alchemical Tarot, which-with all my respect for innovations
and inventions-seems to be high fantasy; but Etteilla had reveries of this kind, and if it
should ever be warrantable to produce a Key Major in place of the present Key Minor, it
might be worth while to tabulate the analogies of these strange dreams. At the moment it
will be sufficient to say that there is given a schedule of the alchemical correspondences to
the Trumps Major, by which it appears that the juggler or Magician symbolizes attractive
force; the High Priestess is inert matter, than which nothing is more false; the Pope is the
Quintessence, which--if he were only acquainted with Shakespeare--might tempt the
present successor of St. Peter to repeat that "there are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio." The Devil, on the other hand, is the matter of philosophy at the black stage; the
Last judgment is the red stage of the Stone; the Fool is its fermentation; and, in fine, the last
card, or the World, is the Alchemical Absolute-the Stone itself. If this should encourage my
readers, they may note further that the particulars of various chemical combinations can be
developed by means of the Lesser Arcana, if these are laid out for the purpose. Specifically,
the King of Wands = Gold the Pages or Knaves represent animal substances the King of
Cups = Silver; and so forth.

XXIII Le Grand Arcane, ou l'occultisme devoile. Par Eliphas Levi. Demy 8vo, Paris, 1898.
After many years and the long experience of all his concerns in occultism, the author at
length reduces his message to one formula in this work. I speak, of course, only in respect of
the Tarot: he says that the cards of Etteilla produce a kind of hypnotism in the seer or seeress
who divines thereby. The folly of the psychic reads in the folly of the querent. Did he counsel
honesty, it is suggested that he would lose his clients. I have written severe criticisms on
occult arts and sciences, but this is astonishing from one of their past professors and,
moreover, I think that the psychic occasionally is a psychic and sees in a manner as such.

XXIV Le Serpent de la Genese--Livre II; La Clef de la Magie Noire. Par Stanislas de Guaita.
8vo, Paris, 1902.
It is a vast commentary on the second septenary of the Trumps Major. Justice signifies
equilibrium and its agent; the Hermit typifies the mysteries of solitude; the Wheel of Fortune
is the circulus of becoming or attaining; Fortitude signifies the power resident in will; t he
Hanged Man is magical bondage, which speaks volumes for the clouded and inverted
insight of this fantasiast in occultism: Death is, of course, that which its name signifies, but
with reversion to the second death; Temperance means the magic of transformations, and
therefore suggests excess rather than abstinence. There is more of the same kind of thing--I
believe--in the first book, but this will serve as a specimen. The demise of Stanislas de
Guaita put an end to his scheme of interpreting the Tarot Trumps, but it should be
understood that the connexion is shadowy and that actual references could be reduced to a
very few pages.

XXV Le Tarot: Apercu historique. Par. J. J. Bourgeat. Sq. 12MO, Paris, 1906.
The author has illustrated his work by purely fantastic designs of certain Trumps Major,
as, for example, the Wheel of Fortune, Death and the Devil. They have no connexion with
symbolism. The Tarot is said to have originated in India, whence it passed to Egypt. Eliphas
Levi, P. Christian, and J. A. Vaillant are cited in support of statements and points of view. The
mode of divination adopted is fully and carefully set out.

XXVI L'Art de tirer les Caries. Par Antonio Magus. Cr. 8vo, Paris, n.d. (about 1908).
This is not a work of any especial pretension, nor has it any title to consideration on
account of its modesty. Frankly, it is little--if any--better than a bookseller's experiment.
There is a summary account of the chief methods of divination, derived from familiar
sources; there is a history of cartomancy in France; and there are indifferent reproductions
of Etteilla Tarot cards, with his meanings and the well-known mode of operation. Finally,
there is a § on common fortune-telling by a piquet set of ordinary cards: this seems to lack
the only merit that it might have Possessed, namely, perspicuity; but I speak with reserve, as
I am not perhaps a judge possessing ideal qualifications in matters of this kind. In any case,
the question signifies nothing. It is just to add that the concealed author maintains what he
terms the Egyptian tradition of the Tarot, which is the Great Book of Thoth. But there is a
light accent throughout his thesis, and it does not follow that he took the claim seriously.
XXVII Le Tarot Divinatoire: Clef du tirage des Caries et des sorts. Par le Dr. Papus. Demy 8vo,
Paris, 1909.
The text is accompanied by what is termed a complete reconstitution of all the symbols,
which means that in this manner we have yet another Tarot. The Trumps Major follow the
traditional lines, with various explanations and attributions on the margins, and this Plan
obtains throughout the series. From the draughtsman's point of view, it must be said that
the designs are indifferently done, and the reproductions seem worse than the designs. This
is probably of no especial importance to the class of readers addressed. Dr. Papus also
presents, by way of curious memorials, the evidential value of which he seems to accept
implicitly, certain unpublished designs of EIiphas Levi; they are certainly interesting as
examples of the manner in which the great occultist manufactured the archaeology of the
Tarot to bear out his personal views. We have (a) Trump Major, No. 5, being Horus as the
Grand Hierophant, drawn after the monuments; (b) Trump Major, No. 2, being the High
Priestess as Isis, also after the monuments; and (c) five imaginary specimens of an Indian
Tarot. This is how la haute science in France contributes to the illustration of that work which
Dr. Papus terms livre de la science eternelle; it would be called by rougher names in English
criticism. The editor himself takes his usual pains and believes that he has discovered the
time attributed to each card by ancient Egypt. He applies it to the purpose of divination, so
that the skilful fortune-teller can now predict the hour and the day when the dark young
man will meet with the fair widow, and so forth.

XXVIII Le Tarot des Bohemiens. Par Papus. 8vo, Paris, 1889. English Translation, second
edition, 1910.
An exceedingly complex work, which claims to present an absolute key to occult science.
It was translated into English by Mr. A. P. Morton in 1896, and this version has been re-issued
recently under my own supervision. The preface which I have prefixed thereto contains all
that it is necessary to say regarding its claims, and it should be certainly consulted by
readers of the present Pictorial Key to the Tarot. The fact that Papus regards the great sheaf
of hieroglyphics as "the most ancient book in the world," as "the Bible of Bibles," and
therefore as "the primitive revelation," does not detract from the claim of his general study,
which--it should be added--is accompanied by numerous valuable plates, exhibiting Tarot
codices, old and new, and diagrams summarizing the personal theses of the writer and of
some others who preceded him. The Tarot of the Bohemians is published at 6s. by William
Rider & Son, Ltd.
XXIX Manuel Synthetique et Pratique du Tarot. Par Eudes Picard. 8vo, Paris, 1909.
Here is yet one more handbook of the subject, presenting in a series of rough plates a
complete sequence of the cards. The Trumps Major are those of Court de Gebelin and for
the Lesser Arcana the writer has had recourse to his imagination; it can be said that some of
them are curious, a very few thinly suggestive and the rest bad. The explanations embody
neither research nor thought at first hand; they are bald summaries of the occult authorities
in France, followed by a brief general sense drawn out as a harmony of the whole. The
method of use is confined to four pages and recommends that divination should be
performed in a fasting state. On the histor y of the Tarot, M. Picard says (a) that it is confused;
(b) that we do not know precisely whence it comes; (c) that, this notwithstanding, its
introduction is due to the Gipsies. He says finally that its interpretation is an art.