These cards are attributed to Malkuth.
Here is the end of all energy; it is away from the “formative world”
altogether, where things are elastic. There is now no planetary attribution to
consider. So far as the Sephira is concerned, it is right down in the world of
Assiah. By the mere fact of having devised four elements, the current has
derogated from the original perfection. The Tens are a warning; see whither it
leads- to take the first wrong step!
The Ten of words is called Oppression.
This is what happens when one uses force, force, and nothing else but force all
the time. Here looms the dull and heavy planet Saturn weighing down the fiery,
ethereal side of Sagittarius; it brings out all the worst in Sagittarius. See
the Archer, not shooting forth benign rays, but done its work; it has done its
work too well; it did not know when to stop; Government has become Tyranny. One
thinks of the Hydra when one reflects that King Charles was beheaded in
White-hall!
The Ten of Cups is called Satiety. Its
attribution is Mars in Pisces. The watery sign has sunk into a stagnant dream,
but in it broods and breeds the violent quality of Mars, to putrefy it. As it
is pleasure has been crowned with perfect success; and constantly it is
discovered that, having got everything that one wanted, one did not want it
after all; now one must pay.
The Ten of Swords is called Ruin. It
teaches the lesson which statesmen should have learned, and have not; that if
one goes on fighting long enough, all ends in destruction.
Yet this card is not entirely without
hope. The Solar influence rules; ruin can never be complete, because disaster
is a sthenic disease. As soon as things are bad enough, one begins to build up
again. When all the Governments have smashed each other, There still remains
the peasant. At the end of Candide’s misadventures, he could still cultivate
his garden.
The Ten of Disks is called Wealth. Here again
is written this constantly recurring doctrine, that as soon as one gets to the
bottom one finds oneself at the top; and Wealth is given to Mercury in Virgo.
When wealth accumulates beyond a certain point, it must either become completely
inert and cease to be wealth, or call in the aid of intelligence to use it
rightly. This must necessarily happen in spheres which have nothing whatever to
do with material possessions, as such. In this way, Carnegie establishes a
Library, Rockefeller endows Research, simply because there is nothing else to
do.
But all this doctrine lies behind the
card; it is the inner meaning of the card.
There is another view to consider, that
this is the last of all the cards, and therefore represents the sum total of
all the work that has been done from the beginning. Therefore, in it is drawn
the very small cards, is what the twenty-first Trump, The Universe is to the
rest of the Trumps.
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