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II\TRODUCTION
TO
TAROT
Lesson
One
This
course
acquailts
you
with
Tarot
. . . one
of
the
most
effective
aids
o spiritual
progress
ever
bequeathed
o man.
All
human
progress,
o
matter
n what
field
of being
or
activify
it
may
be
manifested,
epends
n
spiritual
progress.
Man
does
not
live by
bread
alone
Even
as
we
rnight
ntroduce
you
to
a wise
and
helpful
counselor',
o
hese
Tarot
lessons
will
give
you the same
uplifting
benefits
which
we,
and
countless
othels
through
the
ages,
have
derived
iom
this
source
of wisdom
an'd
nspiration'
It
is not
our
purpose
o
give
you a mass
of
more
or
less
occult
knowledge
about
Tarot'
Mere
u'assimilatedknowledgenot put to practicaluse s no better hanundigestedood which,
no
matter
how
it rnay
please he
palate,
passes
hrough
the
system
without
nourishing.
So
in
this
coul.se
ou will
be
given instruction
in
the
practical
and
daily
use
of
Tarot,
for
only
through
such
usage
and
appiication
can
ts marvelous
and
ruly
magical
benefits
be obtained.
you
may
have
a long
history
of
academic
ducation,
r
you
may
not
have
inished
high
school.
You
may
have
a
r"ui
irrt"r"rt
in symbols,
01'you
may
think
symbols
are
of no
col1cern
to
you a1d
your
affairs.
You
may
have
a
good nemory,
or
a bad
o1e'
(If
it
is
a bad
one'
it will
soon
mprove,
plovided
you
use
Tarot
as
we
shall
explain
t')
You
may
be
a marvel
at
concentration,
or
,.rppor
yourself
to
be
the
world's
undefeated
mind-wandering
champion'
Begi'
to
use
Tarot
ust
where
you are
and
you will
effect
decided,
even
staftling,
changes
or
the
bettet'.
Accompanying
his
lesson
ou willfi1d
a
copy
of
HIGHLIGHTS
OF'TAROT,
and he
Tarot
Tableau.
When
you
cut
the
tableau
apart,as
yoll will
latel
on,
be
sure
o
preselve
the
parts
CNtitICd
HE
PATTERN
ON
THE
TRESTLEBOARD
ANd
THE
EMERALD
TABLET.
iN
HIGHLIGHTS
there
are
also
directions
or coloring
he
Keys;
but
we
recomlnend
hat
you
do
not
follow
these
at
plesent
as
his
will
come
atel
in Tarot
Fundamentals,
he course
which
follows
this one
und
givescomplete
nstructions
or
coloring
youl'Tarot
Keys'
We
have
included
he coloring
nstructions
n
the
HIGHLIGHTS
OF
TAROT
booldet
mainly
because
we
have
found
that
Jo
n'rany
of
our
members
wish
to
color
more
than
one
set
as
hey
advance
through he differentportionsof the Qabalistic eaching.Thereforehavingcoloring
instructions
ondensed
nto
one
area
s an
added
convenience
or
such
purposes'
If
anything
you r.ead
n HiGHLIGHTS
gives
you
the notior-r
hat
Tarot
is so
abstruse
and
occult
that
t
is
way
over
your head,
dismiss
hat
notion.
So
fal
fi'om
being
over
your head,
Tarot,
right
now,
is
in
youl
head
and
n
your heart-in
all
your mental
and
physical
make-up'
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If
you never
earn
a Heblew
letter. r
an astrological
i,,rnbol,
l
arrything
lse
n
the
lists of
attributions
given
n HIGHLIGHTS,
you
can
still
use
Talot successfully.
t
is not
at all
necessary
o learn
how
Tarot
s
put together'.
Somepeople,of course,wish to know asmuch aboutTarot aspossible, e., its history and
technical
construction.
ndeed
his is necessary
or
gainingcertainkinds
of more
advanced
esoteric
nowledge.Later
his
will
be
made
available
or
those
who
qualiff. Now,
however,
we shall
not
burden
your
rnemory
with a single fact
wliich
you
cannot
put
to
irnrnediate
and
practical
se.
You
have
hopes
and ears,
ongings
and rustrations.
You
have
problems
you'd
ike to solve.
You
may
be seeking
a better
ob.
Ol
it may be
that
your physicaiorganismseems
o be
in need
of
some
adjustment.
Whatever
may be
the
parlicularsituation
n
which
you
find
yourself,
whether
t be
good
or
bad,
you
wouldn't
be human
f
you
hadn't,
down in
your
heafi of
hearts,
a desire
or
a
greater
neasure f
fieedorn
han
you
now
enjoy.
Plecisely
hat
greater
reedom
s what
you
will
experience
f
you
gain
skill
in using
Tarot. To
do
so t
is necessary
o
practice,
and
he eariy stages
will requiresome
effort
and a
great
deal
of
persistence.
ll,
excepting hose
pathologicallysubnormal,
an eam
to use Tarot,
for it
is
based
on
a
principle
of
mental activity
colrrnon
to all.
It is a
principle
we have
all been
using
since
early
childhood.Thele
is nothing
new about
t
and nothing
unfamiliar.
The only
novelty
is
in
the
application.
The
principle
s this: all oul basic
hinking
s done
n
pictures.
We
see
befole
we say.Pictules
form
in
oul
minds before
we
label
hern
with wolds.
Sometimes
ur
picturesare
not as clear
as hey
might
be.
Usually
this
is
because
most
of our
schooling
puts
too much
faith
in the
sr-rpposed
irtue
of
mere
words. We spend
so much
time
reading
and
alking,
and so much of our
education
s no more
han earning
words
and
fonlulas
by rote,
hat we have
et
our
power
of
vision
fall
mole or less
nto disuse-to
our
great
disadvantage.
Whatever
nitial difficulty
you
may have
n learning
to use Tarot
rnay be
traced o the
bad
habit
of
thinking
in words
without being sure
hese
mental abels
are
attached o
any real
pictures.At this
point,
we saynothing
of the disastels
which
result
i'om
getting
wholly
mistaken
abels
on our mental
pictures.
Nor
shall
we discuss
as
yet
the
dangers
we invite
when
we
contentourselves
with hasty
mentalsnapshots
ften aken
with our
mental
cameras
out of
foctts.
Our
first steps
will be
very simple.
Begin by
using
he actual
Tarot
pictures.
Sit
in
a
comfortable
chair
and
give
five
minutes
everyday
o looking
attentively
at
one
of
the
twenty-
two
Tarot
Keys.
Do
this
preferably
n
the morning
as soon
as
you
have inished
dressing,
and
before
eating
breakfast. f
this is impracticable,
ny other
irne of day may be
selected,
o ong
as
t is approximately
he
satne
hour
everyday.
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Spend
ust
three
dayson
eachof
the Tarot
Keys.
Thus he
total time
givetl
to
Tarot
practice
dur.ing
his entire
course
will be
ust
fifteen
minutes
per
Key,
a total
of five
houls
and
thirty
minutes
over
a
period
of
eleven
weeks.Hence
nobody
can offer
the excuse
hat
he hasn't
ime
for this study.
Nobody
who reads
his lesson
an say
he hasn't
ive minutes
a day
o use
as
he
likes.
And
precisely hat,
and no lnore,
s all the
irne
you have
o
set
aside or
the actual
practice
of
looking
at the Keys.
It
is
important,
n fact,
not to spend
more
than five minutes
at
this.
That
anytliing
so apparently
easy
should
ploduce remarkable
esults may
seem
hatd to believe.
But
the wise men who
inventedTarot
hit
upon
a
simple way
to
overcome
a difhculty
which
besets
vely
person
who tries
o control his mind.
For
thousandsof
years
t
has been
known that
extraordinary
powers are atent
in every human
beingand hat thesepowersmay be directedby anybodywho cankeephis mind frorn
wandering.
Thus we
have whole
libraries
of books
about concentration,
and the more
we read
the
more
does t seem
hat concentration
must be
a
very difficult
matter.
An
old
Oliental
writer says
we are close
o adeptship
when
we cankeep
a
single
mage
before
the mind's
eye or
just
a few
minutes.To
accomplish
his without extemal
aids s
very
difficult.
Thus
Tibetansand
Hindus have
picfures
called
mandalas which
are
used
as aids
o
concentration.
magesof
the
gods
serve
a similar
puipose.
Tarot
s
a device
which consists f
picturesdesigned
n a.ccordance
ith the
actualopelation
of rnan's nental activities. Look at a Talot Key attentively for five minutes. During this time
yow
state
of
consciousness
ill be similal
in fonn
and content
o that of a
gleat
Adept as
he
contemplates
some aspect
of his own
mental
activity. Furthermore,
hrough the
agencyof
this
I(ey
and rnage
and
your
contemplation
f it,
youl
consciousness
ill automatically
begin
to
tune n
to the consciousnessf
thoseof high
spilitual
estate
. . evetl o
the Adepts of
the
Inner
School.
You
may not become
awareof
this
immediately, hough some
do. However,
patienceand
perseverance
ill
inevitablybring
theil reward
and
probably
sooner
han
you
expect.
We
caution
you
not to devote
more han
ive minutes
at
a
time
to the
practiceof
looking
at
any one
Tarot
Key. You
are not
yet
an adept.Thus
your
brain s
not at
present
adjusted
o
canying the full load of an adept'sconsciousness bout anything whatever.
Holding
one of
theseTalot Keys
n
youl
mental
ield
for five minuteshas
a definite
and
beneficent
hysical
esult. Do not
try to increase
he benefit
by longer sessions
with the Key.
We
have
given
a reason
n the
preceding aragraph, nd
his is
only
one of several.
Among
others
s what
science
alls lie law of
diminished
eturns.Some
coal will feed a srnall
ire.
More
will
increase
he heat.Too
much will smother
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Read
his
week's
esson
at least
wice
duling
the
coming
week,
and as often
as
you
Inay
find
it
necessaly
o make
sure
hat
you
undelstand
t thoroughly.
Read
t
whenever
ou
find
a
good
opportulity.
Don't
make
harcl
work of
it, or of
any'thing
lse
counected
with
your
Talot
study'
Above
all
don't
ty
to cotumit
anything
o
memory.
When
you receive his
lesson,
ook
at
Key
0 duling
the
five
minutes
so as
o
get
a
genelal
impr.ession
f
the
design.
Next
day
give
a little
more
attention
o
the details.
The
third
day
see
if
you can
ind
anything
not
mentioned
n
the blief
paragraphs
f
description
n
HIGHLIGHTS
and n
this
lesson.
f
you
do
see
anything
hat seems
o
be important,
or
that
rouses
out'
cur.iosity,
make
a
note of
it
and
ask
yourself, What
does
his
mean?"
Sooner
or
later
you will
get he
right
answer
and
t
will
cotne
rom
within-
Dur-i1g
he
first
weeks
he results
may
not
be
particularly
mpressive.
Sometimes
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you
are really
what is
called
an
"advanced
soul",
there
s nothing
else
hat
interests
you.
All
wisdorn
s
the
matured
experience
f
those
who
obey
he
njunction,
"Know
Thyself."
All
ethics ests
on
the
same
oundation,
ol
uobody
who
is wanting
n self*nowledge
can
practice he GoldenRule.All science, o matter n
what field,
has
he same
basis
and
he
iame
objectives.
Fol
whatevel
science
he
human
ace
possessess
th.e ollective
esult of
the
research
and
invention
of
human
selves,
and
every
force
lffiown
to
physicists
and
chemists
s a
folce
at
work
inside man
as well as outside
hirr.
The
Wheel of
Tarot
is really
the
wheel of
irumal
nature.
By keeping
his always
n mind
you will avoid
making
Tarot
a
mere
set of
pictorial syrnbols.
KEY
O.THE
FOOL
In your HIGHLIGHTS OF TAROT you have reada brief
explalation
of
this
Key,
and in
the
Table of
Attribltions
of
the
sarneboolclet
you
u,ill find
that
the
Fool is
the Tarot
picture
of
superconsciousness
nd of
cultuml
power'
If
any of
the other
details
mentioned
n the
booldet
happen
o
stick
in
your
memoty,
well and
good;
but
make
no
endeavor
o
cornmit
o rnemory
any of
the
matelial
n HIGHLIGFITS.
You
may see
he reason
or some
of
the attributions.
Others
may
seem
al-fetched.
You
will,
howeveL,
ind
in
the foilowing
paragraphs
ll
you
need
o lanow
n order
to lay
a foundation
for
thoroughunderstanding f KeY0'
All
the
Tarot
I(eys
irave
wo
distinct
levels
of
interpretation.
There
s the outer-,
uperficial
significance
which
may
be
seen
at
a
glance.
Then
there
s the
deepet,
nnet
meaning
which
may
be
brouglrt
o the surface
of consciousness
ithout
efforl
or stlain
by
the simple
act
of
loolcing
attentively
at
the
Key'
Super-ficially,
he
Fool
is a
picture
of
a heedless,
ky-gazing
man,
ust
about
o fall
from a
gr.eat
eight
nto
a
deep
abyss.
t corlesponds
xactly
o
all
proverbial
wisdom
conceming
he
folly of havingone'shead n the clouds.
Even
if
yog
get
no
furlhel
than tiris
with
Key
0,
it has
a valuable
lesson.
One
does
run the
risk
of
grave dangers
when he
is
so
engrossed
with
actual
or
rnetaphorical
sky-gazing
hat
he
pays
no
attention
o his
present
ituation.
Tirus
he
first
lesson
of
Tarot
s
this:
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Don't
project
yourself
so
far
into
the future
hat
you lose sight
of
where
you
are'
Dreams
and
visions
and
cleals
ave
heir.proper
lace;
but
he
who
loses
hirnself
n
the
contemplation
of
airy
nothings
unfits
himself
for
dealing
with
the
plactical
affairs
of
life.
At the deepel evel of interpretation,he Fool is a picture of what we mustuse n all our
endeavors
o
attain
a
gleater
measure
f fieedom.
Valious
names
have been
given
to
this
power.
You may
call it any
of those
isted
n
HIGHLIGHTS.
You
may
term it
God.
You
may
call it
yonr
real
Self.
Names
are only
labels,sonte
better,
some
worse,
han
others.
Keep
on
gsing
he
one
you
are
accustomed
o
unless
some
of
those
given
n our
booklet
seem
o come
nearer
o beir-rg
dequate.
The
more
mpoftant
hing
to have n mind
as
you
look
at Key 0
is that
it is
leally
the most
perfectand
most
complete
aspectof
yourself.
t
is
the
part
of
you
which
is above
and
beyond
your
external
personality.Above
and
beyond
your
thinking,
conscious
mind.
Part of
your
vely
Self,
rernelrber-or
even
more truly,
the Whole of
you,
of
which mind,
body,
and
all else
entering
nto
your
seemingly
separate
elsonality
arebut
parts.
This
is a
picture
of
the absolutely
iee and
petfect
Being
which
is
the anirnating
principle
and
core
of
your
outel
personality. t bears
he
number
Zercbecause
is
by
no
ilIeans
a symbol
of
mere
nothingness.
In
occult
adthmetic,
0 stands
ol absolute
Unity,
for that
One
Reality
which
is before
all
beginnings.
This
is nothing
we know
directly.
We cannot
sense
t,
We caruiot
define
t. We
ca1lot
prove
that it
really
exists
because
t
is beyond
all
our
logic
and our
reasoning
ust
as t
is beyond
every other
conceivable
imitation.
Yet
the unauimous
epolt
of
the wise
is tliat
this
One Life-power is a realpresencewhich pervadeshe universe,andThoseWho Know bear
witness
hat,
beyond
knowledge
of the
ordinary
sort,
and beyond
he
imits and
definitions
of
logic,
there
s
possiblean
experience
f
this Eternal
Youth
whose
ife runs
hrough
creation
and
s the
fount of
vitaiity for
all lesser
ives.
Closer
examination
of the
pictue
will
show
you that
though
he Fool stands
lose
o the
edge
of
a
pr.ecipice,
here
s room
for
him
to talce
another
step
otward.
The esotelic
radition
vhich
has
come
down
to us frorn
the
original
nventors
of Tarot
says
his
detail of
the symbolisrn
signifies
an
eternal
ruth.
No
matter how
far
the
Life-power
may
advance,
t can always
take
another
step.
On
the
personal
evel
of interpretation,
s t applies
o
you,
this means
hat
you
never come
o
the very
limit
of
your possibilities.
Sometimes
ou
may
wander
nto
a blind
alley,
but
even
then
you
can always
etrace
oul
steps
a
little
and come
o a
place
whele
further
progress
s
possible.
The1e
are
profound
metaphysical
nd
philosophical easons
or
the seiection
of
the
title
of Key
0.
We
need
not entel
nto
them
here.
Yet
one
reason
s obvious.
Men of
sr.rper-ior
ision
are
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usually
ooked
upon
by their
contemporaries
s being
rather oolish,
Every
greatprophet,
every
great
nventor',
very
great
discoverel
has
been
eered
at.
Here
t rnight be
well to
add
hat t does
not
follow
that
every
omfool
is really
a rnan superior
to
his fellows.
We
must not
fall into the
en'or
of tl,ose
plirnitive
tribes
who regard
madmen
as
being
divinely inspired.
A
good
nany
supposedly
ivilized
persons
eem
o
embrace
his
error,
even
oday.Consider
he hypnotic
effect
of a Hitler
or a Mussolini
upon
their
deluded
followers.
Glance
at
the advefiisements
n
the religious
page
of
any
metropolitan
newspaper
and
you
can see
ol
yourself
hat
psychosis
s often
rnistaken
or
prophecy.
During
the three
days
you
look
at the
picture
of
the Fool,
makeno
conscious
effort to
interplet
the symbols.
f
an dea
comes o
you,
make
a note of
it.
Provide
yourself with a loose-leaf
otebook.
Don't
make
any special
endeavor
o fill
it. An
idearnay
come o
you
any
ime
and
you
can
ot
it down on
a
piece
of
paper
or
the
back
of an
envelope.As you plogresswith this wolk you'll find youlself taking a little tirne, one or two
evenings
a week,
o look
over
your
notes
and add
o them.
nterest
grows
with attention
and
the
longer
you
work
with the Tarot Keys
he rnole
will they intrigue
you.
The rnain
practical
use of
I(ey
0
is
to
put
you
in touch with
your
irurer
sources f
power.
After
you
have
ooked
at the actual
picture
ol
tluee
consecutive
ays,
you
will find
that
you
can
slrmrloll
it before
youl
mind'seye
easily.
Just
hink about
t and
you
will
see
t.
Thr-rs
ou
can hoid
youl
mind
to this
parlicular
olm
whenever
ou
desire.
And
you
will find
tirat even
a momentary
glimpse
of this
gay
raveler
hrough
he higher
spaces
will
give you
a
1ift.
Try
it
whenevel
you
are beset
by a mood
of depression.
on't
try to suppress
he
mood. Just
look
at the
Fool. Look
at the actual
picture and
keep
t
handy.
Glance
at
it mentally
f
you
are
away
iom
home.
Soon
actualexperience
will convince
you
that somehow
here
s always
a
positive reaction.
We
might
take
pages
o
explain
he
psychological
easons or
this, and f
you
are one
of those
who
want to know
why Tarot
works
its wonders,
ou
will have
plenty
of
opporlunity
o
learn
as
you progress
n
the B.O.T.A.
curriculum.
Just
now,
it
is
more
mportant
o
icnow hat
it
does
work
and his sirnple
and easy
practicewiil soon
convince
you
that hele
is an almost
magicalpotency n this picture. t is a sureantidote or depression.
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KEY 1. THE
MAGICIAN
With tliis Key, the principle of contrastwhich runs tlx'oughout
the Tarot
series onles
nto operation.
Every Key
is in
some
sense
he opposite
and
complementof
the one which
precedes
it. Also,
the twenty-two
Keys fall into
elevencontrasting
airs:
0 and
1,2 and3,4
and
5, andso on.
The
contlastsaLe, s a
rule,
quite
obvious.
Thus
a magician,or
wise
man,
s
clearly
n
contrast o a fool. The Flebrew
etter
,
Beth,
printed
on
Key 1,
suggests
he sphereof
human ife,
and
the family affails
which
go
on
indools,because
t means
"house".But the letter N, Aleph, on Key 0 means Bull" or
"Ox",
and has o do
with what
goes
on in a field
outside
he
s1:ecial
imitations of
human
environment.
Again, the number
1 is
the numbel of Beginling,
but 0
is the
sign
of the absolute
Unity
which is befole all beginnings.
n the
Bible,
the very
first
letter
of
Genesiss
5, and n the Zohar, one
of
the
principal
collectionsof
profound
Qabalistic
nteqpretations
f tl'reScriptures,
much
is
made
of
the distinction betweeir
Aleph
as he ilst
letter of
the alphabet,
nd Bcth, with
whicir,
says
he
Zohar, creationbegan.
Comparison
of the
two
pictures
sirowsmany
other
contlasts.
The Fool stands
on a barren
height;
he Magician
n a
garden.
The Fool
is evidently
preoccupieci ith his
vision of a
distant
height, ar beyond
him,
acloss he
abyss.The
Magician
s concerned
with what
goes
on
in his
immediate
vicinity
and he looks down
towald
what is below
him. The
Fool's
possessions re
not in use
and he
canies
hern
n a
wallet slung over
his shoulder.
Tire four
implernents
of
the Magician
are spread efore
him on
his table
and hus hey
are eady
at hand
to
useas occasion
rises.
Perhaps
he most mportant
detail
of
Key 1 is
the
position
of the Magician's
hands,With
his
right
hand he lifts
a wand
upward towald the
sky. FIis
eft hand makes
he universal
gesture
of
attention,pointing lvith extended orefinger toward the fertile eafih at his feet.
The Magician,
herefoLe,s a syrnbol
of what
psychologycalls
self-conscious
wareness, l'
objective
mind. This
is the ordinary
waking
consciousness
f
humanbeings.
t is the
plamring
mind,
the
mind which
comes
o
grips
with
our daily
ploblents,and ts basic unction
is
attention.
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Alert watchfulness
s the
key
idea
of
this
picture.Hele
is a
replesentation
f
what
wise men
see
with their
rnind's
eye
when hey
consider
he nrental
tinction
of
concentratiou.
o
your
inner
consciousness
his
Key says:
"Be aler1.Remember hat all the
power
you
can
direct
cotnes rom
a higher
level. Malce
t
your first
concern
o relate
yourself
o
that Source
of
power'.Your
place
n
the scheme
of
things
s
to act
as a transformer
of energy.
Force
lows
through
you
to whatever
you
give yout'
full
measule
of
attention,
Nothing
can withstand
the
mental
force of one
who has
mastered
he
aft
of
concentration.
et
concentration
s as easy
as
pointing
your
finger.
t is only
fools
and
charlatans
who
are responsible
or
the effoneous
notion
that thele
is anything
particularly
difficr"ilt
about
concentration.
Just
watch, and
keep
at
it. Then
you will be able
to
see
hu'ough
and
nto
the things
which
constitute
oul
envirorunent,
nstead
of
merely
ooking
at
them'"
As
HIGHLIGHTS
says, he
garden
epresents
he
subconscious
ield whence
colne
he hidden
power.s
man may
direct
n his
quest
ol
increased
i'eedorn.
hese
powersare
symbolizedby
the ilies and roses.The lilies stand or valiousaspects f truth and o this their white color
also
efers.
The
rosesare
symbols
of human
desires.
There
are oul
lilies
because
ll
possiblehurnan
knowledge
alls
into
four main
categories.
o
explain
his
here
would be
to
go
beyond
he range
of this
introductory
course,but
we mention
it
to show
hat every
detail
of
Tarot
symbolism
hasa
definite
meaning.
There
are
ive roses
because
very
object
of human
desile
has
eiation
o one or
more of
the
five
major
senses.
Modern
psychology
addsother
senses
o the fivefold
classification
which
was
current
when
Tarot
was
invented;
but
for
all
practical
purposes t is accurate
o
say hat
the fulfillment of anyhunr.a:resire ncludes he bringingabout
of
conditions
which may
be
experienced
y
our
senses.
The
Magician
cultivates
hese
lowers.
He
imploves
hem,
and by force
of his
control
of
their'
developmelt
takes
hern far beyond
he
conditions
spontaneously
rovided by
natule-
He
is
a
tlansformer
and
trapsmuter
of expelience.
Taking
things
as
he finds
them,
he
watches
until
he
perceives
he under.lying
rinciple at
work
in
what
he observes.
hen he
applies
hat
principle
in
novel
ways
so
as o
ploduce
a different
situation.
This
is the
whole
method
of
science,
nd
he four
irnplements
n tlie
Magician's
able refel
to
the
means
employed
n meeting
and
dealing
with
the actual
conditions
of
human
environment.
The
first mealls
s
symbolized
by the
wand.
Tiris
is
simply
a
pointer
and s really
an extension
of
the
pointing forefinger.
Tlie
first
lequisite
or
the solution
of
any
problem s to
give
it one's
full
attentiol.
Every
probierncontains
ts own
solution
and
hat solution
s
perceivedby
attentive
observation.
Such
s the beginning
of
all science.
Simple
watching.
USOBO
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The
cup stands
or
the second
mental
ool.
This is
imagination.
Observation
ollects
experience.
nagination
shapes
t as
a cup shapes
what is
poured nto
it. Mrat
we
call
"laws
of
nature"
are simply
man's
collected
experiences
made
nto a
pattern
by
actsof
imagination.
The third means s action, ypified by the sword.We may know a gleatdeal rndwe may have
fine
perceptions
f relationships,
ut
until
we do something,
othing
s changed.Our
action
invariably
ears
down something
n order
o
replace
t with
something
else.No matter
how
constructive
we may be,
his is
tt-ue f all
effective
action'
Persons
who talk
abouthaving
nothingbut
constructive
houghts
aremaking
meaningless
noises.
You
can'tbuild
a houseunless
ou
cut down
trees,
or
quarry
stones,
or
take clay
and
mould
it
into bricks. You
can't
paint
a
picture
unless
ou
take
he color
out cf
the tubes.
The
statne
never appears
until
the sculptor cuts
away
the stonewhich
hides the figure
he
has
imagined.
Controlled
and
wisely dilected
destruction
s the
principal tool of civilization.
Finally,
there s
the finished
product,and
his is
represented
y a coin because
verything
made
by
man's
ngenuity
has
value.Nor should
we petmit oulselves
o indulge
n the silly
scom
for
money which
finds spurious
support
n
a bad
ranslationof
a
passage
n the Neu'
Testament.
Poverly
s no mark
of spirituality.
Moley
is
a wonderful
nvention,
and
when rightly used,
a
blessing.
n spite of
what the
King
James
Version
says,nowhere
does he
Bible condemn
money.
What
it does
condemn
s
lust
for money.
Lust
and ove
are
poles
aparl.
To love
anything
or
anyotle
s to have
respect
or
that
hing
or
person,and ove insures
proper
egard
or
right use.He
who lusts
or things
or
persons s
a stranger
o love,
seeking
only selfish
personal
gratificationand having
no
proper
understanding f the objectof his basedesire.
Thgs
he
coin is
one
of
the most
rnporlantsymbols
n
this
picture.
For no
small
parl
of
the
sorrows
of
our day
may be
traced
o two
great
errors,
ust for
money and
contempt
or
it.
Those
who have
a
proper
espect or
this device
whereby
all values
naybe measured,
s all
values
n
science
are measured
y
means
of rnathematics,
nderstand
hat money
s
one
of the
greatest
uman
devices
or the
plomotion
of
the
genelal
welfare.
The
time
will
come
when
this measure
f
value
will be
used
aright,because
hosewho
love
justice
and
rnanl