Abrac
The previous thread on this subject seems to be reaching a natural conclusion and the others are getting very old, so I thought I'd start a new one to share some ideas I've had recently.
DIN is a primitive root meaning to rule or (by implication), to judge. It's the root of Adonai, meaning ruler, lord, or sovereign. Of The Magician Waite says, "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.
I've been looking at those three panels on the edge of the table and the dove or bird is obvious. The next two aren't as clear. It looks to me like the center one is a river, or two branches of a river flowing into a body of water.
Middle Panel
If it is, then the last one must be mountains. They're very wavy and I've had a hard time deciding if they're mountains or water. But many of the other mountains Pamela drew are also wavy, it just seems to be her style.
I believe only three panels were intended and they correspond to Salt, Mercury, and Sulphur. Salt/Solidity/Mountains, Mercury/Fluidity/Water, and Sulphur/Energetic/Bird. Or they could also correspond to the Material world, Emotional (Psychic) world, and Mental world respectively. What makes me think this is because of something Waite mentions in his comment on Temperance, "...it is the analogy of solar light, realized in the third part of our human triplicity." And in his comment on The Magician, "It is also the unity of individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought, in the fixation thereof."
DIN is a primitive root meaning to rule or (by implication), to judge. It's the root of Adonai, meaning ruler, lord, or sovereign. Of The Magician Waite says, "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.
I've been looking at those three panels on the edge of the table and the dove or bird is obvious. The next two aren't as clear. It looks to me like the center one is a river, or two branches of a river flowing into a body of water.
Middle Panel
If it is, then the last one must be mountains. They're very wavy and I've had a hard time deciding if they're mountains or water. But many of the other mountains Pamela drew are also wavy, it just seems to be her style.
I believe only three panels were intended and they correspond to Salt, Mercury, and Sulphur. Salt/Solidity/Mountains, Mercury/Fluidity/Water, and Sulphur/Energetic/Bird. Or they could also correspond to the Material world, Emotional (Psychic) world, and Mental world respectively. What makes me think this is because of something Waite mentions in his comment on Temperance, "...it is the analogy of solar light, realized in the third part of our human triplicity." And in his comment on The Magician, "It is also the unity of individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought, in the fixation thereof."