Richard
RWS Courts on the ToL
I ran across this interesting passage in an article written by Waite, apparently after he had commissioned PCS to do the RWS. It was no surprise to find that he considered the Pages/Knaves to be female, positioned at Malkuth, and that the Queens are at Binah. However, the Kings are positioned at Chokmah, and each Knight is spread over the Sephiroth from Chesed to Yesod. Of course, he may have changed his mind about this during the creation of the RWS.
He is thus associating the Kings with Yod of the Tetragrammaton. Since the element of Yod is Fire, Knights would seem to be more appropriate. I think he may be confusing himself by using the old terminology. Kings are indeed Yod in the Golden Dawn system, but the GD Kings are equivalent to what Waite calls Knights: They are on horseback.
I ran across this interesting passage in an article written by Waite, apparently after he had commissioned PCS to do the RWS. It was no surprise to find that he considered the Pages/Knaves to be female, positioned at Malkuth, and that the Queens are at Binah. However, the Kings are positioned at Chokmah, and each Knight is spread over the Sephiroth from Chesed to Yesod. Of course, he may have changed his mind about this during the creation of the RWS.
Had Levi understood Sephirotic Kabalism better, again he could have done better by affirming – as it would have been easy for him – that the French damoiseau had replaced a primitive damoislle, the Squire Court-card being really feminine. He could then have allocated correctly as follows: the King to Chokmah, the Queen to Binah, the Knight to the six lower Sephiroth from Chesed to Yesod inclusive, governed by the semi-Sephira Daath, and the damoiselle to Malkuth. He would have found also this manner a complete correspondence between these Trumps Minor and the four letters of the Tetragram.
Waite, A.E. (2009-01-21). Mystic Fire - Rosicrucian Writings of A. E. Waite (Kindle Locations 1518-1519). Cornerstone Book Publishers. Kindle Edition.
Waite, A.E. (2009-01-21). Mystic Fire - Rosicrucian Writings of A. E. Waite (Kindle Locations 1518-1519). Cornerstone Book Publishers. Kindle Edition.
He is thus associating the Kings with Yod of the Tetragrammaton. Since the element of Yod is Fire, Knights would seem to be more appropriate. I think he may be confusing himself by using the old terminology. Kings are indeed Yod in the Golden Dawn system, but the GD Kings are equivalent to what Waite calls Knights: They are on horseback.