venicebard said:
I take it you refer to the paper Namadev refers to . . . (I respond in pieces, not having the ability to read the entire paper at one throw):
2nd Installment. In part B the article states:
Faber said:
The first section (of social estates) can extend from 5 to 5+3 trumps (1 to 5 and 6 to 8). The second section (of human conditions) can begin with 3+5 cards (6 to 8 and 9 to 13), or it extends to a 3+5+3 trumps (6 to 8, 9 to 13, and 14 to 16). The third section (of cosmological or eschatological estates) may begin with 3+5 trumps (14 to 16 and 17 to 21), or contracts to just the last five trumps (17 to 21).
This alternation between 3 and 5 reminds me that these two numbers represent, in the deepest layer of Hermetic science and Qabbalah, Temple-pillars Jachin and Boaz, respectively, death and birth (last and first letters of ogham), the only two runes that retain their tree-names (yew and birch). Jachin is the spine, while Boaz is the front column of the body, broken off at the sternum to allow the womb to enlarge.
Then he concludes with the mystery of the balance through Force:
[1] 1+1, 2+1, 2+1, 2 ← 1 → 2, 1+2, 1+2, 1+1 [1]
Yet here, what we see is merely the pattern imposed on the trumps by the interesting cohesion of 2-5-8-11-14-17-20 all being religious symbols, which I hadn't quite realized till I read this, having not thought of the Star as religious (silly me). But yes, the matrix of the trumps certainly
is the spiritual symbols 2-5-8-
11-14-17-20, with Force as fulcrum or mirror.
He ends up by extolling the virtues of the balanced view (through mirror XI), which as I see it has little or nothing to do, in the end, with Fibonocci. However, the trumps
do delineate profound science, of which his series forms part: I have always taken the ending at XI to be related to this series, as well as the fact that the creature residing
beneath the World (the Devil) is XV, both on the central vertical axis of reality's wheel. Moreover, VIII Justice is also on this axis, being what
rules the World (i.e. the law of cause-and-effect or
karma). Indeed the fact that V and III and II are
not on the central vertical axis has a very simple explanation: they are the sign of the knower in the thinker, the sign of the thinker in the doer, and the sign of the doer in the doer, respectively, and the self
is out of balance. Finally, I LeBateleur
is the central vertical axis in a sense, being the center of the wheel of the doer and the upward impulse thereon (as alef, the silver fir, the eagle [in Egyptian] climbing to great heights, the ox [in Semitic] powering the pump pulling water up from the water table to irrigate the land). Even LeMat is in one sense 'on' the central vertical axis, as it represents the shoulder-level horizontal atop the triad pointing down (water's primordially, though air's in astrology) when this is seen as having R to the outside (toward nature) and L to the inside (toward self), symbolizing right and left (being the only two non-nasal liquids).
Interesting (to me at least) that the only three in the Fibonacci series
not properly balanced on the wheel of the doer (and Cauldron in which it sits) stand at the signs of the three parts of the self.
Much of interest in the article so far, but rather wordy, and a bit stretched in logic methinks.
