Expresses in the spiritual world, the perpetual movement of life.
In the intellectual world, the combination of ideas which create the moral life.
In the physical world, the combination of the forces of nature.
Remember, then, son of earth, to conserve thy forces, not to recoil at thy works, but in
order to wear out obstacles, as water, falling drop by drop, wears away the hardest
stone. If Arcanum XIV should appear in the prophetic signs of thy horoscope, a well
formulated plan of action followed perseveringly will raise thee by degrees to the
heights thou wouldst attain.
In Divination, Arcanum XIV is Regeneration or Temperance.
Arcanum XIV is figured by the genie of the sun holding a golden urn and a silver urn,
and pouring from one to the other the conducting fluid of life. The genie is crowned
with flame to indicate that it is a spirit; and its feet are winged to signify its rapid
movements. The fluid transferred from one urn to another is the symbol of
transmutation; and the eight rays of the sun which show behind the genie’s head
signify that the positive, or masculine, forces of the universe are exactly equilibrated
by the negative, or feminine, forces. The cloak over the shoulder of the spirit
indicates the perpetual fecundation of matter, as symbolized by the cloak, by spirit.
This ensemble pictures the combination and interchange of masculine and feminine
forces throughout nature, working ceaselessly in all kingdoms, as the instigators and
cause of all movements and life. From the Sacred Tarot by C.C. Zain, published by The Church of Light,
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