The Hierophant
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(1909 Tarot deck images courtesy )
He wears the triple crown and is seated between two pillars, but they are not those of the Temple which is guarded by the High Priestess.
Hierophant. From the Greek Hierophantes, literally "he who explains sacred things"; a title belonging to the highest adepts in the temples of antiquity, who were the teachers and expounders of the Mysteries, ...
HIEROPHANT (Vav)
The Spiritual Hierarchy (or Knight-King) is the source of Wisdom. We are all connected to this Fellowship (more or less consciously) through the medium of our soul.
A FEMALE HIEROPHANT OF THE MYSTERIES.
From Montfaucon's Antiquities.
This illustration shows Cybele, here called the Syrian Goddess, in the robes of a hierophant.
The Hierophant makes the actual links both with himself and with the reservoir of power set apart for the work of the Masonic Brotherhood, and through himself with that Mighty King whose representative He is, ...
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; ...
Generalis): "Proclus was illustrious as an astronomer; he was the first among the philologists of his age; he had so comprehended all religions in his mind, and regarded them with such equal reverence, [viii] that he was as it were the hierophant ...
These Names are invoked during the four Elemental Grade Ceremonies (initiations) by the Hierophant of the Golden Dawn in the Outer.
Volume two consists of Zalewksi's commentaries on the rituals, as well as anecdotal accounts from his teacher Jack Taylor, a 7=4 and long-time Hierophant under Mrs. Felkin.
During the Aquarian age, the aim of the Christ, Maitreya, the Hierophant at the first two initiations, will be to initiate millions of people, in group formation, into the Hierarchy.
A problem with having all the answers is that all the other hierophants also have all the answers, and so the eleventh Aethyr is the Holy City with its mighty walls and towers and motionless legions guarding against the terrible powers of the Abyss, ...
So, for example, the Hierophant, number five, rules the fives in all four suits, while the Chariot stands behind all the seven cards, the Justice underlies the eights, the Hermit upholds the nines, and the Wheel personifies the tens.
"...our brother, Mr. T. Subba Row, the most learned occultist in India at this time, a disciple of the Himalayan Hierophants..."
(H.P. Blavatsky 1883) [1] ...
In a sense, Blaise is the inner self of Merlin. When the mysteries are complete, Merlin reports to Blaise, who then records the details of the Quest. Truly he is the Hierophant of the mysteries of the Grail and the triple crown belongs to him.
9 For instance, the initiation ritual for the first grade of Neophyte, one of if not the most important of the rituals, incorporates props and scenery (banners, scepters, lighting, etc.), characters (various officers like Hierophant and Kerux), ...
Mantegna Modern tarot Mantegna Modern tarot 1 BEGGAR FOOL 36 FORTEZA STRENGTH 3 ARTISAN MAGUS 37 IUSTICIA JUSTICE B KING HIEROPHANT 43 VENUS THE LOVERS 9 EMPEROR EMPEROR 44 THE SUN THE SUN 10 POPE PRIESTESS 45 MARTE THE CHARIOT (N.B.
 See also: World, Spirit, Symbol, Ritual, Spiritual
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