What does the Tarot card Death

 Pay attention to the unity of several arhitepicheskih ideas in the quoted passage - the idea of death, as the bearer of new life, dive into the abyss, and agricultural fertility rate, traditionally associated with both the Eleusinian mysteries, and with Saturn, which originally was the god of fertility. Remembering the tenth Arkan representing arhitepicheskuyu idea of fate (not to be confused with the idea of karma), then death would be the lowest point of the wheel, which rushes down Typhon, holding in front of Ankh - symbol of eternal life. Death - the decay and rot of the old, out of which will inevitably grow new shoots of life.

But the mystery of death as a natural cycle, conceals an even more important secret - the mystery of evolution. Here is what the great Sufi mystic:

"I was stumbling, but he died and became a plant.

I died as plant and animal has,

I died as animal and became a man

Why should I fear, is death ever robbed me?

And as a man I'd die to become an angel

But even an angel, I'm not forever

And I will in due course that can not even imagine my mind. "

In this regard, useful to look at the number of Arkan's a slightly different angle. The figure "13" is not only the number of fatalities, but also the beginning of a new cycle. Twelve hours, twelve months and twelve signs of the zodiac, oriental calendar also consists of a cycle in 12 years. Thirteen here - a synonym for "first". On the other hand, the thirteenth hour, the hour that is beyond time, on the other side. No day and no night, no light and no darkness, the thirteenth hour, placed on the other side, and from there the cold wind blows Saturn. I want to draw attention to how the value of this card is different for the ordinary man and a magician. For the average person, worse than no map, and it's not a death, for all tarologi in one voice say that physical death is almost never associated with this card. But the state naked of Saturn, in the power of a scorpion, and psychologically able to withstand not everyone.

For the magician, on the contrary, this card is a desirable deliverer, and not by accident Saturn on the tree of life is a bean, which is both a great mother, Babalon, the union of which leads to the destruction of the false ego and rebirth in a fundamentally different quality. Speaking on the Thirteenth Atu e should note his paradox. As we know from astrology, Scorpio is the sign as close to death, but the most passionate, the most sexual of the twelve signs. At the same paradox points to the statement already quoted Crowley on the relationship of the eleventh and thirteenth Arcana, where Death is a direct continuation of "lust. Eleventh Arkan corresponds Babalon as the life that had been carefully analyzed, but the thirteenth Arkan, has the same Babalon, but in the aspect of death. The correctness of this correspondence also indicates that the third Sefira on a tree - the Bean, is both Sephirah Saturn Sephirah where is the palace of Babalon, on the other side of life and death.