All the points from the Magi card around to the left, form the sacred number that we gave on page 23 in the emblems of wisdom, which represents one-seventh of the number of the Infinite.
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The spot value of this row is just equal to 3 times 9, or 27, the same number that constitutes the sum of each row in the central tarot. But the solar values add up 144, the occult number 12x12 used so much in the mystic books of the Bible.
But, now observe the vast difference between the spirit values of the sacred number and the tarot. While the former=44+40+54+80+84+70, which equal 872 or 12 times 31, the latter, or tarot lines are but 126.
| TAROT SOLAR VALUES | TAROT SPIRIT VALUES. | |||||
| 12 | 33 | 21 | 31 | 63 | 32 | |
| 31 | 22 | 13 | 43 | 42 | 41 | |
| 23 | 11 | 32 | 52 | 21 | 53 | |
The solar values add 66 against 144 on the points, while the spot values are the same. Again, take the cards on any two opposite points, light plus dark, positive and negative, and they invariably add up the same on all the points, thus we find that as different as the various values are, the co-ordinations are so perfect that each opposite pair of points
