One of the most wonderful combinations of the 7 and 9 properties is found in the Star Tarot of the Ancient Magi. This Star is composed of 2 equilateral triangles, one dark and one light, representing Darkness and Light of astronomy or the body and soul or physical and spiritual in nature.
Each triangle represents 3 from its geometrical quality. United by multiplication, 3 times 3 or 9. The tarot, or Magic Square in the center is a 3 times 3 tarot with nine as its central figure.
Upon each point of the star is seen an emblem card from the Mystic Test Book, which taken by spot values represents the sacred number 142857 in regular order as the earth moves about the sun.
The spot values of any two opposite emblems added together produce 9, the Central Card spot value.
The Quarter values added in the same manner make 5, or the 9 minus the quadrature or 4 in the square.
The Solar values and spirit values have like properties which will be taken up later.
The writer has spent days in study of this Mystic Chart and still finds new wonders upon nearly every examination of it. The combinations of 7 and 9 are truly wonderful, and show the product of a master mind.
We shall again produce it under the head of tarotology and perhaps a third time to illustrate the spirit of numbers and the spirit of potentials in medicine.
All this leads us to an intelligent consideration of the true nature and meaning of the symbolism used in the test book. We find that it consists of a union of the symbols of
