JUDGEMENT

The angel Gabriel emerges from the heavens blowing on his bannered trumpet, its seven basic tones indicated by the seven lines radiating from it.
This imperious blast is the creative Word that liberates Man from his terrestrial limitations.

The cross on the banner is the solar symbol of the balance of forces.

The coffins float on the sea of Cosmic Mind stuff, which is the ultimate goal of those streams and pools that began in the High Priestess and passed through many forms.

Snowy mountains beyond the sea are the heights of abstract thought.

~”The hour cometh and now is in which all they which are in the tombs [of human belief] shall hear his voice and shall arise.”~

This is the reawakening of Nature under the influence of Spirit, the mystery of birth in death.
The man arising from the tomb of world belief is again the conscious, the woman the subconscious, the child the regenerated personality.

Spirit has now fully clothed itself in Man, the Word has been made flesh and dwells amongst us. The one who has passed the tests (including the crucial last test) is always called the “twice-born.”

Key 20 is composed of two complete cycles of 10, each containing the experience of the 9 digits.

But unlike the first 10, in which 1 stands before the 0 of unmanifest forces, here we find 2, signifying that the Life-force entered into matter and was multiplied.

~”The Power belongs to him who knows”~
and he who knows is then responsible.
Therefore the Fool is the one who by effort and suffering has found the secrets of life.

Divinatory Meaning:
A life well lived, a work well done. Awakening, renewal. Legal judgments in one’s favor.
A change of personal consciousness, which is now on the verge of blending with the universal.

Reversed:
Weakness, disillusion. Fear of death; failure to find happiness. Separation, divorce. Possible loss of worldly goods.

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