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XV - The Devil...The GoatDescription of the Illustration:Above a dark threshold is a stunningly beautiful angel with horns like a goat whose chest is emblazoned with an upside down pentagram. The Fallen Angel of Light hovers above the twins from the Lovers card, who are now shackled to each other as well as to all the errors from their lives that they have desperately tried to justify rather than to face. With one hand Lucifer lovingly pets a beautiful shaggy mountain goat, while the other hand points meaningfully at the couple as though to say, "As you sow, so shall you reap." The planet Saturn floats above Lucifer's head like a crown. The upper left sphere is black (Binah) while the lower right sphere is yellow (Tiphereth). Element: Earth, Feminine, Receptive, Cardinal sign
ScapegoatThe Devil is only hideous from one vantage point; in most situations, the Devil actually seems sweet, seductive, and captivating. The Twin sides of the Fool (both his masculine and feminine) must face the Law of Karma, for as he has sown his seeds, so he shall reap.To the uninitiated, the Devil appears to imprison the Fool in the material world. Upon meeting the Devil face to face, however, the Fool finally recognizes that he has used the Devil as a scapegoat to avoid recognizing his own actions of delusion and self-annihilation. The greatest lesson of the Devil is not bondage, but release, for once the Fool confronts his own duality and the shame of his own fall, he sheds the illusion of incarnation as a prison and experiences for the first time the ecstatic love and adoration of all things in the physical realm, no matter how marvelous or base.
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