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Tarot and Kabbalah

Chapter 94: Arcanum 8

The Arcanum 8 of the Tarot

The Eighth Arcanum signifies strong ordeals; it is rectitude, justice, equilibrium. One must seek for performing good deeds at any cost, because the masters of medicine, when in regards to someone who is sick and is dying, always intend to save that person because this is the law. They accomplish the duty of performing good deeds.

The initiatic ordeals are enclosed within the Eighth Arcanum.

Kabbalistic Sephirah: Hod

Hebrew Letter: Chet ח

Transcendental Axiom: “Thou shalt edify an altar within thy heart, but thou shalt not make an altar of thy heart.”

Forecasting Element: Guarantees retributions, punishments and rewards, gratitudes and ungratefulness, compensations for given services.


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