Mouni Sadhu says “We have reached the last great Arcanum, the crown and peak of the whole system of the Tarot...The Twenty-second Arcanum is that of the Great Operation, allowing the passage to the Minor Arcana through the Wands suit.” He gives the ternary titles as ABSOLUTUM, ADAPTATIO OPERIS MAGNI, OMNIPOTENTIA NATURALSIS. This card is known as The World, or as The Magic Crown. The twenty-second Hebrew letter TAV corresponds to this trump, with a numerical value of 400. TAV means mark, as a sign of a covenant, and its pictograph is a cross.
This trump is described by our author as, “In the centre of the card triumphantly dances a naked woman, slightly touching the serpent with one foot. It is the metaphysical synthesis of the Absolute Truths, which do not need any protection, and which put the one, who so far has arrived at these truths, beyond all deceit. This is the highest manifestation of the Archetype accessible to our mentality’s perception. That is why the first title of the Arcanum is ABSOLUTUM. I repeat, this is not a hook on which we can temporarily support ourselves on the steep path to the mystery of the Great Metaphysical Arcanum. THIS IS THE ARCANUM ITSELF, a synthesis of the metaphysical bases of the world’s life.”
This woman holds two rods parallel to each other, because “she possesses the mystery of the binary and operates freely in the astral realm, which is represented here in the form of the great serpent (Nahash, of course) surrounding the figure and biting its own tail. So its circle is a closed one, and it is no longer dangerous for the victorious dancer in the centre”. Mouni Sadhu explains that this woman is as Shiva, in the Hindu religion.
Dancing Shiva, or Sheva, is the six-armed Indian god of death known as the shatterer of worlds. In the recent history of America, Robert Oppenheimer used this image of Sheva to describe his participation in the releasing of the destructive power of the atomic bomb. But as Ecclesiastes 10:11-12 points out, “Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself”. As the prior Arcanum dealt with the Fool, what inbuilt safeguards does the Tarot have which disallow the Fool from wearing the Magic Crown?
The safeguard which God has built into the power of his redemptive work through Jesus Christ is this: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9) Further, I Corinthians 2:9-16 says, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
Mouni Sadhu says that the person who has reached this point in the Arcana is a person without guile. But how does a person who deceitfully handles the Bible become a guileless soul? The Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:2-4 declares, “But (we) have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
The question Mouni Sadhu seems to avoid is this: “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:26)
Once two sons of Aaron accompanied Moses up a mountain. Exodus 24:9-11 says, “Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.” And similar to the judgment revealed of Mouni Sadhu, Leviticus 10:1-2 says, “And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense theron, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.” This is but the return blow hitting that magician known as “Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.”(Proverbs 21:24)
Isaiah 28:16-17a says, Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet…” Those who without fear of God, take the chief corner stone of Isaiah 28:16 and The Just Balances as the foundational basis for perfecting wickedness are in great error. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness who hold the truth in unrighteousness;” (Romans 1:18)
Remember Judges 5:23, “Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.”
And finally, Proverbs 21:22 says, “A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.”
MOUNI SADHU UNMASKED 