I had trouble finding an image on the internet which met the drawing specifications of Mouni Sadhu’s tarot card for Arcanum 19, called The Sun. The image on the left is the closest representation, except the ball held on our author’s card does not have the yin/yang imagery. Qof is the nineteenth Hebrew letter, numbering 100.
Mouni Sadhu says this, “This Nineteenth Arcanum is the first of the transitional triangles of the Tarot’s system. The first eighteen are the trumps proper, belonging–as we already know from previous lessons- to the world of fallen humanity. But the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first (0) and Twenty-second are the steps to the Minor Arcana, which are the scheme of the PRIMORDIAL world, as unspoilt by the downfall. These last four mysteries of the Tarot are less extensive in their meaning, but they are also less nebulous, and more exact, speaking about very definite periods in human evolution and its conditions.”
He further explains, “The Nineteenth Arcanum, cutting through the ominous darkness of that sun-hiding roof of the eighteenth, allows us to see the light, to get hope of progress, of future perfection and Reintegration in the world of the Minor Arcana. Tradition tells us that the Law of Hierarchy will lead us through the ‘roof of dialectic” to the contemplation of the fruitful and fertile Light of the ULTIMATE TRUTH OF BEING.”
The ternary titles for this trump are Fruitful Truth-Human Virtue-Gold of the Philosophers. Thus we see that Alchemy is an important aspect of Arcanum Nineteen. And we must note that Qof in the Bible is used twice, to mean apes. Making any connection yet? Instead of turning lead into gold, perhaps apes are turning into humans.
Mouni Sadhu relates the image of the children on the card to Matthew 18.3 wherein Jesus is quoted as saying, “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” No doubt this is why the Shriners run around in parades in America aping the play of little children in little gold cars. But John 12:40 warns, “He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.”
And John 15:22 says, “If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not sin, but now they have no cloke for their sin.”
MOUNI SADHU UNMASKED 