Satan Transformed into an Angel of Black Light

The Great Hierophant or Pope wearing triple crown rather than horns of Isis

Arcanum V is the Great Hierophant, the High Priest Initiator into the Mysteries, seated between two pillars as the Master of Magic.  This man, says Mouni Sadhu, displays “the enlightened will-power, of the active authority, the human PENTAGRAM.” The tarot card illustration by our author shows this high priest, or Pope, as having the two horns and moon of Isis, whereas other tarot cards display a triple crown.  Holding the triple cross of the hierophant, which rises higher than the binary horns, indicates that this is the upright pentagram of White Magic.  Mouni Sadhu, in contrast to others, says that one of the two men kneeling at the feet of the Great hierophant is black, while the other is white. The Hierophant as a PENTAGRAM is “triumphant, together with all the powers of light, even over the forces of Darkness, compelling them to serve his GOOD aims”.

Arcanum V is represented by the Hebrew letter He’, the number five, and the hieroglyph “Breathing,” a symbol of life.  Here we see that Five represents the Tetragrammaton with the letter Shin added.  Shin is viewed as three cloven tongues of fire, the Divine Spirit, or the desire for knowledge and enlightenment, the Logos.  Mouni Sadhu tells us that “the Fifth Arcanum of the Tarot teaches us about the potential power or ability which exists in every one of us, and which creates our individual force, our active life.”  He poses the question, “How is it possible to create in us this human pentagram, this astral power?” To answer this he provides us with a systematic approach to developing the astral, mental and physical aspects of the individual man.  The primary key to unlock this enlightened will-power is the power of Concentration.

The use of occult numerology begins to get more interesting in Arcanum V, as five can be viewed as 1+4, 4+1, 2+3, or 3+2. A pentagram viewed in either an upright or an inverted position can mean the differences between the motives of a white or a black magician.

Upright Pentagram of White Magic

Inverted Pentagram of Black Magic or Incarnation from Logos or spirit to flesh

Mouni Sadhu notes that in an inverted pentagram, the 5=2+3 “symbolizes the obscuring of the absolute essence of the triple law by means of mirage-like, deceptive astral clichés.  This happens  because of the presence and activity of involutionary (that is, tending to a deeper  merging into matter) tourbillons (vortexes), and to them correspond  the dark beings, like:  black magicians occupied with work on the astral plane,” elementars who in between incarnations are looking for a physical body for their lusts, egregors , and astral scum such as larvas.

The pentagram with the formula 5=3+2 composed of the highest and middle principles of the Great Arcanum of Magic represents the white magician, spirit guides and egregors and elementars of the positive type.  The Great Hierophant is an upright pentagram of the highest sort, “the fully evolved pentagram…the man who has attained power over the elements and astral currents, that is, he is endowed with super-physical abilities, which make him a magician.”

Mouni Sadhu explains that the astral plane reacts to symbols.  Since beings on the astral plane do not have a body, unless they have access to a medium or other body, they do not see as we do. They most likely see energy patterns, thus when a magician aims to make himself into the Pentagram, he is then able to dominate the astral world by the power of the image he has created.

Fluorescent Minerals under a black light

The Bible notes that Satan is able to transform himself into an angel of light. My thought is that perhaps he appears as a black light on the astral plane.  For Matthew 6:22-23 says, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.  If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

The woes spoken against the scribes, and Pharisees, hypocrites in Matthew 23 appear also to be spoken against Arcanum V, for we see in verse 2 that Jesus is referring to the scribes and the Pharisees which sit in Moses’ seat as expositors.  The Greek word here for seat is cathedra, which reminds us of the Pope, to whom in verse 9, Jesus says to “call no man your Father on earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.”

I note that the seat of Moses was also a judgment seat.  Mouni Sadhu does not mention that there is an outline of a pentagram traced out in our solar system by the relationship of the orbits of Venus and Earth.   In 2922 days,  Venus orbits the sun  five times and the earth  eight times. Venus is also a symbol of Lucifer, who seems to hold the mastery and the power of Moses’ Seat, now that this righteous prophet is no longer here.  

Mention is made by our author of the warring of pentagrams and the sorcery involved in controlling other human pentagrams. It appears to me that the upright and inverted pentagrams, when in rotation, become indistinguishable, and create a vortex of black light.  Those persons who wish to kneel at the feet of the Great Hierophant will discover upon their death that they were unable to transform their fallen natures into what Adam was previously, before he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  If Lucifer cannot overcome his fall, how can man do so by following his  rebellious counsel?  The Bible refutes the karmic, reincarnation theology of redemption put forth by Mouni Sadhu, who in his book, is our Great Hierophant.

Jesus spoke to the Jews who considered themselves Upright Pentagrams, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there was no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”(John 8:44)

I will mention one more comparison to be made with the Great Hierophant, having to do with the Melchizedek Order.  Many persons have speculated that Shem was this high priest which Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils to.  Genesis 9:26 says in part, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem.  We are to note that the name of Noah’s son Shem means Name.  So here we see the combination of Jehovah, God, and Name. The high priesthood of Lucifer displays no conscience in stealing names and titles from God, whether it be to base their works on the Tetragrammaton, or to add Shin as the Holy Spirit, and steal the Melchizedek priesthood from Jesus Christ.

When Jesus Christ came from heaven as the WORD made flesh, according to Arcanum V principles, this represented an involutionary process of the Inverted Pentagram of Black Magic. Since the Great Hierophant arose to his high place by an evolutionary process and is represented by the upright Pentagram of White Magic, I suppose this is to signify that Satanic redemption is higher than God’s redemption of mankind. However the Bible declares in Hebrews 1:8-9 declares “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.  Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”

 

Sovereign over Creation

We now come to Arcanum IV, the number 4, and the Hebrew letter Daleth; the Emperor holding a scepter and a globe seated on a cubic throne.  His legs are positioned awkwardly forming the symbol of Jupiter,and his arms form the lower part of a triangle with the upper point designated by a triple crown on his head.

Jupiter

Triple Crown of Constantine

 

Mouni Sadhu points out that the hieroglyph of this card is the “breast” with the idea of feeding and of the accompanying authority.  Since this is a male figure, my first impression is that this represents God as provider of mankind in the world of his creation. But I am soon to have second thoughts as to who is sitting on this throne.

The triple crown as well as  the seat of authority displaying the sign of the Cross of the Great Hierophant on the breast of the eagle, are important symbols.  According to our author,  “he who wants to be an authority in a certain realm, must be acquainted with all three planes of that realm.” He notes that the “perpendicular stem of the Cross means the channel through which flows the current, passing through the three lower worlds, symbolized by the horizontal arms of the Cross”.  

This arcana is also referred to as the “cubic stone”, and so this emperor sits on a throne symbolizing the quaternary, the Tetragrammaton, or the whole of Hermetic philosophy.  Mouni Sadhu comments, “It is the general formula of each performed dynamic process in the universe.  In the language of the Gnostics we read:  The ACTIVE (male, expansive) principle (Yod) fecundates (vivifies) the PASSIVE (female, attractive) one, the He’.  From this union arises, or rather is born, the third element (Vau) which is androgynous.  NEUTRAL, borrowing, and transmitting that which is borrowed, down to the next cycle.  When this pattern is fulfilled, the conception of the First Family appears, as a finished cycle of manifestation.  Then we use the fourth letter, the second, active He’ as a recognition of the perfected creation, the created family, and from this comes the symbolization of the essentially passive He'(something made,  or arisen), which immediately becomes active because it begins  the new cycle, as Yod did in the first one.  This tetragrammaton is known as the Third Great Name of Almighty God. To this name the Kabbalah ascribes miraculous power, under the condition that it be rightly pronounced, which gives it the force of REALIZATION.”

I would like to draw a connection between this Third Great Name and the reference in Daniel 5 to the Third Ruler in the Kingdom of Babylon.  This chapter tells the story of the judgment of Babylon, that great city which was once ruled over by King Nebuchadnezzar, and later was ruled by his descendant Belshazzar. This historical account begins with a great feast given by Belshazzar where he and his lords were drinking from the golden and silver vessels taken by Nebuchadnezzar from the Temple of Jerusalem.

Verse 5 says, “In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.” The Bible here makes much of the observation that this “emperor” lost his composure and his knees began shaking.  The symbolism of the legs being crossed over in the sign of Jupiter quickly disappeared, and there arose a sign of great fear and loss of authority.  Of course the king cried to his astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers and wise men for an interpretation of the four part message written on the wall.  He promised that whoever could interpret the writing would be made the third ruler in the kingdom.

Now enters the queen who reassures the king that he need not fear, for Daniel, whom king Nebuchadnezzar named Belteshazzar, can show the interpretation. Daniel rejects the honors the king has promised, but says he will give the interpretation of the four elements of the writing: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.  What is important to this present discourse is the reason God is judging this king and his kingdom.

Daniel says to Belshazzar in Chapter 5:18-23, “O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: and for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.  But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:  and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and they took his glory from him: and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses:  they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.”

“And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:”  Verse 30 declares, “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain”. In addition, the kingdom which he ruled over was conquered by another Emperor, the ruler over the Persian empire.

Arcanum IV is tied to the number four, that of creation.  It is considered a stable number, and we see that the Great Pyramid has a square foundation.  Of interest to me is that when speaking of the Cherubim, four faces are mentioned, plus there four in number presently at the throne of God.  However, in referencing these four as representing Creation, most commentators fail to mention that there was a fifth cherub who represented the reptilian, amphibian class of creation.  That anointed cherub is Lucifer, who fell from heaven, when iniquity was found in him.

I would venture to say that Arcanum IV represents Lucifer, the god of this present world.  As the devil, he came as the Tempter of Jesus, who had just undergone a forty day fast in the wilderness.  Luke 4:4 shows Jesus answering the devil on his first challenge, “It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”  In all modern English translations of the Bible, “by every word of God” has been omitted.  Who would do that?

Verse 5 continues, “And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.  And the devil said unto him, “All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.  If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.”  And Jesus answered and said unto him, “Get thee behind me, Satan:  for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

Tarot Card 4 represents the breast, as provider of food.  We also see in the book of Revelation, that the world will be forced to worship the Antichrist upon penalty of death, in the form of beheading.  Believers in God, the true ruler over creation, will not take the mark of the beast, and therefore they are forbidden to buy or sell.  The food which God freely gives to all of creation will be restricted by the Antichrist.  Indeed it is already being restricted when the major seed companies only sell hybrid seeds which cannot reproduce themselves. The free seed given by the Creator is being controlled by Satan, and altered.  The Emperor of this Arcanum is an usurper sovereign over all creation.  Or is he? He may control much of the bread by which man lives, but he does not control every word of God.