The Fool, then, symbolizes what Dr. Waite, in his Key to the Tarot, calls “the state of the first emanation.” He is the primary aspect of universal consciousness, which we term superconsciousness. He is the the cosmic Life-Breath, about to descend into the abyss of manifestation. (Paul Foster Case, The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, Penguin, 1947-2006, p 35-36, part of an 8 page chapter.)
Paul Foster Case (author) and Jessie Burns Parke (artist)
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1929
Students are instructed to color the cards, similar to the process from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Used with permission of Builders of the Adytum, Ltd.
