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In this symbol I have again followed the
reconstruction of Éliphas Lévi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate--as
I have intimated--to use Egyptian symbolism when this serves our purpose, provided that no
theory of origin is implied therein. I have, however, presented Typhon in his serpent
form. The symbolism is, of course, not exclusively Egyptian, as the four Living Creatures
of Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card, and the wheel itself follows other indications
of Lévi in respect of Ezekiel's vision, as illustrative of the particular Tarot Key. With
the French occultist, and in the design itself, the symbolic picture stands for the
perpetual motion of a fluidic universe and for the flux of human life. The Sphinx is the
equilibrium therein. The transliteration of Taro as Rota is inscribed on the wheel,
counterchanged with the letters of the Divine Name--to shew that Providence is imphed
through all. But this is the Divine intention within, and the similar intention without is
exemplified by the four Living Creatures. Sometimes the sphinx is represented couchant on
a pedestal above, which defrauds the symbolism by stultifying the essential idea of
stability amidst movement.
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