Western Tarot symbolism
Judgment
An angel blows a bannered trumpet as men, women, and children rise. The commentary presents the response as a completed work of transformation, not only as a literal resurrection scene. The call is heard and answered within. The divinatory list offers change, renewal, and outcome, keeping the practical oracle register distinct from the inner account.
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Principal account
LiteraryAn angel blows a bannered trumpet as men, women, and children rise. The commentary presents the response as a completed work of transformation, not only as a literal resurrection scene.
Further detail
LiteraryThe call is heard and answered within. The divinatory list offers change, renewal, and outcome, keeping the practical oracle register distinct from the inner account.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. Its symbolic descriptions and divinatory lists are distinct registers, and neither provides a guaranteed prediction.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
summons of the Supernal—which summons is heard and answered from within. Herein is the intimation of a significance which cannot well be carried further inOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Western Tarot symbolism; active reader leaf 81
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- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0081
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- 86
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- 86
- Current Reader position
- 81
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- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
a lesser sense. 20. The Last Judgment.—Change of position, renewal, out- come. Another account specifies total loss through lawsuit. Reversed: Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; alsoOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Western Tarot symbolism; active reader leaf 149
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- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0149
- Original scan leaf
- 155
- Recorded leaf number
- 155
- Current Reader position
- 149
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
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