The Magician THE CHIEF INDEX OF THIS RECONSTRUCTION IS THE AWAKENED PINEAL GLAND. THE HIGHEST FUNCTION OF MERCURY, THE MIND, IS TO AWAKEN THE PINEAL GLAND AND, BY ITS USE, BRING DOWN THE WHITE LIGHT FROM THE WHITE PLANE INTO OUR PHYSICAL BODIES. This card shows THE MAGICIAN, and of course a magician is a man who works magic. The modern magician is not a magician at all; he is only a slight of hand man. He does things so quickly that he deceives the eye, and he knows how to distract the eye while he does it, so that the eye does not perceive when he does it. He performs tricks with his hands which deceive our eyes. A magician, in our modern association, means a man who presents an illusion to make you believe it. This card shows THE MAGICIAN bringing down the WHITE LIGHT, the Force from above to transfuse and transform his house (his body). Not only can he transform his body, but by passing the WHITE LIGHT through his transformed body, he can transform his more distant environment. All nature has the same composites as the subconscious, and the subconscious is what is transformed. Our environment begins with our house, our body. THE BODY IS THE HOUSE OF THE MIND. THE MIND IS THE HOUSE OF THE WILL. So your first house is your mind, your second house is your physical body, and your third house is outside your physical body. When you affect the animal, plant, and mineral bodies that surround you, it is called a miracle—but a miracle only means a change that is worked by an unknown force. If we use this force to control other human bodies or to get anything for ourselves, it is called Black Magic as distinction from White Magic. The same force is used and the same force is brought down. When it is used with guilty design or to enslave other human beings to our Will, or to fetter their Wills in the least way, it is employed for evil and not for good purposes. So you see the motive of its employment is what constitutes the difference between White Magic and Black Magic; the force is the same. There is no moral quality in a force. The moral quality is, instead, in the motive. In THE FOOL’S hand is a White Rose and the meaning of this is purified desire. The Five Roses in THE MAGICIAN’S garden are not WHITE but BLACK. Remember, black magic is just as much a magic as white magic. YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE PURIFIED DESIRE IN ORDER TO BE A MAGICIAN. Now, what does THE MAGICIAN do to bring down the White Light? The basis of all occult magic is the use of the sex force.
