TAROT FUNDAMENTALS

Lesson Forty-seven

A Month Of Tarot Practice

You now possess knowledge required for your further progress. You know
the fundamental
enough about each Tarot Key to enable you to grasp more advanced instruction. Yet to make
Tarot serve you as it should, you need to become even better acquainted with it. In the hands
of experts, it is a powerful instrument for self-transformation and self-mastery. Yet even the
greatest adepts in its use once knew less about it than you do now.

Do not make the mistake of trying to review Tarot Fundamentals at this time. You don't repeat
the formula of introduction every time you meet a new acquaintance. No, you watch his
behavior every time you see him in a different set of circumstances. You get toknow him
by hearing what he says and seeing what he does. So it is with Tarot.
better The best way to
broaden and deepen your knowledge of it is to see it from as many different points of view as
possible.

In the courseyou are now finishing, you have been taught the alphabet of a universal
language. Through symbol and color you will have developed an increased awareness of your
self-conscious and subconscious processes. Many of you will already have had flashes of
Superconscious states of being. Having come this far, do not sit down by the wayside in order
to attempt greater understanding of the alphabet.

In the next course, Developing Supersensory Powers, you will learn how to use the Tarot Keys
in a way that can change your life immeasurably. In Superconscious states, we many
see
apparently separated aspects of life as a Whole, and the deeper, underlying meaning of many
things in our life becomes clear to us. The next course aims at helping you to develop this
state of awareness and teaches you how to apply these insights in your daily life. The
Meditations given in this lesson will prepare you for the more intensive Tarot training which
is to follow.

Remember, you can arrange two Keys (using them all in each arrangement) no
these twenty
less than one sextillion ways. The exact number is 1, 124, 000, 727, 777, 607, 680, 000.
There are innumerable other groupings, in which only part of the series is used. Thus the total
number of possible arrangements is practically infinite.

Every combination has its own special meaning, calls forth its own particular subconscious
response, and brings to the surface of your mind some fresh perception of relationships
between ideas and things. Thus every combination helps you to organize your mind and
enables you to knit more closely the fabric of your thought.

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In the following pages you will find twenty four combinations. Use one each day, six days a
week, beginning the Monday after you receive this lesson. Do no work on Sundays except the
recitation of the Pattern.

Begin by picking out the Keys selected for the day. Put them before you.

SUPPLEMENT

Study them carefully in relation to one another. Then read the meditation aloud.

The Meditations have potent suggestive power. Every meditation is completed by a key
sentence for the day, printed in capitals. Write this on a slip of paper and carry it with you
during the day. As the day passes, repeat it at least three times.

By carrying out this instruction carefully, you will accomplish several desirable results. You
will charge your subconsciousness daily with seeds of creative thought. You will also review
the entire series of Tarot Keys from a fresh point of view. You will begin to understand from
actual experience how wonderfully Tarot can aid you in living the liberated life.

After you have completed the four weeks practice you will be ready to send your answers to
the Proficiency Test at the end of this lesson. This will enable you to check your grasp of
TAROT FUNDAMENTALS.

The tools are now in your hands. You have learned what they are. You now begin to do the
work which will enable you to be what you want to be, do what you want to do, and have
everything requisite to that being and doing. From now on, you begin to live your daily life
more fully in accordance with the principles and laws symbolized by the Tarot Keys. Your
feet are firmly planted on the Way of Liberation.

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MEDITATIONS

Day 1: Keys 0 and 1

Life limitless flows through me to complete its perfect work. The power which
guides all things finds in me an open channel of expression. Receiving that
power freely, I freely give to all things and creatures in the field of existence
surrounding me.

THROUGH ME LIFE ETERNAL TRANSFORMS ALL THINGS INTO ITS

LIKENESS.

Day 2: Keys 2 and 3

The law of truth is written in my heart; all my members are ruled by it.
Through my subconsciousness, I am united to the Source of all wisdom, and its
light banishes every shadow of ignorance and fear. I share the perfect memory
of the Universal Mind, and have free access to its treasures of knowledge and
wisdom.

THE PEACE OF THE ETERNAL, AND THE LIGHT OF ITS PRESENCE, ARE
WITH ME NOW.

Day 3: Keys 4 and 5

The Mind that frames the worlds is ruler of my thoughts; I listen for its
instruction. Through me the One Life sets its house in order, and makes known
the hidden meaning of its way and works. It arms me against all appearances
of hostility, and by its revelation of truth I meet and solve the problems of this
day .

DIVINE REASON GUIDES MY THOUGHT AND DIRECTS MY ACTION,

THROUGH THE INSTRUCTION OF THE VOICE OF INTUITION

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Day 4: Keys 6 and 7

The healing radiance of the One Life descends upon me; it fills the field of my
whole personal existence with heavenly influences of strength and peace. All
the force of my being is rightly disposed, for I yield myself utterly to the sure
guidance of the One Will which governs all things in their true relationships
and proportions, and my words, expressing this clear vision, are words of
power.

THIS DAY I THINK AND ACT WITH TRUE DISCRIMINA TION, FOR MY
PERSONALITY IS A VEHICLE FOR THE LORD OF LIFE.

Day 5: Keys 8 and 9

My strength is established, and I rejoice, for I am one with the single Source of
all power. Nothing is, or can be, my antagonist, for I am a perfectly responsive
instrument through which the Primal Will finds free expression. The subtle
vibrations of cosmic energy work together for my liberation, and even
now the
Hand of the Eternal leads me step by step along the way to freedom.

EVER Y FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE IS AN OBEDIENT SER VANT OF THE

ONE IDENTITY MY O WN TR UE SELF.

Day 6: Keys 10 and 11

One power spins electrons round the nucleus of an atom, whirls planets round
suns, expresses itself in all cycles of universal activity, yet remains
ever itself,
and perpetually maintains its equilibrium. The sum-total of the revolutions of
the great universe, including all activities, is inseparable from the successive
transformations of energy which make up my life history. Every detail of my
daily experience is some part of a cosmic cycle of adjustment and
transformation.

THE WHIRLING FORCE WHICH MOVES THE WORLDS IS THE MOTIVE

POWER IN ALL MY PERSONAL ACTIVITIES, AND ADJUSTS THEM ALL TO
RIGHT USES.

Day 7: Use The Pattern Only

Day 8: Keys 12 and 13

I do nothing of myself. These thoughts and words and deeds are but
ripening
of the seeds of past activities. Every phase of my personal
existence depends
utterly on the motion of the One Life. Therefore I am
free from fate, free from

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from death, since what I truly am can suffer neither decay

accident, free even
nor change. By knowledge of truth I reverse all former pain bearing errors.
The darkness of ignorance passes away, and the light of a new day dawns in my
heart.

I SUSPEND THE ERROR OF PERSONAL ACTION, AND THUS DISSOLVE

THE LIE OF SEPARA TION.

Day 9: Keys 14 and 15

Recognizing every detail of my

experience to be the operation of the One
life
Life, I perceive that every appearance of adversity must be, in truth, a mask
worn by that same One Life, to test my power to know it, even through the
most forbidding veils. Like a wise teacher, the One Life sets me problems, that
in the solutions I may receive renewed proofs that nothing whatever may be
excluded from the perfect order of the Great Plan.

THA T WHICH WAS AND IS AND WILL BE IS THE ONL Y REALITY. THIS
DA Y I SEE THE FACE OF THE BELOVED BEHIND EVERY MASK OF
ADVERSITY.

Day 10: Keys 16 and 17

Iam awakened from the nightmare of delusion, and now the truth that God,
Man and Universe are but three names for the One Identity, is clear to me. Fear
makes some men build them prisons which they call places of safety, but he
who has seen the vision of the Beloved has in his heart no room for fear.

/ NEED NO BARRIERS OF PROTECTION, FOR THE LIFE OF ALL

CREA TURES IS MY TRUEST FRIEND.

Day 11: Keys 18 and 19

My feet are set upon the path of liberation, which shall lead me far from the
limits of the world of sense illusion. I follow the Way of Return, as a child
turns its face homeward at the end of the day. I do not see the end of the road,
for goes beyond the boundaries of my present vision, but I know the sun
it

shines there, and that joy is there, for I have heard the messages of
encouragement sent back by those who have gone on ahead.

MY EYES ARE TURNED TO THE HEIGHTS. I PRESS ON TOWARD THE

NEW LIFE OF A NEW DA Y.

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Day 12: Keys 20 and 21

The Life of the heavens is manifested in me, here on earth. The fire of right
knowledge bums away the bonds of illusion, and the light of right
understanding transforms the face of the world. Through me the Perpetual
Intelligence which governs all things administers its Perfect Law.

MINE IS THE LIFE ETERNAL, TREADING THE JOYOUS MEASURE OF THE

DANCE OF MANIFESTA TION.

Day 13: Keys 0, 1 and 2

This “self consciousness” of mine is the means whereby the cultural power of
the One Life may be directed to the field of subconscious activity. Its primary
function is that of alert attention. As I watch closely the sequence of this day's
events, their meaning will be transmitted to my subconsciousness, there to
germinate in forms of right knowledge and right desire.

TODA Y I AM ON THE ALERT.

Day 14: Use The Pattern Only

Day 15: Keys 3, 4 and 5

My personal world is as I see it. If the images rising from my

subconsciousness are consequences of my faulty perceptions of other days, the
new knowledge I have gained will help me detect and destroy them. By being
thus ever on the watch, I shall set my world in order. Thus, too, shall I make
ready to hear the Voice of Intuition, which will enable me to my
solve
problems when I am face to face with appearances of disorder which my
reasoning will not set straight.

I SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE.

Day 16: Keys 6, 7 and 8

Consciousness and subconsciousness work together in my life, as harmoniously

balanced counterparts. I yield my whole personality to the directive and
protective influx of the One Life. The mighty forces of vibration below the
level of my self consciousness are purified and adjusted by the Master Power of
which I am a receptive vehicle.

HARMONY, PEA CE AND STRENGTH ARE MINE.

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Day 17: Keys 9, 10 and 11

The will of the Eternal guides me to perfect union with the One Identity. Every
detail of my daily experience is in truth a revelation of that Will through the
cycles of its expression. What I do now is inseparable from the cosmic
sequences of manifestation which establish the reign of justice throughout
creation.

THE ONE POWER, MANIFESTING THE PERFECT ORDER OF THE

UNIVERSE, KEEPS ME POISED THROUGH ALL CHANGES.

Day 18: Keys 12, 13 and 14

Every detail of my personal activity is really some part of the operation of the
cosmic life. Today I reap the fruit of thoughts and words and deeds of other
days, and pass on to better things. I am guided, moment by moment, by the
overshadowing presence of the One Identity.

MY PERSONALITY DOES NOTHING OF ITSELF, PASSING FROM STA GE TO

STAGE OF ITS GROWTH, BY THE POWER OF THE ONE LIFE, TOWARD
THE GOAL OF FREEDOM.

Day 19: Keys 15, 16 and 17

Every appearance of adversity and antagonism is an evidence of faulty vision.

Let me be freed today from the delusion of separateness, and let my eyes be
opened to the white splendor of the Truth of Being.

I REJOICE IN MY PROBLEMS, FOR THEY STIMULATE MY

CONSCIOUSNESS TO OVERCOME ERROR, THAT I MAY SEE THE BEAUTY
OF THE DIVINE PERFECTION.

Day 20: Keys 18, 19 and 20

Every cell in my body

animated by the cosmic urge to freedom. I turn my
is

back upon the limitations of the past, and face courageously toward the new
way which opens before me.

MY VERY FLESH IS THE SEED GROUND FOR A NEW LIFE, FREE FROM
BONDAGE TO TIME AND SPACE.

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Day 21 : Use The Pattern Only

Day 22: Keys 1,2 and 3

I amnot deceived by the manifold illusions of sensation. I

remember
continually that these appearances are but reflections of
a Single Reality. My
subconsciousness, by its power of deductive reasoning, develops
the seed of
right observation into a rich harvest of wisdom.

ALERT AND CONCENTRATED, I SEE CLEARLY, MAKE CLEAR AND

DEFINITE MEMORY RECORDS OF EXPERIENCE, AND THUS COLLECT
MATERIAL FOR THE GROWTH OF TRUE UNDERSTANDING.

Day 23 : Keys 4, 5 and 6

The empire of the Universal Order includes the province of my personal

little
existence. All experience teaches me the perfection
of the Great Plan.
Consciously and subconsciously, I respond to the perfect
Wisdom which rules
all creation.

THROUGH ME THE ONE LIFE ESTABLISHES ORDER, REVEALS THE

SIGNIFICANCE OF EVERY PHASE OF MANIFESTATION, RIGHTLY
DISPOSES AH THINGS.

Day 24: Keys 7, 8 and 9

The One Life lives through me. Its vital fire pervades my being. Its unfailing
Will sustains me continually.

THE MASTER PRINCIPLE OF THE UNIVERSE, DWELLING IN MY HEART

PURIFIES AND PERFECTS ME, AND LEADS ME TO THE HEIGHTS
O
UNION WITH ITSELF.

Day 25: Keys 10, 1 1 and 12

The revolutions of circumstances in the outer world are

manifestations of the
One Power seated in my heart. That Power maintains its perfect
equilibrium
through these sequences of cause and effect.
all
My personal activities have no
existence apart from that Power.

THE WHEEL OF LIFE REVOLVES ROUND THE CENTER OF PURE SPIRIT

PRESENT EVERYWHERE, AND THEREFORE CENTERED IN MY HEART. ’

THIS UNMOVED MOVER OF ALL CREATION IS MY UNFAILING

STAY.

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Day 26 : Keys 13, 14 and 15

Out of the darkness of the unknown comes the power which sets me free. The
Way of Liberation stands open and free. I face this day's tests with joyful heart

AS I DIE TO THE OLD PERSONALITY, FULL OF DELUSION, AND FACE

THE UNKNOWN FUTURE BRA VEL Y, CONFIDENT OF SUPPL Y FOR EVERY
NEED, MY FEARS DISSOL VE IN THE CLEAR SUNLIGHT OF RIGHT
UNDERSTANDING.

Day 27 : Keys 16, 17 and 18

Let others imprison themselves in their towers of false knowledge. I will be

free! Let others dread the workings of our Mother Nature. I will love all her

ways Let others be servants of the body which they hate, because they are its
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slaves. make
I will it my servant and love it for its faithfulness in responding to
my commands!

Day 28 : Use The Pattern Only

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You are now ready to check your progress by means of the Proficiency Test, given on the page
following. This will help you summarize clearly the results of your work with TAROT
FUNDAMENTALS. It will also focus all your forces for the fascinating use of Tarot taught
in the next course, DEVELOPING SUPERSENSORY POWERS. Send us your replies to the
Proficiency Test.

PROFICIENCY TEST

In answering these questions, type or write in ink on one side only of standard letter size
paper. Put your name and address at the upper right hand corner of the first page, and number
each answer to correspond to the questions. Do not copy the questions. Make your answers
brief.

1 . In your opinion, what are the major changes which have taken place in your personality
since becoming a member of B. O. T. A?
2. What statement in The Pattern on the Trestleboard means most to you? Which seems most
difficult?

3. Which number from 0 to 9 seems most important to you? Which of the 22 Keys is your
favorite?

4. How does Tarot evoke thought?

5. How does Tarot help to break down old habit patterns held in subconsciousness?

6. How does one tap the Universal Memory?

7. What is the occult teaching about water as substance?

8. What is the activity of the liberating aspect of the force symbolized by Key 5?
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9. What message has the 7th Tarot Key in relation to Will?

10. Why are the yods in Key 16 suspended in the air?

1 1 . Why does the woman in Key 1 7 rest her foot on the surface of the pool?

12. What state of consciousness does Key 21 symbolize?

13. What is the goal of the Great Work?

14. Write a short paragraph, giving your idea of the manner in which the Cube of Space helps
interpret life by means of Tarot.

15. Upon what fundamental condition does the achievement of your purpose depend?

16. Have you found that you have become more aware of your thinking and feeling processes
since beginning the Tarot studies?

17. Have your spiritual aspirations been intensified?

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