L'Hermite, Papus: Le Tarot Divinatoire, 1909.
Tarot Symbolism - The Ninth Numbered Card - L'Hermit
First Published in The All-Seeing Eye Volume 5, Number 11, August 1931
By Manly P. Hall
The Pythagoreans discovered that the universe consisted of nine parts, of which the first was the heaven or sphere of the fixed stars, after which followed the seven divisions or spheres of the planets and, lastly, the earth or ninth sphere. In order to create the perfect number or decad (10) they created a second earth which they called an antichthon. This new or second earth may be regarded in the same light as the tenth sephiroth of the Kabbalistic Tree or as an epitome of the whole world. By some systems this epitome would be man whom the Pythagoreans would thus define as moving in the orbit of the earth but as a world separate from the earth. First Deity, or ‘the heavens’ as He was called, who contained all things within Himself as the superior man, was the tenth sphere. The little world, man, created in the image of his Father Heaven was also an epitome or compendium of universal principles bound into one body. Thus, it may be said that not only is man in the world but that the world is also in man.
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