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Tarot
The High Priestess
The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She has the lunar crescent at her feet, a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place, and a large solar cross on her breast. The scroll in her hands is inscribed with the word Tora, signifying the Greater Law, the Secret Law and the second sense of the Word. It is partly covered by her mantle, to show that some things are implied and some spoken. She is seated between the white and black pillars-'J' and 'B' for Jachin and Boaz-of the mYSTIC Temple, and the veil of the Temple is behind her: it is embroidered with palms and pomegranates. The vestments are flowing and gauzy, and the mantle suggests light-a shimmering radiance.