Across the base of the card, Black and White Triangles are linked in such a way that they create a chain of bondage instead of the balanced Yin and Yang partners of the Hexagram of Creation. This is illusion. This card is all about illusion. The two chained figures in the foreground have covered their eyes to Divine Reality and produce a physical reality in which flames engulf them and they are bound to the remnants of their broken dreams -- the truncated column, all that's left of their Tower. One clawed foot on the Altar of Materialism and one upon the purple terrace (rising in back toward the fire) stands the Devil. Feet of a bird, legs and horns of a goat, the tail of a dragon, the wings of a bat (flying mammal), face, body and arms of a man. One hand gives the sign Spock associates with "Live long and prosper" while the other holds a Wand with a sharply pointed base and a bowled top in the shape of a human face with flames rising out of it for hair. He has the down pointed Pentagram upon his chest, showing that he subordinates Spirit to the Four lesser Elements, and he uses this perverted energy to animate the Qlippothic reflection of the Divine Elements, as represented by the blue Cross upon his belly.

At the right float four masks representing the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual Worlds, the last bringing an understanding that turns the others on their heads.

And above it all, ruling it, is the Eye of Horus, the Eye of God, showing that even in what we perceive as Hell, we have only to open our eyes to the Divine Reality to be free of our imaginary chains.

In a reading, the Devil may mean materialism, material force or material temptation. Obsession, particularly if associated with the Lovers.

The information strip tells us that the Devil is Trump number 15, assigned to the 26th Path of the Sepher Yetzirah and to the Cardinal Earth Sign Capricorn. The Devil is the Path between Hod (8) and Tiphareth (6) on the Tree of Life. It is assigned the Hebrew Letter AYIN, whose value is 70 and whose meaning is "eye." The musical note is A# above middle C.

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