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ВЕРХОВНАЯ ЖРИЦА в Таро

Жрица, Папесса, The High Priestess (Popess)
Карта Таро «Верховная Жрица» — это символ глубинного знания, интуиции и скрытой мудрости. В системе Старших Арканов она имеет номер II и следует за Магом, который воплощает активную волю и проявленное действие.

Если Маг действует во внешнем мире, то Верховная Жрица направляет внимание внутрь. Она представляет принцип внутреннего понимания, молчаливого осознания и тонкой чувствительности к невидимым процессам.

Эта карта связана с тайной, внутренним знанием и способностью видеть за пределами очевидного. Верховная Жрица не действует активно, как Маг, — её сила в созерцании, интуиции и понимании глубинных закономерностей.

Она хранительница знаний, которые не передаются словами, а раскрываются через внутренний опыт.
карта Таро ВЕРХОВНАЯ ЖРИЦА
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 shew that some things are implied and some spoken. She is seated between the
white and black pillars--J. and B.--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. She has been called occult Science on the threshold
of the Sanctuary of Isis, but she is really the Secret Church, the House which is of God and man.
She represents also the Second Marriage of the Prince who is no longer of this world; she is the
spiritual Bride and Mother, the daughter of the stars and the Higher Garden of Eden. She is, in
fine, the Queen of the borrowed light, but this is the light of all. She is the Moon nourished by the
milk of the Supernal Mother.
In a manner, she is also the Supernal Mother herself--that is to say, she is the bright reflection. It is
in this sense of reflection that her truest and highest name in bolism is Shekinah--the co-habiting
glory. According to Kabalism, there is a Shekinah both above and below. In the superior world it is
called Binah, the Supernal Understanding which reflects to the emanations that are beneath. In the
lower world it is MaIkuth--that world being, for this purpose, understood as a blessed Kingdom
that with which it is made blessed being the Indwelling Glory. Mystically speaking, the Shekinah
is the Spiritual Bride of the just man, and when he reads the Law she gives the Divine meaning.
There are some respects in which this card is the highest and holiest of the Greater Arcana.
Arthur Edward Waite
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910)