XV - The Devil

Titles: The Lord of the Gates of Matter
Hebrew letter: ע (Ayin = eye = 70) [Single Letter = Zodiacal Trump]
Element: Earth
Astrology: Capricorn ♑ - Cardinal Earth - The goat (ruler: Saturn, exaltation: Mars; detriment: Moon, fall: Jupiter)
Time: 22 December - 20 January
Path on the Tree of Life: 26th Path (Tiphareth ↔ Hod; 6 ↔ 8)

Symbols/Colours:

this card represents creative energy in its most material form;
the card represents Pan Pangenetor, the All-Begetter; it is the Tree of Life as seen against a background of the exquisitely tenuous, complex, and fantastic forms of madness, the divine madness of spring;
the roots of the Tree are made transparent, in order to show the innumerable leapings of the sap;
before it stands the Himalayan goat, with an eye in the centre of his forehead, representing the god Pan upon the highest and most secret mountains of the earth; his creative energy is veiled in the symbol of the Wand of the Chief Adept, crowned with the winged globe and the twin serpents of Horus and Osiris;
the trunk of the Tree pierces the heavens; about it is indicated the ring of the body of Nuith; similarly, the shaft of the Wand goes down indefinitely to the centre of earth;
this card especially represents the masculine energy at its most masculine;
the horns of the goat are spiral, to represent the movement of the all- pervading energy.