XIX - The Sun

Titles: The Lord of the Fire of the World
Hebrew letter: ר (Resh = head = 200) [Double Letter = Planetary Trump]
Element: Fire
Astrology: Sun ☉ (rules Leo, exalts in Aries; detriment in Aquarius, fall in Libra)
Path on the Tree of Life: 30th Path (Hod ↔ Yesod; 8 ↔ 9)

Symbols/Colours:

this card represents, in heraldic language, "the Sun, charged with a rose, on a mount vert";
it represents Heru-ra-ha, the Lord of the New Aeon, in his manifestation to the race of men as the Sun spiritual, moral, and physical; he is the Lord of Light, Life, Liberty and Love;
the rose represents the flowering of the solar influence;
around the whole picture we see the signs of the Zodiac in their normal position, Aries rising in the East, and so on; freedom brings sanity; the Zodiac is a kind of childish representation of the body of Nuith, a differentiation and classification, a chosen belt, one girdle of Our Lady of infinite space;
the green mound represents the fertile earth, its shape, so to speak, aspiring to the heavens;
around the top of the mound is a wall, which indicates that the aspiration of the new Aeon does not mean the absence of control;
yet outside this wall are the twin children who (in one form or another) have so frequently recurred in this whole symbolism;
they represent the male and female, eternally young, shameless and innocent; they are dancing in the light, and yet they dwell upon the earth;
they represent the next stage which is to be attained by mankind, in which complete freedom is alike the cause and the result of the new access of solar energy upon the earth;
at their feet are the most sacred signs of the old Aeon, the combination of the Rose and Cross from which they are arisen, yet which still forms their support; the card itself symbolizes this broadening of the idea of the Rose and Cross;
the Cross is now expanded into the Sun, from which, of course, it is originally derived; its rays are twelve - not only the number of the signs of the Zodiac, but of the most sacred title of the most holy Ancient Ones, who are Hua; (the word HUA, "he", has the numerical value of 12.);
the limitation of mundane law, which is always associated with the number Four, has disappeared; gone are the four arms of a Cross limited by law; the creative energy of the Cross expands freely; its rays pierce in every direction the body of Our Lady of the Stars;
with regard to the wall, it should be noted that it completely encircles the top of the mound; this is to emphasize that the formula of the Rose and Cross is still valid in terrestrial matters.