{The Mantelpiece (1)}[19th December 1987]

[Redbook4:241-244][19871219:1055h]{The Mantelpiece (1)}[19th December 1987]

19871219.1055

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Reconstruction sketch of Mantelpiece at [the Castle] taken from the latest* text revision/restoration [of [0]. (The problem was to fit the original text (and vision) to the current Tarot pattern without doing much change to either.)

**(Eagle)

Those going to the Land of the North

0

have given my Spirit rest in the Land of the North.

+M STIR	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	+C IS
VIII								XV
IX								XVI
X								XVII
XII								XVIII
XIII								XX
XIV								XXI
CRISIS								MASTER
(Lion)				(Man)				(Horned Beast)

[In the ms there is a rough pencilled sketch of the mantelpiece, the main figures, and the numbered panels, with the Tarot titles written in pencil under the Roman numbers.]

This is, in fact, the original vision of the Fireplace pattern owing nothing at the time to Tarot Circles (The Grail items appeared, originally, later during the first writing of the text). The merit of this original version is that each of the two columns starts at the top with the Tarot card at the horizontal Archetype who 'drives' that Circle: i.e. T.VIII – M~ – Outer; TXV – G~ – Inner. In this one, too, the TX and TXVII balance each other representing A~ on Outer and Inner Circles respectively. The pattern, unlike the Circles, emphasises the continuous nature of the development, ***because the breaks between rows and columns do not match the changeover points on the Circles.

*[but not necessarily the last]

**{Cf.V.[]4.} [The Eagle is supposed to be shown as centred over the Mantelpiece.]

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