Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) · 82 of 96 · tr. A.E. Waite
17. Astrologye
In the modern Tarot the plate is entitled the Glittering Star; it is analogous to a number of Hermetic symbols, and is also in correspondence with the Blazing Star of Masonic initiates, which expresses most of the mysteries of Rosicrucian secret doctrine.
Themes
◆Correspondencecosmology
The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.
The passage explicitly uses the term 'correspondence' to describe the relationship between Tarot, Hermetic symbols, and Masonic initiates, embodying the Hermetic axiom of interconnected symbolic structures.
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