For the Feast of St Valentine, a monochrome set of Arcanum 6: The Lovers, from the Icelandic Tarot, the Dark Exact Tarot and Pictarot.
For our will-power to allow us to compete with Hercules – an ambition which is not forbidden to us – we must involve ourselves with no going back , in the harsh path of virtue precisely so that our volitions are not squandered on pursuing pleasure and the little diversions of life. One might judge it wise just to let oneself live by savouring joys which come along without priding oneself on being heroic.
Oswald Wirth, The Tarot of the Magicians.
… the Card represents the Creation of the World. The Hierarchs held this secret as of transcendant importance. Consequently, the Initiates who issued the Tarot, for use during the Aeon of Osiris, superseded the original card above described in “The Vision and the Voice”. They were concerned to create a new Universe of their own; they were the fathers of Science. Their methods of working, grouped under the generic term Alchemy, have never been made public. The interesting point is that all developments of modern science in the last fifty years have given intelligent and instructed people the opportunity of reflecting that the whole trend of science has been to return to alchemical aims and (mutatis mutandis) methods. The secrecy observed by the alchemists was made necessary by the power of persecuting Churches. Bitterly as bigots fought among themselves, they were all equally concerned to destroy the infant Science, which, as they instinctively recognized would put an end to the ignorance and faith on which their power and wealth depended.
The subject of this card is Analsyis, followed by Synthesis. The first question asked by Science is : “Of what are things composed?” This having been answered, the next question is: “How shall we recombine them to our greater advantage?” This resumes the whole policy of the Tarot.
Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth.
And If The Lover Spoke …
When I enter you like I enter the figures of the Arcanum, I communicate divine love to the smallest of your cells. I blow across your mind like a hot hurricane that eliminates from you language all criticism, aggression , compassion, spite, and the entire scale of pride that separates the spectator from the actor. I insinuate myself into your sexual energy to soften all brutality, and all traces of conquest and possession. I confer to pleasure the sublime delicacy of an exploding angel. When I dissolve in your body, it is to detach you from the dictatorship of mirrors and models, the gaze of others, the pain of comparisons. I permit you to live you own life and assume your own light and beauty. In the heart where I dwell,I drive out the illusions of the unloved child. like the bell tower of the cathedral, I spread the penetrating vibrations of love in your blood, stripped of all resentment, all emotional demands that have become a travesty of hatred, and all jealousy, which is only the shadow cast by abandonment. I initiate you into the desire of obtaining nothing that is not also for others. The island of the ego is transformed into an archipelago.
Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of Tarot.
   Arcanum 6: The Lovers – A Monochrome Set For the Feast of St Valentine, a monochrome set of Arcanum 6: The Lovers, from the Icelandic Tarot, the Dark Exact Tarot and Pictarot.
