Its appearance here may help emphasize the full ramifications, then, of this great Alchemic archetype, giving the thematic keys, or motifs, with which more information may be found encoded into the enlightened literature produced by initiates of the past and ancient times.

Still, the aim of the symbols must in the end to come to peaceful and agreeable terms of understanding and mastery of the elements and principles involved.

Accordingly, the images may identify various principles of science and physics that, typically for Crowley, are both of ancient use, and far ahead of their time. Even now, we may barely have the intellectual tools and vocabulary to describe what we are seeing here.

The relevance may extend to manifestions or materializations of worldly goods in a great number of classic instances, perhaps the feats of Greco-Roman magick may be most strongly suggested by the images.

Perhaps the card is well defined to suggest that while the creation of a child through normal means, and the materialization of an object by a medium or Eastern mystic may involve the distinction between coalescence of living or sentient, and that of non-living or non-sentient matter, and though they may happen at drastically different rates , that they may not be fundamentally different.

Additionally, he has chosen an intriguing icon, for his character death, in resembling the Grim Reaper who may be thought to be patterned by perverting the image and intent of Chronos or Saturn, may have actually invoked an astrological archetype who is the antithesis of disorder or chaos, and whose correspondences both Chemical and Alchemical shed light on critical areas when dealing with mastery of death... or as the card suggests by illuminating that the study of mastery of life is also one in the same, when dealing with the mastery of life.

Ultimately, this card may illuminate for the student or seeker, many manners of great magick at once, from resurrections and recorporeorations, to manifestations of the broadest number of kinds and means.

So then, with the sagacity typical for Crowley, the name of the card might be in truth, Life.

Here, the student or seeker may be well advised, as always, when the expression appears, to try taking the term "vitriol" most literally in addition to most figuratively.

Perhaps the meaning of this card may pertain, too, to accounting for the magickal properties of dew that is called for in magickal rejuvenation and Alchemical formulas.

Additionally, perhaps the student or seeker will note here the appearance and identity of an atomic nucleus of a certain element, and think of its significance. So, too, does our Goddess, the lunar Artemis, seem to be the long name of this Art, for there are traces here, that allow the archetype to transcend the vast and essential mundane applications of this Goddess, just as her image in ancient Ephesos likewise bore symbolism on its front that concerns survival training for the youngest, and yet carries on its back what likewise appears to an atomic nucleus of yet another element that is of great importance in magick, a riddle that today may still challenge the keenest adult intellects.

Aleister Crowley here may have indicated the use of the understanding of Quantum mechanics' "wave-function" and the terms of its' collapse, to the issues of life, death, resurrection, and recorporeoration.

The background of this card may hold, rather blatantly, what is nearly the most precise and progressive expression possible of the true nature of the most obvious forces, light and gravity, and ultimately constitute a simple yet genuine, and more importantly, easily applied, Grand Unified Feild Theory...

It is perhaps the most compelling of all examples to do as Crowley urges time and again, to involves the persuits of the intellect in magickal work, to seek a true understanding of science: not for the purposes of becoming scientists, in the sense of suffering systematic restraint, or seeking to be "miracle workers" within the bonds of mere technical chicanery in the realm of mastery of life and death...

But to apply this understanding, under Love, under Will, to be "miracle workers" of the trustest sort.

The ramifications of this are staggering, especially for those who seem unable to contend with all of those things which which would preceed this revelation in a logical and linear fashion, that it might logically be largely senseless to begin to explore these areas in this place and at this time.

Still, these things are not beyond the imagination that is driven by wishing nor will, and therefore cannot be concealed, so would appropriately be revealed and illuminated herein. Suffice to say, if these are true, they may not only approach the likes of the most mind-stretching ideas that have been featured on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" but may very closely resemble a synthesis of several or more of the most exotic and extreme expressions of the possible diversity of life therein.

At some level preceeding this greatest of notions, may be found in this card strong additional illumination, of explantion and facilitation, of materialization by means both magickal and scientific, if we are not as ever splitting hairs by attempting to distinguish the two.