Tarot of Marseilles Here we have a Medieval depiction of the devil, with antlers, long ears, several faces on his body, and bat wings. Before him, two smaller figures with antlers, long ears, and long tails, are tied down. What could this mean? The numbers fifteen could be thought of as 1+5=6. In which case there is a strong link to the sixth card, The Lovers. Indeed we see a similar scene. Both cards feature a couple facing each other, with an influential figure above them. The Lovers are brought together by Cupid's arrow, inflaming their hearts with adoration for one another. The Devil however represents the animalistic lust of carnal desire. The couple are bound by ropes around the neck, representing their servitude. When you live a life in servitude to your materialistic desires, you experience suffering, because no matter how much you feed your desires, you will always want more. You become enslaved by your desire for more. Quite literally, the couple are experiencing a...

Tarot of Marseilles Four represents the dimension of time. One of the first major expositors of the fourth dimension was Charles Howard Hinton, starting in 1880 with his essay What is the Fourth Dimension? He introduced a method for visualising the fourth dimension using cubes in the book Fourth Dimension . In the fourth dimension, time is like an object which appears bigger or smaller depending on its duration. Past, present and future all exist simultaneously. Every moment of time is equally real. This philosophical approach to the nature of time is called eternalism . On the other hand, presentism asserts that only the present exists. Additionally there is the "growing block theory" which views the present and past as real but the future as non-existent. In buddhism there are four noble truths. Dukkha is the struggle of trying to hold on to things which are ever changing and transient. Samudaya is the conditioned arising of the present, the principle of cause and...