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Attributes of the Eights Minor Cards in Liber 777

Magical Powers of the Eights Minor cards

Eight of Wands
Gain, covetousness, taking goods. Stockpiling.
Eight of Cups
Many thoughts leading to anxiety and worry. Misery, wandering around in search of money and food.
Eight of Swords
Writing, calculations, giving and receiving. Learning from financial errors.
Eight of Pentacles
Sowing, planting, herbs, colonisation. Storing money and food.
The Vision of Splendour (Ezekiel) Magical Power, Western
The Names and Versicles and Apron Magical Weapon
ARARITA Magical Formulae (See Magical Weapon)
An Hermaphrodite Magical image of the Sephira

Colour Scale of the Eights Minor cards

 Golden Dawn Description
Violet Purple King Scale of Colour colours of 8 of Wands Mercury in Sagittarius, lst - l0th Degree.
XXXIII. The Lord of Swiftness.
8 OF WANDS
Four white Angelic Hands radiating: (two proceeding from each side) issuing from clouds, clasped in two pairs in the centre with the grip of First Order. They hold 8 wands crossed four and four. Flames issue from the point of junction. Surmounting two small wands with flames issuing down them. Placed in the centre at top and bottom of
card of the symbols of Mercury and Sagittarius, representing the Decan.
Too much force applied too suddenly. Very rapid rush, but too quickly passed and expended. Violent but not lasting. Swiftness. Rapidity. Courage, boldness, confidence, freedom, warfare. Violence, love of open air, field sports, garden, meadows. Generous, subtle, eloquent, yet somewhat untrustworthy. Rapacious, insolent, oppressive. Theft and robbery, according to dignity.
Hod of Yod. (Hasty communication and messages. Swiftness). Therein rule Nithahiah and Haayah.
Orange Queen Scale of Colour colours of 8 of cups Saturn in Pisces, lst - l0th Degree
XLII. The Lord of Abandoned Success
8 OF CUPS
A hand holding a group of stems of Lotuses or water lilies. There are only two flowers shown which bend over the two centre cups pouring into them a white water. The Cups are not yet filled.
Y Y Y
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Y Y Y
The three upper cups are empty. At top and bottom Saturn and Pisces. Temporary success, but without further result. Things thrown aside as soon as gained. No lasting even in the matter in hand. Indolence in success. Journeying from place to place. Misery and repining without cause. Seeking after riches. Instability according to dignity.
Hod of Heh. (Success abandoned, decline of interest in anything.)
Herein rule Vavaliah and Yelahiah.
Red russet Emperor Scale of Colour colours of 8 Swords

Jupiter in Gemini, 1st - l0th Degree.
Ll. Lord of Shortened Force.
8 OF SWORDS
Four hands as usual, each holding two swords, points upwards, touching near top of card, two hands lower on left, two on right of card. The rose of other sword symbols re-established in centre. Above and below Jupiter and Gemini.

Too much force applied to small things, too much attention to detail, at expense of principle and more important points. Ill-dignified, these qualities produce malice, pettiness, and domineering qualities. Patience in detail of study, great ease in some things, counterbalanced by equal disorder in others. impulsive, equally fond of giving or receiving money, or presents. Generous, clever, acute, selfish, and without strong feeling of affection. Admires wisdom, yet applies it to small and unworthy objects.
Hod of Vav. (Narrow, restricted, petty, a prison). Herein rule Vemibael and Yehohel.
Yellowish brown, flecked white Empress Scale of Colour colours of 8 disks or pentacles

Sun in Virgo, 1st - 10th Degree. XXIV. Lord of Prudence.
8 OF PENTACLES
A white radiating Angel ic hand issuing from a cloud and grasping a branch of a rose tree, with four white roses thereon which touch only the four lowermost pentacles. No rosebuds seen, but only leaves touch the four uppermost disks. All the Pentacles are similar to that of the Ace, but without the Maltese cross and wings. These are arranged as the figure Populus:
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Above and below them are the symbols Sol and Virgo for the Decan.
Over-careful in small things at the expense of the great. “Penny-wise and pound foolish". Gain of ready money in small sums. Mean, avariciousness, industrious, cultivation of land, hoarding, lacking in enterprise.
Hod of Heh. (Skill, prudence, cunning).
There rule those mighty angels Akalah and Kehethel.
Venus in Virgo, l0th - 20th Degree. XXV. Lord of Material Gain

Gods associated with the Eights Minor cards
Anubis, Thoth Egyptian Gods
The Lords of Keraba - the Reins. Nuit - the hip and legs The Perfect Man
Hanuman Hindu
Odin, Loki Scandanavia
Hermes Greek
Mercury Roman

Other Attributions of the Eights Minor cards
God the Holy Ghost (as Comforter and Inspirer of Scripture Christian Attributions
Hermaphrodite, Jackal Animals, real and imaginary
Moly, Anhalonium Lewinii Plants, real and imaginary
Opal, especially Fire Opal Precious Stones
Storax Perfumes
Anhalonium Lewinii Vegetable Drug
Mercury Mineral Drug

Body
Nerve troubles Diseases (Typical)

Figures
  Figures related to pure number
  Linear figures, geomancy

Eastern Thought
Analysis into 4 elements The Forty Buddhist Meditations
  Taoism
  The Heavenly Hexagram
Truthfulness Transcendental Morality
Sakkya-ditti The Ten Fetters (Buddhism)

Masonic attribution of the Eights
ALH Passwords of the Grades
J.D. Officers in a Masonic Lodge
3=8 Practicus, 1st Order The Grades of the Order

Alphabets of the Eights Minor cards
    Coptic
900   Arabic
    Greek

Kabbalah and the Eights Minor cards
HVD - Splendour Hebrew Name of Letter  
ALHYM TzBAOTh God Name in Assiah Give the two principle names of the Demiurge expressed in multiplicity and positive action. (Hosts)
KVKB - Sphere of Mercury Heaven of Assiah  
SMAL Order of Qlippoth  
  Mystic Number of the Sephiroth  
Water Element & Planetary ruler Hod, Water, as representing the reflective quality of thought.
5th Plane, Left Pillar Tree of Life  
Absolute or Perfect Intelligence Path of the Sepher Yetsirah  
Aaron Saints or Adepts of the Hebrews  
Dusbus volabat Angels Foundations in the World of Yetsirah  
RQYO - Locus communicationis Heavens of Assiah  
Millstones where manna for just is found for future Contents of Palaces of Assiah  
HVHY The Revolution of YHVH in Yetsirah  
RVCh - The Intellect Parts of the Soul  
MYKAL Archangels of Assiah  
ALHYM - Sons of God Angels of Assiah  
DYNA Revolution of Adonai in Assiah  
Signum Foederis sancti Ten divisions of the Body of God  
TBL, ChLD - Earth The Ten Earths in Seven Palaces  
TzLMVTh - Gates of Death The Ten Hells in Seven Palaces  
BLYAL, Adramelak Some Princes of the Qliphoth  
  The Dukes and Kings of Edom  
West Elements and Quarters (Sepher Yetsirah)  
Venus Alchemical Tree of Life  
  Alchemical Metals  

Hindu and the Eights Minor cards
Aib Egyptian Attributions of the Parts of the Soul
Prana The Soul (Hindu)
Svadisthana (navel) The Chakras

Heavens of the Eights Minor cards
Jannat al-Firdaus Seven Heavens of the Arabs
Garden of Paradise Meaning of Seven Heavens of the Arabs

Hells of the Eights Minor cards
Lice The Ten Plagues of Egypt
Deceivers Qlippoth
Laza Seven Hells of the Arabs
Christians Seven Hells of the Arabs: Their Inhabitants

Goetic Powers of the Eights
Eight of Wands Glasya-Labolas   Zagan  
Eight of Cups Furfur   Bifrons  
Eight of Swords Amon   Sabnock  
Eight of Disks Zepar   Alloces