vv (4): adepts only

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 " ... in which stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations" (61)

 kabbalistically, the number 8 refers to the sephirah hod (- mercury, 
 "splendor", elohim tsevaoth). a seeker under the influence?! the formulation  
 "quick-change artist" does fit quite well to the sphere's qualities, which are 
 associated with communication, travelling, cheating (- "impersonations"!) and 
 the arts of hermes ... the v-ness stencil is searching for, refers obviously to 
 venus & thus to the sephirah netzach (- venus, "v[!]ictory", 7, jehova 
 tsevaoth). the path connecting these two sephiroth is embodied through the 
 tarot atu xvi: the tower, a card we talked about a little in the context of 
 weissmann's tarot. in his overrated book waite reports that someone named dr. 
 papus thinks the tower is signifyin(g) the fall of wo/man ...

kfl