GR translation: with Death as validator

[Mike Jing]

P167.11-23   Why do they want Rathenau tonight? What did Caesar really
whisper to his protégé as he fell? Et tu, Brute, the official lie, is about
what you’d expect to get from them—it says exactly nothing. The moment of
assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come
together, with Death as validator. When one speaks to the other then it is
not to pass the time of day with et-tu-Brutes. What passes is a truth so
terrible that history—at best a conspiracy, not always among gentlemen, to
defraud—will never admit it. The truth will be repressed or in ages of
particular elegance be disguised as something else. What will Rathenau,
past the moment, years into a new otherside existence, have to say about
the old dispensation? Probably nothing as incredible as what he might have
said just as the shock flashed his mortal nerves, as the Angel swooped in.
. . .

I searched through the source given in the Companion: Waite, Pictorial Key
( http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/ ) and could not find the word
"validator" anywhere.  And I am wondering if the explanation given even
makes sense here.  Could the "validator" mean something else?  Anyone can
shed some light on this?
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