4-The Emperor皇帝

He has a form of the Crux ansata for his sceptre and a globe in his left hand.

他右手握著安卡形狀的權杖,左手握著地球(或者球狀物)。 

He is a crowned monarch–commanding, stately, seated on a throne, the arms of which axe fronted by rams’ heads.

他是被加冕的君王,給人威風凜凜,沉穩地坐在寶座上,王位前扶手是公羊的頭。

 

He is executive and realization, the power of this world, here clothed with the highest of its natural attributes.

他是執行與實踐的王,握有這世界的權力,因此穿著自然界中最尊貴崇高的服飾。

He is occasionally represented as seated on a cubic stone, which, however, confuses some of the issues.

他偶爾也被畫在坐在正方體的石頭上,但是這會引起一些疑惑議題就是。

 

He is the virile power, to which the Empress responds, and in this sense is he who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet she remains virgo intacta.

相對於皇后,他是象徵男性的力量(或權力);在這裡會感覺到他試圖拿掉 Isis女神的面紗(註一),但她仍保有處女座(virgo)的完整(這裡應該翻譯為保有面紗的完整會比較好。)

It should be understood that this card and that of the Empress do not precisely represent the condition of married life, though this state is implied.

應該被了解的是,這張牌並不跟皇后一樣,雖然隱喻婚姻生活,但不代表明確的婚姻狀態。

On the surface, as I have indicated, they stand for mundane royalty, uplifted on the seats of the mighty; but above this there is the suggestion of another presence.

表面上,也如同我所指示的,他們象徵世俗的王族,被抬高到至尊地位;但在它們之上仍隱約有其他存在。

They signify also–and the male figure especially–the higher kingship, occupying the intellectual throne. 

他們象徵的,特別是指男性的存在,是更崇高的王者身分,也是一位利用智慧統御的王者。

Hereof is the lordship of thought rather than of the animal world.

這裡所指的是想法上的貴族身分,而不是動物的世界。

Both personalities, after their own manner, are “full of strange experience,” but theirs is not consciously the wisdom which draws from a higher world.

依照他們的方式解讀兩者的性格,是「充滿奇怪的經驗」,因為都不是有意識地從更高的世界獲取來的智慧。

The Emperor has been described as (a) will in its embodied form, but this is only one of its applications, and (b) as an expression of virtualities contained in the Absolute Being–but this is fantasy.

皇帝通常被解讀為(a)意志的具體表現,但這是其中一種應用而已與(b)絕對存在所包含的虛擬狀態,但這是只是幻想而已。 

註一:Isis的面紗,這是一個隱喻與寓意的藝術主題,代表大自然的秘密具有不可進入性。

 

 

Arthur Edward Waite

 

偉特塔羅牌創始者

 

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by A.E. Waite.

 

偉特親寫的塔羅解釋書