The Symbolism of the Magician Tarot card

The Magician (I), also known as The Magus or The Juggler, is the first trump or Major Arcana card. Magicians can perform "tricks", either by sleight of hand or illusion or by being able to harness spiritual power. One of the advantages of the Magician Tarot card, is that there are actual people we can study, who were or are magicians - Houdini, Salvador Dali [who thought of himself as a magician], Aleister Crowley ,Tahra Bey from Egypt, Kuda Bux from Pakistan and Count Alessandro di Cagliostro from Italy. The tricks may be simple, or may increase in complexity, moreover, we may witness, or think we witness, the apparently impossible. Despite the fact that many of these feats may be achieved by "illusion" there may be instances where the magician is indeed blessed with the ability to use spiritual powers. But to be a genuine magician the "audience" must never know which it is. And this is key, because if it was that easy, the person would not be a true magician. Why is the Magician number 1? Because it is a position of great danger and great trust. If one really has so called "supernatural powers", one could use those powers to defraud, kill, make people ill, enslave people and generally destroy a great number of people's lives. At which point one would be labelled a sorcerer - and many fictional writers have highlighted the dangers - J. R. R. Tolkien's "Saruman"; J K Rowling’s Lord Voldemort; and in Star Wars, Darth vader. Sorcerors may start as wizards, but are lured to the Dark side by their weaknesses - promises of immortality, fear of losing someone they love, promises of power like John Dee and by their ignorance. And this is why experienced Magicians such as James Randi, Harry Houdini and such men as Harry Price, made it their life's work to stop the naïve, the dishonest and simply downright evil.
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CREDITS
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• Houdini
• Simon Magus
• Salvador Dali
• Aleister Crowley
• Kuda Bux
• Count Alessandro di Cagliostro

PAINTINGS
The Magician – Rosemary Rock-Evans
Giovanni Mauro Della Rovere (Il Fiammenghino): The Fall Of Simon Magus
François Boucher - Cathédrale Saint-Louis (1766) Versailles
Basilica Saint-Sernin – Simon Magus
Marika Jam – Sorceror
Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1786) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
John William Waterhouse - Magic Circle
Marc chagall - the-magician from paris

CARDS
Le Bateleur card from Oswald Wirth's 1889 tarot deck
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot p. 41 [Rider-Waite]
RWS Tarot 01 Magician
Magician (Le Magicien ou le Bateleur) from the Grand Etteilla tarot deck. This deck was published by H. Pussey in Paris circa 1890.
Visconti-sforza-01-magician
Tarot Belgijski - A1 – Mag
Minchiate card deck – Florence - 1860-1890 – Trumps – 01 -Papa uno

PHOTOS
Psychologist Ray Hyman demonstrating Geller's spoon bending feats at a Center for Inquiry lecture in 2012
Magician P. T. Selbit performing a version of the trick in 1937
Advertisement for a reproduction of the trick by stage magician Howard Thurston.
Goldin's illusion 1
William Marriott levitation table
magician Harry Kellar performing the "Levitation of Princess Karnac" illusion, 1894, U.S. Library of Congress
John Dee and Edward Kelley
Representation of medium Daniel Dunglas Home levitating out of a window. Courtesy Fortean Picture Library.
The Sorcerer cave art. Sketch of Breuil's drawing Photograph. Wellcome M0008769
The Magic Circle Logo projection, during Head conference - Riccardo Cambiassi

VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE

Free Stock Video - Tarot Cards Being Flipped Over
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Fs-XxsCNzSY

green screen top hat
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=yRZniIFPtck

Paul Daniels - Rabbit from a Hat
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=UC5BwubD9gc

Light particle magic square gold soar [free stock video footage]
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=7-BM2zXJN70

Magic Circle
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6IKvjJBIvbU

Magic circle blue energy ring in digital laboratory capsule flame | Free Stock Video Clip 4K
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lhlMkfv6D1w

MAN SLEEPS ON BED OF NAILS
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=aSC24AU5tUs

Easy Fork Bending Anyone Can Do/4 Magic Tricks
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=yAmd60MTv1o

Fantasia(1940) - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, First Part
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=VErKCq1IGIU

how to make a magic circle like in anime using ibispaint and kinemaster
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=-8znPKUL7mo

MUSIC

00:00 Sonja's Interns - Verified Picasso
02:04 A Ghost Town - Quincas Moreira
05:47 Confliction & Catharsis - Asher Fulero
09:02 The New Order - Aaron Kenny
10:42 Dukas_The Sorcerers Apprentice
12:27 Sonja's Interns - Verified Picasso