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"The Devil's finest ruse," Baudelaire wrote, "is to persuade you that he doesn't exist." In this episode, JF and Phil peer through a buzzing haze of lies, illusions, and mirages, in hopes of catching a glimpse, however brief, of the figure standing at its center. With a focus on the fifteenth major arcanum of the tarot, they try to make sense of this archetype which feels, at once, remotely distant and uncomfortably close to us, all while heeding the warning from the anonymous author of Meditations on the Tarot that one ought not look too deeply into the nature of evil, which is "unknowable in its essence."

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REFERENCES
\nOur Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot
\nThe Gnostic Tarot
\nJohann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust, Part 1
\nRamsey Dukes, SSOTBME
\nEdgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse
\nAleister Crowley, Magic, Book 4
\nLeigh McCloskey, Tarot Re-Visioned
\nAleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
\nThe Library of Esoterica, Tarot
\nFederico Campagna, Technic and Magic