Nirvana is the Limit of Self-reflection, pt 1: The Magician

The Magician stands opposed to the Fool. The Magician knows, through experiments mixing colors on his table, that resplendency that is found in the colors of living things. The Magician knows that not all combinations of the elements are valuable, not all permutations of the sacred letters are indeed sacred. In opposition to the Fool, the Magician knows that the qualia of all phenomena are determined by a complex set of environmental and intrinsic factors, not by any obvious pattern. There are branches of knowledge that pretend to be complete, like chemistry, physics, and engineering, and there are branches of knowledge that can only ever be (obviously, depressingly) incomplete, because they rely on individualism -- like art and mathematics. The Magician knows that knowledge is just a container for ignorance; that only constant re-attempts at analysis can really bring forth anything like truth; knows enough, indeed, of subjectivity (which the Fool does not) to make objective statements, and that true magic is a completely objectivist endeavor.