The High Priestess is an incarnated being. She has the second-most-ultimate view of life, the universe, and everything, and the illest-designed fleet of starships in the universe. The best evidence for this is her language, which is continuous. A dictionary for this language would be like a book of sand, the type of volume specified by Borges's story, "El Libro de Arena." The number of pages would be infinite, occupying an infinite number of transfinite infinities. An arena for every single drop of time -- enough pages to give every single individual bend of every river and stream a unique designation; every single prime number a unique logogram; every one of the Linnean varieties of classified organism a distinct, sensible, name; the oldest trees the perfect nicknames; every passing asteroid more than just culturally-appropriated syllables, but designations that any user in any corner of the universe could use to reconstruct the geometry of said asteroid. Her names are the most perfect, and as such, her law is the most perfect; her law is above nature's law, hence her science is the most perfect. Since her science is the most perfect, her technology is dazzling and inexplicably sleek. Embodied also in every questioning mind as timeless wisdom, she encourages all beings to progressively tighten the web of constructive intentions they weave. Hope makes her tirelessly emanate her sense of the true order to the Magician, just as the Magician prays for the Fool's salvation: the Magician does all he can to really discover the details of wisdom's timeless language, just as the Fool does all he can to understand the existence of the universe's esoteric order. But what neither of them realizes is this: that the High Priestess owes her superiority to her command of the scales in the universe, which her language gives her. The Magician may discover notes in these scales, may attempt to play some of them, chanting to himself, quod est superius sicut quod inferius -- but only the High Priestess can calculate the true invariants behind such pithy phrases.
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