The Path of Zain, THE LOVERS, between Binah and Tiphareth, connects the pure consciousness from which form emerged with the central point of all manifestation, a complexity which can barely be suggested by the image on a Tarot card. It is perhaps for this reason that the design of the card has changed over the centuries. In most of the earliest versions, such as the Marseilles Tarot, it was called The Lover (singular) and showed a man between two women, above whom was a cupid with a posed arrow. Presumably this single lover made no sense to later Tarot artists, and in the eighteenth century the card began to appear with two "Lovers" and a uniting figure of some sort.
Yet the early concept of The Lover is very profound, for this card does not represent the mundane love of two persons. It is, rather, the dualities of a single individual, wilfully united in pursuit of Divine Love. Crowley's point that the card should really be called "The Brothers" is well taken. In fact, the Key's true meaning is imbedded in its sign of the Zodiac, Gemini, The Twins. The dual energies which the Lover proposes to unite are equal and opposite, i.e., "twins." The uniting of these twins is a major step upwards, toward the Godhead on the Tree of life
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