It is to be understood for this reason (a) that the question of the sphinx is concerned with a Mystery of Nature and not of the world of Grace, to which the charioteer could offer no answer; (b) that the planes of his conquest are manifest or external and not within himself;
(d) that the tests of initiation through which he has passed in triumph are to be understood physically or rationally; and (e) that if he came to the pillars of that Temple between which the High Priestess is seated, he could not open the scroll called Tora, nor if she questioned him could he answer.
BY Arthur Edwart Waite]
《The Pictorial Key to the Tarot》
Arthur Edward Waite著這本書的內容：
因此，我們必須理解：(a) 獅身人面像的問題涉及的是自然的奧祕，而非恩典的世界，馭車者無法給出答案；(b) 他征服的領域是顯現的或外在的，而非內在的；(d) 他勝利地通過的啟蒙試煉應以物理或理性理解；(e) 如果他來到高祭司所坐兩根柱子之間的廟宇，他無法打開稱為托拉的卷軸，即使她問他，他也無法回答。//