Summary: Lecture quote: "The Arcanum 13 of the sacred book of the Tarot depicts a man wielding a scythe. He dips his scythe into the waters in order to harvest the wheat. The image of the Arcanum 13 is an image of a reaper â one who is reaping the seed or culling the grain of the earth. The card, or the sacred law of the number 13, is called âImmortality.â The word immortality has at its core the Latin term âmortâ, which of course begins with the letter âM.â And mort, of course, refers to death. Interestingly, the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter âMâ or âMem.â The letter âMâ is also found in the Sanskrit word for death, which is âmrtyuâ in Roman letters. But in the simplest form, in Sanskrit the term âdeathâ can be simply said as âMa,â or in other words, the letter âMâ in Sanskrit. As everyone knows, in most languages âMaâ refers to the mother, and âMaâ is the beautiful phrase that the child speaks. Often, the very first thing that a child will say is âMa,â crying for âmaâ â for mother. And this term âMaâ of course is related to âmaterâ in Latin, which also means âmother.â It is the root of the term âmatter.â So we find death and the mother very closely linked, but also the water, the âmer,â the waters, related to the âMâ. In Hebrew, the word for death is âmetâ, which is spelled, of course, with a âMemâ. So the Arcanum 13 is related with death, and it encodes and contains the synthesis of the science of how to conquer death, or in other words, to acquire immortality, which is the name of this Arcanum. But death has its science.