![]() However, the conclusions are likely through seeking inner peace and coming to a compromise. It is about balancing two different forces, ideas, or options, and then making the decision to bring things. The Two of Swords symbolizes conflict resolution and decisions that must be made. In any case, however, churchmen could not bear actual swords the material swords was to be wielded by laymen, even if under papal authority. The Two of Swords tarot card is not about action. Had God given each sword to its rightful bearer, the Holy Roman Emperor and the pope, or had he given both to the pope, who then bestowed the material sword on the emperor? When Pope Gregory IX started the War of the Keys against Emperor Frederick II in 1228, it was on the basis of a claim to control both swords. The main question was whether Bernard was right. īy the early 13th century, the two swords were the subject of serious study and debate among canon lawyers and decretalists. In the 12th century, Bernard of Clairvaux, in his De consideratione, argued that both the "material sword" ( gladius materialis) and the "spiritual sword" ( gladius spiritualis) belonged ultimately to the Papacy. It was later taken up by Gottschalk of Aachen on behalf of the Emperor Henry IV (1056–1105) against the claims of Pope Gregory VII (1073–1085) during the Investiture Contest. it is enough" was first put forward by Peter Damian in the 1060s. In the distance, we see the ocean and a few rocky islands. There may be a choice to make, but basically the card points to the balance of swords, two swords, two people in a relationship, which will now become more open and balanced, where two become one, the treatment is equal and fair. This particular exegesis of "here are two swords. The Two of Swords tarot card upright shows a blindfolded woman wearing a white robe and raising up two crossed swords. The Two of Swords does not mean being between two loves or having to decide between them. It can be understood as a particular justification for the Gelasian doctrine of "the sacred authority of the priesthood and the royal power". In the Roman Catholicism, the doctrine (or theory) of the two swords is an exegesis of Luke 22:38 elaborated in the Middle Ages. Painting by Hans Bornemann, from a 1442 copy of the Sachsenspiegel. ![]() Christ dispensing the two swords to the pope and the emperor. ![]()
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