| The Disks represent the element of the Earth, the world of Assiah,
Nefesh in soul.
Assiah is the world of making, literally translated as 'action', the actual
material area in which all things live and grow physically. It is the final
ground that all the preceding worlds need to become real. Assiah is stable and
predictable, though it would be dead without the warmth of the Fires of
Atziluth, without the Waters of Briah and the Air of Yetzirah.
So the Disks stand for the material world, the human body, the 'animal soul'
that rules a far bigger part of our being than we usually like to admit. It
often can be watched that the Disks are disregarded, looked upon as 'material
only', with Assiah taken as profane and Nefesh as 'primitive'. But where would
be the beauty of a lily without the earth in which it grows? What is a lily,
anyway?
 In most
other decks the Disks are called 'Pentacles' or 'Coins', referring to their
material meaning. Crowley preferred the name 'Disks', most likely to stress the
relation to the earth (in old times the earth was taken as a disk).
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