Hermetic Tarot Deck

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The mangled swords in the 9 of Swords (Lord of Despair and Cruelty) and the roses in full bloom in the 6 of Pentacles (Lord of Material Success) illustrate how skillfully the artist has created the cards.

I rather enjoyed this book this second time around (second time finishing, 3rd time starting it) -- and that was really amazing. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. For a (positive) traditional Catholic assessment of the work and its author: http://corjesusacratissimum. I’m sure it can be used for divinatory purposes, but to really exploit it to its full potential you need to know – at theminimum – astrology, elemental dignities,and kabbalah. But brought about in an awareness of Christian hermeneutics, this can become a very different kind of deployed relationship.Transitory in nature, full of riddles, temptations and desires for status -- the author shows us how these things are. Mathers overrode their decision and quickly initiated him at the Ahathoor temple in Paris on 16 January 1900. It’s fun, it’s addictive and it’s too easy … I think the purpose of life is to live life, rather than dabble in semi-scientific sounding pseudo analysis, no? The LWB also has a handy chart of elemental and astrological glyphs, as well as an illustration of the Tree of Life. After the Isis-Urania temple claimed its independence, there were even more disputes, leading to Yeats resigning.

It has been speculated that his departure was due to his having lost a number of occult-related papers in a hansom cab. Using the 22 major arcana of the tarot deck as a means to explore some of humanity’s most penetrating spiritual questions, Meditations on the Tarot has attracted an unprecedented range of praise from across the spiritual spectrum. It's giving me a great education because he makes hundreds of references (The dude is uber-erudite) to things I've never heard or things I've heard of but never took the time to understand - he inspires me to look up his various references -- just so I can know what the heck he is talking about. Westcott purportedly received a reply from Sprengel granting permission to establish a Golden Dawn temple and conferring honorary grades of Adeptus Exemptus on Westcott, Mathers, and Woodman. Interestingly enough, the other day I was looking at my decks for another tarot group, and I came across the Hermetic Tarot deck again.By the mid-1890s, the Golden Dawn was well established in Great Britain, with over one hundred members from every class of Victorian society. This subreddit is a community for the discussion of Classical Hermeticism, a religious, philosophical, and esoteric tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus ("thrice-greatest Hermes"). Still, our disagreements are not unbearable; the spirit of friendship overwhelms particular ideas and points, and the flow of thought itself is very agreeable. Founded in 1888, the Golden Dawn lasted a mere twelve years before it was shattered by personal conflicts.

Clearly a deck for use not just in divination, but in GD style magical-theurgical operations as well. It is one of the most life-changing explications and explorations of the Christian Mystery and Revelation that I have ever encountered.The elemental symbol for air hovers above one shoulder, and the astrological glyph for Uranus* is emerging from the waves crashing over the edge of the cliff.