Hermetic Tarot Deck

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Another reason I enjoy purchasing from this seller is that I sometimes get mixed up when minerals look similar to each other, but he helpfully puts them in their own bags with the names written on them, which is really appreciated! It is, without a doubt, one of the most magical books I have ever read and one could pass through several lifetimes reading this book and still not reach its core. This is a Golden Dawn tarot, or rather “Stella Matutina” – a true Golden Dawn tarot, which is authentic in its depiction of the trumps, is yet to be published. As a practitioner of magick, this book has helped tremendously, and to dialogue and engage with it is to treasure its passages and come back to it frequently. It’s been raining all day here in New York, and I had no choice but to make use of my apartment’s terribly artificial lighting.

Published for the first time with an index and Cardinal Hans Urs von Balthasar’s afterword, this new English publication of Meditations on the Tarot is the landmark edition of one of the most important works of esoteric Christianity. As a Golden Dawn study deck, the card images are fundamentally focused on alchemical and astrological references such as the decans in the Minor Arcana, with the deck outfitted for theurgy.Other than certain rituals and meditations found in the Cipher manuscripts and developed further, [8] "magical practices" were generally not taught at the first temple. Most biographical accounts suggest that Edith was a member of the Golden Dawn, but evidence to support this is rarely cited.

It’s long passed the time we start talking loudly about this insanity, abuse and trauma happening to our brothers and sisters around the globe daily. Actually in the index Henri Bergson maybe has more listings than any other name, including Rudolf Steiner, who was the author's teacher at one time.

There is a great deal to be gleaned from this deck, as it is not "simplified" and thoroughly challenges the novice to become well versed in Hermetics. In a Hegelian like synthesis (without the chaos of Hegel), this author runs the gambit, a real cornucopia of meanings, picks and chooses, guides our way across them in argument leading us on a possible path, an interpretation of a huge sum of human knowledge to the point at which portals break down, words become invisible and you understand more than yourself. The LWB also has a handy chart of elemental and astrological glyphs, as well as an illustration of the Tree of Life. For practitioners who adopt interpretive methods reliant on elemental dignities and affinities, that is a godsend. Many present-day concepts of ritual and magic that are at the centre of contemporary traditions, such as Wicca [1] and Thelema, were inspired by the Golden Dawn, which became one of the largest single influences on 20th-century Western occultism.