Golden Dawn TTarot Deck

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Graham, Sasha (2018). Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider–Waite–Smith Tarot. Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 978-0738753195. Churton, Tobias (2011). Aleister Crowley: The Biography. London: Watkins Books. ISBN 978-1-78028-012-7. OCLC 701810228.

Kaplan, Stuart R. (2018). Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story. Stamford, Connecticut: U.S. Game Systems. p.371. ISBN 9781572819122. The Golden Dawn system was based on hierarchy and initiation (similar to Masonic lodge's and the grade structure was based on the S.R.I.A [2], however, women were admitted on an equal basis with men. Regardie, Israel (1993). What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn (6thed.). New Falcon Publications. ISBN 1-56184-064-5.One spread is given in the LWB (Little White Book) for use by the reader, and it is simply termed the "Fifteen Card method of Tarot Divination". The spread was specifically developed so that the meanings of the cards could be determined from their relationship to neighboring cards (Elemental Dignities), rather than using reversals. The spread is set out in groups of three, and is not difficult to lay down, or to interpret. The work of Ficino and Mirandola was eventually synthesized into a body of esoteric thought published by Cornelius Agrippa in his encyclopedic De Occulta Philosophia in 1533 (Yates 130-131). As Hanegraaff states, this was an immense compendium of astrological and magical lore (393). Yates describes Agrippa’s work as a “clear survey of the whole field of Renaissance magic” and it became a standard reference work on such throughout the Renaissance and afterwards (130). The eventual result was a system of magical practice in the Renaissance and beyond that was rooted in Jewish Cabala but also borrowed heavily from both Classical Neoplatonic and Christian traditions of esoteric thought. Both Westcott and Mathers show themselves in their writings to be familiar with Agrippa as well as Pseudo-Dionysius (see Regardie, The Golden Dawn 611-613 and Westcott, “Angels” in The Magical Mason 125). As one of the leaders of the Anglican monastic revival, Carlyle continued his inquiries into the supernatural. He discussed Theosophy with Wedgwood. He maintained an unflagging belief in ghosts (and claimed to have had bad experiences with a few). On a trip to Jamaica, he studied the magical traditions of Voodoo and Obeah. Anson attests that Carlyle filled the monastery’s library with “a large miscellaneous selection of books and pamphlets dealing with Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, reincarnation, and similar forms of non-Christian mysticism”. In a Theosophical twist on the life of St Benedict, the Abbot said that he had seen his own sister’s astral body float away after her death. The rest of the LWB is given over to the interpretation of the cards. No scans are used, with keywords only given for each card. From the book:

Kaczynski, Richard (2010). Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (1sted.). Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. Armstrong, Allan; Gilbert, R. A., eds. (1997). Golden Dawn: The Proceedings of the Golden Dawn Conference, London – 1997. Hermetic Research Trust. You can embrace the Emperor's influence by being the Aries boss b*tch we all know and love. By bringing Emperor-like structure, and discipline to your life and relationships you will find your success. When it comes to sex and love, you like to be *on top*, so find yourself an Empress: A ride-or-die boo who appreciates your strength and stamina. Step into your power, Aries bb, and channel the Emperor’s energy. Moina Mathers (1865–1928), London trained artist, wife of SL MacGregor-Mathers and sister of philosopher Henri Bergson [44] The divine life is expressed in ten steps or levels, which both conceal and reveal Him. It flows out and animates Creation; but at the same time it remains deep inside. The secret rhythm of its movement and pulse beat is the law of motion of all Creation. As the divine life reveals itself — that is, becomes manifest through its actions on the various level of divine emanation — it assumes a different shape on each level or, speaking theologically, appears in different attributes. ( Mystical Shape 39)So were some of his brothers at Mirfield. In fact, Rees, and a fellow monk of Mirfield, Fr Charles Fitzgerald CR, helped to found a Golden Dawn temple in New Zealand while on mission there in the 1910s. The chapter that they started eventually came to include several Anglican bishops from that country. Such Anglo-Catholic lay luminaries as Evelyn Underhill, Arthur Machen, and Charles Williams all dabbled in the Golden Dawn’s initiatory “mysticism”, forming their own ideas on the relationship between hermeticism and Christianity in conversation with their mutual friend A. E. Waite (1857-1942). Waite, although not personally faithful, maintained a healthy respect for ritual forms of Christianity — especially the Latin mass. This explanation is immediately followed in the knowledge lecture by a table giving the Tree of Life symbolism, including the Divine Name, Archangelic Name, and Choir of Angels for each sephira of the Tree of Life in English and Hebrew for the memorization of the Zelator grade initiate (Regardie, The Golden Dawn 64). This doctrine states that God as Creator…manifested Himself in ten utterances of His being, ten radiations of His creative nature, ten emanations of His concealed essence, or what one of these ultimately symbolic descriptions is used. The Sefiroth, pulsating with the rhythm of the divine life and symbolically representing the life process of the Godhead, are in essence one in God, yet they reveal different aspects of God’s creative activity. (Scholem, Mystical Shape 60) By the mid-1890s, the Golden Dawn was well established in Great Britain, with over one hundred members from every class of Victorian society. [4] Many celebrities belonged to the Golden Dawn, such as the actress Florence Farr, the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the Welsh author Arthur Machen, and the English authors Evelyn Underhill and Aleister Crowley.

Dean, Liz (2015). The Ultimate Guide to Tarot: A Beginner's Guide to the Cards, Spreads, and Revealing the Mystery of the Tarot. Beverly, Massachusetts: Fair Winds Press. p.9. ISBN 978-1592336579. IN 1978, A. N. Wilson published Unguarded Hours, a satire of life in an Anglo-Catholic seminary. The book broke new ground in drawing attention to the strong current of homosexuality among the ranks of the Anglo-Catholic clergy. But it also commented on another feature of that particular Anglican sub-culture. At the book’s climax, a liberal dean visiting the seminary walks in on a few ordinands engaged in ritual magic. Ray, Sharmistha (23 March 2019). "Reviving a Forgotten Artist of the Occult". Hyperallergic . Retrieved 14 March 2021. ANGLICAN clergy were not immune to this wider cultural force. Sermons on Theosophical topics could be heard in some early Edwardian parishes. Many Anglo-Catholics of the era were able to blend beliefs in the astral body, reincarnation, and root races with Catholic doctrines and ritual practices. But the Anglican liaison with Theosophy was not to last. At the 1920 Lambeth Conference, Theosophy was formally condemned, alongside Spiritualism and Christian Science. Some Theosophical Anglicans, such as J. I. Wedgwood and C. W. Leadbeater, eventually decided to leave the Church of England and start their own Theosophical churches as episcopi vagantes.Wilson knew what he was writing about. While scholars have since devoted important studies to the dynamics of gender and sexuality among Anglo-Catholics — most notably David Hilliard in his article “Unenglish and Unmanly” (1982) — the tendency towards occultism in certain Anglo-Catholic circles since the 19th century has gone almost unnoticed in scholarly literature. Only one study has attempted anything close to an overview of the phenomenon: Anthony Fuller’s dissertation on “Anglo-Catholic Clergy and the Golden Dawn” (2009). More research is needed. Smoley, Richard (1999). Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions. Quest Books. ISBN 978-0-8356-0844-2. It is of course the judgment of the Reader as to what weight to assign to the astrology of the card within the context of a specific reading or whether to use it at all.

Foster, R. F. (1997). W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol.I: The Apprentice Mage. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-288085-7. Balance is your superpower, Libra, so it’s no surprise that your tarot card is Justice. You have a mission, and the world needs you. Equilibrium keeps you afloat, as does your integrity. Just like the scales in the image, keep in mind that intuition must also be in balance with logic. Justice is the 11th card in the Major Arcana, and to resonate at the level of the numerology master number 11, you have to reach a fairly high state of spiritual evolution. Samuel Liddell MacGregor-Mathers (1854-1918), British Freemason, one of the three founders of the Golden Dawn, prolific writer, occultist, and researcher [43] The First of the Sephirah is called Kether, the Crown and shows the first manifested form which many have associated with the Hebrew name of God as shown in the letters AHIH (or Eheieh). It is the incomprehensible deity and Kether is often referred to the Godhead as the primal source of manifestation. The very ancient Kabbalistic Book, the 'Sepher Yetzirah' states that Kether is called 'The Admirable, or Hidden Intelligence' for it shows the Light giving the power of comprehension to the first principle which has no beginning or end. Aligned with the Tarot we have the initial card of the four suits of the Minor Arcana linked here. The Ace of Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. Each of these cards shows the manifested state of something just born through their respective framework of the Four Elements. They exist but are still extremely pliable in nature and are very much the essential nature of the Aces.

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Robert Felkin (1853–1925), medical missionary, explorer and anthropologist in Central Africa, author, founder of the New Zealand branch of the Golden Dawn and the Smaragdum Thalasses / Whare Ra temple [40] Ace of Cups –“The Root of the Powers of Water”; Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces; The Water Signs of the Zodiac Anglo-Catholic occultism was, in the minds of many of its practitioners, a rebuke to the unbelieving world outside cloister and sanctum. And, sometimes, the occult represented another way of connecting with the Divine. Occultism could augment conventional religion, and it was by no means as marginal as might be expected. If nothing else, it was certainly far more than the pastime of a few satanic (and easily satirised) seminarians. Jenkins, Phillip (2000). Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512744-7. Colquhoun, Ithell (1975). Sword of Wisdom: Macgregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn. Neville Spearman. ISBN 0-85435-092-6.