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To: alt.magick From: paulhume@lan2wan.com (Paul Hume) Subject: Re: Quotes Date: 25 Mar 2002 13:48:23 -0800 > > >> I am constructing a list of some of the more potent quotes from > characters such as Spare and Crowley. Anyone have a quote to share? > > > > > >" Divination should be discarded from the onset." > > > > > >Crowley > > > > > >Short, potent, and psychologically concise. > > > > But of what worth, given that he consulted the Yi almost every day. Do you > know the origin of this quote, some surrounding context might help. > > I believe the Book of Thoth near the end, where the spreads are explained. > It's been years since I owned the book myself, the quote just stuck. Apparently it only half stuck. Does this look familiar? THE SIGNIFICATOR Choose a card to represent the Querent, using your knowledge or judgment of his character rather than dwelling on his physical characteristics. Take the cards in your left hand. In the right hand hold the wand over them, and say: I invoke thee, I A O, that thou wilt send H R U, the great Angel that is set over the operations of this Secret Wisdom, to lay his hand invisibly upon these consecrated cards of art, that thereby we may obtain true knowledge of hidden things, to the glory of thine ineffable Name. Amen. Hand the cards to Querent, and bid him think of the question attentively, and cut. Take the cards as cut and hold as for dealing. First Operation This shows the situation of the Querent at the time when he consults you. The pack being in front of you, cut, and place the top half to the left. Cut each pack again to the left. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left. Find the Significator. If it be in the Yod pack, the question refers to work, business, etc.; if in the Heh pack, to love, marriage, or pleasure;, if in the Vau pack, to trouble, loss, scandal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the He' final pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. Tell the Querent what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divination. If right, spread out the pack containing the Significator, face upwards. Count the cards from him, in the direction in which he faces. The counting should include the card from which you count. For Knights, Queens and Princes, count 4. For Princesses, count 7. For Aces, count 11 For small cards, count according to the number. For trumps, count 3 for the elemental trumps; 9 for the planetary trumps; 12 for the Zodiacal trumps. Make a "story" of these cards. This story is that of the beginning of the affair. Pair the cards on either side of the Significator, then those outside them, and so on. Make another "story", which should fill in the details omitted in the first. If this story is not quite accurate, do not be discouraged. Perhaps the Querent himself does not know everything. But the main lines ought to be laid down firmly, with correctness, or the divination should be abandoned.
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