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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.divination,alt.magick,alt.tarot From: nagasivaSubject: Re: Reading Tarot and General Divination Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:44:17 GMT 50030313 VII om nagasiva: >> 1) 'read' means interpreting the intended >> meanings of the cards as rendered by >> the fashioners of the deck; "cheyne" : > ...Crowley's and Waite's decks were themselves derivative. > In publishing their decks they too were offering an > interpretation of their sources. Though in doing so, > they each added, or reworked into the quilt, > something of their own. shaping the creation of the decks facilitated this, and their expression on the nature of the art completed it, emblematically. > ...However appropriated, (and however appropriately), the occult > tarot (at least) DOES model a ye-olde dogma, to the extent that > some have even called it a book. The Big Picture Book of Thoth-Tahuti? related to Hermes Trismegistus? > Life, after all, is a game of chance, and on your way, you are > dealt many cards, and you meet with many situations and characters > -- signs. Playing the game well is about RECOGNISING who and what > they really are, and what they're likely to bring: perhaps a cup > or maybe a sword - and that's reading. reading life's signs, to be sure. sign-interpretation is valuable. > The only certainty is that after a little while, the game is over > (for you), and you leave the table. So long. and some find room to believe against even this -- tales of possible futures beyond human form, of souls, and unifications with divinity. > According to their dogma, the occultists characterised their tarot > cards in several ways, which is referenced in the card symbolism, > often in great detail.... the most penetrating insights into the nature of reality expressed through the character and form of a card game of power and control. nagasiva
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