Tarosophy: Tarot to Engage Life, Not Escape It by Marcus Katz

Author:Marcus Katz [Katz, Marcus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Forge Press
Published: 2016-09-28T03:00:00+00:00

3.4 Coded Questions and the Inner Guide

In 1923, the notorious magician Aleister Crowley recorded a typical clairvoyant session using Eddy Saayman as the seer.114 As with all of Crowley’s work, this was recorded in detail and demonstrates the working practice of testing the vision. This is a particularly esoteric technique that does not appear in Steinbrecher, yet is intrinsic to the Western Esosana of experimental magick. We do not take these visions at face value.

In this case, recorded on 28 September 1923, Crowley utilised certain Hebrew names and symbols connected with Jupiter which Eddy would not have known, and Eddy returned information appropriate to the influence of Jupiter. Crowley wrote: “There is a sphere or plane not material in the ordinary sense, which is yet in some sense or other real, possessing definite laws, correlating its phenomena w[ith] human ideas of moral or intellectual order. These phenomena can be produced and controlled by an irrational arbitrary system of traditional methods of Magick.”115

These arbitrary methods include testing by hexagrams of the I Ching, for example in an unpublished vision sequence by Lea Hirsig (Alostrael) recorded in April 1925.116 The seer would be presented the hexagram, about which they had no knowledge, and the entities in the vision would be expected to respond appropriately.

In the Tarosophy version of the IGM method, we use coded questions to test the spirits and the personifications of the tarot cards that we may encounter in our meditations. These work best when given and guided by a partner who talks you though the visualisation and prepares coded questions in advance without your knowledge.

A coded question is when the figures in the visualisation are given just letters or a code which stands for a question, without being told the actual question, which remains unknown also to the person performing the visualisation. It thus requires someone else to determine the questions and the code, although the person undertaking the visualisation may have a range of questions that they wish to be presented in this manner.

Here is an example of a coded question from a typical IGM session in 1994, where the client was approaching a lot of issues with regard to their family. They had been taken by their IG to a personification of The Empress tarot card, in this visualisation named Betty. The person guiding them (in the outside world) had prepared a large number of coded questions by taking the first characters of the key elements of the questions, of which two examples follow:

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