Essential Tarot Writings by Donald Tyson

Author:Donald Tyson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: tarot;history of tarot;tarot history;occult history;history of the tarot;tarot use;tarot use in occultism;occult;donald tyson;occult writings;essential tarot writing;essential tarot writings
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2020-10-02T16:55:32+00:00

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Notes to Part Three

1 . Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, 6th ed. (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1989), pp. 566–589.

2 . Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (1944; repr., New York: Samuel Weiser, 1974), pp. 150–151.

3 . S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use In Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc. (1888; repr., New York: Samuel Weiser, n.d.), pp. 5–6.

4 . Ibid., p. 6.

5 . There is some debate over who had more influence over the Golden Dawn Tarot, S. L. MacGregor Mathers or his wife, Moïna. There seems little doubt that Moïna drew and painted the first deck of the Golden Dawn Tarot, but Mathers’s interest in and involvement with the symbolism of the Tarot was intense. Both Mathers and his wife were psychic, and both received communications from spirits regarding the system of magic developed within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

It seems probable to me that Mathers directed the designs of the cards painted by Moïna, just as A. E. Waite dictated the designs of the Tarot drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, and Aleister Crowley determined the designs painted by Lady Frieda Harris. By the way, I do not regard this pattern as a coincidence. In all three cases, occult agencies were at work that seemed to require both the critical, analytical faculties of the men and the intuitive, artistic talents of the women.

A note at the end of the primary Tarot document of the Golden Dawn, known as Book T, emphasizes Mathers’s intense focus on the Tarot: “In all of this I have not only transcribed the symbolism, but have tested, studied, compared, and examined it both clairvoyantly and in other ways. The result of these has been to show me how absolutely correct the symbolism of the Book T is, and how exactly it represents the occult Forces of the Universe.” Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn, 6th ed., p. 565.

6 . Regardie, The Golden Dawn, 6th ed., p. 566.

7 . Ibid., p. 551.

8 . Ibid., p. 581.

9 . Ibid., p. 568.

10. Ibid., p. 570.

11. In the Golden Dawn Tarot, the Kings are elevated Knights and are depicted mounted on horseback. The horse is an ancient symbol of travel or rapid change of place.

12. In traditional fortune-telling with common playing cards, the Knave or Page represents either the thoughts of the King of its suit (see part eight, section I ) or the thoughts of the King and Queen of its suit (see part eight, section III ).

13. Regardie, The Golden Dawn, 6th ed., p. 586.

14. Ibid., p. 568.

15. Ibid., p. 585.

16. It is possible to link each trump to an element, so that its elemental association may be considered in assessing its dignities. This is done through the mediation of the Hebrew letters, which are connected with the trumps and are themselves linked to the elements Fire, Water, and Air, the seven planets of traditional astrology, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. Each zodiac sign has an elemental association. Among

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