Category: Qabalah
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Chokhmah – The Second Sephirah of the Tree of Life and the divine name Yah
Sepher Yetzirah Chokhmah is often referred to as the illuminating intelligence in Sepher Yetzirah. We are beyond the limited reality in this point of existence or consciousness so this is blinding beyond the bright of any sun looked at from a mere metre away. This is infinite brightness. No matter yet. Rankine informs us that…
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32 – The Tau path – The Tree of Life
This article is a stub based on Nick of Cups‘s Youtube video concerning the Universe Card, Daniel Gunther’s notes on the Initiation in the Aeon of the Child, James Eshelman’s Mystical and Magickal System of the A.’. A.’., The Book of Thoth and the Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley, and more books on Qabalah.…
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Tree of Life – Index
The Tree of Life is an idea that is used to explain the process of creation of the universe in Qabalah. It is often suggested that it can be used in reverse for a mystic to follow the path of creation in reverse to find the creator or at least “higher planes of reality” as…
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A Brief History of the Tarot
This is part of my section about the Tarot including interpretation of the symbolism of all the cards. Please see this page as an index of all that information. In the modern day, the tarot is a means of divination. This means it is used to derive information from spiritual sources. It was not always…
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The Empress – Tarot
This card has generally been very consistent. It features a female ruler. Even as far back as the Visconti-Sforza deck she has a shield with her while her male counter part the Emperor has the globe. In Smith-Waite-Rider’s deck she also holds a wand with a globe on the end and her shield rests on…
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The High Priestess – Tarot
So the real question in my mind is what Waite, who seems the least womanly of all the Golden Dawn men, would have to say about this card. I mean you had the men who adored women in the Golden Dawn, but couldn’t quite get them. The men who raised women up but then also…
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The Magician – Tarot
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The Magicians Sometimes called the Magus and sometimes the Juggler this card often features a man at table. Frequently on the in front of him are a series of tools. In the Smith-Waite-Rider deck the cools before him are the suits, but older cards have a variety of different tools. In the Smith-Waite-Rider deck he…
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The Fool – Tarot
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This is often treated like the first card of the Major Arcana. When the other cards were traditionally numbered, the fool was not, leading some to call it “card zero”. Similarly to the Joker of a normal playing deck, the card was part of the deck, but not part of it at the same time.…
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The Tarot
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For a Brief History of the Tarot click below. Composition of the Smith-Waite-Rider deck This deck consists of 78 cards. 22 of them are called Trumps, Atus or the Major Arcana. The remaining 56 are the Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana is divided into 4 suits: Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. Each suit has 10…
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The Secret Written History of Magic
One of things we are very lucky to have is the Ancient Greeks because for a long time they formed a written culture which was not afraid to practice magic or consider new ideas about deity. From the ancient philosophers comes a long line of written philosophy on how to practice a form of magic.…