By Lon Milo DuQuette
Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot was once his ultimate opus, the fruits of a life of occult examine and perform. With artist girl Frieda Harris, he condensed the center of his instructing - astrology, Qabbalah, magick, gematria and numerology, and alchemy- into the seventy eight playing cards of the tarot. even if Crowley's personal e-book of Thoth offers perception into the playing cards, it's a complex, dated book.
What has been lacking, and what Crowley authority Lon Milo DuQuette has created, is an introductory textual content for the deck. In transparent language, DuQuette presents every thing you must learn about Crowley's basic ideas to get the main out of utilizing the Thoth deck.
Many use the deck just because the paintings is so appealing, yet there's much more to it than that. DuQuette starts off with the fundamental old history of this very popular deck sooner than delving into descriptions of every card intensive, from either a in basic terms tarot standpoint and from an accelerated, magickal viewpoint. each one card is defined intimately concerning its directly tarot that means, that's then increased upon with the entire different attributions Crowley intended.
This precise advisor might be of significant curiosity to all tarot readers who use the Thoth Tarot- specially these searching for correspondences with different occult platforms to augment their readings- and may be valuable via scholars of Aleister Crowley's works.
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But it must be stresse that without experience and success in the three areas outlined, n attempt should be made to experiment with the operations of the N e Flesh that we will proceed to describe. For without the strength an abiljv that these exercises confer, such practices become mere debauc and can onIy lead to sorrow and death. The New Flesh is the direct path to Intimacy. It blasts suspicion, envy, hatred and the rest of the unwanted legacy that hummiry hu inherited. "Nothing is true, weiything is permitted," Transcendence is the key.
There are many gates to The N Flesh Palladium, but the relevant point is that the gate exists to entered. It is said that the central experience of the New Resh is enteri the Body of Babalon. When entering the Body of Babalon, deprav is a sacrament, the perversions are the basis of style. There : traditionally six "modes of congrex" by which entry may be achieved Subsequently, CCnda participated in a Nu lsis Lodge ceremony to invoke and be possessed by the Black Isis, the dark side of the Goddess.
Thus, when examined too closely, lo disappears. This is the very raison d9etrefor the Palladium, the si and sectet place. This Is the importance of the mystery. And this is t reason that so many seek Eros through Dionysus or Apollo and fail their quest utterly. WhiIe the techniques and doctrines of The New FA PaIIadwn may seem strange or confusing or, even frightening to some, is important to remember that their purpose is to confer Gratifil Desire, that most precious of d treasures that humans rn possess.