Magick: Tarot 101

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Today, those who know of Tarot at all know of its relation to the "western mystery school tradition," the so-called occult, secret societies and their studies of esoteric magic. To reduce the 22 trumps of the current deck of Tarot to a single system of relationships for all of them, we arrange them on the "Tree of Life" diagram of ha QBLH. However, as we students of ha QBLH know also, this version is not the same as the original depiction of the "Tree of Life." The modern, so-called "Naples" arrangement of the Golden Dawn, also used by Crowley, is a derivative of the Ari, which in turn is a bastardisation of the Gra, versions of the same structural lattice.

Therefore, in dealing firstly with the 22 Tarot trumps, we will be looking at the paths on the original, Gra, version of the "Tree of Life" diagram of ha QBLH, and assigning them attributes, each leg, or pathway, equivalent to each of the 22 trumps.


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