About this item
- The Tarot of Ceremonial Magick is a brightly coloured Tarot deck with art that includes pieces from many systems,
- overlaid with Hebrew, astrological and other assorted symbols. Suited for beginners to ceremonial magick. Previously
- out of print, it's now available again from Thelesis Aura.
Specifications
Name
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Tarot of Ceremonial Magick
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Creators
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Lon Duquette
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Publisher
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US Games 1997
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Publisher
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Thelesis Aura 2011
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Deck Type
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Tarot Deck
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Cards
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78
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Reviews
presenting high esoteric material in a manner that can be oh
so easily understood. Tarot of Ceremonial Magick is
the companion book to Mr. DuQuette's Tarot of
Ceremonial Magick deck. In it he expounds on the synthesis of
what he terms the three great pillars of magick:
Astrology, Enochian Magick and Goetia. This information, once
assimilated, can be used to understand any other deck that
incorporates it also.
DuQuette describes the Tarot as a living
mandalla - a pictorial breakdown of the mechanics of
creation. In the Tarot he sees a visual representation of
it's Qabalistic foundations. In learning to understand
the Tarot we come to understand other Qabalistic based
systems.
DuQuette sees the Tarot as a wheel, with each card having
it's own place upon that wheel. There is a very
interesting, easy to follow section acting as an introduction
to Qabala that covers the four worlds, the ten
Sephiroth and the thirty-two paths. The schematics are easy
to follow and give a step by step understanding of
the structure of the tree of life.
DuQuette's section
on the Major Arcana provides several correspondences
for each card:
Hebrew Letter (with the English equivalent)
The Meaning of the Hebrew letter
Path of Sepher
Yetzirah
Numerical value
Colors
Traditional image
Mercurial
Genii
Qliphothic Genii
Quote from Aleister Crowley (Crowley's Mnemonic)
The divinatory meanings for the Major Arcana are
placed in three sections of interest: spiritual matters,
matters of the heart and intellectual matters. The student
entering one of these cards is indeed entering a magickal
world!
DuQuette's introduction to the Aces provides some interesting
food for thought. He introduces the concept of the
fifth element - that of Spirit - and posits that Spirit
reveals its presence in the four Aces and the Court Cards.
This indeed is the basis of Enochian magick. Each Ace
contains the following correspondences:
* Tattwa symbol
* Color
* Enochian Attributions:
* Tablet of Union
* Elemental Tablet of Fire
In his section on the Court Cards,
DuQuette discusses Astrological Attributions, as well as
correspondences with the I Ching. Each Court Card contains the
following correspondences:
* I Ching Hexagram
* Tattwa Symbol
* Enochian Attributions:
* Tablet of Union
* Elemental Tablet
* Angels of the subangle
* Good Angels
Page 122, figure 12 shows us
what DuQuette calls the completed Qabalistic mandala,
with all of the Tarot cards. It is quite an impressive
graphic of how one works ones way out from the center of
the wheel to the outer rim - and the changes that one
encounters along the way.
Each of the pips contains the
following correspondences:
* Angels of the Shemhamphorash
* Day Spirit of the Goetia
* Night Spirit of the Goetia
* Enochian Attributions
There is a small section on
reading the Tarot, using the Celtic Cross spread. I do see
how this information can be used in a reading, but for
me, the esotericism of the Tarot is best placed in
Ritual and Ceremony.
There are several Appendixes to
this book - all of which are filled with wonderful
information:
* Astrological Information
* Rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagram
* Temple Openings and Enochian Calls
* Goetic Evocation
* Liber 231
This is a very useful book for
studying the works of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley,
and a very good reference book for the study of
Ceremonial Magick. It is not intended for the beginning
student. It is an excellent addition to any serious Tarot
library.
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