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Frieda Harris, artist for the Thoth Tarot
Aleister Crowley commissioned Frieda Harris to paint the Thoth Tarot. Although involved in the women’s branch of Freemasonry – Co-Masonry, her interest in the occult was not deep. Crowley had to initiate her into his Orders to expand her knowledge and commence the...
Shamanic Techniques and Thoth Tarot
Enhance Tarot visions through shamanic techniques Shamans use techniques to access other worlds via a door, a crack, or a cave etc. Similar methods are employed to enter the world of the 22 Major Tarot. One method is to view the back of the card and project oneself...
Magickal Systems and the Tarot
The Western Magical preoccupation with the Tree of Life has blinded us to the possibilities of other magickal systems. The Space around the Tree is vast, unknown, unexplored, a great loss to magick. However, all is not lost, since the Vedic and Tantric traditions...
The Atbash Cipher: Re-ordering the Major Arcana
Encoded within the Atbash cipher is an elegant solution to the transpositions of Major Arcana carried out by both the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley. The Golden Dawn transposition of Justice and Strength is accepted almost without comment, and why there is...
Atbash cipher conceals a powerful system of Magick
The Atbash code highlights the transpositions of the Major arcana first by the Golden Dawn, and then by Aleister Crowley. The Atbash code is a magical system in its own right. The Golden Dawn system of Magic is based upon the Kabbalah, in particular the Hebrew...
Separating the Tree from the Tarot
Thinking the unthinkable – does Tarot need to be defined by the Tree of Life? They have been inextricably intertwined for over one hundred years. All ‘serious’ books have at least one diagram of it. The ToL gives us the theoretical and structural background – where we...