Subject: Re: Black Lodge Tarot.
From: edrury@3cpu.rain.com (Ed Drury)
Date: 1992-09-02, 03:34
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: edrury@.UUCP (Ed Drury)
In article <1992Sep1.192900.7259@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
> >
> >I was jjst thinking... not only did Aleister Crowley write "moonchild",
> >he also designed a set of Tarot cards. Does anyone out there have this set?
> >How is it different from, say, the Rider tarot cards? Maybe there's a himt in
> >the cards...
Yes, as a matter of a fact I do. As well as the book by Crowley on the set
which is titled "The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot)". It is a fairly exhastive
work. I like the deck very much, I can't compare it to others except to say
it packages a *lot* more symbols than the Rider deck. Crowley also incorperates
*many* doctrines into his explainations of the design. Is there something
specific you were wanting to explore along the Black Lodge? I think you might
find more by exploring "The Book of Lies".
More to the point, several of the trump cards have been renamed. A great
example is Strength, which in the Crowley deck is Lust. Justice becomes
Adjustment (interesting note that the explaination is that there exists
no justice in nature. Justice is a concept singularily human and therefore
relative). Of more interest to Laura might have been the Aeon. Sometimes
called the Angel or The Last Judgement.
For every card, Crowley includes ties to the Hebrew alphabet, numerology,
astrology and alchemy. If he made films, he'd probably would have been
David Lynch's mentor.
> >Mike (you crazy fucking Canadian!)
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