Hermetic Tarot Deck

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A must-have for any of a Christian background who might be looking for the connection between the Tarot and the faith you grew up in. If you have been seeking the depths that Sunday School, Sunday Sermons, and Best Selling Inspirational Authors just haven't been able to deliver, this is an excellent, foundational start. Dowson Included elemental dignities, astrological attributions, kabbalistic relationships, and angelic names in the deck. Rather than ask whether a promotion will be given at work, if the seeker asks about the greater karmic threads interwoven into her career and professional development, the Hermetic Tarot will prove to be profoundly empowering.

Dense and difficult—the more so as I entered the book woefully uninformed about Catholic and Christian Hermetic ritual and terminology—but also endlessly fascinating and edifying, especially in the recondite and convincing manner with which scientific, psychological, and anthropological phenomena are reconciled with the spiritual revelation of Christ.In looking at this deck, it’s clear to me than Dowson spent a lot of time studying Golden Dawn and other materials, and knew them intimately.

As a social worker I did an inordinate amount of trauma centered care for refugees labeled with schizophrenia. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. I would never ever make a decision based in total reliance on what a tarot deck said to me (or what I think it said to me) just like I would never render a legal opinion on whether to invest in a particular startup by relying solely on the corporate due diligence.

Of interest is his take on the relation between non-fallen Nature, Mary, Sophia, the Virgin, being Chaste and his views on the notion of the holy trinity illuminated by this fourth element.

The three selected Lords, Magis, or Dignitaries from the Hermetic Tarot represent the trinity of forces that will empower the seeker to change his or her outcome for the positive.Godfrey Dowson's cards in The Hermetic Tarot reveal a combination of detail and symbolism that capture the mood and sense of each pictorial image. Well, alright, not what I thought I was getting into, but I figured I ought to follow where I was being led and see what came of it. These qualities alone improve the student's ability to grasp the possibility of deeper levels of understanding in the book of Tarot . This book is not about fortune-telling; the symbols from the Tarot are used as the starting points for a series of spiritual exercises intended to immerse the reader in the living tradition of Christian Hermeticism.

QUALITIES OF INSTRUCTIONAL BOOKLET With constant referrals to SEPHIRAH on the Tree of Life, this booklet makes it clear that the study of Tarot is a deeply spiritual process. This second time around reading it, it becomes clearer how each card can express a relationship in the world -- if you want, a kind of truth, a way of being. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. You can read it from cover to cover but you are more likely to take it a chapter at a time as almost every paragraph has ideas to ponder and penetrate.It has been speculated that his departure was due to his having lost a number of occult-related papers in a hansom cab. as the author is not tired to repeat) is ultimately a failure and results more often than not in a kind of syncretistic theosophy ("pseudo-religion" as Guenon rightly dubbed it).