10-05-2014, 08:05 PM
Matt1 Wrote:The tarot seems to fit fine onto the glyph without any issue as far as i am aware.
Yes, there are 22 cards and 22 pathways, but deciding which card is associated with which pathway is not as simple as it may seem at the outset. Unless you are willing to simply trust the correspondences that someone else has drawn (which I am not), then you must learn the harmonic signature of each card and each pathway and then decide which ones match.
While my familiarity with the harmonic signatures of the cards is just beginning to crystallize, I am still a beginner with the pathways. The spheres alone take long enough to absorb.
Matt1 Wrote:Thus you have the tarot cards relating to the 22 pathways as well as the Sephiroth to work with, this is why i say it seems to be a more complete system.
Again, on first glance this appears to be so, but the two systems were not originally conceived as one. It is therefore unwise to assume that they will match as neatly as the authors of books like to think they will. My experience with works by qabalists is that they generally see the cards as secondary to the pathways, so they force the cards to fit the conceptions they already have of the pathways. This would make the Tree, by definition, the more complete system. But if we approach each system on its own merits, then the question of which system is more complete is not as readily answered.