09-13-2011, 01:31 PM
(09-11-2011, 09:10 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: How glad I am that I can participate in this thread!
Thanks for being here! You have made some very interesting insights which I would like to ponder further. However I did want to respond to a couple of things quickly.
Quote:Tenet, what strikes me most about these two decks is their origins. Whereas Ra states right out that the deck in the Law of One was given by Ra to the Egyptian priests (though, I imagine they certainly added their own biases to it), the Rider-Waite deck must have come from Waite's own personal connection to Intelligent Infinity. It is for this reason that I give more credence to the very specific symbols in the Egyptian deck than I do to the Rider-Waite deck. With all Tarot decks except the Egyptian, my practice has been to seek the intended feeling of the card rather than the precise symbolism.
I am not a tarot history buff... however from what I see so far what he have received as the Rider-Waite tarot is actually based on Ra's version, so many thousands of years ago. I am not sure durring which of the Ra contacts this occurred, but according to my understanding the last contact before L/L Research was with Akhenaten circa 1300BC.
The (3 x 7) + 1 configuration of the cards was actually previously known (before Rider-Waite) as the Tarot of Marseilles... although if you dig further on that you will see that this was handed down from an even older tradition. As it turns out, the individual who coined the term "Tarot of Marseilles", known as Gerard Encausse (Papus) played a role in the distortion of other teachings at the end of the 19th century.
These distortions eventually became the occult base of the Nazis under Hitler.
That's all I've dug up for now.
JustLikeYou Wrote:3. I don't really understand what you are saying on this one.
Firstly- it strikes me as odd that the body of the Fool in the Rider-Waite deck is not only in the precise shape of the Orion constellation, but it also the mirror image.
Secondly- I think there is some significance to the head positioning (both in the vertical and horizontal planes) as I pointed out... but I haven't really landed on what it signifies.