Truth About the Tarot
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[edit] The Truth About the Tarot
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January 11, 1991
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Skoob Esoterica
[edit] Description
The Truth About the Tarot is a slim, playful introduction to Tarot, with special emphasis on the Crowley-Harris deck, by a well-respected Thelemic magician and scholar. In his introduction, Suster states from the outset that Crowley's Book of Thoth makes his book irrelevant, but admits its challenges and then goes on to do an excellent job covering most of the bases. Suster includes basic meanings, an intro to Qabalah and Tarotic Astrology, an I-Ching overview, a list of Mythic allusions, a guide to the Golden Dawn attributions, and even includes rules for a Tarot game to help master them... all in 110 pages. His knowledge and enthusiasm are infectious, making this is balanced, concise intro to Golden Dawn Tarots in general that seeks to "tear away the suburban morality so-oft applied to the Tarot, and in its place provide a practical method of using the cards as a radical, powerful, and dynamic influence in personal transformation."
[edit] Author's comments
"The only 'dark stranger' one is likely to encounter is oneself."
"New Age is merely softened down and tarted up Christianity; an outmoded religion once adhered to by primitive mammalian primates based upon ludicrous notions of sin and guilt. Under Christianity, perfectly natural desires were called 'sinful'. Under New Age, you still have to be guilty as sin for the same, for the words and phrases are 'unspiritual' - whatever that may mean - or 'not virtuous'. Whatever words are used, people still end up feeling guilty over perfectly natural and honourable feelings like love, hate, lust, anger et al."
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