Comparing the Rider-Waite and Thoth Tarot decks

[clifjayshafer]

Dear Barlow; My I get a reference, either book, video, and/or lecture of the Rider-Waite Minor comparison to Freemasonry? I could not catch the name of the person you spoke of and would like to research this. Thank you.

[PaulHughesBarlow]

@clifjayshafer Hi, A.E. Waite was an historian of Freemasonry. You might try Mary Greer, an expert on the RWS deck.

[Linedash]

tbh the best deck for magick is the golden dawn magical tarot

i love the thoth deck though

[PaulHughesBarlow]

You can use the power of the Thoth Tarot and the Opening of the Key Spread to use magical techniques more efficiently

[Monkeyland03]

The book 'Modern Magick' by Donald Kraig is the best introduction book on high magick. He goes mostly by the Golden Dawn style. I guess the best introduction to crowleys system of high magick is 'The Magick of Aleister Crowley': A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema by lon duquette. I don't think he has his own system of the circulation of the body of light.

[Monkeyland03]

When Alister Crowley put Tzadi and Aries on the Emperor and Heh and Aquarius on The Star it upset the natural hebrew counting system.

[PaulHughesBarlow]

@Monkeyland03 In part it depends if you believe that the Major Arcana are based upon the Hebrew alphabet. Don't forget that the Golden Dawn had already transposed the Strength and Justice cards. Hebrew gematria is not affected by the transposition. Crowley spent years deciding on the transposition, and I am not sure he was entirely happy with it either.

[thrashcore44]

Paul you are one of my tarot inspirations u have tought me so much about the thoth deck and crowley thank you very much