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Comparing the Rider-Waite and Thoth Tarot decks

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Uploaded by on Feb 4, 2010

AE Waite and Aleister Crowley were members of the Golden Dawn secret society, so we have to understand that as a member of the GD you cannot give away 'secrets' in your tarot deck. Waite kept his Order Vows, while Crowley published secrets.

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  • 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.

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

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

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

  • @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.

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

    i love the thoth deck though

  • 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.

  • The Star Ruby Ritual (The Lesser Banishing / Invoking Ritual Of The Pentagram of the golden dawn)

    The Star Sapphire Ritual (The Lesser Banishing / Invoking Ritual Of The Hexagram of the golden dawn)

    The Greater Ritual of the Pentagram (The Supreme Invoking/Banishing Ritual Of The Pentagram of the golden dawn)

    The Greater Ritual Of The Hexagram (The Supreme Invoking/Banishing Ritual Of The Hexagram of the golden dawn)

    I think there is a Thelemic Middle Pillar also.

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

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