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The Qabalistic Tarot

Robert Wang's textbook remains the standard account of how the Tarot and the Qabalah interlock, written from within the Hermetic Qabalah tradition of the Golden Dawn rather than from Jewish scholarship. The opening sections set the modern legacy, the Golden Dawn, its tarot, the Rider-Waite and Crowley's Thoth decks, and the source document called Book T, then survey the Qabalah itself: the Sepher Yetzirah, medieval and renaissance currents, the Tree of Life, the four worlds and the symbolism of the sephiroth. The central course follows: each sephira in turn, Kether through Malkuth, with the minor cards and court cards that belong to it, so that the seventy-eight cards become a map of consciousness rather than a fortune-telling pack. The major arcana are then assigned to the paths by the Sepher Yetzirah's letters, each trump given a chapter, from the Fool at Aleph to the Universe at Tau, with the cube of space and the initiatory scheme drawn out. Practical chapters on skrying and divination, reference tables of colors, sounds and the thirty-two paths, and reproductions of four complete decks make the book a working tool as well as a study.

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