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To: alt.magick,alt.lucky.w,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.occult.methods From: "Asiya"Subject: Re: Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic -- Storax and Styrax Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:37:10 GMT "Cavalorn" wrote in message news:G32de3A+YeZ9EwmJ@newaeonbooks.demon.co.uk... > > We may also challenge that view which deems the 'traditional' > attribution of letters to Trumps to be 'old', since it does not seem to > be found before Eliphas Levi. Crowley did not know this at the time of > the receipt of Liber Legis. Aiwaz, perhaps, knew better. Court de Gebelin was the first to attribute the Hebrew letters to the Tarot Trumps, in his essay 'Du Jeu des Tarots'. In the essay, he attributes the Star to Heh and the Emperor to Tzaddi. Crowley most likely read this essay at some point, considering it is first thing listed in Waite's bibliography for 'Pictorial Key to the Tarot'. Asiya
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