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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.tarot,alt.divination From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (mordred) Subject: BHeidrick: Qabala -- Summary of my work & Now: working the paths... Date: 21 Mar 1995 13:31:51 -0800 [from alt.magick: heidrick@well.sf.ca.us (Bill Heidrick)] Ron Hale-Evans (rwhe@netcom.com) writes: >...but Levi's >system is almost completely different from the G.D. system, isn't it? He >puts the Magician on the first Path and the Fool way down the list. Tarot correspondence is a very minor part of path working on the Tree. It seems important in as much as it's an easy approach, but it's trivial when advanced path working is undertaken --- more a distraction than a help. Levi's Tarot associations are in the French tradition, with the exception of the effect of associating the Fool with Shin. Several G.'.D.'. writers argue that Levi knew "the correct" association used by the G.'.D.'. and concealed it in this manner. In any event, Levi's rambling writing conceals many of the ideas underlying G.'.D.'. path working. To read Levi, remember that there was no TV or radio in the time of his writing. Common methods of reading in those days included a bit at dinner or supper time, with either discussion or pondering of the unwritten portion for an hour or so. What was explicitly said in the text was considered relatively unimportant. What was hinted or implied was considered the main material. That's why Levi drops so many hints and truncates so many discussions. This sort of literature was intended to be treated as a collection of salon topics. One invited guests for conversation at stated times in the week and brought up a particular matter, such as an issue out of Levi. The guests would then take that and toss it back and forth for the evening. If everything was decently explained, the book wouldn't sell. Most readers in post revolutionary France liked puzzles for social occasions. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick
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