brotherhood of light
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 06 May 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| new2angels |
06 May 2005 |
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I have the brotherhood of light egyptian tarot cards and dont know much about them.I bought them second hand.
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| Moonbow* |
06 May 2005 |
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Hello new2angels
Welcome to Aeclectic, I'm afraid I don't have this deck and in honesty I don't think I have heard much mention of it here either. Does anyone know why? Is it rare??
I hope someone with the deck will be able to give you some personal insight, as well as the site that fyreflye has linked.
Moonbow*
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| Rusty Neon |
06 May 2005 |
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In terms of card images, the major arcana and pip cards of the Brotherhood of Light deck (1936) are inspired by the corresponding cards of the Egyptianized tarot major arcana of Falconnier/Wegener (1896) and the Egyptianized tarot minor arcana of Saint-Germain (1901). The Egyptianized card titles were the conception of Paul Christian (1863).
The black-and-white Falconnier/Wegener/Saint-Germain designs are reproduced in the "Egyptian Tarot" deck (U.S. Games) and are painted in colour and with new backgrounds in the "Ibis Tarot" (U.S. Games).
http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Reviews/historye.html
http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Reviews/ibis.html
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| Gerbear |
06 May 2005 |
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In terms of card images, the major arcana and pip cards of the Brotherhood of Light deck (1936) are inspired by the corresponding cards of the Egyptianized tarot major arcana of Falconnier/Wegener (1896) and the Egyptianized tarot minor arcana of Saint-Germain (1901). The Egyptianized card titles were the conception of Paul Christian (1863).
The black-and-white Falconnier/Wegener/Saint-Germain designs are reproduced in the "Egyptian Tarot" deck (U.S. Games) and are painted in colour and with new backgrounds in the "Ibis Tarot" (U.S. Games).
http://green-door.narod.ru/tarotfalc.htm
Just a bit more on the relationship between the Falconnier and the Brotherhood of Light Tarot. The introduction is in English, the rest in French. There are two editions of the Brotherhood of Light Tarot. If the box for your deck has the date 2003 on it, you have the second edition. Some of the lines in the second edition were cleaned up a bit. The first edition is closest to the Falconnier.
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| new2angels |
07 May 2005 |
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i have the first edition as i bought it about 1998 and they were second hand then,are these cards rare?Thanks for all the info xx.
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| new2angels |
07 May 2005 |
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My cards say copyright 1936 renewed 1964 are they old?
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