graspee
Hi there, I'm still chugging along, still learning...
Anyway, I just finished the first part of Lon Milo DuQuette's Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, the part before the actual individual card descriptions.
I took in all the stuff about Qabalah but I have a few questions that maybe someone would be kind enough to answer or to point my in the right direction to learn the answers.
1) If the ace to 10 of suits correspond to the sephiroth and the majors correspond to the 22 paths between them, to what do the court cards correspond?
2) If there are four trees of life and the small cards of each suit correspond to the sephiroth of each one, doesn't that imply there should be four sets of majors?
3) In the "flash of creation thingy" (which actually isn't explicitly shown as a diagram in the book but I researched elsewhere), where the lightning passes from kether down to malkuth, why does it pass from binah to chesed where there is no path? Is this something to do with the fact that it's cutting through daath and crossing the abyss? I have seen the lightning drawn differently on at least one site, so that it doesn't go along anything except a 22 path, (basically it goes binah, tiphareth, back up to geburah then to chesed then yesod, yod, netzach to malkuth). Is this other way wrong? It seems weird for lightning to go up, even if it's temporary.
Thanks for any help you can give me. I have been finding this book very interesting, although I thought it would have a larger emphasis on divination. In fact divination is at the back of the book almost as an afterthought, and even then the author just liberally quotes Crowley rather than giving his own thoughts, and neglects to include an explanation of elemental dignities, which is confusing because he does quote Crowley's thoughts on certain cards when they are "ill-dignified".
Anyway, I just finished the first part of Lon Milo DuQuette's Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, the part before the actual individual card descriptions.
I took in all the stuff about Qabalah but I have a few questions that maybe someone would be kind enough to answer or to point my in the right direction to learn the answers.
1) If the ace to 10 of suits correspond to the sephiroth and the majors correspond to the 22 paths between them, to what do the court cards correspond?
2) If there are four trees of life and the small cards of each suit correspond to the sephiroth of each one, doesn't that imply there should be four sets of majors?
3) In the "flash of creation thingy" (which actually isn't explicitly shown as a diagram in the book but I researched elsewhere), where the lightning passes from kether down to malkuth, why does it pass from binah to chesed where there is no path? Is this something to do with the fact that it's cutting through daath and crossing the abyss? I have seen the lightning drawn differently on at least one site, so that it doesn't go along anything except a 22 path, (basically it goes binah, tiphareth, back up to geburah then to chesed then yesod, yod, netzach to malkuth). Is this other way wrong? It seems weird for lightning to go up, even if it's temporary.
Thanks for any help you can give me. I have been finding this book very interesting, although I thought it would have a larger emphasis on divination. In fact divination is at the back of the book almost as an afterthought, and even then the author just liberally quotes Crowley rather than giving his own thoughts, and neglects to include an explanation of elemental dignities, which is confusing because he does quote Crowley's thoughts on certain cards when they are "ill-dignified".
