Roger and Ron Heisler did but Warwick Gould cut all these notes out in the process of several rewrites in which Roger was in no way consulted.
We just found this about the Virgin Sophia and Tarot which was recently posted by MikeH on the Etteilla thread in the historic research section:
" In previous literature, the only place I find a Fall due to desiring the impossible is in a Gnostic heresy described by Irenaeus in Against All Heresies (
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm), a book which in Latin had appeared numerous times in the 17th and 17th centuries. In Book I, Chapter 2, section 1, speaking of the Aeon, or emanation of God, named Sophia, Irenaeus paraphrases the Gnostic “disciples of Valentinus” (this phrase in Ch. 1 title) as follows:
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...she [Sophia] wished, according to them, to comprehend his [the Father’s] greatness. When she could not attain her end, inasmuch as she aimed at an impossibility,.. there was danger lest she should at last have been absorbed by his sweetness, and resolved into his absolute essence, unless she had met with that Power which supports all things, and preserves them outside of the unspeakable greatness.
The restraining power is called Horos, Greek for “Limit” (Barnstone, The Other Bible, p.612), which stops Sophia and casts her Desire away from her and into the void.
The casting out is comparable to the expulsion from Eden, because the “desire of Sophia” is now an entity on her own, a kind of lower Sophia, now plunged into the darkness; her grief, fear, ignorance, and memory of the divine world, in Irenaeus’s paraphrase, then take on separate existence as the four elements of the cosmos.
Like the Hermetic myth, this is an allegory for the condition of the soul, of how it became trapped in matter. But unlike the Poimandres’ account, the fall into matter is the result of desiring what is impossible."
If they had then known it Ron and Roger would have included it in their exposition and tied the Tarot, and the Yeats "Vision",Lunar links up one hundred per cent.
Thanks again,Mike H.
Roger says that according to Waite the "Book of Thoth" was used in the Farr Yeats group which Waite attended for up to a couple years.
We should really take these last letters and re-post them on a separate thread about "The Lion and The Woman."