Nholdamek
thinbuddha said:I don't remember exactly that passage in the BoT, however I seem to remember feeling that you could return to the question at another time. I even think I remember that it wasn't so much that the question shouldn't be addressed so much as the particular reading was flawed which leads me to believe that there would be nothing wrong with doing the same reading over and over until you got the sig showing up in the correct pile.
In the Book of Thoth, he doesn't say either way, just that the divination should be "abandoned," for all but the fifth operation.
He does say this:
It is quite impossible to obtain satisfactory results from this or any other system of divination unless the Art is perfectly required. It is the most sensitive, difficult and perilous branch of Magick. The necessary conditions, with a comprehensive comparative review of all important methods in use, are fully described and discussed in "Magick", Chapter XVII.
I find that quite an interesting point of view. I wonder what is considered "perfectly required." I've had great success with the Tarot even from the first reading.
Another small question related to this spread.
In the very beginning of the description of this spread, he writes:
2. Take the cards in your left hand. In the right hand hold the wand over them, and say: I invoke thee, I A O, that thou wilt send H R U, the great Angel that is set over the operations of this Secret Wisdom, to lay his hand invisibly upon these consecrated cards of art, that thereby we may obtain true knowledge of hidden things, to the glory of thine ineffable Name. Amen.
I'm curious what the significance of this is.