Parzival
The Rose Cross On The Back Of Each Card
This is very well said-- "It's a simplification...an 'artist's impression'." And the artist has created a great work of art by taking away too much secondary, unnecessary esoteric-symbolic detail. Apparently, Crowley directed the design. All letters, all astrologic and alchemic glyphs are removed, so that main colors and patterns take the emphasis. Rose and Cross. At the center remains the crimson rose/flower of five petals, as if the Universe flowers out of that flower, as if it all begins not with a point but with red radiant Life, not with abstraction but with animation, roseate vitalization. I know: the rose/flower arises out of the cross. But what's at the center? The rose/flower. At the heart of the cross, the flower.
spiral said:The Rose-Cross on the back of Thoth isn't complete. It's a simplification of that glyph; an "artist's impression" in the most literal sense.
This is very well said-- "It's a simplification...an 'artist's impression'." And the artist has created a great work of art by taking away too much secondary, unnecessary esoteric-symbolic detail. Apparently, Crowley directed the design. All letters, all astrologic and alchemic glyphs are removed, so that main colors and patterns take the emphasis. Rose and Cross. At the center remains the crimson rose/flower of five petals, as if the Universe flowers out of that flower, as if it all begins not with a point but with red radiant Life, not with abstraction but with animation, roseate vitalization. I know: the rose/flower arises out of the cross. But what's at the center? The rose/flower. At the heart of the cross, the flower.