Sophie
I have just purchased the Camoin-Jodorowski deck, to go with Jodorowski's book The Way of the Tarot, which I find fascinating, very humane, if a bit far-fetched in some ways - though of course, being right at the onset of my journey with the TdM, I'll take it all in.
I looked through the deck - and come to XVI-La Maison-Dieu, a card I've been thinking about quite a bit lately (see literary thread in Talking Tarot). And there...a door on the side of the tower! I take out the Héron deck I've had a couple of weeks - no door. I flick through all the scans on the readings thread - Hadar, Dodal, Payen, Noblet. No door.
In the chapter "La Maison-Dieu" of his book, Jodo explains he and Camoin based the door on "alchemical records and masonic texts", with no more details, except to say the door was the door of the initiate. Well, how about that? Anyone know anything more about this? Are alchemical records and masonic texts regularly used in recreating TdM decks? Are there other masonic or alchemical sign in existing decks, including the orginal Conver, that might justify such an inclusion, by analogy?
I'm open to all sort of interpretations, and would like to hear more about that famous door, and what you think of it. Doors are not innocuous objects, after all, they have huge symbolic significance - and in the Maison-Dieu, most of all.
I looked through the deck - and come to XVI-La Maison-Dieu, a card I've been thinking about quite a bit lately (see literary thread in Talking Tarot). And there...a door on the side of the tower! I take out the Héron deck I've had a couple of weeks - no door. I flick through all the scans on the readings thread - Hadar, Dodal, Payen, Noblet. No door.
In the chapter "La Maison-Dieu" of his book, Jodo explains he and Camoin based the door on "alchemical records and masonic texts", with no more details, except to say the door was the door of the initiate. Well, how about that? Anyone know anything more about this? Are alchemical records and masonic texts regularly used in recreating TdM decks? Are there other masonic or alchemical sign in existing decks, including the orginal Conver, that might justify such an inclusion, by analogy?
I'm open to all sort of interpretations, and would like to hear more about that famous door, and what you think of it. Doors are not innocuous objects, after all, they have huge symbolic significance - and in the Maison-Dieu, most of all.