Eastern and Western
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‘When the time comes then comes also that wherefore the time has come.’ Paracelsus
Tarot, Tsaklis, Chakras
Tsaklis that bring “Liberation on Seeing”
A unique ancient artform of the Himalayas that can be used in several different ways.
1) instruction and initiation,
2) for meditation and tsakli-gazing,
3) as symbols and substitutes for non-physical or hard-to-get offerings and objects (e.g. flayed demon-skins or precious jewels) for tantric rituals,
4) Divination,
5) in portable shrines, and
6) joined in patterns to form mandalas.
TARO OF THE FOUR WORLDS
Many illustrations are included in addition to all the 88 cards. Book includes divination meanings, a history of the deck, magical observations, and the original written descriptions and mythology from C16th Italy. Easy to learn spreads. A unique and fascinating insight into the minds of the ancients. This taro(t) deck projects the 22 well known major cards into all 88 netibuth (paths) across the Four Qabalistic Worlds. 366 pages.
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Two Lights (imago 4) T4W
‘The Sun’ in Atziluth (Fire). The 2 dual aspects of Janus, together completing the four seasons. Top figure is young, bottom Janus is older. Numerals 365 tell us he is God of the Calendar, his name gives the first month: JANUARY!
Ceres (imago 33) T4W
‘The Empress’ in Atziluth (Fire). Card shows two forms of the Goddess Ceres, top in her dragon-chariot with her torch searching for her daughter Prosperine, and below passively waiting and mourning at the entrance to the underworld. Concerns activity and inactivity.
Dedicated to Ithell Colquhoun - this site was inspired by De Astris Interioribus or “Concerning the Interior Stars”
The MAGICAL WRITINGS of ITHELL COLQUHOUN (book)
Many of Ithell's magical writings are collected and published here for the first time, nearly 20 years after her death in 1988. There are a series Tarot lectures that she gave to either the Golden Dawn, Masonic, OTO, Druidic or Gnostic Orders in which she was ordained. Also four essays on the Qabalah - "The Crown and The Kingdom". Other articles offer profound insights into Neoplatonic (Hermetic), Alchemical and Gnostic philosophies, the Cube of Space, Druidry, plus there is a Ma'at ritual, painted and hand-drawn illustrations, De Astris Interioribus - Western and Eastern Chakras, The Pilgrimage - a one-act play, Tattwas through the Day, Crowley - The Dying Kick of the Dying-God, Taro as Colour (surrealism & Yeatsian automatism), together with an Introduction by Steve Nichols, and several Appendixes including Dion Fortune, impressions of Initiation Thoth-Hermes GD Temple, WB Yeats and Maud Gonne, and a brief Biography.
Published November 20, 2008
Language English Pages 369
Binding Hardcover (dust-jacket)
Interior Ink Black & white
Dimensions (inches) 6.0 wide × 9.0 tall
Ithell Colquhoun
Every reader of esoteric literature knows the word “CHAKRA” - the word at least - if not the thing signified. Unless the reader is also a seer he has no direct apprehension of its meaning; and since a chakra is an organ in the Body of Light, any comparison with a material object is inadequate”.
Ithell Colquhoun, De Astris Interioribus
Game of the Four Orders of Virtue
These Hellenic Mystery "Four Orders of Virtue" were described as a game in 1425 AD, but no images were associated with this early description. See at imagos at http://88taro.com
This series of eighty-eight emblemata were seemingly miscategorised by the Antiquarian book trade as "History of Art", since their engraver, Zaltieri, was amongst the great Veneziani school that included Tintoretto. As a result they largely escaped the attention of occultists and tarotists.
