Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!news.ticon.net!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: kadu_flyer@yahoo.co.uk (Damnation Alley Cat) Newsgroups: alt.religion.wicca,alt.pagan,alt.tarot Subject: Re: Qabala & Tarot [from Usenet] Date: 9 Mar 2003 11:34:31 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <2883cd71.0303081104.5dbf78e6@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.30.216.201 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1047238472 28577 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2003 19:34:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Mar 2003 19:34:32 GMT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.religion.wicca:665113 alt.pagan:343824 alt.tarot:115592 "O'Ryan Wells" wrote in message news:... > Are you kidding? Gardner and Crowley invented modern Wicca between them. > (Only Crowley would be sadistic enough to recommend naked rites in the > British climate! Actually, according to Crowley's biographer Symonds, AC was quite shy about public naked rites - see Symmonds chapters on the Cefalu periodin his 'The Great Beast'. It would be more in Gardner's line to insist on this aspect of the Gardnerian teaching. > Crowley's Book of Thoth relates the Tarot, Astrology and Qabbalah clearly. > In fact he just published the Golden Dawn material which was originally > compiled from MS in the late 19th Century. Crowley's reproduction of the GD papers on Tarot was included in an earlier edition of his 'The Equinox'. The Book of Thoth material reveals a more adventurous and developed investigation of The Tarot. > Most non-shamanic pagan traditions can be traced to one or more GD members > and related to a Qabbalistic framework. And some Shamanic one's too - such as the Thelemic movement. --Steven