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Subject: BHeidrick: Qabala -- Summary of my work & Now: working the paths...
Date: 21 Mar 1995 13:31:51 -0800
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[from alt.magick: heidrick@well.sf.ca.us (Bill Heidrick)]

Ron Hale-Evans (rwhe@netcom.com) writes:

>...but Levi's 
>system is almost completely different from the G.D. system, isn't it? He 
>puts the Magician on the first Path and the Fool way down the list.

Tarot correspondence is a very minor part of path working on the Tree.
It seems important in as much as it's an easy approach, but it's trivial
when advanced path working is undertaken --- more a distraction than a
help.  Levi's Tarot associations are in the French tradition, with the
exception of the effect of associating the Fool with Shin.  Several
G.'.D.'. writers argue that Levi knew "the correct" association used
by the G.'.D.'. and concealed it in this manner.  In any event, Levi's
rambling writing conceals many of the ideas underlying G.'.D.'. path
working.  To read Levi, remember that there was no TV or radio in the
time of his writing.  Common methods of reading in those days included
a bit at dinner or supper time, with either discussion or pondering
of the unwritten portion for an hour or so.  What was explicitly said
in the text was considered relatively unimportant.  What was hinted
or implied was considered the main material.  That's why Levi drops
so many hints and truncates so many discussions.  This sort of literature
was intended to be treated as a collection of salon topics.  One invited
guests for conversation at stated times in the week and brought up a
particular matter, such as an issue out of Levi.  The guests would then
take that and toss it back and forth for the evening.  If everything
was decently explained, the book wouldn't sell.  Most readers in post
revolutionary France liked puzzles for social occasions.

93 93/93
Bill Heidrick