Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!c03.atl99!news.webusenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: paulhume@comcast.net (Paul Hume) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.tarot,alt.divination Subject: Re: Tarot Purpose, Knowledge, and Occult Philosophy Date: 10 Jan 2004 07:36:23 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <3FFB6C08.3CEA3F2C@luckymojo.com> <3FFCDDDF.5E58D867@luckymojo.com> <359rvvssh83fortp3bus3b0nf03cubfl68@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.48.63.213 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1073748984 22634 127.0.0.1 (10 Jan 2004 15:36:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:45269 alt.magick:364360 alt.tarot:121189 alt.divination:22377 > By the way, your earlier comment that Jews use the Jewish part of the > bible - by which I presume you actually meant the Talmud, and > Christians use the Christian part of the bible, by which I presume you > meant both the "old" and "new" "testaments" - is only a small aspect > of how divinatory bibliomancy is practiced. > Talmud isn't part of the Bible but commentary on scripture, and the body of Jewish law derived from it. The term you are reaching for is either Torah (the Pentateuch) or Tanakh (the entire set of writings that Christians are pleased to call the "Old Testament").