noise-vs-signal:

Paintings of some of the “Major Arcana” cards from the “Thoth Tarot”, designed by Aleister Crowley and painted by Lady Frieda Harris (1938 – 1943):

  1. Aeon” (Judgement)
  2. Devil
  3. Death
  4. Art” (Temperance)

These cards from the Tarot are arranged in the order of the paths they are assigned to on the Tree of Life, as shown below on a variant of the “Tube Map” created by John Coulthart:

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In other words, the instructions for this journey between different states of awareness are as follows:

  1. Take the “Aeon” line from the Kingdom (Malkuth, the sensory world of Earth), to Splendour (Hod, the Mercurial sphere of language & thought).
  2. After experiencing that place for a while, take the path of Pan (The Devil, Baphomet), to Beauty (Tipareth, the Solar realm of the Self).
  3. After learning what you can from this central location, you then have two choices:
  4. Take the Death line to Victory (Netzach, the Venusian sphere of Emotion), or …
  5. Follow the path of Art (Creativity, Imagination), to the Foundation (Yesod, your “sub-consciousness” or what you are not normally aware of).
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If you find some of these ideas & symbolism interesting, but are not very familiar with these topics, my advice is to treat all this as a very long running game or “Lila”.

In this “Game of Life” you have to discover the rules as you go along, and the study of science, the arts and hidden (occult) knowledge will help you to detect  correspondences and patterns in the world (using different symbolic symbols to describe these).

The more you can learn about how the system you are a part of works, the more value & enjoyment you will get out of the game, as described in the “Dream of Life”, by Alan Watts.

For more on Art & Magic, please visit “Noise vs. Signal”.

scarlettsabetlondongirl:

Poet Scarlett Sabet in The Illustrated Secret History of the World by Author Mark Booth.

The book has established itself as the authoritative text on the subject of esoteric belief systems and secret societies.

Now, with The Illustrated Secret History of the World, this landmark book achieves a new level of authority, adding to its thorough and revealing text more than 350 illustrations—many of them rare—of the symbols, drawings, engravings, paintings, and photographs that are a key part of the world’s secret history.

Scarlett said:

“The Secret History Of The World’ was published in 2007 and became a New York Times Bestseller. It’s author Mark Booth attended several of my poetry readings and requested to use a line from my poem Euphoric Kiss for the reissue anniversary edition ‘The Illustrated Secret History Of The World’.

It is available now and the line from Euphoric Kiss is ‘Surely Gods here at play…’ and it is featured on page 400.” “I’m looking forward to getting my copy

See Poet Scarlett perform Euphoric Kiss here

Poem here

Euphoric Kiss is from the collection The Lock and The Key purchase here

Photos: Amazon, Scarlett Sabet Twitter, Mark Booth, Rina Gill

grandegyptianmuseum:

“The most comprehensive publication of the lists of the festivities of the Egyptian Religious Tradition (dated for the year 2019). A practical application of the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current age. The sources used to reconstruct the Religious Calendar and for the dating of the Sacred Festivities are: – the “Cairo Calendar n. 86637”; -the “Sallier papyrus IV”; -the “Budge papyrus”; – the list of the religious celebrations dated to the Middle Kingdom; and the lists of the Sacred Festivals from the Temples’ Religious Calendars: – the religious calendar of King Thutmosis III from Ipet-Sut (the Precinct of Amon-Ra at Uaset-Thebes, “Karnak”); – the Temple of King Thutmosis III at Elephantine; – the Temple of King Ramses II at Abydos; – the Temple of Millions of Years of King Ramses III, West Uaset (“Medinet Habu”); – the Temple of Horus at Behdet (“Edfu”) – the Temple of Hathor at Nitentòre (Dendera); – the Double Temple of Haroeris and Sobek at Ombos (“Kom Ombo”); – the Temple of Neith and Khnum at Iunyt (“Esna”). Contents: -Preface -the Egyptian Religious Calendar: the Calendars of Ancient Egypt; the Civil Calendar; the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar, the Lunar Months, the Feasts of the Lunar days, their presiding Deities, and the Gods of the Lunar days; Sources; Favorable and adverse days -Egyptian Religious Calendar, List of the Festivities for the year 2019, CDXIX-CDXX Great Year of Ra”

Egyptian Religious Calendar: Great Year of Ra (2019CE), by Luigi Tripani