Re: Mediumship & Clairvoyance
Posted: December 9th, 2023, 8:15 pm
I don't want to sound like a spoilsport since your girlfriend has just bought you a Tarot deck, but I strongly suspect that the Tarot puts people in contact with negative energies, especially the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑December 9th, 2023, 6:21 pmI think these would interest @Tsar if he's still reading stuff on the forum. What do you think @Winston
I really like the deck, but because the deck is so different to the Rider Waite deck, I am struggling with interpretation. If anyone wants to be my guinea pig and let me give them a reading, just let me know
Why do I believe this? Because the Tarot is a cartomancy practice closely associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn of which A.E. Waite was a member and its symbolism was influenced by the works of the occultist Eliphas Levi. Why is this a bad thing? Because the whole modern "Left-Hand Path" occultism of which the Golden Dawn is a prominent representation was strongly influenced by the Qabalah (written with a "q") which emerged during the Renaissance as an unholy synthesis of European Hermeticism and the Jewish Kabbalah.
The Qabalah-derived Left-Hand Path occultism of the last few centuries is supposed to work with the forces of the Qliphoth – the impure husks of the dark side of creation (counterparts of the Sephirot of the Tree of Life). In colloquial parlance, the energy with which those modern occult systems work could be called "Satanic".
Of course, I'm not here to promote the Kabbalistic view of reality as true or as a path of light. The Kabbalah is a negative and adversarial system of Jewish mysticism used to further the enemy's agenda.
In fact, I'm of the view that the Sephirotic-Qlippthothic dichotomy of the Kabbalah is nothing more than a false dualism and that both the angels and archangels of the Sephirotic realm and the so-called demons of its Qliphothic counterpart are all negative entities which bat for the same team. Both of these paths lead to destruction.
Unfortunately, almost all of our original Gentile occult traditions were corrupted and adulterated through syncretism with the Kabbalah. This syncretism began in the Middle Ages but would really accelerate in the Renaissance, being heavily promoted by the likes of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. From this mess emerged the Qabalah with a "q".
I believe that the early Alexandrian Hermeticism was still a relatively pure philosophy and included at the more esoteric levels a knowledge of inner alchemy aimed at the Magnum Opus for the higher transmutation of the soul and therefore the creation of the allegorical "Philosopher's Stone" but, after the Middle Ages it was completely subsumed in the Kabbalah and corrupted from within. So-called modern Hermeticism is just adulterated Qabalistic garbage.
All of the above is the reason why I'm not a fan of the Tarot and especially the Rider-Waite deck.
Interestingly, I spoke to @Winston about the Tarot and he says that in his experience it does work but the predictions that it gives you are mostly negative. Maybe it does indeed put people in contact with negative energy.