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Summary: A great addition to Qabalistic knowledge
Review: As a long standing student and teacher of the Qabala I found the book and associated tarot card deck to be a refreshing addition to Qabalistic knowledge. It is always great when new (previously private) knowledge is revealed. I thank the author for this. I can do no more than highly recommend this set of Golden Dawn Tarot cards to you for your researches. Let that which is unknown become known. As the consciousness of the world is raised, the old teachings will again be revived as it has always been in the past, enjoy.
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Summary: My Tarot
Review: I owen this deck and love it. Itr was my first and many of my high school classmates got the "possible future" told by it. They is a bit of neudity but the pictures are easy and each minor card has its main idea under it.
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Summary: My Tarot
Review: I owen this deck and love it. Itr was my first and many of my high school classmates got the "possible future" told by it. They is a bit of neudity but the pictures are easy and each minor card has its main idea under it.
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Summary: Gorgeous Colors
Review: This deck of cards really speak. The colors are really gorgeous. The images are just right, and the art work is really fine, if not as suave as the Crowley deck. But that's neither here nor there. This is an excellent tarot deck, perfect for Golden Dawn cabalistic magical work and all-round divination. The colors alone are worth the deck; they really strike strong emotional cords. The little book that comes with the deck is very fine too. It's got all that is basically needed, and shows some interesting spreads, although a few more might have been given.
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Summary: great for the expireanced reader
Review: this golden dawn of tarot set is great for any answers you might be looking for. it follows the Qablah and has a section in the book that explanes the Qabalah's mystical tree of life. also included in the cards is a way to get a date or time as the answer being the only deck iv ever seen with this feature. this is also one of the only decks of the later twentieth century to be approved by a member of the golden dawn
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Summary: great for the expireanced reader
Review: this golden dawn of tarot set is great for any answers you might be looking for. it follows the Qablah and has a section in the book that explanes the Qabalah's mystical tree of life. also included in the cards is a way to get a date or time as the answer being the only deck iv ever seen with this feature. this is also one of the only decks of the later twentieth century to be approved by a member of the golden dawn
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Summary: The most authentic golden dawn deck around
Review: Though I have some reservations regarding the artistic talent behind this deck, this deck's strength is in it's adherence to the descriptions of the golden dawn inner order deck descriptions in Book T, the initiation rituals, and Hodos Chamelionis.Wang's deck lacks details in the minor arcana, e.g. the astrological signs and the court cards' 'jewelery', and in it's colours, which makes it inferior to this deck.
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Summary: My Tarot
Review: Though the ideals and principles of this group are unique to put it nicely, I do like the tarot card parallels and definitions provided by them in their book. The book falls apart rather easily, so be careful not to snap the binding by opening it too far. The definitions are extremely simplified, so if you are looking for an in depth meaning to any of the cards, look elsewhere. However, I use astrology and tarot together and found this to be my handy dandy reference guide when my memory fails me on a card's parallel. It's rather small, can fit nicely into a purse or bag of goodies.
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Summary: Great Reference
Review: Though the ideals and principles of this group are unique to put it nicely, I do like the tarot card parallels and definitions provided by them in their book. The book falls apart rather easily, so be careful not to snap the binding by opening it too far. The definitions are extremely simplified, so if you are looking for an in depth meaning to any of the cards, look elsewhere. However, I use astrology and tarot together and found this to be my handy dandy reference guide when my memory fails me on a card's parallel. It's rather small, can fit nicely into a purse or bag of goodies.
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Summary: Try Again.
Review: Waite's deck (the Rider-Waite) was the first published and widely-available deck which made extensive use of symbolism devised by and specific to the Golden Dawn. One of Waite's biggest flaws, besides his utter pomposity, was his fear that the masses would be exposed to Occult Secrets, so he purposely mangled the symbols and meanings in the deck he published. These errors are called, somewhat euphemistically, "blinds."
As such, I believe that we could all benefit from edition of the tarot which would utilise accurate color and symbolism. Unfortunately, like the Wang deck before it, this deck ain't it.
Not many occultists are accomplished artists, and this is okay. However, I do not think that many of them realise this. Crowley realised this and commissioned Lady Frieda Harris to illustrate the deck as he envisioned it.
Mrs. Cicero's paintings are crude and unattractive in the extreme. I realise that her palette was limited in that she had to use only Golden Dawn Elemental and "Flashing" colors, but that doesn't explain the complete lack of aesthetics and ignorance of human anatomy which she displays here.
The Rider-Waite deck, with all of its failings, is still far superior to this one, due in no small part to its illustrator - Pamela Colman Smith.
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