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Post by novumorganum on Nov 16, 2015 19:26:37 GMT
hello!
as i've said before, such an amazing deck. even in a just a few weeks time with it, so much seems contained in these cards.
so, i've been pathworking the cards, and the reservoir of information in them is astounding; however, i was wondering if you consciously put rituals in some of the cards, kind of like an occult easter egg? (or would it be a hoor egg?) for example, take the justice card. of course, one of the oldest of all workings with the word abrahadbra is there in the letter pyramid, but pull back from that just a bit, and there seems to be a picture of a higher form, an abrahadabra form of the middle pillar, with circulation of the energy depicted as circulation of the blood...when i tried the ritual in practice, it worked fine...
so i guess i'm asking if these were intentionally included, or something more spontaneous, kind of proof of the current you two had opened?
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Post by Abrahadabra Admin on Nov 21, 2015 23:25:14 GMT
If I'm understanding correctly what you are saying, I think this is all owed to the traditional Tantric depiction of Chinamastah. I followed her attributions and forms pretty closely. I don't think with my background in European Academic Art that I could follow the thangka art form as closely as an Asian tradition artist could, but the Bharat symbology is usually so good and so sacred that if one just tries to follow it, naturally other syncretic universal truths will manifest. Thangka artists use sacred geometry to follow an explicit pattern, which is why we respect Tibetan religion so much, they are very tantric and thus our complete allies.
Unlike Ravi Varma I am not out to impress the Brits or dumb down Sanatana Dharma. The betrayal of the Dragon was never complete in Bharat as it was in Chung Kuo, but that doesn't mean I didn't piss off a few people with Chinamastah being depicted naked (as she wished)
There's a lot of Easter Eggs in the deck, some of them are in there for the explicit purpose of being provided as test questions for membership in The Abrahadabra Institute.
But also I do get rituals suggested by the deck, for example if you get 6 of Pentacles there is a possibility that you are to make a sacrifice to a young girl child in order to appease Shakti. I have found that the deck likes to make suggestions for actions like this. It is the primordials arrangement, so my guess is that it will be more interested in doing things in the original primeval way than in the conventional sense. Ritual spoons and all of that...
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Post by m1thr0s on Feb 28, 2016 23:23:14 GMT
so i guess i'm asking if these were intentionally included, or something more spontaneous, kind of proof of the current you two had opened? 9³ fr. novumorganum, I think your answer has to be a ubiquitous BOTH. The rule of thumb with this kind of creation is that you set out looking to open portals...as many as you can find that are aligned to the *one star in sight*. But as you go you naturally wind up opening up things you didn't see coming at first (or even second, third ...) glance. The operation takes on a life of its own as we are dealing with living, breathing intelligences with many stories to reveal. Many secrets within secrets and so on. It's a powerful process that finds application in multiple directions at once. We are not simply creating a book of divination here so much as we are igniting a magickal universe and all that this may come to imply.
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