Zephyros
I know Payne-Towler created the Tarot of the Holy Light, but aside from that not much. What did she write, and why the animosity? I guess the movement hasn't reached my internet.
I know Payne-Towler created the Tarot of the Holy Light, but aside from that not much. What did she write, and why the animosity?
For example. Levi's Hebrew letter attributions are correct because they were revealed to him in some extraordinarily high degrees of Continental Freemasonry. The Golden Dawn leaders tried to get into these high degrees but were deemed unworthy. They made up some arbitrary attributions that are wrong because they didn't understand what they were doing. Moreover they appropriated a lot of Levi's ideas but didn't give him credit because they were jealous on account of the Freemasonry thing. This is all in one of the Ark Letters. I didn't take note of which one. Anyhow, Payne-Towler doesn't bother to distinguish fact from BS. Read Scion's review of The Underground Stream.I know Payne-Towler created the Tarot of the Holy Light, but aside from that not much. What did she write, and why the animosity? I guess the movement hasn't reached my internet.
“Etteilla must have known and taught these correspondences (Hebrew letter/Tarot) in the late 1700s, because a consortium of his Italian students redacted his Trumps back to the Marseilles model in the years just following his death (see the Cartomancia Italiana Tarot, dated by Kaplan to the beginning of the 19th century)...
“...In Italy, the 19th century Cartomancia restated the esoteric matrix sub-standing Etteilla's Trumps; that Tarot has made it considerably easier to unscramble which of Etteilla's images relate to which Trumps of the older Tarots...”
From what I recall (a while since I read her, and my books are back in an attic in the UK) - Giles is unbiased, level-headed and reliable.
She may not be entirely to blame. It may be a health problem of some sort. I really sometimes wonder if she can tell the difference between facts and her own fantasies.I wonder what the point of such assertions is. After all, I don't think anyone still believes the GD creation myth of the Cipher Manuscripts, so why go to all the trouble about pushing other fairy tales about others, such as Levi.