Celtic Cross Created By William Butler Yeats

Charles Darnay

T:
Is this from a letter or a journal entry and others can follow up? Why court cards but not trumps or number cards? Could they have been copies of Westcott's Court Cards that she was being asked to make?
CD
It's a big manuscript which is devoted to Yeats' Celtic Order.Why would they want copies of Westcott cards for a Celtic order?
As you probably know the "Westcott" court cards and trumps come from a gang of Jacob Frank's followers in Paris.Waite kept most of the designs from the Greater Trumps but altered the court cards.The copy in the Soc Ros.Library from which Wescott and Waite took them is missing its court cards.
CD quote
As so far as can be known Florence was never part of this group and she therefore would have given him what he wanted.
On the other hand, there is an extended series of magazine articles called "Far and Away"
which Yeats wrote in later 1897 on Celtic Mythology. Nothing on Tarot cards but the title is plainly a tribute to Florence and it was used again by Arthur Machen in a book which featured Yeats and other magicians as character s.

Quote:
Thierens is still using "Farr" and "a way"(1930) in the infamous Tarot book which he published in celebration of her death.
Why would Thierens write a book in celebration of her death 13 years after the fact, and 17 or 18 years after she left England?
CD
There is already a long thread on this in the Rider-Waite section. There is much more over at the Co-inherence blog from which your editors picked it up.Roger has correspondence from all over the world about it.If you are denying this extremely nasty stuff is in the original text ,you will be the first.

So she definitely did contribute heavily to Yeats Tarot studies but certainly she would have deferred to him in Celtic studies./quote]
Agreed.

Quote:
The one Arthurian reference Roger has found respecting Florence states that she turned Joseph of Arimethea into an identifiable Egyptian sub-deity.
Where is this mention?

Gerald Massey ,1907.If you quote this please give Roger credit.He has been ripped off by a dozen occultists and/or academics and no longer finds these left handed tributes amusing .That's why he prefers to work with younger people.But we have to do our school work with him now.
It put us into a fight with some Shakespeare nuts over at Wickipedia this summer.One of them came from the Iconography Department at the University of Norfolk.We think that one knows the guy who started off this thread by ignorantly claiming the iron monger created the Celtic Cross method.

Quote:
As the witness (who was an Egyptologist) states that he has seen GD Egyptian Rituals of which he approves,it is not unlikely that Florence did an Egyptian Grail Ritual.There are,or were until recently, Egyptian Magical groups in Britain(at least one in Ireland)that claimed descent from Florence Farr. May be we will yet hear something first hand.
T
The "Sphere" had Grail aspects as the three dimensional Tree of Life was also depicted as a Grail cup. And, of course, people are still performing her Egyptian play.