Illuminate Us
Aeon418 said:
Yyg, I just love how you can see a conspiracy theory in a mundane marketing strategy.
That may be all fine and good, but it hardly addresses the question of creative control and copyright. If you read over their surviving letters it is rather obvious that the means by which the deck was to be published and how it was to be made available became a very contentious subject between AC and LFH; one that by all appearances seems as if it were headed for litigation.
It is interesting that my request for clarity on this issue is met with the thinly veiled ridicule of 'conspiracy theory' as it is, in my opinion, a valid question regarding the history of this deck. Whether Crowley's own suspicions of 'trickery' were correct remains to be seen. To my knowledge there are few details available on how these events played out. However, given the 'mundane marketing strategy' that has been used to sell the Book of Thoth Tarot, one may easily conclude that it is not in accordance with Crowley's wishes.
If he did not approve or authorize the 'Magician' used in the Berkeley showing, which one did he authorize?
How were the 3 Magi sanctioned and by whom?
And why was this deck not available for some twenty years after Crowley's death?
Perhaps the answers to these and the other questions I have raised about the release of this Book of Thoth are mundane and AC/LFH settled out of court. I don't know one way or another - thus my request for clarification. But the questions still stand.
Are the answers forthcoming? ---or have you a less subtle means of deflecting the issue?
