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I honestly can't see how you feel that you can judge someone you don't know at all, and be so judgemental and dismissive when you know nothing about how many years he studied and what his sources are....and I already said he is not superstitious and takes this subject very seriously.
My comment about not answering my points was directed at Nisaba, who I have known for a while, and appreciate very much, but who sometimes has the habit of throwing in theories and comments which are dismissive of others, and by no means unquestionable, and then disappearing as if she was too superior to explain or discuss what she threw in....and I won't comment what she said about black or white magic further than I already have, because that would open a can of worms that could lead us on very dangerous ground, and could be seriously explosive.....
What I said about Crowley was not my friend's weird idea but what a lot of people say and write, and I never said, neither did he claim, that certain symbols are black magic because he says so, but because there is a literature about them....just like we all know about the swastika changing totally, according to which way it rotates, all symbols can belong to black or white magic, depending on how you use them.
Cloraspexa and senicar are discussing with huge intellectual honesty this subject I raised, and Grigori as well....the rest of the comments seem to me self-righteous indignation.
Hi novenovembre,
I'm not being dismissive, I'm judging what you say your friend has said and that's the whole point of this thread; you asked for opinions on what your friend has said about The Tarot of the Sephiroth. Every single person who has replied here has disagreed with your friend.
If a friend of mine looked through a tarot deck and then told me that because the Wheel of Fortune was spinning clockwise it had something to do with black magic or that The Emperor had some sort of connection to 'the devil' because of the colour red or because he was wearing horns (or any of the other points your friend made), I would conclude that that person knows very little about the occult or about alchemy.. That isn't being judgemental or dismissive, that's judging him on what he's just said.
It takes very little research to discover that The Emperor is ruled by the sign of Aries and because of this is often depicted with lots of red on the card (just look at the RWS Emperor) or with goat's horns.
The same goes for the other points your friend made...
I'm sorry but saying that the flames on the Temperance card look like the flames of Hell rather than alchemical fire is just silly.. How do you tell the difference? How do you know what the flames of Hell even look like?