Christine Payne-Towler has a fervent hatred of anything Golden Dawn, to the extent that she makes up fictional scenarios to discredit all the major players (Mathers, Waite, Crowley) who have anything directly or indirectly to do with the Golden Dawn Qabalistic Tarot attributions. To me her radical extremism stinketh. Her approach to Qabalistic Tarot is best exemplified by her pontifical pronouncement: "Aleph is one." She means this literally in the sense of cardinality. An inescapable logical inference is that the Tarot Trumps consist of 400 cards.Even though I don't have the deck, I'm still waiting for the book, to see if I want the deck. The Holy Light is a kabbalistic deck, but uses a radically different model than the standard Golden Dawn attributions........
Christine Payne-Towler has a fervent hatred of anything Golden Dawn, to the extent that she makes up fictional scenarios to discredit all the major players (Mathers, Waite, Crowley) who have anything directly or indirectly to do with the Golden Dawn Qabalistic Tarot attributions. To me her radical extremism stinketh. Her approach to Qabalistic Tarot is best exemplified by her pontifical pronouncement: "Aleph is one." She means this literally in the sense of cardinality. An inescapable logical inference is that the Tarot Trumps consist of 400 cards.