Bat Chicken
Nope that makes perfect sense to me!
I have to say though, the foundations are the same. It's a question of how far down the track you want to take it, using your metaphor. Then again, I have not studied Thelema or the GD to any but the most superficial level. I do know there is no escaping the neo-platonist, alchemy and many other things in the TdM which are taken, as I understand it, to the 'n'th degree in later Tarot.
That's what I have been liking about the Blake. The references are there but Blake and his thought was pre-GD. Though the 17th and 18th c. had certainly laid the groundwork!
I have to say though, the foundations are the same. It's a question of how far down the track you want to take it, using your metaphor. Then again, I have not studied Thelema or the GD to any but the most superficial level. I do know there is no escaping the neo-platonist, alchemy and many other things in the TdM which are taken, as I understand it, to the 'n'th degree in later Tarot.
That's what I have been liking about the Blake. The references are there but Blake and his thought was pre-GD. Though the 17th and 18th c. had certainly laid the groundwork!