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[1] See Katz, M. The Magister Vol. 0.
[2] See Katz, M., ‘Tarot on the Threshold: Liminality and Illegitimate Knowledge’ in Auger, E. (ed) Tarot in Culture, Vol I. p. 274-7.
[3] The identity of Comte de Mellet is now known to be Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, according to the work of historian Robin Briggs. See Dummett, M. The Game of Tarot, p. 105, fn. 13, repeated also in Huson, P. Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage, p. 54.
[4] Dummett, ibid, pp. 108-9.
[5] Scholem, G. Kabbalah, p. 203.
[6] Levi, E. The Book of Splendours, pp. 127-42.
[7] We teach the WEIS through the Crucible Club and Order of the Everlasting Day which can be discovered at www.westernesotericism.com.
[8] See http://gallica.bnf.fr/ [search for Gebelin], the work of Donald Tyson [no longer available online at the original source but available in PDF format at various locations] and Karlin, J. Rhapsodies of the Bizarre.
[9] Katz. M. The Magister, pp. 89-98.
[10] Our thanks to Tony Fuller for reminding us about this piece of the mss. which we omitted from A New Dawn for Tarot and Derek Bain for original research.
[11] We believe this refers to a Marseilles or other European deck as found in Westcott’s private collection, for example, see Bain, D. A New Dawn for Tarot.
[12] Scholem, G. Kabbalah, p.23.
[13] The interface is seen as the Veil of Paroketh on the Tree of Life when considered as the interaction of self and existence, and as the Abyss on the Tree when considered as the interaction of self and the divine. There is no interface between the divine and existence, nor ultimately, any interface at all.
[14] This is drawn from real experience and is not an idle example. There are a lot of business plans in my own past that are now in the archives of private or public companies, from industry to education, that have 10 section headings and 22 sub-sections, in 4 parts.
[15] Matt, D. C. The Essential Kabbalah, p. 76
[16] See Katz, M. The Magister, Vol. 1 (forthcoming, 2016).
[17] Scholem, G. Kabbalah, p. 99.
[18] Ibid, p. 100.
[19] These are extremely simplified and are expanded in later chapters. I also recommend Schulman, Y. D. The Sefirot as a reference guide to their various meanings.
[20] Quoted in Idel, M. Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism, p. 39.
[21] See http://billheidrick.com/Orpd/AKir/AKOeAeII.htm [last accessed 24th May 2015]
[22] As at 25th May 2015, please see www.tarotassociation.net for any future updates.
[23] Katz, M. & Goodwin, T. Abiding in the Sanctuary.
[24] See Katz, M. The Magister, Vol 0.
[25] Crowley, A. Commentaries, p. 165
[26] Ibid.
[27] Crowley, A. Book of Thoth, p. 79
[28] Ibid.
[29] Ibid, p. 109
[30] Duquette, L. M. Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot, p. 107.
[31] See Goodwin, T. & Katz, M. Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot.
[32] Waite, A. E. Pictorial Key to the Tarot, p. 116.
[33] Goodwin, T. & Katz, M. Abiding in the Sanctuary, pp. 88-9.
[34] For an overview of the concept of negativity in Christian mysticism, see Turner, D. The Darkness of God.
[35] An interesting title aiming to recover the shamanic nature of Judaic ritual practice is Winkler, G. Magic of the Ordinary.
[36] Merkabah Shelemah 1a, 4b. in Scholem, G. Kabbalah, p. 18.
[37] Scholem, G. Kabbalah, p. 203.
[38] Levi, E. The Book of Splendours, p. 127.
[39] Crowley, 777, pp. 125-6
[40] Gleick, J. Chaos, p. 103.
[41] Bentov, I. Stalking the Wild Pendulum, p. 14.
[42] Young, L. B. The Unfinished Universe, p. 206.
[43] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172906[last accessed 17th June 2015]
[44] Fortune, D. The Mystical Qabalah, p. 59.
[45] Plato, Timaeus, pp. 30-1.
[46] Sagan, C. Contact, p. 429.
[47] The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe (1604), Scene V.
[48] To explore colour symbolism in the Kabbalah, see Sturzaker, D. & Sturzaker, J. Colour and the Kabbalah.
[49] Scholem, G. Kabbalah, p. 114.
[50] Jung, C. G. Alchemical Studies, p. 167.
[51] Rucker, R. Mind Tools, pp. 19-20.
[52] Wilson, R. A. Prometheus Rising, p. 90.
[53] Ibid.
[54] Arcane School Conference talk notes, n.d. Also reproduced in Beacon, v52 i10 July-Aug, pub. Lucis Trust, p. 296.
[55] Walsh, J. (ed). The Cloud of Unknowing, fn. 435.
[56] Crowley, A. Magick, p. 104.
[57] Mathers S. L. M., The Kabbalah Unveiled, p. 20.
[58] Crowley, A. Magick, p. 143.
[59] Ibid, p. 329.
[60] Crowley, A. Magick, p. 355.
[61] Papus, The Qabalah, p. 102.
[62] Crowley, A. The Book of Thoth, p. 110.
[63] Crowley, A. ‘Wake World’ in Konx om Pax, p. 17. This piece of writing should be studied extensively and often by all practitioners of the WEIS.
[64] For a more detailed description of the Minor cards and the Tree of Life, see Green, A. A Step-Up Guide to Kabbalah and Tarot.
[65] Fortune, D. The Mystical Qabalah, p. 163.
[66] Crowley, A. Book of Thoth, p. 190.
[67] Katz, M. The Magister, Vol O. pp. 105-8.
[68] Fortune, D. The Mystical Qabalah, p. 183.
[69] González-Wippler, M. A Kabbalah for the Modern World, pp. 186-7.
[70] Sturzaker, J. Kabbalistic Aphorisms, p. 23
[71] Fortune, D. The Mystical Qabalah, p. 176.
[72] Crowley, A. Magick, p. 299.
[73] Steinsaltz, A. The Thirteen Petalled Rose, p. 179.
[74] See Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis, p. 74, “It is the mark of a perfect man, Lord, never to let his mind relax in attention to heavenly things, and to pass through many cares as though he had none; not as an indolent man does, but by having the certain prerogative of a free mind no disorderly affection for any created being”.
[75] See Libet, B. Mind Time.
[76] Safran, A. Wisdom of the Kabbalah, p. 106.
[77] Steinsaltz, A. The Thirteen Petalled Rose, p. 61.
[78] Sturzaker, J. Kabbalistic Aphorisms, p. 31
[79] Nichols, S. Jung and Tarot, p. 258.
[80] Crowley, A. 777 and other Qabalistic Writings, p. 27.
[81]Suarès, C. The Qabala Trilogy, p. 58.
[82] Eco, U. Foucault’s Pendulum, p. 640.
[83] Kaplan, A. Meditation and Kabbalah, p. 40.
[84] Grant, K. Outside the Circles of Time, p. 287. Grant also com
ments that “we are only now beginning to understand that these names [of the Qliphoth] contain formulae of immense magical and scientific potency”.
[85] Regardie, I. The Golden Dawn, p. 160.
[86] Kaplan, A. Meditation and Kabbalah, p. 286.
[87] Ibid, p. 290.
[88] Scholem, G. Kabbalah, p. 337.
[89] See https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0007_0_07165.html [Last accessed 17th June 2015].
[90] Zukav, G. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, p. 266.
[91] See Westcott, W W.. The Kabbalah including his translation of the Sepher Yetzirah.
[92] Quoted in Papus, The Qabalah, p. 233.
[93] Crowley, A. Book of Thoth, p. 73.
[94] Kant, E. (ed. G. Hatfield), Prolegomena to any future Metaphysics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004. p. 40
[95] Levi, E. The Book of Splendours, p. 157.
[96] Perkins, K. & Johnson, K. Egyptian Life and the Tree of Life.
[97] Farr, F. Egyptian Magic, p. 11.
[98] Hardy, J. A Psychology with a Soul, p. 138.
[99] http://www.academia.edu/681812/Contemporary_Kabbalah_and_its_Challenge_to_the_Academic_Study_of_Jewish_Mysticism [Last accessed 13th June 2015]
[100] For the Pritzker Edition of the Zohar, see http://www.sup.org/zohar/ [Last accessed 13th June 2015].
[101] See Myers, J. Kabbalah and the Spiritual Quest: The Kabbalah Centre in America (2007).
[102] Hughes, T. Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, p. 21.
[103] Moore, A. Art by J.H. Williams III & Mick Gray, Promethea (D.C. Comics).
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[105] Join the Crucible Club at http://www.westernesotericism.com for studies and work in the WEIS.
