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Hi
I mentioned the wrong book title at today’s meeting. It’s actually called the Dictionary of Symbols by Penguin Reference. ISBN 978-0-140-51254-0
It’s been really useful. If anyone has any other suggestions for references, I’d love to hear them.
See you all next week!
<3 Eva
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Here is the PDF of the Trestleboard, as well as a second (the significance of numbers and letters) that you may all find interesting in light of the numerological aspects of this book.
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Here’s the PDF for Correlation of Sound and Color by PFC
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This is pretty cool too… https://ritesofeleusis.com/musical-tones-and-the-hebrew-alphabet/
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Naha, question for you! 🙂 In the chapter on The Emperor, PFC states…
The Emperor is an old man, with a white beard, shown in profile. This is one marked divergence from the Rider pack, which shows him full-face. Dr. Waite registers his opinion that nothing particular signifies from showing the Emperor in profile. Yet none of the old exoteric packs of Tarot show him full-face, nor does the unpublished esoteric version. The more recondite reasons for preferring the profile which shows only the left eye of the monarch have deep roots in Qabalistic tradition, and thinks it of sufficient importance to retain the older symbolism. For that matter, Dr. Waite had the same occult instruction, and must have known that Key 4’s place on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, through it’s connection with the letter Heh, makes the use of the profile symbolism, by which Qabalists invariably represented the Ancient of Days, practically imperative for any representation of the Emperor.
Can you help us understand why this profile view of The Emperor is so significant?
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I’ve been reading in tandem with you all and listening to the recordings (I’m just exhausted when the time comes around East Coast time…KIDS!…). But I wanted to pop and and say what a treat it is to listen to everyone’s shares and thoughts around such a profound book! In gratitude for you all.
Cortney
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TEMPRANCE: On Page 155 PFC challenges us “You might also look up Iris in a good dictionary of mythology”
In the Dictionary of Symbols by Penguin Reference Book of Symbols, pg 542 “Iris” – In Greek mythology iris was the messenger of the gods and especially of Zeus and Hera. She was the female equivalent of Hermes. Like him she was winged, light-footed and swift. She wore winged sandals, carried a caduceus and dressed in a rainbow-colored veil which fluttered in the breeze. ‘she symbolized the rainbow and, more generally speaking, the links between heaven and earth, gods and humans’. Because in his Theogony Hesiod describes her as the daughter of Thaumas (wonder) and Electra (amber) some are inclined to regard her as the symbol of and channel through which flows a divinely derived psychic fluid.
See you all tomorrow!
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Hey, I listened to the recording from this week and it was awesome! What Eva said when she compared the lovers and temperance and the iris connecting to the thalamus, and pineal and relating to the flow of god within us blew my mind! On another note, when talking about testing yourself/making our own fate it reminded me of a book called Existential Kink. It proposes that everything in our life including what “bothers” us most is what we most deeply desire. So the book is about unifying ourselves by accepting all our deepest and darkest kinks. For me, it was quite fun to read and experiment with!
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Just an addon to the whole sound discussion- a quote (one of my favourites) from Dr Hans Jenny who first coined the term Cymatics (which also relates to sound and its movements/effects on things):
“”You can see all this…
And watch it before your eyes
And everything owes its existence solely and completely to sound.Sound is the factor which holds it all together. Sound is the basis of form and shape. Put that into the modern idiom; – an experiment of your imagination – and say into the great voids of space..
There came a sound, and matter took shape…
Please watch carefully.” -
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