Book Of Tokens-Tarot Meditations
CLICK HERE ->>->>->> https://urlin.us/2tE46A
Sometimes called \"the Bhagavad Gita of the West,\" this beautiful and inspired volume of poetic meditations contains some of the most profound material ever written on the subject of the Tarot and Qabalah.
It presents twenty-two meditations on the Ageless Wisdom concealed within the Hebrew letters and the Tarot Keys. This is a book to treasure and to read again and again. This 1989 print is the 14th edition and it includes color illustrations of the Tarot Keys and Tree of Life.
Builders of the Adytum, although an organization devoted to mysticism (specifically Western esotericism), has repeatedly emphasized that tarot cards are primarily a tool for meditation, not fortune-telling.[citation needed] Case invented a new, non-magical definition for the word \"divination\": \"the use of spiritual intuition to find solutions to problems\".[This quote needs a citation] After explaining the BOTA method for tarot divination in his book titled The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, Case specifically explained the differences between this particular type of divination and fortune-telling. Case then closed with the warning: \"Finally, let me reiterate the thought that this is not to be used for vulgar fortune telling, or to amuse a party of friends. If you yield to the temptation so to abuse this information, you will pay for it in the loss of all power of true divination, and probably in the loss of ability to control the higher rates of psychic vibration.\"[6]
The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages was the first published book to apply almost all of the tarot attributions to the \"Cube of Space\" diagram. There are 22 Major Arcana tarot cards, which Case corresponded to 22 components of the Cube of Space.
The Sepher Yetzirah is the source of the link between the Cube of Space and the Hebrew letters.[7][page needed] The Sepher Yetzirah' itself does not directly mention a \"cube of space\", nor any kind of cube. Case based the Cube of Space upon two verses in the Sepher Yetzirah: the first, in chapter 4, associates six Hebrew letters with six cardinal directions (up, down, east, west, north, south); the second, in chapter 5, associates 12 Hebrew letters with 12 diagonal directional arms or boundaries (different translations use different terms), which Case interpreted as the 12 edges of a cube.
Until the publication of Case's The Tarot, most English-speaking occultists had never heard of Case's Cube of Space concept, nor any alleged correspondences between tarot and the Tree of Life diagram,[8] though the latter correspondence have become common in modern times (e.g., many tarot decks feature a Tree of Life diagram on the jacket of the Fool). Until the mid-1990s, there were almost no other books in print which even mentioned the Cube of Space. The ones that do (sometimes in different terms such as \"the Qabalistic Cube\") defer to Case's writings on the subject.[8][9]
In the summer of 1907, Case read The Secret of Mental Magic by William W. Atkinson (aka Ramacharaka) which led him to correspond with the then popular new thought author. Biographer Paul Clark has proposed that Case and Atkinson were two of the three anonymous authors of The Kybalion,[10] although the introduction to The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition (2011) presents considerable evidence for Atkinson as the book's sole author.[11]
In 1918, Case met Michael James Whitty (died December 27, 1920, in Los Angeles, California), who was the editor of Azoth magazine and would become a close friend. Whitty was serving as the 'cancellarius' (treasurer/office manager) for the Thoth-Hermes Lodge in Chicago, which was one of the lodges of the Alpha et Omega (A.O.). Alpha et Omega was the successor organization to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1906 by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, after the demise of the Golden Dawn in 1903. Whitty invited Case to join Thoth-Hermes, which was the direct American lodge under the A.O. mother lodge in Paris. Case joined, and quickly moved up initiations in the Rosicrucian grades (True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order).[a] Case's aspiration name in A.O. was Perseverantia (which means 'perseverance').[15]
Between 1919 and 1920, Case and Michael Whitty collaborated in the development of the text which would later be published as The Book of Tokens. This book was written as a received text, whether through meditation, automatic writing, or some other means. It later surfaced that Master R. was the source. On May 16, 1920, Case was initiated into Alpha et Omega's Second Order. Three weeks later, according to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's bio-page on Case, he was named Third Adept.[16]
But to Case, sexuality became an increasingly important subject. In his Book of Tokens, a collection of inspired meditations on the 22 Tarot Keys of the Major Arcana, Case comments on the sex function, \"You must wholly alter your conception of sex in order to comprehend the Ancient Wisdom. It is the interior nervous organism, not the external organs, that is always meant in phallic symbolism, and the force that works through these interior centers is the Great Magical Agent, the divine serpent fire.\" In his works, The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order and The Masonic Letter G, he writes of certain practices involving the redirection of the sexual force to the higher centers of the brain where experience of supersensory states of consciousness becomes possible.
Some members also complained about a personal relationship between Case and a soror, Lilli Geise.[19] Case confessed the matter to Moina: \"The Hierophantria and I were observed to exchange significant glances over the altar during the Mystic Repast... My conscience acquits me... Our relation to each other we submit to no other Judge than that Lord of Love and Justice whom we all adore.\" In time, Case married Geise, who died a few years later.[20]
Dr. Paul Clark, in his book on Case, mentions his own examination of the original Cipher manuscripts on which Mathers founded the first order Golden Dawn rituals. Clark found that the \"Cipher manuscripts refer to a set of tablets from the 'Old Manuscripts,' but do not specify Dee or Kelly's work by name. Mather's [sic!] had been doing much research in the British Museum where the Dee manuscripts were housed. It was natural for him, perhaps mistakenly, to assume these were the ones referenced in the Cipher manuscripts. Unfortunately, this was not necessarily the case.\"[26]
Dr. Paul Clark, affiliated with the Fraternity of the Hidden Light,[28] published a biography of Case in 2013, entitled Paul Foster Case. His Life and Works.[29] Besides being an extensive biography of Case (about a hundred pages), the book also includes a number of appendices, including letters from Case to Israel Regardie. Appendix II purports to be communications from Master R. to Case and two of Case's associates and comprises the longest section of the book.[30]
Case also purportedly received communications from Master R. The first set of communications resulted in The Book of Tokens, a set of meditations on the Tarot.[16] Further and far more extensive communications were purportedly received some twenty-five years later by Case, along with Ann Davies and Case's wife Harriet, and were published in 2013.[32]
I love this book of Paul Foster Case! It opened my mind and changed me completely! I also recommend this work of him: -international.com/en/media-library/kabbalah/paul-foster-case-and-michael-whitty-a-dissertation-concerning-the-thirty-two-paths-of-wisdom/
The judges commented: \"The Committee members made this decision based on many appreciations. First, the article contains a concise theory on semiotics of movement, synthesizing decades of research of the author. It opens an exciting framework for the contribution of many other authors. The theoretical grounds of semiotircity are built on the most classical semiotic approaches and represent a genuine development. Second, the article refreshes semiotics methodology in very original way, by engaging the applied semiotics for furtive and instantaneous activities analysis. Third, the article is pretty clear and well structured, written in very comprehensible French. The theoretical frame it opens is thorough and far reaching. Fourth, the semiotic theory of movement comes in a very special moment when the whole world is football, but it covers also many other areas of applicability which reflect major trends such as the general gamification of life thanks to new media and digital technologies. It is crucial for semiotic theory to open its theoretic scope towards significant cultural trends and become more attractive for young researchers.\"
Meanwhile, in the room off to the couple's right, the Notarywas doing his best to bait the Assessor. \"I told you yesterday that thehunt would come to a lame conclusion,\" he remarked. \"It is much tooearly yet, with grain still standing and so many peasants' plots lyingunharvested. That is why the Count would not join us on the chase, despitethe invitation. He knows a great deal about hunting, likes to discuss it, andhas ready views on the time and place to hunt. Raised abroad from childhood,the Count claims it is barbarous to hunt as we do--without regard for the lawand ministry regulations. We show scant respect for other peoples'boundary marks or parcels and ride roughshod over private land without theowner's knowledge. Spring or summer, we charge through field and forest,dispatch the fox in molting season, and suffer our dogs to hound--or rathertorment--the doe in the winter grain, when she is great with kittens. Allthis does great harm to our game. Though it pains the Count to admit it, theMuscovite enjoys more culture than we do. At least in Russia, the hunter mustanswer to the Czar's decrees, suffer police surveillance, and pay theprice when caught.\"
\"Every summer, Petersburg's society leaves the city forthe dacha--a summer residence (dacha is their word for village). I liv