Law of One the Tarot and Intuition

[kenney]

I'm not exactly sure what you're replying to in my comment, but you did say something I wanted to respond to.

The questions Don poses and the Answers give by Ra directly reflect the Brotherhood of Light teachings that were very popular at the time and as the LOO group goes through the tarot they are merely expanding and elucidating the meanings of the cards in respect to those teachings.

I've read C.C.Zain's companion book to the Brotherhood of Light deck, and my considered judgment was that it was in many ways a far cry from Ra's approach to the Tarot. While it contained a handful of interesting ideas, I do not recommend it to students of Ra. Ra is not merely rehashing what the Brotherhood of Light taught. On the contrary, Don considered the study of the archetypes to be the greatest empirical success of the entire channeling experiment precisely because Ra material was at its most novel during that study. To this date, I've found no other source except Ra that captures the essence of this approach, though some treatments occasionally do split the cards into groups of 7.

I am afraid you have read one book of 22 books. The structure of the universe, the way that the mind works with complexes of thoughts and how those thoughts are urged about by the pressures of the planets, the environment, and conditioning are covered in the Brotherhood of Light books. To be honest by the time you have read all 22 books you may begin to wonder if "someone" hadn't read a bit too much of the brotherhood of light in the years leading up to the Ra material. The cosmology set forth, the techniques of mental alchemy, the techniques of medium-ship/channeling that are taught, how astrology affects physical life, healing, crystals, etc. covered in the Brotherhood of light courses is actually a MORE detailed description of how to DO much of what Ra suggests.

The Ra books take the tarot a step in a different direction than the Brotherhood of Light does, there is far more psychology in the Ra work. The concepts of archetypes are well formed by the early 80's and Don has an excellent grip on that. It is DON"s choice to approach the tarot in this way, not Ra's. One has to always remain informed of this. As we study LOO we are studying those things that were on Don's mind. What was on his mind exactly? I am not sure, i do know he is holding a brotherhood of light deck of cards. In the early 1980's this is an obscure deck of cards to come across. His questions in reference to the cards are obviously based around one of this group dabbling with those courses and their own studies of the tarot. Some of the questions point to CC Zain books other than the Sacred Tarot leading me to infer they read far more than that one isolated book from the series and the rest of the tarot questions seem to be in reference to the tarot descriptions in a book by Paul Christian called the History and Practice of Magic. Was he reading the new books coming out that were applying Carl Jung to the tarot deck as well, I can not say?

I have spent half of my life now studying the LOO books. After about ten years it suddenly dawned on me I have really been studying the things that Don and Carla found most interesting and mysterious. If one is studying the LOO what are they really studying? The things that Don brings up of course, coupled with answers that are just vague enough to not really answer the question. The only stuff that gets definite answers will be things that are for the most part completely unverifiable, Ra of course warns us of this paradox regularly.

So the LOO and the Tarot may more rightly be looked at like "the Tarot through the eyes of Don and Carla with some suggestions from Ra." It is always good to go back to the source and find out where something originated from. It can not hurt in any way to go back and read all that Brotherhood of Light stuff and discover what was inspiring some of these questions that Don is asking...i spent five or six years slowly plugging through all of those books while I did all the other stuff I do, it wasn't so bad....not to mention I learned astrology really well and basic alchemy while i was at it.