Zain tarot.

[Matt1]

I have found an interesting site that links the original Zain tarot and the tarot of Comte de Saint-Germain which it is based upon.


http://green-door.narod.ru/zaintarot.html

http://green-door.narod.ru/sg-tarot.html

The first link is a link to the Zain tarot and the second to the original which it was based upon. The book practical astrology has the original images and description used.
I guess this is of more historical interests rather than anything else, i feel that little credit is given to the original design of the tarot deck which is used by us here studying the Ra material, perhaps some useful insight might be developed by looking at the material of the person who designed the deck.

99.6 Questioner: We now have an additional set of tarot images. We will refer to them as the Royal Road images, since that’s the name of the book they came from. They are similar to, but in some instances different from the C.C. Zain images. Which of these two sets are closer to Ra’s original intention? And if they are mixed, let me know that.

Ra: I am Ra. The principle which moves in accordance with the dynamics of teach/learning with most efficiency is constancy. We could explore the archetypical mind using that set of images produced by the one known as Fathman or we could use those which have been used.

In point of fact, those which are being used have some subtleties which enrich the questioning. As we have said, this set of images is not that which we gave. This is not material. We could use any of a multitude of devised tarot sets. Although this must be at the discretion of the questioner, we suggest the maintaining of one and only one set of distorted images to be used for the querying and note that the images you now use are good.

Here's a link with the same images of the royal road,

http://green-door.narod.ru/jdeq-tarot.html


Ra said that any tarot deck could have been used, so it makes me wonder about the subjectivity of the tarot in general. Another point we should look at as well is the fact that the Tarot cards have always been connected to the Hermetic Qabalah, often being designed to fit the symbolism of that glyph rather than the other way about. Unless you go back to the original marseilles deck. 

Anyway! Hopefully that gives everyone who is interested in the archetypes some more food for thought.

peace.



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I think if we can study the 3 different sets of images and see the correspondences with what Ra said and the images designed by L/L it would provide a wealth of data on the archetypes!