02-20-2012, 07:32 PM
Duncan, I use the Brotherhood of Light deck. I do not personally care for the companion book or the symbolic correspondences drawn on the corners, but the images of the 22 Major Arcana are beautiful and very, very similar to those in published in Book IV.
I'd also like to respond to abstrktion and Shin'Ar.
I think it is well worth emphasizing that Ra suggests first working within a traditional context and then, once this tradition is mastered move beyond it into personal exploration. This statement, in my own mind, gives the original Egyptian deck and any subsequent decks equal significance. The first deck is like a set of training wheels that you use until you are familiar enough with the energies that you no longer need the support of this ancient deck. It is at this point that the master of these energies then makes the energies her own by creating a new deck which is unique to each adept. In this sense, I envision that each person who studies these energies will have something unique to contribute.
For my part, I have never been a visual thinker. I am comfortable with logical structures, words and sounds. So I will never create a deck in any recognizable sense. I certainly write though....
Please do not be intimidated by my writings. This is precisely why I stopped writing. I do not want to give an air of undue authoritativeness. Much of what I have written is my best effort at producing interpretations which are in direct agreement with the rest of the Law of One material. I'm merely attempting to go where L/L and Ra did not have the time to go.
I'd also like to respond to abstrktion and Shin'Ar.
I think it is well worth emphasizing that Ra suggests first working within a traditional context and then, once this tradition is mastered move beyond it into personal exploration. This statement, in my own mind, gives the original Egyptian deck and any subsequent decks equal significance. The first deck is like a set of training wheels that you use until you are familiar enough with the energies that you no longer need the support of this ancient deck. It is at this point that the master of these energies then makes the energies her own by creating a new deck which is unique to each adept. In this sense, I envision that each person who studies these energies will have something unique to contribute.
For my part, I have never been a visual thinker. I am comfortable with logical structures, words and sounds. So I will never create a deck in any recognizable sense. I certainly write though....
Please do not be intimidated by my writings. This is precisely why I stopped writing. I do not want to give an air of undue authoritativeness. Much of what I have written is my best effort at producing interpretations which are in direct agreement with the rest of the Law of One material. I'm merely attempting to go where L/L and Ra did not have the time to go.
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