The Cardinal Importance of Names: Aleister Crowley and the Creation of a Tarot for the New Aeon.
Aleister Crowley's The Book of Thoth makes four substantive changes to the traditional titles of the tarot trumps. Three of these relate to the cardinal virtues which had remained in the deck despite the almost complete esoteric revisioning of the tarot that had taken place over the preceding two ce...
| Publicado en: | Aries Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 94 - 125 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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