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Yael R. Dragwyla First North American rights
email: polaris93@aol.com
NEW MAGICKS FOR A NEW AGE
Volume I: A New Order of the Ages
Book 3: Applications
Part 3: The Tarot
Chapter 1: General Theory and Applications of the Art and Science of the Tarot
A traditional Tarot pack includes three sub-packs.
The first of these comprises the twenty-two Major Arcana, which correspond to the letters of the Hebrew
alphabet and the twenty-two traditional Atua of the Tree of Life.
The second sub-pack consists of forty Minor Arcana or “small” cards. This sub-pack is further sub-
divided one way into four Suits, each one of which contains ten cards, numbered Ace through Ten, and the
other into ten sub-sets of cards, each containing four cards all bearing the same denomination. Each Suit
corresponds to one of the traditional four Pythagorean Elements or Modes of existence, usually Wands, for
Fire; Cups, for Water; Swords, for Air; and Coins, for Earth.* Each numbered card in a Suit corresponds
to one of the traditional ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life; in addition, the Ace corresponds to the “Root of
the Power” of the Element associated with that Suit, while the Deuce through the Ten correspond to the nine
decanates or thirds of the astrological Signs associated with that Element, Deuce through Four associated
with the three decanates of the Cardinal Sign of that Element, the Five through Seven with the Fixed or
Cherubic Sign of that Element, and the Eight through Ten with the Mutable Sign of that Element.
*In many packs, the Suit corresponding to Earth may be symbolized as Disks, Plates, or Pentacles (Penta-
grams on circular shields). Also, sometimes Swords are assigned to Fire and Wands or Staves to Air.
Finally, the third sub-pack consists of sixteen Court Cards. This set of cards is further subdivided one
way into the four Suits of the Lower Arcana, in the same way that the second sub-pack is, and the other way
into a set of four Persons, usually the Knight, Queen, King, and Page of the Suit.* These Persons correspond
to two successive generations (parents and children), two reproductive modes (female and male), and one
mode of sexual preference (straight) of the nuclear family, a sociobiological unit which should be of standard
use only for geneticists, stock-breeders, and agronomists but which unfortunately all too often describes the
pitifully gutted remains of the extended family which modern industrial society is proud to herald as the
refuge of the Godly (one wonders: which God?).
*In Crowley’s Book of Thoth pack, these are respectively the Knight, Queen, Prince, and Princess.
This structure of the traditional Tarot pack can be generalized as follows:
(1) A sub-pack consisting of A cards, where A is the order
(number of components) of the alphabet of the written
language of the culture for which this pack is to be

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produced. These cards will correspond to the components
of that alphabet*; in turn, both will correspond to the
Atua of the generalized version of the Tree of Life of
the Qaballah of that culture, the number and nature of
which will of course depend upon the number of
Sephiroth in that version of the Tree (see the previous
chapter for a detailed analysis of Qaballim generalized
from the traditional one, in particular the 16-
Sephiroth English-language Qaballah).
*This alphabet may not necessarily be in a visual format. It could instead, for example, be in an auditory
one, written magnetically on tape or recorded on CD by a laser, in which case its “letters” would be
phonemes or other basic auditory units. Or it could be an olfactory alphabet, its components different
scents, coded as “scratch-’n’-sniff” spots on cloth or paper; or a tactile one, coded in terms of textures
recorded on some sort of hard medium, or couched in any other possible sensory modality, on a variety
of recording media.
(2) A set of m = p x r Lower Arcana, where m, r and
p are positive integers. These are further sub-divided
into
(a) p sub-sets of r cards each. The r cards in
each of the p sub-sets are numbered Ace (1)
through r. where r is both the number of
Sephiroth in the Tree of Life of the Qaballah to
which this Tarot refers, and the number-base of the
culture which uses that Qaballah, such as the base-
10 system of our normal numerical and arithmetical
system, the hexadecimal (base-16) system that is
virtually universal today for computers of all
kinds, or the duodecimal (base-12) or sexagesimal
(base-60) systems used in Chaldean and modern
astrology.
(b) r sub-sets of p cards each, where each of these
r sub-sets corresponds to one of the Sephiroth
on the generalized Tree of Life associated with
this new, generalized form of the Tarot, while the
p cards it contains correspond to the p Suits
of the Lower Arcana of this pack. In turn, the
latter correspond to the p Elements or Modes of
Being acknowledged as being distinct by, and of
significant importance to, the culture using this
pack.
These Modes of Being refer to the Seasons or
major agricultural and ecological divisions of the
year. They can also refer to the number of states
of matter which that culture regards as
technologically and scientifically interesting or
useful, e.g., plasma, gas, liquid, glass, solid,
the weird phases exhibited by super-cooled helium,
etc. They can also refer to psychospiritual states
or modes of operation; cybernetic modes;
sociological units; or anything else that seems to

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Yael R. Dragwyla First North American rights email: polaris93@aol.com NEW MAGICKS FOR A NEW AGE Volume I: A New Order of the Ages Book 3: Applications Part 3: The Tarot Chapter 1: General Theory and Applications of the Art and Science of the Tarot A traditional Tarot pack includes three sub-packs. The first of these comprises the twenty-two Major Arcana, which correspond to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the twenty-two traditional Atua of the Tree of Life. The second sub-pack consists of forty Minor Arcana or “small” cards. This sub-pack is further sub-divided one way into four Suits, each one of which contains ten cards, numbered Ace through Ten, and the other into ten sub-sets of cards, each containing four cards all bearing the same denomination. Each Suit corresponds to one of the traditional four Pythagorean Elements or Modes of existence, usually Wands, for Fire; Cups, for Water; Swords, for Air; and Coins, for Earth.* Each numbered card in a Suit corresponds to one of the traditional ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life; in addition, the Ace corresponds to the “Root of the Power” of the Element associated with that Suit, while the Deuce through the Ten correspond to the nine decanates or thirds of the astrological Signs associated with that Element, Deuce through Four associated with the three decanates of the Cardinal Sign of that Element, the Five through Seven with the Fixed or Cherubic Sign of that Element, and the Eight throu ...
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