01-Tarot-and-Intuition Class 1
01-Tarot-and-Intuition Class 1
01-Tarot-and-Intuition Class 1
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every • Active in the 1930’s and 40’s, The
thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” Church of Light ESP Research
– William Blake (poet, painter, printmaker, Department determined that there
mystic 1757‐1827) were three prominent methods of
acquiring information from
Intuition extrasensory sources.
• (From the Late Latin term intuitiō a • They are:
contemplation, from Latin intuērī to • Mediumship
gaze upon, from tuērī to look at) • Feeling ESP
• Intellectual ESP
• Direct perception of truth, fact, etc.,
independent of any reasoning process; Mediumship
immediate apprehension. • Mediums are psychic practitioners who
• Knowledge or belief obtained neither mediate communication between
by reason nor by perception human beings and the non‐physical
• A keen and quick insight. world.
• Instinctive knowledge or belief • Throughout human history the practice
has been associated with various
• “Intuition is due to a process similar to religious belief systems such as:
reasoning carried out by the shamanic rituals of native Americans
unconscious mind; and because from and Arctic tribes, Balinese pasupati
the four‐dimensional plane so many ceremonies; West African Orisha
more facts are discernible than from traditions (which through the diaspora
the three‐dimensional plane, if it is un‐ entered the New World as Voudun,
warped while coming through from the Santería and Candomblé); and since the
four‐dimensional region of the mid‐19th century, Spiritualism.
unconscious, it is apt to be a far more • It is quite likely that trance rituals are
reliable guide to truth than clumsy and among the oldest forms of human
ponderous Reason.” ritualistic expression.
• “It is well to cultivate the Intuition, not • Most trance rituals involve a
only because it now may be made to disincarnate spirit possession of the
yield such accurate conclusions, but medium or the use of the medium’s
because, in a few years, it must chiefly voice or body during a séance.
be depended upon; for after we have • Rhythmic dance or drumming is used in
left the physical body behind, Reason, some traditions to induce a trance state
which is dependent upon physical brain • States of trance are sometimes referred
cells, can no longer offer guidance.” to as “channeling.”
• Esoteric Psychology ‐ C. C. Zain • However, channeling does not always
mean spirit possession, it can loosely
Extra Sensory Perception refer to any psychic practice such as
• All intuition generally utilizes EXTRA telepathy, spirit communion, automatic
SENSORY PERCEPTION, usually writing etc., where the individual
abbreviated ESP. becomes the medium or channel for
• ESP is the act of acquiring information outside information.
through channels other than physical • A séance, which literally means
senses and the commonly recognized “sitting,” is a assembly to produce
processes of the mind. paranormal phenomena.
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• During the late 18th and early 19th Feeling ESP
century Spiritualism was a powerful • Persons with prominent Feeling ESP
cultural movement. utilize the hypersensitivity of their
• Spiritualist celebrities were often at the nervous system to tune in on the astral
vanguard of social movements such as, counterpart of persons or conditions
the abolition of slavery and women’s about which information is sought.
suffrage. • The nervous system of the individual
• In spirit‐trance states a wide variety of with dominant Feeling ESP becomes a
psychic phenomena can be produced receiving set, much like a radio.
such as apportations, automatic writing, • With Feeling ESP the individual
ectoplasm, levitations, spirit‐rappings, empathetically feels the condition of
trumpet mediums, spirit slates and the object or other person with whom
more. they have entered into rapport.
• During the days when the greatest • Feeling ESP does not require the
showmanship could attract the greatest involvement of unseen intelligences
number of followers, many mediums and disincarnate entities.
were shown to be fraudulent by
debunkers. • The disadvantages associated with
• Harry Houdini, an active debunker of Feeling ESP are:
fraudulent séances, clearly stated that • The individual using Feeling ESP
he did not oppose the religion of experiences the pains, sufferings and
Spiritualism itself, but only the trickery other discords of the persons or
by phony mediums that was being conditions contacted.
practiced in the name of the religion. • It can be difficult to disengage once an
individual has psychically tuned into an
• Although mediumship can produce unpleasant condition.
remarkable psychic phenomena it is not • Continued use of Feeling ESP can leave
considered to be a “safe” method of the subject physically, emotionally and
psychic development: The Brotherhood psychically exhausted.
of Light discourages its use. • To be successful with Feeling ESP, the
• Over time mediumship can erode the practitioner, once he or she starts to
individual will and cause the medium to feel mired in something disagreeable,
be dominated by undesirable psychic must develop the ability to redirect his
influences. or her consciousness to more
• Another point of concern is that the harmonious conditions.
medium cannot always select the non‐
physical intelligences that may want to Intellectual ESP
occupy their form, which can lead to • Intellectual ESP is the experience of
involuntary possession. being a detached, unemotional
• Quality control can also be an issue. Just observer. It is similar to watching a
because someone has passed from the movie without its sound score.
physical plane does not mean that they • Hypersensitivity plays no part In
are immediately cognizant of all Intellectual ESP.
operations on astral and spiritual planes • Instead of becoming a receiving set (as
of existence. in Feeling ESP), the electrical energies
of the nervous system radiate high
frequency vibrations which provide the
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intuitive senses of the unconscious The Unconscious Mind
mind with sufficient energy with which • The unconscious mind is comprised of
to perform their work. both the subconscious and super‐
• In the process of Intellectual ESP, the conscious minds
unconscious mind or astral brain
functions on the inner plane to examine The Subconscious Mind
objects, thought‐forms and • The subconscious mind is a storehouse
communicate with other intelligences. of our learned behavior, beliefs,
• The Church of Light considers feelings and memories.
Intellectual ESP to be the safest and • It is the sum total of all our experiences
most effective form of psychic with form.
development. • It comprises our character which can be
• In this class, Intellectual ESP will be both our strengths, skills and abilities as
alternately referred to as “Extension of well as our neuroses, fears and negative
Consciousness” habit systems.
• During the practice of Intellectual ESP • The language of the subconscious mind
we extend our consciousness out from is the language of feelings (i.e. pleasure
its normal seat in the physical brain to and pain) and emotions (anger,
the inner plane. frustration, sorrow, joy, happiness,) as
well as images or symbols.
States of Consciousness • The subconscious mind is the portal to
• In the study of psychology, the Human the super conscious mind.
mind has three distinct parts:
• The conscious mind, The Super‐Conscious Mind
• The subconscious mind and • The super conscious mind is the spark
• The super‐conscious mind. of the Divine within us.
• The subconscious and super‐conscious • It can be alternately referred to as our
minds are jointly categorized as the Higher Self, or Higher Intelligence.
“unconscious mind” In the Brotherhood • The super conscious mind is often
of Light Lessons perceived as “I Am,” our sense of Self,
minus the qualities that make up our
The Conscious Mind personality.
• The conscious mind is directly • We can recognize it as the part of us
connected to the physical brain and the that is a detached observer in our
perceptions of our sensory organs. waking and dream states.
• The conscious mind is responsible for
logic, reasoning and voluntary We Function in Two Environments
perceptions—such as reading, writing, • “Man has a physical body, and he has
speaking, listening, etc. an astral body. The physical body, and
• Anything we learn for the first time is through its nerve currents, which are
through the action of the conscious electrical in nature, his mind, or soul,
mind. which resides on the inner‐plane—the
• Our conscious mind can be a portal to small emergent part being the
our subconscious mind. Objective Mind and the submerged part
• Our consciousness goes to wherever we the Unconscious Mind—are influenced
hold our attention. by his outer‐plane environment. His
astral body and his mind, or soul, are
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influenced by his inner‐plane objects, move along this fourth
environment; and the thought‐cells so dimension we call time. The line of
affected in turn influence his physical movement of anything thus through
body. Thus does man live in, and is time is called its World Line. All back of
influenced by, both an outer‐plane the Now point in each object’s or soul’s
world and an inner‐plane world.” world line is fixed in the time
• Laws of Occultism ‐ C. C. Zain dimensions; its place at any moment of
the past cannot be altered. And when
Extension of Consciousness the consciousness is extended to an
• The Inner Plane interpenetrates and has object or person on the inner plane, this
a molding effect over the physical world line can be perceived, and if the
• To contact the inner plane we must attention can be focused on any
extend our consciousness to the inner particular point in that world line, what
plane from where it normally resides on happened at that time in the past, with
the physical plane. details of the conditions affecting it can
• In order to do so we must have be perceived.”
adequate electrification which can be • Divination and Character Reading – C.
generated through rhythmic breathing. C. Zain
Accessing the Unconscious Feelings and Symbols
• “The unconscious and conscious exist in • The subconscious mind or Soul most
a profound state of interdependence of commonly communicates with the
each other and the well‐being of one is conscious mind through the use of
impossible without the well‐being of feelings and symbols.
the other”
• Laurens van der Post – forward to Jung Esoteric Psychology
and Tarot • “One can hardly locate any point in the
evolution of mind where symbols first
The World‐Line were used. After all, concrete things
• When our consciousness is directed to cannot exist bodily in the mind, and as a
the inner plane we tune into the astral symbol is that which stands for
counterpart of an object or individual something, whatever mental images
and we tap into its “Life‐Line” or the mind holds are the symbols of its
“World‐Line.” physical and mental experiences. Those
• Past, present and future events are all symbols which are now in current use
perceived as memories. as the words of our language, are
• Since all is recorded as memories, it is merely the more complex development
dependent upon the skill of the intuitive of a process that is as old as life itself.”
to sort the past from the future. • Esoteric Psychology ‐ C. C. Zain
• It can also take great skill to direct one’s
consciousness to a narrow band of time Symbolism
in the future. • A symbol is that which represents
something else.
• “The soul, or unconscious mind of an • When we think of something we either
individual, is the organization in finer think of its name or its image, often
than physical substance of the sum both.
total of his past experiences. It and all
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• If we are literate we may also think of • They represent elements from the
the written form, either phonetically or natural world as well as mythic
as an ideogram. creatures
• It is not the item that is in our mind, but
its symbol. • Gorillas can be taught to use American
• A word is a symbol that represents a Sign Language and communicate at the
person, place, object, action or abstract level of a three year old human
idea
• Written language is dependent upon • “In fact, the policy of the Ancient
symbols Masons was to mark every discovery of
• In pictograph writing a symbol or importance relative to the development
ideogram represents a word or idea of human character and the attainment
• In phonetic writing a symbol or letter of immortality with an appropriate
represents a sound symbol. Thus if the symbol should be
• Human communication is dependent perpetuated the discovery would not be
upon symbols. lost, even though generations unable to
• Based on the communication read it passed; for to nature’s initiates a
techniques of other primates, we can symbol is both a diagram and a
surmise that early humans description of the fact it was selected to
communicated with sounds and represent. Though a universal symbol,
gestures. such as the Ancient Masons employed,
• The earliest art included symbols of should be lost to sight for a thousand
animals and humans years, the first keen student of Nature’s
• Prehistoric symbols are frequently laws to stumble upon it would be able
found in the form of petro‐glyphs (rock‐ to comprehend its meaning as well as
carving), or picto‐graphs (picture those who used it first. The study of
writing) Ancient Masonry, then, becomes a
study of such universal symbols.”
• “But here it is only necessary to trace it • Ancient Masonry ‐ C. C. Zain
from its simple beginning as visual
pictograph images to the next step, • The unconscious mind uses feelings and
which is the visual symbolical symbols to communicate with the
pictograph. Yet the necessity is urgent conscious mind
to make clear at this point that • Personal symbols
pictographs and symbolical pictographs • Universal symbols
not only were the first visual images
used by the race in the communication • “Because symbolical pictograph is the
of ideas from one to another, but that, language commonly employed by the
because they represent obvious unconscious mind to impart
associations, they are the images still information too complex to be
employed by the unconscious mind.” expressed merely as feeling, its appeal
• Esoteric Psychology ‐ C. C. Zain is universal. Pictorial symbols may be
chosen, the common associations of
• The American Southwest is filled with which are the same the world over. In
examples of symbolic art created by the this manner, regardless of changes in
ancestral Pueblo people and other arbitrary speech, or differences in
groups nationality, an idea can be conveyed to
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any intelligent people in the world in • Tarot entered English from the French.
spite of passing time.” • It comes from the Italian Tarocchi,
• Esoteric Psychology ‐ C. C. Zain plural for tarocco for which the origin is
unknown.
• The unconscious mind communicates to • The original name for these cards was
the conscious mind through symbols trionfi (triumph) from which we get the
and feelings English derivation “Trumps”
• Pictographs most closely allied with • Tarot historians claim that tarot was
language of feeling originally designed as a game and that
• The tarot is written in the language of the history of Tarot cards and playing
universal symbolism using symbolical cards is inseparable.
pictographs • When exploring the origins of the tarot
we must juggle the folkloric tales
• “As thought is impossible without the against the historic evidence.
use of symbols, it will be seen that the • The Tarot first appeared in Europe
study of symbolism is the study of the during the late Medieval and early
counters of thought. The study of Renaissance
Masonic Symbolism, then, becomes the • A common tarot deck is comprised of
study of the thoughts and ideas of the 78 symbolic cards
ancient Master Minds as expressed by • The 22 Major Arcanum possibly evolved
them in the language of universal from the allegorical symbolism of the
symbolism. Well knowing the transitory Hermetic Reformation
nature of arbitrary language, the words • The 12 Court Cards, 36 Minor Arcanum,
of one generation often having an and 4 Tens were derivative of older
opposite meaning in the next, these Islamic decks of cards prevalent in
sages spoke and wrote in a language Turkey, Spain and North Africa
the words of which never change their • The earliest know tarot cards or
import, thus preserving their thoughts tarocchi appeared in Italy in the mid‐
in their original purity for all time.” 15th Century
• Ancient Masonry ‐ C. C. Zain • The Visconti‐Sforza deck from the mid‐
15th Century are the oldest existing
Tarot Cards tarot cards
• “These mystic Cards would lift the veil, • Hermetic oral tradition suggest that the
and bid us take a look within, tarot originated as bas‐reliefs in the
• They show us Love, Ambition, Hope, Egyptian temples of initiation.
with Marriage, Luck, Despair and Sin. • In his book Le Monde Primitif, Antoine
• Pope, Empress, Justice, Temperance, Court de Gébelin (1719[?] ‐1784) first
even Death who mows down all, introduced the Ta‐Ro as meaning Royal
• Showing our life is but a dream, a Road
breath, whose scythe on all must fall.” • He described the Tarot as a repository
• Author Unknown – from Old and of Egyptian esoteric wisdom.
Curious Playing Cards p. 48 • Historians tell us that around 1370
playing cards of four suits (swords,
• Will somebody please pronounce this wands, cups, & coins) first appear on
word? the scene in Europe.
• Does anyone know where this word • These were packs of 52 ‐ 56 playing
comes from? cards
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• Speculation exists that they were an • Swords and wands (spades and clubs)
Islamic invention that may have were ordered King, Queen, Knight, Jack,
entered Europe through crusaders 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and ace.
returning home from the Holy Land In the suits of cups and coins (hearts and
• The last Crusade, however, was over by diamonds) they were ordered King, Queen,
1291 – almost 80 years before Knight, Jack, Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
European cards were first mentioned by • The Tarot of Marseilles is loosely based
historical documentation. on an older deck the Tarot of
• The theory that the cards came from Lombardy. The greatest difference is
the Mamluks of Egypt is now generally the ordering of four cards
accepted based on historical evidence. • Perhaps the greatest numeric
• In 1939, Leo Arie Mayer discovered in difference in contemporary tarot cards
the Topkapi Sarayi Museum in Istanbul is the juxtaposition of Strength and
a complete pack of cards, which could Justice in the Golden Dawn tradition
be traced to the 12th or 13th century. • Spanish and Italian cards used the
• Early 14th century Italian packs are traditional suits of coins, cups, swords,
almost identical to Mamluk cards. & wands.
• They consist of 52 cards of 4 suits of • The suits of swords, wands, cups, &
swords, polo‐sticks, cups and coins. coins used in Spanish and Italian cards
• The cards include numerals from 1 to were changed to acorns, bells, leaves
10 and three courts – King, Deputy‐King and hearts by the Germanic engravers.
and Under‐Deputy. • German and Nederlandish engraving
• The question is – did the cards enter was to transform the art of card
Europe through Italy or Spain? making.
• It is likely that cards were brought into • The Mediterranean cultures had left
Spain by the Moors. Uncut sheets of their suit cards unadorned for easy
cards discovered in Barcelona and recognition; this was not so with
dated to the 15th century show a close German card‐makers who covered the
similarity to Mamluk cards. lower half of their cards with vignettes.
• Italy remains a possibility as cards, like • Perhaps this was to later influence the
any other goods, followed major trade work of A. E. Waite and Pamela
routes and Venice was the main trade Colman‐Smith who would at the start of
gate into Europe. the 20th century reintroduce minor
• Another argument for Italy is that early Arcanum with pictorial vignettes.
Italian cards strongly resemble Mamluk • In 1470, French card‐makers introduced
cards. the contemporary suits of clubs,
diamonds, spades and hearts
Numeric Ordering of the Cards • These suits most widely used today
• The earliest Trionfi are not numbered. were developed in 15th Century France
• The current accepted order of the by Etienne de Vignolle, better known as
Major Arcanum was not established the Knight “La Hire,” an avid supporter
until the Tarot of Marseilles. of Jeanne d’Arc whose face is used for
• Prior to the XVI Century, Spanish, the Jack of Hearts.
Italian, Persian and Indian cards had a • The French simplified the deck of cards
curious ranking; into two colors (red and black) for the
suits, thus making them easier to
stencil, lowering production costs,
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making a more affordable and easily mystical orders, is the symbol of a
distributable deck. renewed life. Spring brought a new
• By the end of the 30 years War, German food supply, which nourished life. But
domination of the card market had this food supply, by which life might be
declined. sustained also might be purchased. And
• The French deck won out for gambling thus we have the pieces of money, the
games that required quick recognition coins of the tarot. But in later days a
of the cards and speed in playing. more commercial age decided that for
• This deck formed the basis of modern sustaining life through trade, diamonds
playing cards were even more precious than money.
• Cards first entered England between So in modern cards we have the suit of
1400 – 1463. diamonds.”
• By the 15th century, Belgium and French • The Sacred Tarot – C. C. Zain
card manufacturers were exporting
barrels of cards to England. Scepters (Wands)
• The English adopted the French pips but • Summer, Heat
called some of them by the older • Element of Fire
names. • Business, Reputation
• ♠ = Piques (spear‐point) represents the • Evolved into the Suit of Clubs
suit of Swords, yet in English uses the • “The summer brought the trefoil, or
name of spades from espada the three‐leaf clover, which was important
Spanish for sword – for forage to the flocks of a pastoral
• ♥ = Cours (hearts) Cups people. So the clover became
• ♦ = Carreaux (floor tiles) for coins and associated with the heat of summer. A
called diamonds in English similar heat could be produced with
• ♣ = Trèfle (trefoil) called clubs in English wood. And thus scepters came to be
after bastoni or cudgels the symbol of summer heat, and are so
• As to the emblems by which the four represented in the tarot. moderns,
suits are recognized, they were derived however, continue to picture the clover,
as universal symbols from the most but refer to the wood still, calling it the
important of natural phenomena, the suit of clubs.”
passing of the seasons. • The Sacred Tarot – C. C. Zain
Origin of the Suits Cups
Coins (Disks, Pentacles) • Autumn, Celebration
• Spring – New Life • Element of Water
• Element of Air • Love, Emotions
• Money, Social Exchange • Evolved into the Suit of Hearts
• Evolved into the Suit of Diamonds • “The autumn, when the wine was
• (In the Golden Dawn tradition this is the pressed from the grape, came to be the
element of Earth) season of festivities, of dancing and of
• “Even as heralded in the verses of marriage. To represent the emotions
Omar, the spring is signaled by the rose. then engendered, the cup, from which
In certain older cards the rose is the wine was quaffed, came to be used,
sometimes found. The spring is the and thus is still one of the suits of the
period of renewed life, and thus the tarot. But moderns, associating the
rose, as representing it, in some emotions of joy, and those that result in
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marriage, with the heart, have • The word Divination comes from the
preferred to use them in picturing the Latin divinare, meaning “to be inspired
corresponding suit of playing cards.” by a god,” or “to foresee the future.”
• The Sacred Tarot – C. C. Zain • Divination often involves the use of
symbolic or oracular objects which are
Swords randomly cast.
• Winter, Hardship • The mind of the diviner draws
• Element of Earth correlations between the symbols, their
• Strife, Practicality positions and future events.
• Evolved into the Suit of Spades • “Divination is the act of foreseeing or
• (In the Golden Dawn tradition this is the foretelling future events or discovering
element of Air) information not accessible through the
• “The winter was a time of dearth and exercise of reason and the ordinary
want. To provide for this period when physical senses.”
no food could be garnered, it was • Doctrine of Divination ‐ C. C. Zain
customary to work hard to gather and
hoard a supply sufficient to last through Recommended Reading
until spring. And it was observed that • Doane, Doris Chase, Blending
the oak also thus provided a food Astrology, Numerology & Tarot, 1997,
supply which was similarly stored by the Tempe, AZ. American Federation of
squirrels. Thus the acorn came to be Astrologers Inc., Publishers
used as the symbol of winter. But, in
time, the afflictions of winter, and the • Doane, Doris Chase, Secret Symbolism
struggle to sustain life, especially as it of the Tarot, 1993, Tempe, AZ.
often led to strife among peoples, came American Federation of Astrologers
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looked upon the unfruitful season as • Mitchell, Edgar D., Psychic Exploration:
the cause of their unceasing toil; and to A Challenge for Science, 1974, New
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• Vaughn, Alan, The Edge of Tomorrow:
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Major and Minor Arcanum I – X, Giving
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1973, New York, NY. Hawthorn Books • September 19th – Major Arcanum XI –
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