Finding New Symbols - Thompson, Cath

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Résumé :
This is a definitive proving of English Qaballistic theory and practice that began with an investigation into the hierarchy of the Company of Heaven whose Names are written in Liber AL vel Legis, to discover the possibilities of constructing a system of chthonic ritual based upon the model of the Complete Tree of Life. This work led on to a set of symbolic correspondences with the 28 spheres, which in turn suggested a corroborating study of the 28 Lunar Mansions. Then came the unexpected revelation of the English Qaballistic Tarot, and with the 26 letters properly assigned upon the Tree, a corresponding solution was found to the problem of attributing the 27 Trigrams of Liber Trigrammaton sub figura XXVII. The stages of this magickal exploration are described in detail by Thompson, with a full set of interpretations for the EQ Tarot. Finding New Symbols is a first-hand account of an extraordinary occult experiment, and of the revision of the imagery of the traditional Tarot that was the result. With this, her fourth book, Thompson has extended the system of English Qaballa into the realm of divination and created a significant landmark in the reformation of modern occultism....

Biographie:
Cath Thompson has been a practising initiate of the English Qaballa since 1980 when she became the youngest member of the group led by James Lees, the magician who obtained the Order and Value of the English Alphabet encoded in the manuscript of Liber AL vel Legis in 1976. Lees appointed her as his literary executor, and since his death in 2015 Thompson has written four books about EQ published by Hadean Press, and contributed to the Hadean facsimile reprint of the first articles about the new Qaballa, written and published in The New Equinox/British Journal of Magick by Lees in 1980-82. Thompson published a private limited edition of the Book of the Law enumerated according to EQ in 1995. She has recently designed and published a limited edition of an English Qaballistic Tarot deck. Cath Thompson's occult work continues to explore and consolidate the system of the English Qaballa....

Sommaire:
This is a definitive proving of English Qaballistic theory and practice that began with an investigation into the hierarchy of the Company of Heaven whose Names are written in Liber AL vel Legis, to discover the possibilities of constructing a system of chthonic ritual based upon the model of the Complete Tree of Life. This work led on to a set of symbolic correspondences with the 28 spheres, which in turn suggested a corroborating study of the 28 Lunar Mansions. Then came the unexpected revelation of the English Qaballistic Tarot, and with the 26 letters properly assigned upon the Tree, a corresponding solution was found to the problem of attributing the 27 Trigrams of Liber Trigrammaton sub figura XXVII. The stages of this magickal exploration are described in detail by Thompson, with a full set of interpretations for the EQ Tarot. Finding New Symbols is a first-hand account of an extraordinary occult experiment, and of the revision of the imagery of the traditional Tarot that was the result. With this, her fourth book, Thompson has extended the system of English Qaballa into the realm of divination and created a significant landmark in the reformation of modern occultism....