Six suits:

Creation -- Solar nebula
Wands -- Hadean Eon
Cups -- Proterozoic/Vendian Eon
Swords -- Life's conquest of sea and land (beginning of Phanerozoic Eon)
Discs -- therapsids, dinosaurs (Paleozoic, Mesozoic)
Chaos/Void -- Humanity

I just uploaded Walk the Dark, an anthology of my work, to Scribd.com. As I said in the introduction to that work:

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I'm still working on Section 4 of Part 2 of Lesson III of the course notes for my Qaballah and Tarot course, getting it in shape to upload to Scribd.com. Doing so is addictive; I have the soul of a born accountant or clerk, apparently, and love organizing data. But there's also the joy of researching every little angle of it, especially those ( Read more... )

I got the last files of my Qaballah and Tarot course uploaded to Scribd.com. I've also uploaded all the files from my New Magicks for a New Age to Scribd.com. Many files in both need work, but they're all there, and readers can clearly see what's needed, if anything is, and what's intended. Can I fall apart now, please? I am sooo tired -- this ( Read more... )

People have asked me how it is that I can as deeply interested as I am in the objective sciences and still have just as profound an interest in esoteric subjects such as Qaballah, Magick, and related disciplines. Obviously science has proved its worth in the world; if science explains all, and produces all the fruits of our modern high-technology ( Read more... )

Note: I am here using the term "shaman" to include a number of other things, such as "Magickian," "psychic," "telepath," etc., having to do with abilities that seem to be beyond the range that human beings and other creatures normally have. By definition, all such people regularly exhibit one or more paranormal paranormal abilities, and have at ( Read more... )

Alchemical Symbols

That section of the site labeled "History" concerns the history of the periodic table of the chemical elements, which is valuable in its own right. But it is the graphics that seize the soul.

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And beyond the fields we know, beyond the blue skies of Earth, in Hades' domain,

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For Hades' realm also includes everything beyond the atmosphere of our world, the mundane concerns of our souls, the mundane aims of our spirit. It includes the wildest flights of fancy, the most fantastic of our cosmologies, and the Ultimate Frontier ( Read more... )

One of the goals of those who follow the Way of Magick, as part of their Great Work (Magnum Opus), is the recapitulation via Magickal practice of the history of their species and civilization, or rather, those aspects of that history which together truly represent the essence of the nature of that species and that of the civilization they have ( Read more... )

For the physical and chemical properties of the elements, see, e.g., http://www.chemicalelements.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element, etc ( Read more... )