Masonic Tarot

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The Masonic Tarot is the common Rider-Waite Tarot created by Freemasons during the industrial revolution as an ideological tool to help them spread Capitalism.[1] The Masonic Tarot contains Old Energy Archetypes that, taken together, inscribe Old Energy Archetype Constellations and by so doing create an Old Energy Creation Template which helps support the The System.

List of Old Energy Masonic Archetypes as implemented in the Masonic Tarot

Masonic Tarot archetypes> Chariot, Death (archetype), Duality, Hermit, Hierophant, High Priestess, Judgement, Justice, Star, Strength, Sun (archetype), Temperance, The Devil, The Emperor, The Empress, The Fool, The Hanged Man, The Lovers, The Magician, The Moon, The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The World (old energy)

List of Old Energy Archetypal Constellations

The Masonic Tarot helps inscribe into Collective Consciousness the following Old Energy Archetype Constellations

Old Energy Archetype Constellations > Binary Gender, Chosen One, Compliance and Submission, Excuse and Justification, Fool in School, Good versus Evil, Isolated Individuality, Judge and Punish/Reward, Only the Chosen, Secrets

Related Terms

Masonic Tarot > Big Questions

Notes

The Masonic Tarot was created by Freemasons during the French and Industrial Revolutions to help lubricate the transfer of power from Feudal elites to Capitalist elites.[2]

The Masonic Tarot, in its esoteric form, is elitist. Knowledge and power given only to the worthy. "It has revealed Itself, in a measure, to the wise." [3]

The Masonic Tarot, in its exoteric form, exerts control over individual consciousness and inscribes a Fool in School ethic on the individual. Life is all about karma and lessons and so don't struggle or fight back, passively accept and learn your lessons.

A classic statement of this perspective is "The Tarot is a deck of 78 cards, each with its own imagery, symbolism and story. The 22 Major Arcana cards represent life's karmic and spiritual lessons, and the 56 Minor Arcana cards reflect the trials and tribulations that we experience on a daily basis."[4]


The Masonic Tarot is sexist. Almost all authors who comment upon the archetypes reproduce binary and stereotypical notions of gender. "He is the objective aspect of consciousness....she is the subjective aspect..."[5]

Writers, like Case[6] and Crowley, etc. use EPMO to obscure the basic ideology. Long paragraphs of tortuous prose with complicated and largely meaningless associations obscure the basic ideological statements. See for example Case, "An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot."

The Masonic Tarot is based on an ancient Old Energy Creation Template, a Zoroastrian Creation Template.[7]

Many respectable scholars take tarot to be a tool of deep spiritual, archetypal, or psychological wisdom.A "holistic tool that can help us mine our own unconscious..." [8]

Footnotes

  1. Mike Sosteric."A Sociology of Tarot." Canadian Journal of Sociology 39 3 (2014).
  2. Mike Sosteric."A Sociology of Tarot." Canadian Journal of Sociology 39 3 (2014).
  3. Case, Paul Foster. An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot. New York: Kindle Edition, 1920.
  4. Biddy, Bridget. “Learn the Tarot Basics.” Biddy Tarot (blog), 2020. https://www.biddytarot.com/learn-tarot/.
  5. Case, Paul Foster. An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot. New York: Kindle Edition, 1920.
  6. Case, Paul Foster. An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot. New York: Kindle Edition, 1920.
  7. For details of this template, see Mike Sosteric "From Zoroaster to Star Wars, Jesus to Marx: The Science and Technology of Mass Human Behaviour". 2018. <https://www.academia.edu/34504691>.
  8. Wen, Benebell. Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2015.