Masonic Tarot
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
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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 tarot is designed to be constitutive of personal identity. It purports to locate the individual in relation to the System and the "Cosmos." "The Tarot is a system of enlightenment, a system whose ultimate aim is assisting the individual in understanding his relationship to the Cosmos." [3] It provides "seed ideas" [4] intended to lead to a certain understanding of the human condition.
The Masonic Tarot, in its esoteric form, is elitist. It is a "secret oral tradition." [5] Knowledge and power given only to the worthy. "It has revealed Itself, in a measure, to the wise." [6]
The threat of violence is used to prevent initiates from revealing the secrets. [7] . 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."[8]
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..."[9]
Writers, like Case[10] 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.[11]
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..." [12]
This analysis focuses primarily on the major arcana. The minor arcana are considered less important, even (in personified form) a perversion of occult principle." [13]
Recovery
Many tarot aficionados and writers attempt to re-write the esoteric and exoteric tarot, trying to find alternative, sometimes more progressive, "less disturbing" more "life-affirming" messaging. [14]
Virtue exposed her process: For example, "...symbolism was very carefully reviewed. When something distressing was removed from an image, we were diligent about replacing it with something peaceful that signified the same thing. Card names were changed when necessary to more accurately convey the loving message embedded in even the most challenging cards."[15]
Virtue also makes effort to remove "mystery" and "secrets." However, she still duplicates the a-political, blame-the-individual tropes of the masonic tarot. We are still here to learn our lessons, and we should "give thanks" for that.[16] She just presents the tropes and the masonic perspectives in a more "loving" and inviting manner.
Note, various attempts to recover or insert authenticity are documented in the Recovery section of the individual tarot entries.
Footnotes
- ↑ Mike Sosteric."A Sociology of Tarot." Canadian Journal of Sociology 39 3 (2014).
- ↑ Mike Sosteric."A Sociology of Tarot." Canadian Journal of Sociology 39 3 (2014).
- ↑ Wang, Robert. An Introduction to the Golden Dawn Tarot. Main: Sam Weiser, 1978. p. 8.
- ↑ Wang, Robert. An Introduction to the Golden Dawn Tarot. Main: Sam Weiser, 1978. p. 13.
- ↑ Wang, Robert. An Introduction to the Golden Dawn Tarot. Main: Sam Weiser, 1978. p. 11.
- ↑ Case, Paul Foster. An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot. New York: Kindle Edition, 1920.
- ↑ Wang, Robert. An Introduction to the Golden Dawn Tarot. Main: Sam Weiser, 1978. p. 13.
- ↑ Biddy, Bridget. “Learn the Tarot Basics.” Biddy Tarot (blog), 2020. https://www.biddytarot.com/learn-tarot/.
- ↑ Case, Paul Foster. An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot. New York: Kindle Edition, 1920.
- ↑ Case, Paul Foster. An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot. New York: Kindle Edition, 1920.
- ↑ 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>.
- ↑ Wen, Benebell. Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2015.
- ↑ Wang, Robert. An Introduction to the Golden Dawn Tarot. Main: Sam Weiser, 1978. p. 21.
- ↑ Virtue, Doreen. The Big Book of Angel Tarot: The Essential Guide. New York: Hay House, 2014.
- ↑ Virtue, Doreen. The Big Book of Angel Tarot: The Essential Guide. New York: Hay House, 2014.
- ↑ Virtue, Doreen. The Big Book of Angel Tarot: The Essential Guide. New York: Hay House, 2014.
