TAROT · 1910
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
A E Waite’s account of the Rider–Waite–Smith deck and its symbolic structure.
Read the free edition ↗BIBLIOMANCY / THE THRESHOLD
The
Threshold.
Symbolism, iconography, bibliomancy and tarot.
Bibliomancy: Ask a question. Open a passage. Read what follows.
Bibliomancy is the practice of opening a book at random and reading the selected passage for insight into a question or thought.
I. THE THRESHOLD
What lies beyond?✦✧
What lies beyond?✦✧
TAROT READINGS
Choose a reading.
Four ways to read.
03 / OPEN DECK
Lay out the cards yourself.
No question is asked. No conclusion is generated.
Use the deck as a self-directed table. Draw at random, select deliberately or begin with a template. Individual interpretations remain closed until you request them.
The table continues sideways →
The blank table is ready.
THE LIBRARY
From the Library
Passages and recommended reading on symbolism, literature and esoteric thought.
The Library brings together works that inform the Society’s readings and editorial research. Begin with today’s passage, or choose a complete work from the shelf below. The linked editions are freely available online.
RECOMMENDED READING
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PHILOSOPHY · c 125
The Enchiridion
Epictetus on judgement, conduct and the difficult boundary between our actions and circumstances.
Read at Project Gutenberg ↗PHILOSOPHY · c 170
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius’s private notes on attention, responsibility, change and life among other people.
Read at Project Gutenberg ↗RELIGION · 1902
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James examines private experience, belief and the limits of what such experience can establish.
Read at Project Gutenberg ↗HERMETICA · 1906 TRANSLATION
Corpus Hermeticum
G R S Mead’s historical English translation of the philosophical and religious texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.
Read the free edition ↗DIALOGUES · ANTIQUITY
The Dialogues of Plato
Questions of knowledge, rhetoric, justice and the examined life, presented through argument rather than easy settlement.
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04 / READING JOURNAL
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