Blicero / christ myth

[rj]

?(far more forthcoming than usual)
>  The King of Cups, fire in water, is described by Crowley as representing "the 
>  fast and passionate assault of rain and of sources and, in a narrower sense, 
>  the dissolution as power of water" (- retranslated from "The  Book of Thoth"). 
>  Doesn't sound like the people you find in corporate board rooms, or? Crowley  
>  goes on describing people whose primary pattern is represented by the King (-  
>  in his termiology: "Knight")of Cups as "passive", "friendly" and  
>  "dilettantish".

Well, the *Knight* of Cups now, is an entirely different kettle of fish
to the King:

Knight of Cups (Caballo de Copas) -- Seducer. Invitation. Attraction and
conquest. 
the card: the young knight rides, blonde hair in the breeze, a cup
offered in one outstretched hand, his shield in the other, but his horse
is blindfolded and trampling an even greater cup growing from the earth
below.

King of Cups (El Rey de Copas) -- Laborious husband. Honest person.
Businessman.
the card: The king sits on his (boardroom) throne, his cup overflowing
in a rainbow cascade (a little like a harlequin scarf) which has not yet
reached the ground. The emblem on his vest is a heart inside a sun. One
hand is placed on his genitals.

> which could have moved Mr. P. to associate Blicero with this card

I submit that the readings are actual: "Here are the real cards, exactly
as they came up."(746.9-10up)

> Did our man make a mistake here?! I don't 
>  think so.

Nor I.

No "reader trap" here for me. Think I might go read Chuckie's cards.
(I'm sure that Knight of Cups will get a guernsey somewhere.)