antw. pynchon's pneumatic alphabeth (was: MDDM Ch. 50 Elect Cohens of Paris)

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Dave Monroe schrieb:

> A.E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910) ...
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> http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/
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> Pynchon's primary source on tarot, apparently ...


  ~ though i recently fell in love with waite's formatation of the adeptus minor 
  ritual (see "the complete golden dawn system of magic", ed. by regardie), and 
  though waite's tarot deck, which pynchon refers to in gr, is probably the most 
  decent one (used it during my zen phase), i want to hint you at another tarot 
  source (which dave mentions in an other post) trp was (very) probably up to.  
  in "gravity's rainbow" it sez on page 588: "(check out ishmael reed. he knows 
  more about it than you'll ever find here.)" so, yesterday i started to read   
  "mumbo jumbo" [1972] which seems to be a real smash hit: "well, his hearing,  
  clem. his hearing./he said he was hearing shank bones, jew's harps, bagpipes, 
  flutes, conch horns, drums, banjos, kazoos". the novel contains - why can't   
  writers do this more often? - a "partial bibliography" with more than 100   
  titles. no waite yet two titles of dion fortune as well as the following tarot 
  classic - aleister crowley: the book of thoth: an interpretation of the tarot 
  [1944]. berkeley, ca. 1969: shambalah/kashmarin. the german edition appeared  
  under the title "das buch thoth (ägyptischer tarot)" in the urania publishing 
  house in münchen in 1981. with the tarot (as with practical mysticism in   
  general) it's like this: you'll never find your decisive personal take-off in 
  such book, be this crowley or waite (dtsch. "der geheime tarot-schlüssel",   
  münchen 1996: heyne) or whatever. if you want more than historical   
  understanding: make this stuff for years part of your daily life! then it   
  works wonderfully. "someone once said that beneath or behind all political and 
  cultural warfare lies a struggle between secret societies. another author   
  suggested that the nursery rhyme and the book of science fiction might be more 
  revolutionary than any number of tracts, pamphlets, manifestoes of the   
  political realm". a-and then my "psychic tv" tape was stolen by three egyptian 
  cats ~~~ kai (collecting tarot decks)

ps: by the way of bagpipes: "how little is needed to be happy! the sound of a 
bagpipe. --- without music life would be a mistake. the german imagines even god 
singing songs", as fritz dynamite (cf. ksa 6: 64) puts it in aphorism nr. 33 of 
"götzen-dämmerung oder wie man mit dem hammer philosophiert" [1889].