The Stele and Tarot as Talismans
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I may be missing something, but I haven't seen the Stele of Revealing or the Tarot demonstrated anywhere as serving a Talismanic function in Qabalistic ceremony. This seems to me to be a rather harmonious placement and opens doors for those of us apt in arts such as painting, sculpting, etc.
Love is the law, love under will.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
@Zalthos said
"I may be missing something, but I haven't seen the Stele of Revealing or the Tarot demonstrated anywhere as serving a Talismanic function in Qabalistic ceremony. "
What do you mean by Qabalistic ceremony?
If you mean using the Tarot cards as talismans in ceremonial magic, the Tarot cards and the Tree of Life aren't mutually exclusive. Any ritual can be constructed using a particular Tarot card as a talisman:
Chap. XX MWT --
Then there are the Elemental Tablets of Sir Edward Kelly and Dr. John Dee. From these you can extract a square to perform almost any conceivable operation, if you understand the virtue of the various symbols which they manifest. They are actually an expansion of the Tarot. (Obviously, the Tarot itself as a whole is a universal Pantacle—forgive the pleonasm! Each card, especially is this true of the Trumps, is a talisman; and the whole may also be considered as the Lamen of Mercury. It is evidently an Idea far too vast for any human mind to comprehend in its entirety. For it is "the Wisdom whereby He created the worlds.")
Also, there is a pretty sweet example of an invocation of Mars in Crowley's Moonchild -- using the card for ATU XVI.
Love is the law, love under will.