College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

The Stele of Revealing was named thus by Crowley, and in this capacity, it is possible that this stele is regarded as a religious artifact, especially by Thelemites; otherwise, like most stelae, it is simply a commemorative expression in a slab of wood or stone, beloging to no one.

Interesting to see what bookish influences one has!

William Blake's Illuminated Works
Austin Osman Spare's Book of PLeasure
Sefer Yetzirah
Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript

@Jim Eshelman said

"The Short Version had Beth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Peh, Resh, Tav attributed, respectively, to Mercury, Moon, Venus, Jiupiter, Mars, Sun, Saturn."

I am curious: are these correspondences based on the (Raavad) Short version, or a translation of the Short version, or a version I am not aware of? I would appreciate as much information on this as possible--from any one--because I can neither make head nor tail out of the planetary associations to the Hebrew letters. To me, the GD's planetary correspondences appear contrived.

@Froclown said

"All these are pairs of opposites, Your victim and your hero are the same entity, that is you can't bind the victim without also binding the hero. They are two expressions of the same force."

I agree, although I would add that binding and bargaining are the same too, so long as you are looking at it from the psychological POV whereby the POV is the survivor (and not the victim).

TsDI = (adjective) side, which suggests to be at the left or right half of a vertical axis.

What does Zsaddi mean? (And don't say fish hook.)

...Can any body see that Tsaddi is the Star?

As far as I know the Ari-Gra version changes the planetary / double letter associations, and from thereafter I am not aware of any tradition of either returning to the classical or using the newer Gra correspondences. This trend of ignoring the classical attributions has continued up to the present. Why this is so, I do not know.

That's what I mean

The GD's association of each Tarot key to each Hebrew letter (or rather AC's) seems spurious to me when Beth for example is tacked on to the Magician trump that corresponds to Mercury. The letter Beth more often than not corresponds to the planet Saturn, even though there are differences between the various versions of the Sefer Yetzirah. I get the impression that the GD made the letters fit their understanding of the Trumps and in by doing so they ignored a few thousand years of Judaic understanding, and in turn made a pig's ear out of the planetary and zodiacal attributions. Nonetheless, I admit I have always used AC's correspondences, though I am ever boggled

What is the correct association of each Tarot key to each Hebrew letter, assuming that there is one? I ask this because there are also planetary and further astrological attributions to the Trumps, which follow no logical pattern as far as I can make out when the Trumps are placed in the alphabetic order that has been given.