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The Spoken Cabala: Tarot Explorations of the One Self ReviewIt is wonderful to see the republication of this 1989 book. (Not 1978 as the blurb says under "Editorial Reviews.)
Why Tarot and Cabala? The oral tradition reported by Paul Foster Case tells us that the Tarot was invented in the year 1200 by a group of adepts convening in the city of Fez in Morocco. Their overriding concern was how students and aspirants could learn and advance in the Western mystery tradition without risk of persecution and death at the hands of orthodox religionists, a very real and serious hazard. They decided to use the Cabala as a framework because it is comprehensive without the bewildering complexity of the various oriental systems, and it was then in active development in the West, especially in Spain and Languedoc. They hit upon the idea of representing the rich symbolism associated with the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet with pictures that could be disguised as a game, whence our simplified playing cards of today. In various meditation practices those images convey insights through the power of suggestion to the subconscious mind. As part of the general opening up that we see going on, Paul Foster Case, former head of the Golden Dawn in America and founder of its successor organization, the Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), made this line of instruction more widely available through encyclopedic and wonderfully clear writings (some of them published, mostly part of the B.O.T.A. curriculum), drawing, it is said, on information from 'the Master R.' (Rákóczi, the Count of St. Germain).
Why Jason Lotterhand? Jason was a student and close friend of Paul Case, and became very well grounded in this wellspring of wisdom. Jason's practicality and good humor as a down-to-earth businessman (triple Capricorn) pervades this record of his lectures and conversational exchanges with students. Every example, every metaphor connects with immediately understandable experience and yet points the way to profound insight and genuine progress.
In 1974 some new friends brought me to Jason's Thursday night class in San Francisco, and right away, beginning with the authentic voice and beneficence of The Pattern on the Trestleboard, I was hooked. This was a real foundation for which I hungered, though I could not have told you I was missing it.
As Jason says (Key 4) "Instead of being a chip on the stream, you want to anchor yourself in the Self." Very uplifting! The Buddhists would say "what Self", but there is no contradiction. Both traditions are saying that there is no separated self in reality. "Never forget the basic dogma of the Cabala that Reality exists, and that we, as parts of Reality, have nothing in ourselves except powers and faculties that reflect the one basic thing that's going on. There is no difference between you and Life Itself. There is no separation of powers."
I found time in my grad school schedule to paint the Tarot card or 'Key' for the week while listening to a tape recording I had made the preceding Thursday. Seeing my transcripts, my friend Arisa suggested I might want to put together a book, but I had too much on my plate already. She took it on with a will, borrowing recordings from me and others, adding her own, transcribing all--several years of Jason week by week progressing from Key 0 to Key 21 and starting over again--and melded those transcripts together into this seamless distillation of pure gold.
Those who have made this available to us are all modest and unpretentious people, moved by the same spirit of generosity which had so enriched their lives and which over the centuries has led so many predecessors on the Path to place these guideposts kindly to help us to the Pearl of Great Price. Try it--you'll like it!
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Astrology Inside Out - A New Approach to AstrologyThe Spoken Cabala: Tarot Explorations of the One Self OverviewThis book was originally published in 1978 as, "The Thursday Night Tarot." Written by the late Jason C. Lotterhand and edited by his friend and student, Arisa Victor, this book contains the "essence" of Jason's Thursday night messages as they related to the 22 cards of the major arcana.Mr. Lotterhand began his training with BOTA (Builders of the Adytum founded by Dr. Paul Foster Case) in 1933 and later severed as Director of that organization. This second edition book contains new material contributed by the editor, a first-hand never before published interview with the author, and several photographs.

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