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THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT DIVINATION

This is week 2 of your "Meditations on the Tarot" (MOTT) book club
The subject for this week is: THE MAGICIAN (pages 3 to 21)
If you haven't read it, you can do it now.

Next Saturday (April 27, 2024) the Arcana due is THE HIGH PRIESTESS (unless we have to stay at the magician's table) but you will be, of course, welcome to post any insights, notes, questions regarding the previously read materials.

1. I packed MOTT & books most relevant to it into a convenient 184MB archive
link: https://files.catbox.moe/0ubl85.zip
There is also two auxiliary archives:
2. Holy Texts (Catholic study Bible + Tanakh w/ Hebrew-English parallel text 163MB)
link: https://files.catbox.moe/8j0iyi.zip
3. Tarot related (histoical, occult, and professional investigations 187MB)
link: https://files.catbox.moe/3tjyjx.zip

>Good podcasts related to MOTT:
https://podtail.com/es/podcast/the-christian-mysticism-podcast/
https://shwep.net/podcast/ (the person is LGBT, but fortunately a professional so can successfully abstain 99.95% of the time)
>Good music to listen while reading MOTT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lS_Y-aNJwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Clq0rDR-w

>Archive:
Chapter 1 Week 1 : >>/lit/thread/23283755
note: that thread had a supposedly Christian janny start trolling, then gaslighting, then "take meds"... unfortunately she also deleted the thread while being sucked back into Hell thanks to the Name of Jesus Christ.

>Note:
Additional books are only to be discussed if relevant to the current (or previous) MOTT chapter we are discussing.

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT DIVINATION

This is week 1 of your "Meditations on the Tarot" (MOTT) lecture group
The subject for this week is: THE MAGICIAN (pages 3 to 21)
which you should have read by now, right anon?
Otherwise maybe start now?

In two weeks (May 20th, 2024) the next arcana will be due, THE HIGH PRIESTESS (pages ... to ...) but you will be, of course, welcome to post any insights, notes, questions regarding the previously read materials.

The book: https://files.catbox.moe/8n4061.djvu
(note that while OCR'd versions exist, all of them -- even the ones marked "corrected" -- contain gross typographical errors)

Other relevant books:
>"On Becoming an Alchemist" by Catherine MacCoun (2008)
in the "further reading" section she mentions Meditations on the Tarot as her Favorite book
link: https://files.catbox.moe/yk2y36.djvu
>Top 7 Catholic Classics
contains old (free) translations of spiritual classics from the 1100s to the 1600s
can be found on libgen etc.
>Life of Christ by Ludolph of Saxony & The Lives of Saints
two popular books from the time period of the "top 7" mentioned above
can be found on libgen etc.
>"Tarot and Individuation" by Irene Gad (1994)
probably the only serious attempt at offering a Jungian perspective on the Tarot; it has some gems that I will post when relevant
link: https://files.catbox.moe/one45o.djvu

The Holy Bible of course, I would recommend the New Jerusalem Version (initial publication 1985) as it's the lastest Catholic Bible translated from original sources and not yet woke; you can always check the KJV or the Douay-Rheims or the Vulgate, in fact I encourage you to :)