The Egyptian Revival: The Ever-Coming Son In The Light Of The Tarot Paperback – November 3, 2008

What I expected!

Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones) goes into the meaning of the tarot cards very deeply here. If you are interested in the correspondences between the tarot trumps and the "paths" on the Tree of Life, this is essential reading. And if you feel like something is "wrong" with the conventional attributions, you will find much food for thought here.For instance, the conventional scheme has the "Fool" starting at the top of the Path. But why would the order of the paths go down the Tree ofLife instead of up? Many people think this must be backwards. Otherwise the Path of Enlightenment would be leading downward from Heaven to the material world of Malkut.In "The Egyptian Revival", Achad presents an interesting argument in favor of another arrangement. I'm not sure that he gets it exactly right, but some of his placements seem infinitely more meaningful than the existing positions. At least his paths start in the material world and lead in the direction of Kether, rather than the other way around. His attitude is very humble in making these suggestions, and he goes out of his way to praise some of those in the world of established commercial magick who disagreed with his ideas.Of course, the same correspondences that cause the tarot to be ordered the way it is, also exist in the dogma and ritual of scores or hundreds of secret orders and organisations. So Achad anticipated opposition. He was very careful to pose his ideas as merely the suggestions of anhumble truthseeker. I think he was like many good and innocent people who assume other people to be good and free from malice in anintellectual discussion.But the magick establishment reacted very negatively to even a second hand suggestion that their ceremonies and grades might not be exactlyright. They moved to pursue and destroy the gentle Frater Achad. Even today, more than fifty years after his death, they spam his Wikipediapage with undocumented rumors to destroy his reputation.For people interested in such things, Frater Achad makes fascinating reading on this very obscure subject matter.

Do you really want to know your major arcana like the back or your hand? Along with fascinating historical insight, you will gain a view of the Tarot as it was originally intended. I found it a tasty little treat to add to my ever expanding library. I hope you will too.

Frater Achad (Charles Stansfield Jones) a British subject who moved to Canada and founded the Fellowship of Ma-Ion. This is an essential little book for serious students on a spiritual path who are looking for the hidden truths carefully concealed in the Tarot. A gem of a little book. A neophyte would first have to aquainted with the Qabbala, astrology, numerology and particularly the Tarot. These were the Egyptian ways in which knowledge could be preserved for future generations. Much knowledge was intentionally obscured and later confused and lost. Frater Achad gives us a new way to access this lost knowledge. He also authored "The Anatomy of the body of God." His works are not to be confused with writer, George Graham Price who later used his spiritual name. Here is a small excerpt from a letter written to new students of an organization he supported, called "The United Brotherhood."My Dear Brothers and SistersIn the course of human life when a voidity, an emptiness seems to enthrall the soul it is a great consolation to receive a token of whatever kind to assure us that others are thinking about us, that others are also concerned about our welfare. It fills the void, raises the spirit, gives new hope and zest for life.Some of you who receive this may have thought so at one time or other. But you can never enter the path to illumination and be forgotten by those who have taken over the task to lead your way, and this is so because they themselves have passed through the same stages, have been helped, have been taught and have acquired “RIGHT KNOWLEDGE” and know the responsibility which it entails and sometime, each of you should expect to step into their place and lead others as you are, or have been led. The spiritual progressive urge of every human soul makes this course inevitable.