AME Tarok By Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff

[SvenForkbeard]

If you are interested in this - out of stock - set from the 1980ies eraly 90ies WHERE the Author prohecies ... what is ahppening NOW in Israel  gaza ww3 ... yearh ...
then the gallery is here (most of them).. I'll happily teach people how to use them. It's  a BIT more complicated than the New age stuff.! - it's the cloesets tot eh real Deal Agrippa's Grimoire in modern version. if used correctly. It takes months?!, Years or Decades.

The game of Tarok is of uncertain origin. It is probably at least 600 years old, but the identification with the Egyptian deity Thoth and similar references to "millennia-old traditions" are taken out of the air.
Its "gallery of characters" is also strikingly medieval: popes and emperors, virtues and sins, the Devil and the Day of Judgment.It has fascinated many occultists with its ambiguity.
In Denmark in the 1920s, a research group was formed rather discreetly with the aim of investigating the possibility of combining an occult tradition with the new advances in physics in particular.This task was facilitated by the great advances in philology towards making religious source texts accessible.Previously, one had had to be content with Latin adaptations of Arabic versions, a tradition that had been further obscured by Theosophy, whose speculations survive in mainstream "occultism".Now, not only could one go to the source, but for the first time, thanks to the break with materialism in physics, one had a chance to be "scientific". The small group, which would soon grow into a veritable underground university, skimming off the cream of the more official by diligent recruitment, called themselves "the Satanists", which the colorful press has since made much of.The idea was simply that the foundation was humanistic as opposed to Christian, which can hardly be considered sensational in the existing society.
I myself "studied" at this establishment - no, I don't have a phone number you can call, but if you are a reasonably skilled Egyptologist or neurologist, you might get an inquiry - 1966-77 and have since then through my writing tried to pass on a small part of the knowledge thus acquired, resulting in the ABC's of OCCULTISM & MAGIC as well as a large number of considerably more instructive, but also somewhat more difficult to access novels, which in turn have the advantage of being readable as exciting stories.
The most important of these is still pending at the time of writing: VERDEN, which will not be published until the fall of 1994.Finally, INDSIGTENS STED [The Place of Understanding ed.] can be read as an entertaining - and very funny, I think - depiction of amateurs' quite futile attempts to penetrate the aforementioned circles - for the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned that these books have all been published by Borgens Forlag[Large Publisher - Foreclosured  now ed.], "The Satanists" also at one time came up with a tarot set called Arcana Majora Extensa, or AME. Here, only trumps were included; however, their number was increased by 12.As a kind of supplement to MAGI, I made my own version, a version of a version that I persuaded an acquaintance, Ole Christensen, to draw after my model.These cards were not just printed in the book, but were available separately as a real card game.
However, it was published in a somewhat smaller edition than the books themselves and was sold out even before the books.For many years I received calls from people who wanted to sell their old grandmother for a set of ~ - apparently a fairly common reaction to my books.So here they are again, at the publisher's request, with this little comment from me.A commentary that, of course, should only be seen as a complement to and in no way replaces the proper reading of O&M - wherever else the reader will find them.

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0. STULTUS (THE FOOL) is the uninitiated.He does not even possess MAGUS' appetite for world domination.He fears life in all its forms, not least death.However, there is also something of an Aladdin in him, Humpty Dumpty, who fell down the stairs and still got the princess.In this aspect, he is linked to materialization, the spiritual exaltation preceding self-degradation, the Christian's consciousness of sin: Mea Maxima Culpa! He is the little child who enters the Kingdom of Heaven, not by his own ability, but by grace.His unconsciousness makes him a true innocent.
1. MAGUS (THE MAGICIAN) is the next step.Here, curiosity about the world has taken over.Magus believes himself capable of mastering the world, which he perceives as something external. It is the card of philosophical materialism and epistemological dualism, the teething problems of human cognition and the foundation of classical science. Its openness contradicts the closed nature of the game; the universe is infinite, the possibilities for growth unlimited.In the first part of my novel "The World" titled "The Trinity", he represents the son, the physicist Arn Ege, whose father is Victor Ege, who plays the role of the jester.
2. FLAMINICA (THE HIGH PRIESTESS), Christa in "The World", represents the third stage, where science transcends its own boundaries, steps back and looks at itself.Criticism of science; qualified occultism. She corresponds to Anath in Canaanite mythology, Isis in Egyptian mythology. She is Goethe's Helen, the Sophia of the Gnostics, the Sekhina of Kabbalah, The Holy Spirit of Christianity. The Essenes called her Zuna, the wife, and contrasted her to Zona, Luna in the Tarok set, the "other" Helena, Hawwa. She is the necessary female intermediary between the male and the divine.

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There are also many strange misunderstandings about the use of the tarot game. You thus 'divinate' using the cards, as emphasis is placed on which card is randomly drawn.
Although such coincidences naturally play a certain role at the green table, I think it is a guess for most people that it is an unrecommended way of reading for exams, just as it would be advantageous when dealing with encyclopedias to look up in the case register rather than with a die. Of course, I cannot rule out that there is a flaw in my education here; after all, there are so many new vibrations and energies on the counter every week, that you have to be a complete Nørretranders to keep track of them.

I have sometimes referred to the Tarok (from the Italian 'tarocco', but sometimes seen in the garbled English form "Tarot") as a loose-leaf grimoire. This provides a myriad of combination possibilities.

The most common presentation is the decussation, which of course, in defense of the amateur carto-romantics, must be said to be somewhat more complicated than the tall dark stranger and the long sea voyage. The purpose of the presentation is thus not to predict anything, apart from prognostic ability, which is the criterion for all knowledge, but to analyze a phenomenon.

As science in general is an abstraction from reality, geometry in particular is an abstraction from experienced space. This applies not least to the temporal dimension. A clock hour is quite different from an experience hour, and yet we usually maintain that the clock shows the "correct" time, regardless of how long it seems to us to be a guess. Quite correspondingly, we postulate a geometric space which deviates somewhat from the "subjective".

A close example is the familiar face in the crowd, which seems immediately closer to us. This effect becomes dramatic in the cognitive phase, which most people who have experimented with hallucinogens have experienced.

Here, the target of our attention can assume downright creepy dimensions, while the uninteresting can appear to be several kilometers away. This effect goes towards infinity as we approach transcendence.

When we now compare our subjective geometry with the 'objective' one, yes, we get a deviation or bias that professionals call “Pravity”. This pravity is also four-dimensional, so that the spatial contraction is matched by a temporal dilation. We can visualize a two-dimensional flatness by crumpling a piece of paper, and we will then see ridges and, often where two such meet and cross, a small peak or point. In the four-dimensional reality, this is called a focal point. In these 'centers of attention', the descent is not surprisingly concentrated, and it is these that the theurgist manipulates with techniques such as 'focalisation', 'refocalisation' and 'defocalisation' (by so-called forced transmutation). First, however, he must carry out a pravity-analysis of the 'natural' conditions. The first step in a pravity-analysis (and incidentally also in moving the spontaneous focal point) is the decussation.The Theurg makes a cross.

In doing so, he does violence to the natural righteousness that reveals itself in its opposition. All this must of course seem slightly confusing to the layman, but that is where the decussation as a tarot-spread comes from.

During the decussation, he divides the space of experience into four parts, which also correspond to four areas in the adytum. The northern of these is called the regio serpentis, the southern regio domus, the eastern regio lecti, and the western regio catenae.

Lectum is somewhat simplified the safe space of the theurgist,catena the secondary focal point from which the maned entity operates, domus his place of preparation, and serpens his toolshed. These four areas also correspond to the four aspects of actualization, the actualized spirit (catena), the object as the product of actualization (serpens), subject-object (Lectum) and the communicative receiver (domus).Simplified again: A phenomenon presupposes:

1) the motive to actively observe it (the passive observation is a scientific myth from the era of horse-drawn trams).
2) the defined phenomenon.

3) the perception of the phenomenon as observed.

4) the possibility of communicating the observed.

Strange as this dissection may seem, it is implicit in every assertion: I tell you (4), I (3) saw it (1) there and there at such and such a time (2)!

Of course, it takes time to get used to this way of thinking (and it really only takes hold when it has proved - exceedingly - useful in theurgical practice). In the meantime, we can cheat and do a slightly more primitive decussation.

We will then drawa cross on our dining table with chalk, and try to find out what should be in the four areas. In the lectum area, which in the decussation of tarok is always the closest to the deck, the 'bottom', we will of course place a card that can represent the observer, possibly ourselves.

We will now have the objects on our right hand and the people on our left, which may at first seem like a fairly complete world model: I (lectum) fortunately earn more money (serpens) than my neighbor (domus). It is immediately more difficult to see what we should do with the last place (catena), although we could perhaps with some right introduce it after the word "fortunately".

This place is occupied precisely by the transcendent, destiny, something religious, unconscious, and it will therefore be immediately more difficult for us to fill it. Perhaps for the time being we can find an unapproachable desire, an inexplicable inclination or anxiety, or similar.

Again, I am tempted to apologize that I cannot provide a "proper" user manual:
it is the past, the future, the friendly, the hostile, Mi’ladies!! The teacher must take it on trust that the user grows with this method, as light after light dawns on the poor sod.

However, this is all just the primary decussation, and from experience, the coin drops more often in the other three versions, which, however, require a proper primary. In the parallel layout, we replace all the cards with their respective pairs. In the contrarie, we put the contraria of the original cards instead. Finally, replace in the diagonal with par contrarii=contrarium paris.

Which, of course, again presupposes that you know what is par and contrarium to what. The Tarot cards are not completely disjoint among themselves, but can, as indicated, be seen as twins of each other, opposites of opposites, and opposites of twins = twins of opposites.

They thereby form a series of tetrads, which in turn form the duodecades VIAE, VIRES and PRINCIPIA, loosely translated paths, forces and principles. Let's make an example.

As mentioned, Demeter is paired with Suspensus, and Horus with Mors. Furthermore, since Demeter and Horus relate to each other contrary to each other, Mors becomes par contrarii or contrarium paris in relation to Demeter.
We can also express this: DEMETER & SUSPENSUS VS HORUS & MORS. The system can now be noted relatively easily:

 

VIAE
DEMETER & SUSPENSUS VS HORUS & MORS
MARDUK & ROBUR VS ODIN & TURRIS
CHRIST & JUDGMENT VS SATAN & DIABOLUS

VIRES
FAUNUS & MUNDUS VS LARVA & AMATORII
GENIUS & ESSEDUM VS LAR & SOLITARIUS
DEUS & STELLA VS PARCA & FATUM
PRINCIPIA
STULTUS & MAGUS VS FLAMINICA & FLAMEN
AUGUSTA & LUNA VS EMPEROR & SOL
JUSTITIA & TEMPERANTIA
It is noted that Justitia and Temperantia carry their opposites within them, which is why they lack contraria. These two cards are also called 'Librae', scales.

It is of course impossible to give just a fairly complete impression of something as complex as the Tarok in a pamphlet of this size. Maybe, I will write a book on the subject one day, if there is any interest.

Until then, I must probably leave it to the user to discover this fascinating construction for himself and also refer to Occultism & MAGIC, my writing in general and the World (the Novel ed.) in particular.
See you in there!

-- ecerpt from the Original booklet translate by Sven Forkbeard and Boergle 2024

Edited July 8 by SvenForkbeard
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