Divinity Atlas
Two Tarot Decks, Each Just Its Own Movement's Teaching Rendered as Cards
Tarot, Runes and Number and Orders, Societies and Movements, two sections of this atlas, connect at exactly two points site-wide, and both connections turn out to be the same move made twice: a movement rendering its own teaching as a tarot deck rather than writing it down as a book.
An Order's Own Notebooks, Restored to Print
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was an initiatic order devoted to ceremonial magic, drawing Kabbalah, astrology, Tarot, alchemy, geomancy and John Dee's Enochian system into a single graded curriculum. The Golden Dawn Tarot renders the historical Order's own tarot symbolism, assembled from the Order's own notebooks by occult scholar Israel Regardie and painted by Robert Wang, published in 1978. It follows the Order's own Major and Minor Arcana attributions rather than the later Rider Waite Smith reading, restoring earlier Golden Dawn card titles and imagery to print rather than inventing a new system.
A Commune's Own Discourses, Ninety Years Later
The Rajneesh movement formed around the Indian teacher Rajneesh, later called Osho, who taught a blend of Eastern mysticism, meditation and Western psychology. Osho Zen Tarot is a seventy nine card deck based directly on Osho's own discourses within the Rajneesh commune at Pune, illustrated by Ma Deva Padma and published in 1995, replacing the historical Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles with Fire, Water, Clouds and Rainbows and adding a single unnumbered Master card portraying Osho himself. A nineteenth century ceremonial magic order and a twentieth century commune, separated by a century and an ocean, arrived at the identical answer to the same problem: rather than write a book explaining the teaching, put the teaching directly into the cards.