Description
The Golden Dawn Tarot cards were painted by Robert Wang under the guidance of Francis Regardie. The pictorial imagery on each card is based upon the late-nineteenth century designs of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the notebooks by MacGregor Mathers. The design of the cards, follows the symbolic framework of the Inner Tradition as formulated by S. L. Macgregor Mathers. The original cards were painted by Mrs. Mathers, an accomplished artist, but never printed. The original deck was lent to members of the Inner Order to assist their initiation into the Order.
Product Details:
ISBN: 9780913866130.
Boxed 78 cards with a 78-page booklet.
Publisher: US Games, Inc., Published: June 1977.
Size: 3.2 x 1 x 5 inches, Weight: 0.650 Lbs.
Author
Robert Wang
Robert Wang is a medievalist art historian and artist. Creator of The Golden Dawn Tarot Deck and the Qabalistic Tarot in collaboration with the late Israel Regardie, he is also the artist of the Jungian Tarot Deck. His books include studies of Jungian archetypal imagery and the historical development of movements of Hermeticism, Qabalah and Rosicrucianism.
Author
Francis Israel Regardie (1907 – 1985) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer who spent much of his life in the United States. He wrote fifteen books on the subject of occultism. Born to a working-class Orthodox Jewish family in the East End of London, Regardie and his family soon moved to Washington, D.C. in the United States. Regardie rejected Orthodox Judaism during his teenage years and took an interest in Theosophy, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jewish mysticism. It was through his interest in yoga that he encountered the writings of the occultist Aleister Crowley.
He wrote two books on the Qabalah, A Garden of Pomegranates and The Tree of Life. Particularly influenced by Jungian psychology he studied psychology, and explored Christian mysticism. Concerned that the Golden Dawn system of ceremonial magic could be lost, he published the Stella Matutina rituals in a series of books between 1938 and 1940. This entailed breaking his oath of secrecy and brought anger from many other occultists. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Army. On returning to the U.S., he gained a doctorate in psychology before relocating to Los Angeles in 1947 and setting up practice as a chiropractor. In 1981 he retired and moved to Sedona, Arizona, where he died of a heart attack four years later.
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