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The Egyptian Hallway


Egyptian Hallway Diagram

If this is one of the first essays being read on this site, it might be advisable to look around for other essays that will explain what "Frame, Flow, Form, Force" and "Totality, Energy, Reality, Matter" mean in this diagram. Briefly, they are alternate ways of labeling the theoretical parameters of existence that this study of tarot uses as an underlying structure to the design of a deck. What's interesting is how easily this "Egyptian Hallway of Initiation" design can be applied to traditional decks of the past who typically don't view the Major Arcana as two rows of 9, but instead more commonly vies them as three rows of 7, with the Fool left over, or maybe 2 rows of 10, with the Fool and World left over to be thought of as opposite poles or bookends... or... 4 sets of 5 with the Fool and world left over, or maybe only as an unbroken string of 22.

Obviously, this chart is attempting to sum up the nature of each stage with single words. If this were an actual Hallway of Initiation, these are about all the words we would want to use, while letting the images say the rest. So in addition to the key words, the names and titles of the images from The Numerical Tarot deck are included as well as the titles of a more traditional deck, so that people not familiar with this alternative can understand where they would be if using a traditional deck this way..

 


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