Questions & Answers

The current YouTube series of videos is titled: The Tarot For Self-Education. The idea is for the videos to be educational, but in the end we have to educate our own selves. This is a good thing, even though it might sometimes seem that we’re not making progress.

It’s good because when you’ve been through something and gained experience, you KNOW. It’s no longer a belief or wishful thinking – it’s knowledge and you can build on it.

We’re not always near an end point of a journey, however. You might be a single step away, but maybe you are only two steps into a nine-step journey. So what you learn at the beginning can lead you to a better mid-portion, or it can develop into something very different as time passes.

Your starting idea might be that a sword is a weapon. A big weapon, so maybe you use it clumsily in the beginning; it takes time to develop strength and skill with it. There are different types of swords – a claymore and a rapier for instance – and the weapon can be smaller – a dagger or knife. They can be used for offence or defence; they can have a ceremonial function or be of practical use – like a prining knife that is used to remove parts of a plant so as to encourage new growth.

So we began thinking of a sword as a big and heavy weapon; we get to the idea of a small and useful blade that can be used for delicate opeations. Then we incorporate the human skills and behavior required or  developed at different stages. What began as a single thought has grown into a complex set of ideas that we can draw on to answer different kinds of questions.

You do this with everything in the Tarot.

Slow and steady wins the race, as they sometimes say. You are learning to trust yourself, but this has probably not been encouraged, so it can take some time to get the hang of it.

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Thomas Troward

Thomas Troward (1847 – 1916) was a Judge who, once retired, wrote extensively on comparative ancient religions. It’s not dry, academic writing, though. It’s as if he found what was important and useful in ancient philosophies and presented it in an up-to-date manner that we can all enjoy and benefit from.

If you go to Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org) and enter his name in the Search field, you will find five of his books that you can download.

The Doré Lectures
The Creative Process in the Individual
The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
The Law and the Word

The idea here is to work through The Creative Process and provide some commentary, to flesh out what is there for your convenience.

Here is the link to the starting page.