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Sorry for the booboo, Beliot, below, should be Eliot. P. P <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >A very significant review of TSOTGD is Ellic Howe's THE MAGICIANS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN. I found it very helpful, >very well documented. Nothing on Beloit, nothing on Williams who was only a minor member. Lots about the tarot. >P. > >P <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >For a virtually contemporary take, >one could look at Chas. Williams' THE GREATER TRUMPS. Williams, like Yeats, Crowley, &c. belonged to the Society of the Golden Dawn which carried a lot of cultural weight at a time when the occult was very influential. > >Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >The Tarot Fortune in The Waste Land > >Betsey B. Creekmore > >ELH >Vol. 49, No. 4 (Winter, 1982), pp. 908-928 >Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press >Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2872904 > > >"[T]he Tarot fortune is more than incidental to the meaning and movement of The Waste Land. ... "[I]ndividual reflection" provides meaning for the cards, since "the pictures are like doors which open into unexpected chambers or like a turn in the open road with a wide prospect beyond." > > >http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2872904?uid=3739728&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102562641427 > > >looking afresh > > >CR > > >From: Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 8:31 PM >Subject: "and here the Wheel" > > >Could the list throw light on the various ramifications of the symbol of wheel in TWL? > > >I had one in mind but of that later, after I hear from you. > > >Regards, > > CR > >