The Golden Dawn Court Cards (Golden Dawn Studies No 5) [Paperback]

W. Wynn Westcott (Author), Darcy Kuntz (Editor), Moina Mathers (Illustrator), Anthony Fleming (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1996

Golden Dawn Studies series number five. For the first time you will see the Golden Dawn's own court cards reproduced from the Westcott originals. Includes the coloring guide and Florence Farr's Second Order notes. Notes by Darcy Kntz.

Product Details

• Paperback: 36 pages
• Publisher: Holmes Pub Grou Llc; 1st edition (1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558183361
• ISBN-13: 978-1558183360
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.2 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,233,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A small, cryptic, useful book., May 14, 2000

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Uri Raz (Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Golden Dawn Court Cards (Golden Dawn Studies No 5) (Paperback)

This is a small book - just 36 small pages, but is worth it's weight in gold to me.

The cards are line drawings, and are not very artistic (e.g. in the Knight of Cups the waves show through the horse's back feet), but along with the appendice very enlightening.

I guess Westcott wasnt as good an artist as Pamela Smith or Lady Harris (or wasnt trying hard), so the drawings are not good art per se.

Comparing the pictures with the court cards from Wang's Golden Dawn Tarot Deck shows that Wang's minimalistic pictures are faithful to the source - the original drawings dont have a lot of details, though they're a bit more detailed Wang's.

The appendie contain such information as tables of colours correspondences to astrology signs, planets, notes, tree of lifes, etc and some explanations of symbols that appear in the cards.

This is not an instruction book - it's just card drawings and tables manuscripts, but the information is not widely available elsewhere.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable Material, January 28, 2008

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Anthony Fuller - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Golden Dawn Court Cards (Golden Dawn Studies No 5) (Paperback)

Firstly, I have to declare an interest. I provided the original manuscripts sources to Darcy Kuntz and wrote the introduction. The most significant value, in my view, apaart from the interest inherent in Westcott's Keys, lies in the Elemental Sigils which are published nowhere else and are of major importance in the GD higher Grade material. These Sigils were further deployed within several unpublished papers by Mathers and in Westcott's immensely complex version of the Enochian Tablets which are now becoming more widely known.