Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.pdf

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
downwards, but he is not to cut them. The Diviner now takes the Pack and deals it round card by
card in 12 Packets face downwards in rotation as in the following diagram:
(Deal and read in order of Houses against the direction of the Sun.) So that the first
packet answering to the Ascendant will consist of the 1st, 13th, 25th, 3 7th, 49th, 6 1st, 73rd
cards as shown, and so on.
This Operation is under the presidency of the Court Cards, whose dominion in the
Celestial Heavens falls immediately between that of the 4 Knaves and that of the Keys answering
to the 12 Signs of the Zodiac. It represents the 12 Astrological Houses of Heaven, as shown.
Without altering the relative order of the packets, or of the cards in the packets, the
Diviner examines each in succession, till he finds the one which contains the Significator. This
he retains for reading, noting carefully to which astrological house it corresponds and gathers up
the other packets, and puts them aside, as they are not of any further use in this operation.
As before, the Diviner reads the packet containing the Significator, by spreading them out
in the form of a horseshoe, first reading by counting the cards in order from the Significator in
the direction in which the face of the figure on the card is turned, and next by pairing the cards
together from the opposite ends of the horseshoe. It is hardly likely that in so small a packet there
will be either 3 or 4 cards of a sort, but if there be, the Diviner takes note of the same, and also
observes which suit predominates. I now continue the examples commenced in the previous
operation. I must here observe that the example is purely of my own invention, and of course is
not contained in the Book T, wherein only the mode of working is given. I have purposely taken
a commonplace, trivial, and material question for elucidation.
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