20172102_GLR CARDS E_BOOK

TYPE OF CARDS
The composition of the GLR cards is simple. There are the cards that represent
structure – the Kantian cards – and those who represent the journey –the trump
cards. All cards will be detailed one by one. But the golden rule remains to follow
one’s own prehension andapprehension of the cardabove all explanation.
Cards of Structure
First motivated by that which we could unfairly call technical issues – the scandal of
the contradiction of Reason with itself – Immanuel Kant wrote between 1771 and
1781 his first “Critique”, the Critique of Pure Reason. Was he aware then that he
had created a system, the categories, that would become a centrepiece of western
philosophy and the inevitable authority on matters of human capacity of
comprehension?
Kant’s philosophy calls forth the human limits. Reason evolves in the boundary of
four categories: quantity, quality, relation, and modality. Concretely, one cannot
think outside of the frame of time and space. One cannot think either without one’s
own mind and that of any other on earth. Kant’s categories thus represent the
structures of consciousness.
• “Time” belongs to the category of quantity, itisour first four-card Structure section.
• “Space” belongs to the category of quality, itisour second four-card Structure section.
• “The other” belongs to the category of relation, itisour third four -card Structure section.
• “Oneself” belongs to the category of modality,itisour fourth four -card Structure section.
To articulatethose four notions, wewill describe one card from each category.
Cards of The Journey,or Trump Cards
The tradition has made the trump cards of a Tarot deck a spiritual journey of
initiation. They first represented the art gallery of rich North-Italian families, who
had chosen the most renowned artists to make cards instead of paintings on their
walls. The political and religious message of the families was strong. In their cards
they clearly fought the power of the Vatican. Milan was painted as nothing but the
Celestial Jerusalem, the last card of “Accomplishment”, Number 21; the Catholic
“Pope”, Number 5, ... had a wife, the “Popess”, Number 2. With time the card would
ironically become that of a valued high priestess. Traditions oppose each other.
Tradition evolves.
The initiation of the trump cards is that of the readers, it is their journey. With the
Structure cards they explore their limits. With the Journey cards they go in the
foreign countries of their soul, full of light and shadow. The GLR trump cards are
replete with symbols. They require the readers the most careful attention. Each card
needs to be meditated for its significations will never appear at first sight but with
time. And never more than with the trump cards the golden rule applies that one
card in one context can mean something utterly different than the same card in
anothercontext.
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