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The Magician: Lord of Illusion

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Who is the archetypal Magician? Is his magic mere illusion or something more? Join us this week as we explore the history, ideas and occult secrets only hinted at by the Magus of the Tarot. We discuss the first stage magician, Djedi of Ancient Egypt, the infamous cup-and-balls game, alchemy, the nature of magic and reality itself, erotic poetry in the bible and of course Aleister Crowley!

Things in this episode:
-The Magician of the Tarot
-Relation to “The Fool”
-History of Magicians
-Cup and Balls!
-Djedi
-The Path of the Magus on The Tree of Life
-The Thoth Deck
-Etymology 
-Heka, God of Magic
-Hermes, Pehusan and Pan!
-0 and the 1


In the extended show available at http://www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
-Hermes Trismagistus
-Thoth-Tehuti
-Maya
-Hindu Hanuman!
-Jungian Symbolism
-Alchemical Mercurius
-Thelema
-Erotic Bible Poetry
-Liber B Vel Magi

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Sources:

Pan-Hermes-Pehusan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehuson

https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/mythology-folklore/classical-mythology-little-rascal-hermes#:~:text=When%20he%20found%20himself%20in,from%20a%20fallen%20oak%20tree.


Cup and Balls:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius


Corpus Hermeticum:

Books

*The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot) by Aleister Crowley

*The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by A.E. Waites

*A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery by Lyndy Abraham

*Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey by Salli Nichols

*The Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes Trismagistus

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