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Book of Doors Divination Deck

Egyptian alchemy oracle based on Emerald Tablet and archetypal deity symbolism.

by Athon Veggi, Alison Davidson

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Athon Veggi and Alison Davidson's Book of Doors is the scholarly deep-cut of the catalog's Egyptian wing: sixty-five cards built on Egypt's symbolic language and deity archetypes, its magical system resting, per the review, on two occult keys including the alchemical Emerald Tablet. This is Egyptian esoterica at the textual level, hieroglyphic and hermetic rather than decorative, the deities as archetypal doors and the deck as the corridor between them. The sixty-five card independence signals system-first design in the AboraMana tradition: the structure serves the cosmology. Inner Traditions published it for the serious shelf, and its readers treat it as a study system with divinatory application rather than the reverse. It suits students of Egyptian mystery tradition past the aesthetic stage, Emerald Tablet readers, system-learners drawn to authored cosmologies, and collectors of the catalog's doctrinal Egyptian line beside the Kier and the Brotherhood of Light. Postcard Egypt is available elsewhere; these doors expect knocking.

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"The Book Of Doors" is based on the concepts of the universal language of the symbols of Egypt, and on the archetypal nature of Egyptian deities. Two occult keys comprise the magical system behind this deck: the alchemical text known...

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