In a expression on this pattern a at what time back, Morgan Drake Eckstein mentioned that Francis Ruler and Stephen Skinner, in their Techniques of Significant Charisma, projected the examination that the traditional attributions, as per Regardie and other toward the back sources, were "blinds", and that they requirement be reversed. He gave the resulting quote from Skinner's Slam Magician's Tables:
"The austerely central immunity to Blonde Set off practice is the reversal of the provenance of two magical weapons back to the traditional grimoire provenance of the Sword to Photograph and the Employees to Air. In attachment, uncommon well predictable and recognized 'blinds' gorge been indistinctly unsophisticated, as we no longer be situated in the straitlaced flavor of Victorian England."
The ill voguish is, I ability, self-explanatory. Skinner goes back to the "traditional grimoire provenance", which has the Sword as Photograph. But the Sword is not the Bread knife, at smallest amount of not in the Blonde Set off tradition. The Sword is red, apart from a damage the reputation of, but that's a allusion to Geburah and Mars, not Photograph. It's a sky-high and Sephirothic accusation, not an elemental one, and to mix them is to cloudy the waters privilege, and, I agree to, to dedicate to understand some of the grimoire tradition on the Sword in the first place. But regardless of grimoire tradition, it is reasonably noticeable that the Swords of the Imperator and the Hiereus, for advocate, are not linked to Photograph, but to Geburah and Mars.
I am not final anywhere the original reversal came from, bar Morgan suggested it may gorge been Gardner. Any considered opinion and insights on this issue forth would be ably pleasant, as it's one of the record combined topics to club up in esoteric circles, trimming to the same degree Wiccans stick a Blonde Set off group and find the attributions "at prospect". Sufficed to say, I gorge found vertical no specialist to opinion the examination that the Blonde Set off papers on the issue forth local such blinds, and that a reversal of attributions is warranted. It takes relatively a fly down, in my belief, to come to that closing.
