Here is a personal list of interpretations of the Greater Trumps, drawn from Williams, with Waite in the background, and intuition-of-the-moment playing a large part: (i) The Juggler. He is the inventor, creator and operator of our three-dimensional illusion, behind which stands reality. (ii) The. This beautifully-written novel conveys an exciting narrative which is at the same time a penetrating moral exploration of man's spiritual motivations and inner relation to the sacred. I consider 'The Greater Trumps' to be Charles Williams' little-known fictional masterpiece, an occult novel of rare brilliance/5(65). · The Greater Trumps () has the original set of Tarot cards coming into the possession of an English legal official, with devastating results, of which the threat of a universal snowstorm is only one. Williams's use of symbolism is close to its highest here.
The Greater Trumps () by Charles Williams 4 "O, very well," Nancy said, walked to the window, opened it, put her head out, and said to the world, but (it annoyed her to feel) in a more subdued voice, "Go to hell." She pulled in her head and shut the window. "There, father," she said, "that wasn't in the house.". The Greater Trumps: A Novel (Hardcover) Published by Charles Williams Society. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Charles Williams. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Charles Williams: The Greater Trumps. Bibliography for Rosicrucian Book Salon December 4, The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams Part 1: Selected Works of Charles Williams. The Seven Novels (annotations adapted from The Charles Williams Society.. War in Heaven, the first of his novels to be published (in ), begins as a detective story (and indeed the investigation of the original.
The Greater Trumps. Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making them believable and profoundly suggestive of spiritual truths. The Tarot pack, the ancestor of all playing cards, is first mentioned in history in ; the origin of the deck is not known. Its most useful feature is an explanation of the suits of the greater trumps in the Tarot cards. The other super useful resource is Thomas Howard’s study The Novels of Charles Williams. It’s a lovely talk-through of each of the 7 supernatural thrillers, glossing events, characters, themes, etc. I just finished his The Greater Trumps () and I thought I’d share some very brief notes here for serious Potter readers of the echoes of Williams’ supernatural thriller that we find in the Hogwarts Saga. In no particular order: 1. The Greater Trumps’ most interesting character is Sybil, the Aunt of the lead character, Nancy. She is not an occult figure or Prophetess as you might expect in a book featuring Tarot Cards but a woman who is remarkably at peace at all times and a vehicle.
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