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As it seems there will be many questions from readers about this unique Tarot system, I will archive them so that this page doesn't get out of hand.  The newest posting are at the top. 

LVX   Chris Earnshaw

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Congratulations on the card designs, they are wonderful! I like the magician, very much a Jesus figure. I like the Greek lettering it is all very evocative and will draw people in, or at least it does that to me. I am dreaming about this project and experiencing interesting things whilst meditating. I like the new terminology, i.e, churches for coins.  And found that I felt grounded and as if I was sitting in the chakra, I was meditating on the base chakra, from the spiritual growth exercise, page, 103. I feel that for people who have meditated deeply, they will benefit much from your method. I think that the divination method you have devised is deeply spiritual.  And will help experienced tarot practitioners to go that one step further, in the discovery  of our own spiritual enlightenment and our role in God's plan.

I also fail to see why, Edgar Cayce's work has been so ignored, he gave much valued information on, God's Plan. I remember reading his life story and some of his work, years ago, and it led me to investigate the mysteries of ancient Egypt.

CE  I'm glad you like the cards.  You obviously understand the concept on an intuitive level, which is very encouraging for me, because that is the intention of the Tarot of the Revelation.

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On page 5 the Traditional meanings of the Majors were included but I would have liked to have seen that together with your own Tof R  meanings which start on page 67.  It would offer you the chance to link the cards but at the same time to show your own meanings specific to the Book of Revelations.

CE. The reason that the book was divided into five sections was to help make it clearer for those readers who have no understanding of Tarot. To have included the traditional interpretations beside the Tarot of the Revelation meanings might have confused many people. So, though it means skipping back and forwards, it helps separate the two concepts.

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On page 17 you feature the Minor Arcana and give your own names for the four suits - Trumpets, Churches, Vials and Candles.  I like that!!  You wrote "For reasons given on page 83...".  Well, I would have liked to have seen your reasons right there to support your suit names. I link Swords to Air and Wands to Fire but really liked your reasoning behind your choice of Swords/Fire and Wands/Air.  On page 25 you give key words for the Minor Arcana and there were some good ones there that I hadn't seen before.  You write:  "A more satisfactory......given in Part Three," ---- are you referring to the Numerology section in the T of R on page 89?  It would have been better for me to see them together in the same section.  Also, you wrote: "....lacking the intrepidity ...Seal,"  ------ I am not too sure what the Seal is!!! 

CE. Yes, I believe that a numerology approach to interpreting the Minor Arcana is better than learning dozens of key words for 56 cards. Firstly it is simpler, and secondly key words can be wildly different according to the designer of the deck, which confuses students of Tarot. 

The Seal divides the traditional Tarot from the Tarot of the Revelation tarot, it is on p30.  Originally I intended to have a real seal, a band of red paper that sealed the book from there to the end.  This would have been to stop people peeking at the contents in a bookshop :  )  and to signify to the reader that by cutting the seal they would be making a step forward in their understand of Tarot. But "the Seal" ended up on a left page so the seal idea was abandoned.  However, I like Oliver Spence's warning, which I believe is very true.

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On page 67 you go into the numbering of the actual T of R cards i.e. how it will appear on the deck "The small number on the lower left...number on lower right...."  I would like to see you just use your own numbering on the deck as this is a unique deck with a special message that could be definitely used as an oracle deck or one for personal spiritual enlightenment/guidance.  This deck is different and unique so I see no reason to include the more traditional numbering on the cards. Just use your own numbering!

CE.  Again, including both numbering systems on the cards allows the cards to be used in two ways; for divination, or as a spiritual growth exercise based on the Book of Revelation.  Also a couple of cards have been renamed, and this would probably cause even more confusion. As a "pun" I put the traditional number on the left and the ToR number on the right, based on the Latin meanings of both words.

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On page 105, you write:  "it is on the back of the card to remind...."  What exactly is on the back of each card?  The written words i.e. Rev. 22: 18-19??  Do you think written words - which cause my mind to read and try and think!! - might detract even while shuffling or laying the cards out?  Often when I am shuffling the cards I am able to relax just looking at the back of each card going over and over into the deck.  Written words on the back of a card, for me personally, would not relax me!

CE. The backs of the cards harks back to the warning of the seal. I believe that spiritual exercises should be done with sincerity and a correct intention, and not just something to do to while away the time on a rainy afternoon!  The backs of the cards have both of the curses of the Book of Revelation on them written in ancient Greek, so to most people they will look decorative, but to those who have taken the trouble to read that far, they will understand the meaning.  Also on the back is a double-edged sword, which appears in the BoR and in Genesis, and which reminds us that psychic/spiritual development can be used for both good and bad purposes, and that we should take care to make the right choice. Justice and Lovers (Marriage) cards? Also you can see which way up the cards are as you shuffle them, in case you don't read reversals.

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On your site (or in a further book or in your "little white book" that accompanies a deck in its packaging), if you ever go into depth for each card, it would be nice to see how you link the colours and chakras for each card.   I have little knowledge on the chakras but love colour and the "feeling" various colours give me.

CE  Each of the quotes from the Bible for the Major Arcana is also in Greek as an edging to the front of the card.  Each one is different.  You have another good point about chakra colour interpretation; personally I don't like to spoon-feed things to people, I prefer to leave some things up to the reader's discretion, and the colouring in the cards is really only a guide.  To whet your appetite, I'll briefly explain my thoughts on the colouring of two cards, the Fool and the Tower.  The Fool (John the Baptist) feels abandoned but holds onto his faith on Patmos, so I use a lot of green and blue here. Green grass and blue sky, expressing a feeling of communicating (meditation) and love (for God), or God's compassion for John. The Tower has a red and orange look to it, as the first two chakras are about one's lower, material desires, which the fall of the Tower shows is the "capitulation of carnal desires".  It is also interesting to see, when all the ToR Major Arcana are laid out in the ToR numerical order, how the colours go through a cycle of violet to red and then green finishing with white and gold, expressing a spiritual upheaval followed by growth and enlightenment.  This can be seen on a global scale, as in the BoR, and on the individual level, as in John's enlightenment.

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In the last paragraph on page 146 you mention the court cards again and it would have been more helpful for me to have that information on page 21 where you initially went into the court cards.  I am not good at referring back or forward to pages unless it is an appendix in the back of a book, etc.!  I find court cards still difficult to interpret at times so would like to know what you mean by "One of the four images represents the strong and the other the weak" - with reference to the chart on page 21.  I read that a lot of people have trouble with courts so expanding on what you believe about court cards would have been very helpful - especially to me!!!!  All your court cards will face right, except the Royalty (Kings and Queens only??) which will face the left because they use the negative numerological interpretations.  I find this very interesting and wonder why you have the Royalty cards use the negative.  

CE.  If you look at the chart on page 21, the King has a double circle under Candles (a strong combination) and a cross under Vials (a weak combination).  This is hinted at in the images on the cards. So, briefly, it can be said that a Candle King is a man with great energy, enthusiasm and a good leader as he has double the energy of fire, but a Vial King is as charismatic as the former, as his fire puts out the water, so he could be said to have difficulty in expressing his emotions.  The reason the royalty faces left (again the Latin left/right idea) is because I haven't used traditional Kings and Queens for my court cards.  In fact nobility would be a better word than royalty, and will be changed in future editions! I used the mediaeval social order of the four estates instead (cf p.146). So for Churches I have builders and an architect, for Vials (incense censer) I use priests and a bishop, for Trumpets I use soldiers and for Candles I use nobility.  In each image there is a hint that shows this doubling or canceling of the element, which are normally called modifiers, to help the reader remember which is which - particularly as I have inverted the air and fire elements!

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I loved the cover of your book and insertion of the Greek and

Japanese languages.  What you have done is definitely unique and I think expanding your website like some others do once their tarot deck is out would be a great idea.  Then you could really expand on your card meanings both traditionally and with reference to your new deck.  Your deck would make an excellent oracle deck because of the different numbering system.  I have a few oracle decks and they are just as inspiring or predictive as a tarot deck.  You could advertise it for oracle use although it is Tarot based. In reading the Book of Revelations section many colourful, exciting images came to my mind so I am looking forward to seeing samples of your cards. 

CE.  Originally I wanted to publish both the book and the cards together, boxed, as is the custom.  But the illustrator got so far behind in the card designs, and pressure from having exposed the manuscript to the "llll" publisher, necessitated me advancing the publication of the book.  For some reason I get more requests for the cards than I do the book, which suggests to me that most people collect cards for their designs, without understanding the "philosophy" behind them. 

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A question from a reader in England.  Please explain why the  cover looks so old?

CE:  The cover is designed to look like an old Bible, printed in narrow columns.  The parchment is old, like the Dead Sea Scrolls, and it is written in Greek, as the New Testament was originally in Greek.  Key words from the book are preceded by the original Greek text.  The text in the book is also printed in two colours, black and red, Greek script being in red, in imitation of a Greek Bible.

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