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Steampunk Tarot: Gods of the Machine @ Watkins

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Channel: watkinsbooks · 2013 · Entertainment

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Steampunk Tarot: Gods of the Machine by Caitlin & John Matthews, and art by Wil Kinghan. This blazing tarot reveals the retro-future world of the Imperium.

Enter a world where steam is king, where the mysterious substance, derived from amber and known as Anbaric power, offers a clean alternative to oil. It is a world where everyone dresses extravagantly and finely, as ladies and gentlemen should. It is a world of old fashioned magic and not-so-modern science, where adventurers travel through uncharted wastes, dense jungles and blistering deserts, in search of ancient temples, underground conurbations and fog-bound cities. At the end of these journeys lie treasures, access to strange wisdom, and an ever-expanding sense of mystery. It is at once the world of Indiana Jones, the Three Musketeers and Captain Nemo, of the time traveller and the treasure hunter, the mad scientist and the solitary seeker after new knowledge and ancient, timeless wisdom.              

Though drawing together such themes from earlier times, the Imperium yet reflects both modern and future worlds, holding up a mirror to everything that has been, is, and will be. In this world the most ordinary things become imbued with strangeness and wonder, and the bringing together of wildly disparate objects creates new ands astonishing things.

So we invite you to enter the Imperium's latest adventure, created for you by its greatest luminaries. The Steampunk Tarot: Gods of the Machine, is a dream shared by many who explore the world of metaphysics -- finding as many profound elements as in the shrinking world that surrounds us. Two mysterious writers and diviners, a secretive artist and a dangerous agent, possess an interest in things wonderful, outlandish and strange. They are avid readers of works that suggests new directions, new possibilities and extraordinary opportunities. 

The Gods of the Machine have been present since Classical times and the Renaissance. The awakening and divine embodiment of statues is taught by Hermes Trismegistus as early as the Corpus Hermeticum  while the ingenuity of automata were explored by Athanasius Kircher and others. The rich creativity and wonder of life on the other side of reality is everywhere celebrated in the history of our universe. 

The Steampunk Tarot offers a way of looking into this new-old world and of exploring its vitality and wonder. Just as we may turn to the tarot to aid us in navigating the shoals of uncertainly which surround us here, so in the world of the Imperium, it can open vistas that help us to see things in a new way.

 So, prepare to enter the world of the Imperium, where everything is just a little bit different, but draws upon the familiar as well as the unfamiliar. Join us and prepare to be thrilled, astonished and enlightened by the Gods of the Machine.

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