About the Author

My introduction to the Tarot began in the 1970’s while living in a school of initiation called the Holy Order of MANS (HOOM), headquartered in San Francisco. The Order’s co-director, Rt. Reverend Helen Blighton, studied the Tarot under Jason Lotterhand, former director of the Builders of the Adytum (BOTA). The BOTA was founded by Paul Foster Case, considered a Master of the Tarot by his peers. Mother Ruth, as she was called by the HOOM members, wrote a few books on the subject and created a deck of cards. Her books and cards are still available on http://www.ScienceOfMan.org.

I left the Order in 1977 and saw Mother Ruth again in the late 1990’s. I opened once again the books that she had written, and at her suggestion, read Jason Lotterhand’s book, The Thursday Night Tarot.  Visit the Order’s site http://www.HolyOrderOfMANS.org to listen to two recordings of his  lectures on the Tarot cards made at the Order Headquarters in San Francisco.

I then picked up books about the Zohar, the Kabbalah.  I read books by Paul Foster Case, by Rudolf Steiner, and by Paramahansa Yogananda. I studied the writings of Murshid Samuel L. Lewis, a Sufi master, who had been the Director of Spiritual Education at the HOOM until 1971. I picked up the writings of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, founder of the Himalayan Academy on the island of Kauai. In the mid-1960’s Rt. Reverend Earl Blighton, co-director of HOOM, was immersed in Subramuniya’s teachings while staying at his  monastery, the Christian Yoga Church, located in Virginia City, NV.

Since the mid 1990’s there’s been a chapel in my home. I was ordained Minister-Priest in the Holy Order of MANS in 2011. In 2017 I was initiated Master Moriah. Since 2019 classes are held on Zoom through our website called http://www.HolyOrderOfMANS.com. In addition, the Order’s Curriculum of Study, with audio recordings, is on our website http://www.HolyOrderOfMANS.org. We have classes on the Sacraments, meditation, vows, ordinations, lectures on spirituality, discussions on spiritual writings, and our Tree of Life lessons.

The Tarot is truly a book which covers both the science of life and the art of living. As you read the pages on this website you’ll have questions that inspire you to take a closer look within yourself – that vast place called Life from which you live, and move, and have your being.

In Christ,

Rt. Rev. Margot Whitney, Master Moriah