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to the Sepher Yetzirah, it came from Abraham; this alphabet, we say, is the famous Book of Thoth, suspected by Court de Gèbelin to be preserved to the present time under the form of that peculiar pack of cards, which is called the Tarot. . .

 


Adherents of the Mysteries have long held the idea that the Tarot has its origins in the arcane system of the , though there is no firm historical evidence for this.

The Tarot Suit of Pentacles
The Minor Arcana of the Tarot is comprised of four suits: Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. Each suit is made up of cards numbered from one to ten and four court cards: King, Queen, Knight and Page.

Astrology and the Tarot
Since astrology and the tarot are both occult symbol systems, it is not surprising that numerous attempts have been made to integrate, or at least correlate, the two.

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The Tarot, like all esoteric paradigms before it, outlines the Grand Plan, an overview of life at every level, with all its related mystical arts and sciences.

The Tarot as originally created stemmed from life as it was experienced during a certain historical period - the Rennaisance.

The Tarot is undoubtedly a vital element in Rosicrucian symbolism, possibly the very book of universal knowledge which the members of the order claimed to possess.

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I use to use both the tarot cards and regular playing cards at the same time to do divinations.
For instance, I would shuffle the cards and visualize myself. Then I would ask the cards "What is instored for me for today?".

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It has become almost universally accepted as the received wisdom of the Western esoteric tradition that the tarot card images embody a system derived from the Jewish Kabbalah.

Another difference between the two Trees is that the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot correlate with the 22 paths of the Hebrew Tree but do not match up with the 24 paths of the Greek Tree.

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Tarologist: One who is accomplished at handling the Tarot.
Tarot: Divination using a set of 78 tarot cards which are laid out in such a fashion that the diviner interprets them to answer the question at hand.

If you look up in the Sepher Yetzirah, 777 or Paul Foster Case's little book, Highlights of the Tarot, you can find other stuff. Aleph and Nun have their name spellings, which can yield other numbers and correspondences.

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'I am in the four signs of the Tarot.
'I am action, I am resistance, I am completion, I am result.
'For him who knows the way to see me, there are no mysteries on the earth.

CARTOMANCY is fortune telling using cards such as the Tarot.
CATOPTROMANCY is an early form of crystal gazing that utilizes a mirror turned to the moon to catch moonbeams.
CAUSIMOMANCY is divination from behavior of objects placed in a fire.

Geomancy, palmistry, the use of the tarot, etc., all these things are well enough for those who want to tread the byways of nature and to gather knowledge of her obscurer workings.

A number of alternate decks have surfaced in recent years, using symbolism from other cultures and with different numbers of cards. Aleister Crowley believed the Tarot to be a remnant of the Egyptian "Book of Thoth, ...

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Students are aware that the Kabalah [1] is susceptible of extraordinary interpretation with the aid of the Tarot, resuming as the latter does, the very roots of Egyptian Theology.

Similar to that organisation, with a strong emphasis on the Tarot, and a system of cosmology known as the "Cube of Space", but pointedly steering clear of .

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