TRUMPS MAJOR
Otherwise, Greater Arcana
1. The Magus, Magician, or juggler, the caster of the dice and mountebank, in the world of vulgar trickery.
The Trumps are not merely a collection of 22 individual images: they follow an ordered sequence from I to XXI, with the Fool unnumbered or assigned 0.
The three Tarot trumps that represent cardinal or moral virtues (Temperance, Fortitude, Justice) will be covered in separate chapters. However, the virtues form an integral subset of the symbolic system and some general observations are in order.
Modern playing cards are the minor trumps of the Tarot, from each suit of which the page, or valet, has been eliminated, leaving 13 cards.
This was true in the case of the Double letters, where one of several natural methods of assignment in the "Yetzirah" was passed over to provide a better match between the Double Letters and the planets to work with Tarot Trumps.
That's two Tarot trumps from the two Hebrew letters. 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.
Rider-Waite Major Arcana Public Domain Trumps
A.E. Waite: The Tarot in History (Denaries)
Early references to Playing Cards
Michael Poe: Temple of Serapis: Tarot Origins ...
A form of , using a deck of 78 Cards: 22 Trumps or Major Arcana, and 56 Minor Arcana. The first Tarot deck seems to have appeared in Mediaeval times, though there is one legend that it goes back to Ancient Egypt.
the several systems of philosophy of the Hindoos, the paralleiism between Rosicrucian doctrine and Eastern Theosophy, for which read Max Heindel's "Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception," and that enticing subject, the origin and meaning of the 22 Trumps or ...
Some modern occultists apply gematria to Tarot cards, associating the twenty-two trumps with Hebrew letters. A.G.H.
Sources: 4, 9, 29.
The twenty-two paths which link the ten sefirot are identified with one of the twenty-two Hebrew letters and twenty-two Major Arcana tarot trumps).
Arcana: Half of a tarot deck which is divided into two aracanas: the major arcana consisting of the 22 trumps of importance and the lesser arcana of 56 suit cards that help to divinate the trump cards to a lesser degree.
The relationship of one card to another, as laid out in a number of different configurations, is as important as the significance of each individual card. The Italian card game tarrocchi ('trumps'), from which the word 'tarot' is probably derived, ...
 See also: Tarot, Symbol, The Tarot, Spirit, World
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