The True Story of Playing cards And Tarot How the French Occultists Mess tarot up

                       The True Story of 

                         Playing cards

                                And

                               Tarot

                              How the 

                    French Occultists

                          Mess tarot

                               Intro

 

1. Playing Cards Were Brought To Europe By Islamic Soldiers

This deck of cards was brought to Italy, France, and Germany from the Islamic countries.

2. The Original Tarot Cards Were An Italian Storytelling Game

The Origins of the Tarot

The basis of the tarot was a deck of playing cards, not dissimilar to the playing cards we know today. Instead of 52 cards (four suits, ace through ten, plus three face cards), however, the core of the deck was 56 cards. In this case, one, or ace through ten, plus four face cards, page, knight, queen, and king, per suit.

In the European countries, an additional 22 cards, called triumphs, or trumps, which had no suit, were added. The first tarot decks were recorded as being used in Italy around 1440. The game played with these cards was related to bridge and was variously called triumph, trionfi, tarocco, or tarock

3. French Occultists Gave Tarot Cards Their Mystical Significance

French Put their hand on Tarot  and they add to mess it all up.

Paris of the 1770s and 1780s was an epicenter of political and social change. Fueled by the ideals of the American War of Independence, France endured a violent and cataclysmic revolution that temporarily purged the country of its monarchy and its hierarchical class system.

While game players dropped the Tarot de Marseille (TdM) in favor of decorative Tarock decks, members of esoteric lodges were discovering that the TdM, with its ornate Italian suit cards and enigmatic trumps, was a book of wisdom bequeathed from the magi of ancient Egypt.

Occultism refers to a combination of Gnosticism, Alchemy, Astrology and Christian Cabala that came together in the Renaissance then percolated through the esoteric lodges of 18^th century France.

This new way of looking at Tarot was introduced to the public in 1781 when Antoine Court de Gebelin published an essay on Tarot in his multi-volume history of the ancient world, Le Monde Primitif. This essay is the first written document we have that corresponds each trump card to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and tells the story of the French Occultists Tarot Cards Their Mystical deck’s invention.

If you believe Tarot originated in ancient Egypt, then medieval Christian symbolism like the Pope and the Last Judgment must be an anachronistic corruption of the original Egyptian imagery and should be purged from the deck. By the late 19^th century, three types of decks addressed this problem:

• Etteilla
• Egyptian decks based on the writings of Paul Christian
• Cabalistic decks based on the teachings of De Gebelin, Levi, Wirth & Papus

the history of western occultism, Dogma and Ritual of Transcendental Magic, published in 1856. Levi’s synthesis of ceremonial magic, alchemy, Cabala and Tarot, based on the 16^th century Christian Cabala of Athanasius Kircher, became the new paradigm for European esoteric and magical teachings. Levi associated each Tarot trump with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet and placed all 78 cards on the Tree of Life.  His teaching that the four Hebrew letters of God’s name are supreme words of power was used a generation later by Papus as the basis for a complete system of Tarot correspondences. When Levi’s ideas migrated across the English Channel they were adopted with modifications by the Golden Dawn and became the bedrock of esoteric tarot in the English-speaking world. 

Oswald Wirth (1860-1943) who was born at the time Levi was writing his magical treatises, systematized Levi’s dense and confusing writings on Tarot. In 1899 he designed a deck based on Levi’s card descritions under the guidance of ocultist Stanislaus de Guaita.

In 1927, Wirth published Le Tarot des Imagiers du Moyen Age  (Tarot of Medieval Artists)

 his compendium of occult and cabalistic tarot illustrated with a slightly redesigned deck. A 1966 edition of the book by Tchou Editeur has a set of 22 cards enclosed in an envelope attached to the inside back cover. These cards were clumsily redrawn and re-colored and unfortunately have been the basis for all subsequent versions of the deck. Wirth’s writings are still the bedrock of European tarot studies and his influence is pervasive.

When an English occultist visited Eliphas Levi in Paris in 1861, the result was a revolution in English occultism that led to the creation of the most influential tarot deck of the 20^th century...

            TO MESS TAROT EVEN MORE

Mystic Aleister Crowley Designed A New Tarot Deck

 in the late 19th and early 20th century, he founded his own religious philosophy called Thelema, claimed to be in contact with various supernatural forces, and engaged in various activities that led the British tabloid press to dub him "the wickedest man in the world....

At one point, Crowley decided to basically reinvent the tarot deck, putting in principles from his own religion, as well as the Jewish mystical practice Kabbalah, and various other influences...

4. Famous Tarot Card Designs Exist

Once technology allowed tarot cards to be printed by press as opposed to hand-painted, certain designs started to dominate.

there are a few very famous designs out there that probably pop into your head when someone says the word "tarot." These designs are famous because of mass production.

Certain Tarot designs started to dominate and Change the True Meaning of

                    NUMBER ONE

1. Playing Cards That was Brought To Europe By Islamic Soldiers

                    NUMBER TWO

2. The Original Tarot Cards Were An Italian Storytelling Game

The Origins of the Tarot IT IS ALL A BIG MESS BY French Occultists AND Mystic Aleister Crowley Designed A New Tarot Deck.

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            NOW THEIR IS A NEW TAROT

               NOT ACCEPTED BY MANY

                            THAT IS

                  CHRISTIAN TAROT

                               AND

            CHRISTIAN KNOWING CARDS

                AND OTHERS ARE TRYING

                    TO KNOW ABOUT IT

                    THERE IS ALSO THE

                   PRO'PORTAL'MANCY

                          AND THE

                        SIGIL'MANCY

                          AND THE

                    ALPHABET'MANCY

    ALL ONE PART OF CHRISTIAN'MANCY

       AND THE COPYRIGHTS BELONG

                               TO

           ALMIGHTY GOD KING OF KINGS

The World English Bible translates the passage as: Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw. your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample. them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces...

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