By Ronald Decker
That the Tarot originated in old Egypt as a divinatory instrument is a romantic false impression. Ron Decker's meticulous scholarship will shock practitioners and teachers alike, revealing the Tarot's real evolution and meanings as its inventor(s) understood it.
The Tarot involves the Minor Arcana, 4 fits of playing cards just like our smooth deck, and the key Arcana, twenty-two allegorical or "trump" playing cards. Decker says the four-suit deck was once invented in Asia Minor prior to advert one thousand; Italian courtiers extra the trumps within the 1400s. yet Tarot used to be first used as a video game. Tarot divination was once in basic terms created within the 1700s by way of a Parisian fortuneteller who established the trump photos on Hermeticism, which merges Greco-Egyptian alchemy, astrology, numerology, magic, and mysticism. this day, the suit-cards are usually traced to the traditional Jewish Cabala. yet, says Decker, they, too, obtained their meanings simply within the 1700s, and he cites a misplaced numerical process in response to Cabala at that time
Decker's interpretation integrates 3 entire systems-astrological, arithmological, mystagogical (concerning initiation rites into the Mysteries). His intensity of data makes the booklet a must have for severe scholars of Tarot and esotericism
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By means of 1788, he had contacted de Bonrecueille and Hugand in Lyons. Hugand guided the aspirant to club in Etteilla’s society. within the spring of 1790, de los angeles Salette joined the Temple of the solar. 14 club within the Temple was once intended to be stored mystery, yet de l. a. Salette published the key to Etteilla. The Lyonnaise workforce as a result reprimanded de l. a. Salette. Melchior-Montmignon d’Odoucet met Etteilla in 1787 and have become a disciple in 1788. Etteilla, advertisements in a four-page pamphlet, Livre de Thot (Book of Thoth, Paris, 1789), says that readers wanting additional information can collect his mixed paintings in 1,200 pages (presumably his whole sequence of “Notebooks” and “Supplements”) or can sign up for classes with him or his scholar, Monsieur d’Odoucet. D’Odoucet used to be rising as an editor and printer who, like Etteilla, may mingle his political and occult philosophies. regrettably, the boys have been on contrary facets. D’Odoucet used to be a royalist, whereas Etteilla supported the emerging Revolution. The Grand Etteilla as much as this aspect, cartomancers used decks advertised essentially for play. Bolognese cartomancers used their Tarocchino (Small Tarot). 15 Etteilla used piquet playing cards and a few model of the Tarot de Marseille. Etteilla had thought of generating a cartomantic Tarot designed to his necessities yet had deserted the plan. Now he introduced it to crowning glory. The deck, known as the “Grand Etteilla,” was once prepared in 1789. The playing cards have been issued as copperplate engravings of top of the range. Etteilla, as a former print broker, certainly used to be an capable manager of the Tarot venture. Etteilla’s Tarot used to be the 1st expressly made for cartomancy and never for video games. The Grand Etteilla remains to be on hand as a lithographic reproduction, trustworthy to the originals, even if inferior in process. Etteilla’s trumps are unconventional in a few of their matters and such a lot in their numbers. He comprises his models of the Cardinal Virtues, together with his cutting edge Prudence. He displaces the 1st trump and removes the Popess, Pope, Empress, and Emperor. these 4 were changed with idiosyncratic trumps: Chaos, the Heavens, Birds and Fish, and relaxation (Eve status within the backyard of Eden). Interleaved with these thoughts are diversifications at the solar, Moon, superstar, and international. The ensuing series of playing cards represents the tale of construction. Etteilla evidently borrows the final inspiration from Monde Primitif. The trumps during this preliminary set have replacement numbers. Etteilla’s goal is to supply airtight and cabalistic opposite numbers to the biblical tale of construction. (For information, see bankruptcy nine. ) The Grand Etteilla Tarot bears a number of resemblances to the so-called Tarot de Besançon. That deck in reality originated in Switzerland while card makers there altered the T de M with substitutions: Juno for the Popess, Jupiter for the Pope. The satan within the Tarot de Besançon prompted Etteilla’s model: the minor demons are proven in profile as they reverentially gesture towards their grasp. The figures within the sunlight card stand earlier than vast masonry that Etteilla built right into a monument that he intended to be Egyptian.