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The esoteric Tarot : = ancient sources rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabala /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The esoteric Tarot :/ Ronald Decker.
Reminder of title:	ancient sources rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabala /
Author:	Decker, Ronald.
Description:	xi, 330 pages :illustrations ;23 cm
Subject:	Tarot. -
ISBN:	9780835609081

The esoteric Tarot : = ancient sources rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabala /
Decker, Ronald.

The esoteric Tarot :ancient sources rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabala /Ronald Decker. - First Quest edition. - xi, 330 pages :illustrations ;23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-305) and index.

"That the Tarot originated in ancient Egypt as a divinatory tool is a romantic misconception. Ron Decker's meticulous scholarship will surprise practitioners and academics alike, revealing the Tarot's true evolution and meanings as its inventor(s) understood it. The Tarot consists of the Minor Arcana, four suits of cards similar to our modern deck, and the Major Arcana, twenty-two allegorical or "trump" cards. Decker says the four-suit deck was invented in Asia Minor before AD 1000; Italian courtiers added the trumps in the 1400s. But Tarot was first used as a game. Tarot divination was only created in the 1700s by a Parisian fortuneteller who based the trump images on Hermeticism, which merges Greco-Egyptian alchemy, astrology, numerology, magic, and mysticism. Today, the suit-cards are often traced to the ancient Jewish Cabala. But, says Decker, they, too, acquired their meanings only in the 1700s, and he cites a lost numerical system based on Cabala at that time. Decker's interpretation integrates three whole systems-astrological, arithmological, mystagogical (concerning initiation rites into the Mysteries). His depth of knowledge makes the book a must-have for serious students of Tarot and esotericism."--Amazon.

ISBN: 9780835609081

Pgw, C/O Perseus Distribution 1094 Flex Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301SAN 631-760X

LCCN: 2012048604Subjects--Topical Terms:

607619
Tarot.

LC Class. No.: BF1879.T2 / D395 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 133.3/2424

The esoteric Tarot : = ancient sources rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabala /
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