Origins Of The Tarot
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Mystical Origins Of The Tarot
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Author : Paul Huson
language : en
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Release Date : 2004-05-26
Mystical Origins Of The Tarot written by Paul Huson and has been published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-26 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"A profusely illustrated history of the occult nature of the tarot from its origins in ancient Persia. The origins of the tarot have been lost in the mists of time. Most scholars have guessed that its origins were in China, Egypt, or India. Huson has expertly tracked each symbol of the Minor Arcana to roots in ancient Persia and the Major Arcana Trump card images to the medieval world of mystery, miracle, and morality plays. A number of tarot historians have questioned the use of the tarot as a divination tool prior to the 18th century. But the author demonstrates that the symbolic meanings of the Major Arcana were evident from the time they were first employed in the mid-15th century in the popular divination practice of sortilege. He also reveals how the identities of the court cards in the Minor Arcana were derived from a blend of pagan and medieval sources that strongly influenced their interpretation in tarot divination."--Publisher marketing.
Origins Of The Tarot
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Author : Dai Leon
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2012-05-29
Origins Of The Tarot written by Dai Leon and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Conventional wisdom traces Tarot cards to medieval Italy, but their roots go back much further in time and draw on a surprisingly rich variety of cultures and spiritual traditions. Combining pioneering scholarship with practical spiritual instruction, Origins of the Tarot is the first book to unveil the full range of the ancient streams of wisdom from which the Tarot emerged.The timeless principles of conscious realization and cosmological unfoldment underlying the Tarot have never been explored in a comparably extensive and detailed way: herein the teachings of a tremendous range of traditions, including Kabbalah, Western esotericism and alchemy, Buddhism, Taoism, yogic disciplines, Sufism, mystical Christianity, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism, are masterfully incorporated and synthesized.Author Dai Léon explores a confluence of philosophical schools from East and West as they relate to the Tarot, giving each its due in the exposition of a universal procession of evolution and the soul’s quest for enlightenment. In the process, the Tarot is seen as a unique exemplification of perennial teachings on the soul and its liberation, as well as a still-unfolding window into concealed currents of human history. The book’s profound learning and unprecedented range of references are sure to attract close study among students both of the world’s most enduring esoteric tradition and of esotericism itself.
The Tarot
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Author : Cynthia Giles
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1994-10
The Tarot written by Cynthia Giles and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
With more than 40 illustrations and an entertaining informative text, this elegantly designed book captures the scope, powers, and romance of the Tarot throughout the ages. "Excellently researched, entertainingly and compellingly written".--Booklist.
Origins Of The Tarot
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Author : Dai Leon
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Origins Of The Tarot written by Dai Leon and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Conventional wisdom traces Tarot cards to medieval Italy, but their roots go back much further in time and draw on a surprisingly rich variety of cultures and spiritual traditions. Combining pioneering scholarship with practical spiritual instruction, Origins of the Tarot is the first book to unveil the full range of the ancient streams of wisdom from which the Tarot emerged.The timeless principles of conscious realization and cosmological unfoldment underlying the Tarot have never been explored in a comparably extensive and detailed way: herein the teachings of a tremendous range of traditions, including Kabbalah, Western esotericism and alchemy, Buddhism, Taoism, yogic disciplines, Sufism, mystical Christianity, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism, are masterfully incorporated and synthesized.Author Dai Léon explores a confluence of philosophical schools from East and West as they relate to the Tarot, giving each its due in the exposition of a universal procession of evolution and the soul’s quest for enlightenment. In the process, the Tarot is seen as a unique exemplification of perennial teachings on the soul and its liberation, as well as a still-unfolding window into concealed currents of human history. The book’s profound learning and unprecedented range of references are sure to attract close study among students both of the world’s most enduring esoteric tradition and of esotericism itself.
The History Of The Occult Tarot
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Author : Ronald Decker
language : en
Publisher: Prelude Books
Release Date : 2013-07-18
The History Of The Occult Tarot written by Ronald Decker and has been published by Prelude Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
An essential volume for the libraries of all serious students of the Tarot. When the Tarot was invented in Italy during the early fifteenth century, it was simply a pack of cards used for playing games. Esoteric interpretations of the pack date from late eighteenth century France, and were confined to that country for a hundred years. But today the cards are used throughout the world and not only for fortune telling - for true believers they are the key to secret knowledge and the meaning of life. A History of the Occult Tarot is the classic work on the history of the Tarot deck and its use in occult circles. Starting with the late nineteenth century, the Decker and Dummett examine how the Tarot became the favoured divination tool of occultists, a bridge to the spirit world, and a map of the unconscious. From Theosophical to Aleister Crowley to the Order of the Golden Dawn and P.D. Ouspensky, this compelling survey of the Tarot's history describes the many fascinating decks imagined over time as well as the secret histories of mystics.
The Tarot
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Author : Alfred Douglas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Tarot written by Alfred Douglas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Tarot categories.
A Cultural History Of Tarot
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Author : Helen Farley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-22
A Cultural History Of Tarot written by Helen Farley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with History categories.
The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T S Eliot and his 'wicked pack of cards' in "The Waste Land" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die"; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck's adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck became associated with esotericism before evolving finally into a diagnostic tool for mind, body and spirit. This is the first book to explore the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture. Tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from game to mysterious oracular device, Helen Farley examines tarot's emergence in 15th century Milan and discusses its later associations with astrology, kabbalah and the Age of Aquarius.
The Tarot
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Author : Robert Place
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2005-03-17
The Tarot written by Robert Place and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-17 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The Tarot is one of the few books that cuts through conventional misperceptions to explore the Tarot deck as it really developed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe-not, as some would suggest, in the far reaches of Egyp-tian antiquity. Mining the Hermetic, alchemical, and Neoplatonic influences behind the evolution of the deck, author Robert M. Place provides a historically grounded and compelling portrait of the Tarot's true origins, without overlooking the deck's mystical dimensions. Indeed, Place uncommonly weds reliable historiography with a practical understanding of the intuitive help and divinatory guidance that the cards can bring. He presents techniques that offer new and valuable ways to read and interpret the cards. Based on a simple three-card spread, Place's approach can be used by either the seasoned practitioner or the new inquirer.
The Tarot
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Author : Alfred Douglas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Tarot written by Alfred Douglas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Tarot categories.
The Egyptian Origins Of The Tarot
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Author : Samuel Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-01-10
The Egyptian Origins Of The Tarot written by Samuel Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-10 with categories.
What are the real origins of the Tarot? Did they merely arise out of the imaginations of some Renaissance philosophers or did they spread around the world in the hands of the gypsies? Or, as some mystics assert, did they arise out of Egypt, a remnant of an ancient civilization, bringing with it their lost knowledge? The author explains the hidden connections between the European creation of the Tarot and its Egyptian origins. The hieroglyphic secret revealed shows you how to understand your Tarot studies in light of these new discoveries, so that you can awaken a deeper sense of connection and sacred profoundness. According to this book, the 15th century Italian creators of the Tarot did indeed base their Tarot cards upon a long lost Egyptian manuscript that was recorded in ancient Alexandrian Egypt by the sage Horappollon. This mysterious book provided the ancient Egyptian keys of understanding symbols and this publication documents its transformation into modern Tarot cards. Not only that, this work lays the foundation for further Hermetic studies, instilling the reader with a sense of the eclectic mentality that was held in ancient Alexandrian Egypt by the sages and Hermetic mystics of those times.You will learn:How Egyptian hieroglyphs were symbolically interpreted by Alexandrian Greeks and Egyptians, who belonged to the last Isis-Serapis temples before ChristHow one of those sages, named Horappollon, recorded that knowledge in the 'Hieroglyphica'How it survived and was translated by 15th century Italian mysticsHow those symbols entered the European occult worldHow the Visconti family, the creators of the Tarot, organized these Egyptian glyphs and painted the first Tarot cardsThat the Tarot was called 'Hieroglyphs' in Italy and FranceHow it became known as the famous lost Egyptian book, known as the 'Book of Thoth'