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  Tarot cards' origins and history

What is Tarot?


Occult playing cards mm, yes it is what cards has and becomes called over time. Nobody knows exactly when and how they arise. The card has been used for many hundred years of occult learnt people. It Some people guess that there are many dark concealed codes, symbols, knowledge in them that only the inaugurated can interpret correct. It has been documented that the cards' existence turned up in medieval France about 1390. last awkwardly if the cards were given birth to as an interpretation of the Romany people's (the gypsies) and came here through their deep-rooted small stem some hundred years since. Our current deck of card has come from these Tarot cards, the playing bridge, poker… In the modern deck of card that I calls for playing short. It has become changing’s to fit in “the modern time” it traditional as already on 1700-talet was defined as standard shortly just in order to predict about future as can be read in the cards The cards are impressing, a lot of impressing occult symbols. The most common Tarot cards today that also are good for beginners are Raider Waite Raider Waite.



It is well-known that the “tower” that is one of the most dramatic cards. The symbol is clear and easy to learn. The oldest written reference to Tarot cards can be finds in a list of furnishing from king Karl's WE of France dated to 1392 A sum money had been paid to an artist in order to produce three decks of card to the king's enjoyment. 17 of these cards is still preserved in Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris one of the very the oldest games that are preserved (with the exception of a few short) is in the alone agency seven games, that was ordered at one and same occasion of the family Sforza, and was produced in Venedig 1415. Tarot cards became popular over the whole Europe, both as playing cards and as tools for tarotreadings, despite that the church at several different occasions forbade these decks of card. The cards were used to many different purposes - as playing cards, and as wonderful works of art. Each game was of course on that time a hand painted original, and be regarded t.ex. as an appropriate and exclusive wedding present.



But in view of how it went at Waterloo perhaps noone will trust too much to to predicts.1781 was introduced the idea about Tarotcard of Egyptian origins of Antoine Court they Gébelin, one French ockultist, and archaeologist, that also published a book agency in nine bands about its theories. Gébelin asserted that the cards in the alone agency each one holy book; ” Thoths book”, that contained ace uniting late of Egyptian song judgement and religion.



With these books Rosenkreutzars made a Tarot card development
kabbalamystiken - one Rosenkreutzare and kabbalist with name Eliphas Lévi detected one according to him clear link between the 22 letters in the hebrew alphabet and the cards in the Major Arcana. In the alone agency, they consider that Tarot cards that such were formulated of Christian Rosenkreutz personly, as traveled in orienten, and then returned to Europe 1413. How one than twists and turns on it, sow shows it itself nevertheless that themost important persons in Tarot cards history always is Rosenkreutzare. During the nineteenth century, an occult company flourished that called stem” The Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn”, one Rosenkreutzarorden as drug to itself many of contemporary even mystiks and ockultists including two persons as meant a lot for Tarot cards development; Aleister Crowley and Edward Waite.


Rider-Waite Tarot.
With these books took Rosenkreutzarna to itself Tarotcards development was complemented on the nineteenth century with implements of kabbalamystique - one Rosenkreutzare and kabbalist wide name Eliphas Lévi detected one according to him clear link between the 22 letters in the alphabet of hebrew and the cards in the Major Arcanan. In the alone agency,
Rosenkreutz personligen, as traveled in orienten, and then returned to Europe 1413. How one than twists and turns on it, sow shows it itself nevertheless that the most important persons in Tarot cards history always is two persons as meant a lot for Tarotcards development; Aleister Crowley and Edward Waite.



Earlier had the numbered cards in small Arcanan only abstract symbols, imagining spells, goblets, swords or coins (pentagram).The most revolutioner with this game is that it that to uses the cards no longer needs to have a huge theoretical knowledge about all cards in order to interpret them,
alternatively permanent to hit in books - one can few sufficient associations of the pictures. Above all, the considerable becomes easier for the member to encourage precisely itself intuitiva side, nearer than the theoretical - philosophical. This game meant in the alone agency equal a lot pursue Tarot as the reformation meant within the Christian judgement.

 

 
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