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    that anyone began to use the tarot pack for cartomancy." Claims by the early French occultists that tarot cards had esoteric links to ancient Egypt, the...
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    esoteric decks made for cartomancy, the Fool is shown as a young man, walking unknowingly toward the brink of a precipice. In the Rider–Waite Tarot deck...
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    The Juggler, is the first trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing and divination. Within the card game context...
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    often unnunmbered By the 19th century, the Tarot was being claimed as a "Bible of Bibles", an esoteric repository of all the significant truths of creation...
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    The Tarot of Marseilles is a standard pattern of Italian-suited tarot pack with 78 cards that was very popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries...
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    common decks used in esoteric tarot are the Tarot of Marseilles (a playing card pack), the Rider–Waite Tarot, and the Thoth Tarot. Aleister Crowley, who...
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    occult Tarot decks used in divination. It was identified as the Pope in early decks like Tarot of Marseilles, while modern decks like Rider–Waite Tarot may...
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    Thoth Tarot is an esoteric tarot deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris according to instructions from Aleister Crowley. Crowley referred to this deck as The...
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    (Etteilla) reinterpreted tarot cards for divination, associating the Empress with the goddess Isis and Kabbalistic symbols. This esoteric tradition emphasized...
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    cartomantic Tarot decks. It is based on the 2nd trump of Tarot card packs. In the first Tarot pack with inscriptions, the 18th-century woodcut Tarot de Marseilles...
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