By Ronald Decker
First released in 2002, hugely wanted, and eventually on hand back, A History of the Occult Tarot is the vintage paintings at the background of the Tarot deck and its makes use of in occult circles. beginning with the overdue nineteenth century, the authors—art historian and vintage card curator Ronald Decker and previous Oxford good judgment professor Michael Dummett—examine how the Tarot went from a deck used easily for card video games to being the popular divination software of occultists, a bridge to the spirit international, or even a map of the subconscious brain.
Looking on the humans and enterprises who followed the Tarot, starting from the Theosophical Society and Aleister Crowley to the Order of the Golden sunrise and P.D. Ouspensky, this compelling scholarly examine Tarot’s occult historical past describes a number of the attention-grabbing decks utilized by occultists in addition to the key histories of magical and occult teams of the overdue nineteenth century via modern instances. it really is one of many crucial histories of the topic and a key quantity for the libraries of all severe scholars of Tarot.
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