Spells, Witchcraft, Magick Spells & Rituals

Various suggestions of contradiction were given to explain the original significance of the word Tarot. They extend from the old Egyptian origin to a cardmaker of the French village Taraux which could have produced the original charts of Tarot. True enigma of the remainders.

Other suggestions:

Torah (Hebrew), “the law - giver of law”
A god of Egyptian of Thoth
Tarosh (Egyptian), “royal manner”
Torah - torus in the crowned geometry
Astrology of Bull
Rota (Latin), wheels of “wheel” - wheel of karma - in wheels
River of taro in Scandinavian Italy
Taru (Hindu), “charts”
Troa (Hebrew), “carries”
Ryegrasses, meaning of frontier crossing point on old charts
Tarotee, meaning model on the backs

The origins of Tarot are somewhat obscure, the most common theories go to ancient Egypt and Thoth and connection to the ancient lesson of school of mystery. There is a common myth that Tarot was brought to Europe by the gipsies.

Some believe that the shape of Tarot goes again to ancient China. I believe that all ancient civilizations developed their own systems of divination based on same symbolism and prototypes.

Tarot because let us know we it today is a collection of images and symbols of a large variety of cultures, Greeks ancient and Novels with the prehistoric people of the norses, ancient religions of India and medieval Egypt to the courses of Italy and France.

The first clear reference that we must of the charts of Tarot is of a sermon which was gathered with many others approximately 1500 in Italy found in the manuscript of Steele. The sermon is thought up to now approximately of 1450 to 1470 and is a diatribe counters games of chance. It gives a detailed description of the assets of Tarot, not only numbering them but calling them as well.

Since 1540, a book had right oracles of the exposures of Forli of da of Francesco Marcolino a method simple to guess costume of coin of currency of a package of charts of regular play.

Manuscripts of 1735 (the place of Sevens) and 1750 (Pratesi Cartomancer) rudimentary significances divinatory of exposure for the charts of the tarot, as well as a system to present the charts.

In 1765, Giacomo Casanova wrote in his private diary that its Russian mistress frequently used a platform to play charts for the divination.

In 1781 Antoine Court of Gébelin wrote a speculative history and a system detailed for the use of the tarot to the fortell the future. Time of Gébelin ahead, various explanations were given for the origins of the tarot, the majority of them of the doubtful veracity. There is no obviousness for any chart of tarot before painted with the hand which was employed by noble Italian, but some esoteric schools believe that its origins could be in ancient Egypt, ancient India or even the lost continent of Atlantis. Gebelin, a French linguist, the ecclesiastic, the occultist, the mason, the member of the cabin of Philalethes, and the Primitive author of the Le Monde of work of nine-volume - were convinced of the mystical of Tarot and affectionate importance of the Egyptian knowledge. It believed that the place of the birth of the charts was ancient Egypt, where they were used as tools for release in priesthood. For Gébelin, principal Arcana of the Tarot was the book of Thoth, a synthesis of all the knowledge once held in hieroglyphic form in the temples and the libraries Egyptians flarings. It claimed that it had escaped with the destruction of the library of Alexandria. When he wrote this, the competence of the hiéroglyphes of reading had been lost during almost 1200 years and there existed the very widespread belief which they were magic symbols hiding the lost knowledge of antiquity. Gébelin saw the Tarot like picturesque incorporation contemporarily available of this occult wisdom, a real bond with the past.

A French man, (incorrectly thought by some of having been a hairdresser, it simply had residences above a store of hairdressers) Alliette called, writing under the pseudonym Etteilla (its name written backwards), wire of Gebelin' S followed and revised the Tarot to conform to its own idiosyncratic idea of Egyptian mysticism. Its Tarot had less influence on following designs than to have its ideas.

In semi French 1850 of S.A. third, the constant of Alphonse Louis (at the origin a deacon of the catholic church), started to publish occult work. For the goals of the occupation of author it translated his name into Hebrew and wrote under the name of Eliphas Levi (it dropped final Zahed?. Its references of Tarot and symbolism and these contents by books were him which established the first time the bond between the Tarot and the cabal (or Qabalah). It estimated that the Thoth-Hermes god made the original platform. Its theory contains mathematical ideas similar to those of Pythagore, which it admired.

Eliphas Levi (true name: The constant of Alphonse Louis, the author of the “history of Magic|”), 1810-1875, were a French priest and Rosicruician who thought the Tarot the key of the bible, Jewish Qabbalah, and all other ancient spiritual writings. It tried to bind the 22 charts of principal Arcana to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It drew the parallels between the costumes of Tarot and the four letters of Tetragrammaton, YHVH (“Yahweh”).

The Parisian Christian of Paul of author of ten-ninth-century late (Jean Pitois Baptist) was a disciple of Levi's which believed that the principal charts of Arcana represent the hieroglyphic paintings found on columns in the ancient Egyptian galleries. He also sought parallels between the astrology of Tarot and Qabbalistic.

Papus (Gerald Encausse, 1865-1916), a French doctor, philosopher, and Theosophist, were another believing in the Egyptian sources of the Tarot. Known for the book “the Tarot of the gipsies”, it believed that the Tarot that a carrier of the ancient designs registered in the secret rooms below the pyramids. The designs represented tests of release. When the temples were in danger, the priests transferred the mystical designs to the materials which later became a package of charts. Papus, also, described a bond between Tarot and Tetragrammaton. It also treated the numerology and the tree of the life.

Wire of MacGregor (Samuel Liddell) Mathers the English order of the gold paddle, which was founded in 1886. It studied mysticism Jewish, Egyptian, Christian, and alchemical and wrote about the Tarot.

A.E. Waite (1857-1942), the philosopher occults Christian English, broke about the gold paddle and founded its own mystical school of thought. Working with the artist Pamela Coleman Smith - who was also a member about the gold paddle - Waite created a “rectified” platform comprising the images and the landscape on all charts, minor as well as principal Arcana. They produced the package of the charts 78 which we employ today.

The tarot was studied per many followers and was shown to be directly concerning Qabalah. The order of the gold paddle in 1890 made a platform for its members, using the knowledge of Qabalah in its symbolism. It was not the first platform, but the research made by the gold paddle and its members helped the form the sights of the Tarot and Western philosophies of the mysteries. Together, they produced the package of the charts 78 which we employ today. The tarot was studied per many followers and was shown to be directly concerning Qabalah.

Aleister Crowley, also, founded its own occult school, Ordo Templi Orientis, which had to make, inter alia, magic of sex. Working with Freida Harris, it created the coloured book of Thoth Tarot. It considered to identify with each chart more important than trying to guess about the origins.

Adoptive case of Paul, who formed the sanctuary of manufacturers, thought the Tarot of Morocco. According to him, the philosophical 11èmes of century conceived it to both to preserve knowledge after the libraries of Alexandrian were burned in bottom of and to provide a universal language. It, also, designed a platform, black and white. It strongly resembles Waite.

Other theories:

the charts are allegories of the Masters of Sufi;
Descriptions of legend of Graal;
the Indian play Chaturanga, a precursor of the failures;
Indian holy texts;
Imports gipsies;
To know Hebrew;
Greek philosophy;
ancestors of the copper cylinders of Mesopotamian;
symbols given to the bottom of the prehistoric oral stories;
symbols of the ancient central Indian cultures;
wisdom of the prehistoric cultures matriarchal;
teaching assistances of Waldenses, a persecuted section of Christian;
to know of survival about the Templar knights, founded in 1188 to protect from the pélerins and to keep the ways towards the Holy Land;
creation of the 13èmes alchemists of century, the Tarot containing the hidden alchemical illustrated language
Speculation on side, we do not know, and perhaps will never know, so that the charts of Tarot of original resembled. Nor we know from where they came or which created them. We do not know even how much were contained in a platform. It frustrated experts as regards Tarot and inspired by the innumerable theories of origin. However they came to be, the images of Tarot, like all the true symbols, spontaneous free expressions of resound within the deepest competences of the psyche; and for this reason they support the magic mirrors with some reactions we brought to them. Like all authentic artistic creations, Tarots is finally a mystery and will thus remain.