Since 1781, when Antoine Court of Gebelin published his Primatif Le Monde, in which it claimed cards of Tarot held the secrets of the Egyptians, without producing any obviousness to support his complaints, of the cards of Tarot were written approximately per many esoterians which have advanced speculative sights on the history of the cards of Tarot. This mystical advantageous-point, the origin and the history of the Tarot not very clear and is often idealized.
Much of traditions hermetic, such as order hermetic of paddle of gold, which made complaints that the system of Tarot was derived from the ancient religions of mystery as tallies visually coded seminal concepts archetypal with the voyage of the explanation, developed after the author freemasonic Court of Gebelin - with the bond with the text in French line published his text about the Tarot, in which it incorporated a certain writing of Count de Mellet, in the year 1781.
Naturally the conditions of set of research of card of the year 1781 were not remotely comparable with the much better situation of research of today, the errors of Gebelin and the partially wild speculations, which proved nevertheless importance for the development of Western Esotericism, were normal in its time because of information absent. Good and instructive chronology of the shorts of development before and after Gebelin is given by the author Mary Greer of book.
Hermetics were fast to specify that in an analysis qabalistic, Tarot is equivalent to Rota wheel or Tora law indicating that they were a representation of the wheel of the law. Note that this theory, which tries to explain the named Tarot, loses its value when it is considered that Tarot is only the French alternative on the tarocchi named Italian original.
In terms less blunt, the Tarot would be then a series of facts metaphysics after the way of ox paintings of Zen. As of the beginning at the end of principal Arcana great secrecies they are arranged like series of lessons, or parabola of the passage of the heart. Of the fool 0, one presents the child-spirit of shaved tabula, naive and without art, a research which is meant for the spiritual construction of the student.
A certain number of disciples of the hermetic or magic traditions Western made such complaints of the Tarot having the ancient roots and lessons. To look with work of Robert Fludd or Albertus Magnus for major inspections. Another school of thought believes that the inhabitants of Roma, travelling per many cultures, took this coloured wisdom, and being inventive by nature, created a form of divination and perhaps of the card decks of it. The idea is that they included/understood and maintained the knowledge of the mystery-lessons of the image-cards in deprived, whereas as a public they employed the cards for the benefit by plays of divination and card.