The Square & Compasses Tarot Deck

by Colin Browne creator of the S&C Masonic Tarot To the best of my knowledge this was only the second specific Masonic deck produced and the first that specifically stayed within the basic Craft Degrees. The reason I chose to produce this deck was that I could not find an existing deck that I was [...]

The Fool, Alef and Orion

by Stephen John Mangan [Kwaw] The first image is detail of Ninurta/Orion standing next to a Lion [sacred animal of Innana and symbol of Sirius], 2nd image the complete picture from the ancient Sumerian Seal of Adda. 3rd is of Ninurta enthroned with image of double headed eagle, 4th Orion and Canis Major detail from [...]

The Tarot and the Kabbalah,
the Ancient Mesopotamians and the Sufist

by Nicholas Swift an extract from Mirror of the Free www.vaxxine.com/mirrorofthefree Authors of books on the Tarot cards commonly assert that their true origin is unknown. One sometimes gets the impression, however, that their attitude to the mystery it presents is ambivalent: knowledge means not only less excuse to speculate but, also, more responsibility. They [...]

The Golden Dawn’s attributions…

by Jean-Michel David The Golden Dawn’s system of understanding Tarot’s Atouts (Major Arcana) is through a specific positioning of these upon the Tree of Life (and of these, the Kircher version of the Tree), each card placed on a connecting ‘path’ between two Sefirot (or emanations). This, together with the quality, elemental, planetary, or astrological [...]

Kabalah and Tarot

by Jean-Michel David (Kabbalah – Qabalah – Cabala) It has now been well over two centuries in which implied connections between Tarot and the Kabalah has been made in writing – and perhaps longer than that if one considers the plausible Hebrew letter influence on the very design of Tarot’s Atouts (Major Arcana). What I [...]

Projective Synthetic Geometry

in Lady Frieda Harris’ Tarot Paintings and in A. Crowley’s Book of the Law Claas Hoffmann It was in 1904 when the English magician Aleister Crowley wrote the the Book of the Law. It was dictated by a praeter-human intelligence calling itself Aiwass. The book consists of three chapters written down in Cairo on 8th, [...]

Meditations on the Tarot:
A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism

book by Anonymous written in French by a Russian ex-patriot living in London, 1967 Review by Jean-Michel David (originally written in 2002 in light of the new release of the book) As the Robert Powell 1985 translation of this book has just been published for the third time, I thought it timely to write this [...]

A Lexicon Theory of Tarot Origin

by Mark Filipas ® The Tarot first appeared in northern Italy, during the birth of Europe’s cultural revolution. Those original decks were probably designed between 1420 and 1440, although the earliest extant cards date from later in the 1400s. The Marseilles pattern – so named because it characterizes the decks traditionally produced in Marseilles, France [...]