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Decker's "The Esoteric Tarot": Ancient Sources Rediscovered in Hermetism and Cabala: Introduction
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Decker's "The Esoteric Tarot": Ancient Sources Rediscovered in Hermetism and Cabala. Monday, April 28, 2014. Ron Decker is a well known tarot historian, with publications going back to the 1970s and a frequent collaborator in some of the now-classic works of tarot history, most notably Wicked Pack of Cards. With Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett. Now he has produced a long-awaited tome on the historical tarot, The Esoteric Tarot: Ancient Sources Rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabala. Designed their o...
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Ross's chart
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. Ross Caldwell posted on Tarot History Forum (THF) a graph on 15th century reports of tarot activity ( e. g. at viewtopic.php? He also published this graph as part of an essay in The Playing Card. I want to say a few things about it. First, here's Ross's graph:. The point of the graph is to show that the tarot was most likely invented a little before 1440. I think it shows no such thing. A DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS. Another factor that would tend to reduce the number of records wou...
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Ross's chart: July 2015
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. Ross Caldwell posted on Tarot History Forum (THF) a graph on 15th century reports of tarot activity ( e. g. at viewtopic.php? He also published this graph as part of an essay in The Playing Card. I want to say a few things about it. First, here's Ross's graph:. The point of the graph is to show that the tarot was most likely invented a little before 1440. I think it shows no such thing. A DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS. Another factor that would tend to reduce the number of records wou...
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The Christian Basis of the Tarot: November 2016
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The Christian Basis of the Tarot. Sunday, November 6, 2016. This blog is devoted to exploring Christian imagery and ideas in relation to the historical tarot, i.e., before 1781, when it became acceptable, at least in Northern Europe, to find pagan and Jewish symbolism in these cards. This is not to exclude such influences before 1781, but simply to focus here on the Christian ones. I also have blogs focusing specifically on just one orientation toward the traditional 22 card sequence:. The knives, Swords...
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Decker's "The Esoteric Tarot": Ancient Sources Rediscovered in Hermetism and Cabala: April 2014
http://4essaysstimulated.blogspot.com/2014_04_01_archive.html
Decker's "The Esoteric Tarot": Ancient Sources Rediscovered in Hermetism and Cabala. Monday, April 28, 2014. Ron Decker is a well known tarot historian, with publications going back to the 1970s and a frequent collaborator in some of the now-classic works of tarot history, most notably Wicked Pack of Cards. With Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett. Now he has produced a long-awaited tome on the historical tarot, The Esoteric Tarot: Ancient Sources Rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabala. Designed their o...
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The Christian Basis of the Tarot: Introduction
http://tarotchristianbasis.blogspot.com/2016/11/introduction-currently-blank.html
The Christian Basis of the Tarot. Sunday, November 6, 2016. This blog is devoted to exploring Christian imagery and ideas in relation to the historical tarot, i.e., before 1781, when it became acceptable, at least in Northern Europe, to find pagan and Jewish symbolism in these cards. This is not to exclude such influences before 1781, but simply to focus here on the Christian ones. I also have blogs focusing specifically on just one orientation toward the traditional 22 card sequence:.