Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum Accompanied by a Concise History of the Subject Etc By W H Willshire With a Preface by G W Reid written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essential Tarot Writings written by Donald Tyson and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Three Centuries of Vital Tarot Texts by Leading Authorities on Western Magic Featuring invaluable essays written by prominent occultists from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, this must-have collection presents the fascinating evolution of Tarot as a magical tool. Renowned occult scholar Donald Tyson has edited and annotated these works, and he offers his full English translation of two Tarot essays from Antoine Court de Gébelin's Monde Primitif. This compendium also provides, for the first time anywhere, a complete understanding of the essays on the English Method of playing card divination, an important precursor to reading Tarot's suit cards. Essential Tarot Writings reveals where many of our fundamental assumptions about the Tarot come from, including card meanings, Hebrew and Kabbalistic correspondences, and how the cards are used in ceremonial magic. All of the essays are connected by each century's understanding of Tarot and the influences these great thinkers had on one another. Showcasing esteemed writers like the Comte de Mellet, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, J. W. Brodie-Innes, and A. E. Waite, this resource gives you a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Tarot in Western magic.
Download or read book A Global Enlightenment written by Alexander Statman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that they did not. Early philosophes praised Chinese philosophy as an enduring model of reason. Later philosophes rejected it as stuck in the past. Seeking to vindicate ancient knowledge, a group of French statesmen and savants began a conversation with the last great scholar of the Jesuit mission to China. Together, they drew from Chinese learning to challenge the emerging concept of Western advancement. A Global Enlightenment traces this overlooked exchange between China and the West to make compelling claims about the history of progress, notions of European exceptionalism, and European engagement with Chinese science. To tell this story, Alexander Statman focuses on a group of thinkers he terms “orphans of the Enlightenment,” intellectuals who embraced many of their contemporaries’ ideals but valued ancient wisdom. They studied astronomical records, gas balloons, electrical machines, yin-yang cosmology, animal magnetism, and Daoist medicine. And their inquiries helped establish a new approach to the global history of science. Rich with new archival research and fascinating anecdotes, A Global Enlightenment deconstructs two common assumptions about the early to late modern period. Though historians have held that the idea of a mysterious and inscrutable East was inherent in Enlightenment progress theory, Statman argues that it was the orphans of the Enlightenment who put it there: by identifying China as a source of ancient wisdom, they turned it into a foil for scientific development. But while historical consensus supposes that non-Western ideas were banished from European thought over the course of the Enlightenment, Statman finds that Europeans became more interested in Chinese science—as a precursor, then as an antithesis, and finally as an alternative to modernity.
Download or read book The Key To The Tarot written by A.E. Waite and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official companion to the world famous Original Rider Waite Tarot - the most popular deck in the world. The Key to the Tarot is the essential guide to unlocking the secrets of tarot from renowned scholar of the occult, A. E. Waite. This enlightening book, which can be used in conjunction with any set of tarot cards, explains the history and symbolism of the tarot deck as well as providing a step-by-step guide to using the cards for divination practices. This is your key to harnessing the power of the tarot.
Download or read book The Tarot of the Bohemians The Most Ancient Book in the World for the Use of Initiates written by "Papus" and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of tarot cards and tradition, The Tarot of the Bohemians is a must-read textbook for students of the subject. Written by Gérard Encausse under his occult alias, Papus, this volume gives a history of tarot and details the Marseilles pack’s symbolism alongside an exploration of Jewish Kabbalah mysticism. Gérard Encausse was a French hypnotist, physician, and occultist famous for founding the modern Martinist Order. In this text, he presents basic instruction in cartomancy using the tarot deck, while claiming that the practice contains knowledge from ancient Egypt, India, and Atlantis. The contents of the volume include: - Introduction to the Study of the Tarot - The General Key to the Tarot - The Sacred Word - Esotericism of Numbers - Analogy Between the Sacred Word and Numbers - The Key to the Minor Arcana
Download or read book Tarot and Divination Cards written by Laetitia Barbier and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning visual history of tarot Used for self-exploration or divination, tarot has, for more than 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today’s mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive and easy to carry—a perfect traveling companion and, therefore, an invitation to a journey inward and out. Humans are drawn to playing games and feel driven to find meaning in the chaos of paradoxical signs. The vivid iconography of the “Arcanas” speak to us like no other language, moving us to the core, weaving through each card a universal story, a metaphorical pathway of transformation. This 400-page book presents—for the first time—a close look at 500 years of figurative card decks created or used for fortune telling, divinations, and oracle purposes, and explores, one card at the time, their iconographic roots at the crossroads of the medieval imaginarium, Western esoteric wisdom, folklore, and also contemporary art and pop culture. With hundreds of images drawn from more than 100 decks, rarely published and often forgotten in library archives, this book offers the first visual history of tarot.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tarot written by Helen Farley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T S Eliot and his 'wicked pack of cards' in "The Waste Land" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die"; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck's adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck became associated with esotericism before evolving finally into a diagnostic tool for mind, body and spirit. This is the first book to explore the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture. Tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from game to mysterious oracular device, Helen Farley examines tarot's emergence in 15th century Milan and discusses its later associations with astrology, kabbalah and the Age of Aquarius.
Download or read book Researches Into the History of Playing Cards written by Samuel Weller Singer and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigaciones acerca de la historia de las cartas de juego, con ilustraciones del origen de la impresión y el grabado en madera.
Download or read book The Tarot A Collection of Secret Wisdom from Tarot s Mystical Origins written by F. Homer Curtiss and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major contribution!” —Rachel Pollack, bestselling author of Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom The definitive collection of rare, secret, and arcane tarot knowledge The Tarot: A Collection of Secret Wisdom from Tarot's Mystical Origins is the ultimate guide to the mysteries and lost knowledge of the tarot. This single volume includes more than ten selections from foundational tarot books, all from the 19th and 20th century. Many of these critical texts have been forgotten, fallen out of print, or are impossible to acquire. The Tarot reintroduces these books to the modern-day reader, unlocking the invisible power of the tarot for a new generation of card readers. The Tarot includes the following complete books: The Tarot by S. L. MacGregor Mathers The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum by Eliphaz Levi Fortune Telling by Cards by P. R. S. Foli The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite The Symbolism of the Tarot by P.D. Ouspensky The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus The Key to the Universe by Harriette Augusta Curtiss & F. Homer The Key of Destiny by Harriette Augusta Curtiss & F. Homer The General Book of the Tarot by A.E. Thierens The Tarot also includes additional selections from Manly P. Hall and others. Featuring over 400 original black-and-white illustrations throughout the book, The Tarot is a gorgeous gift and an irresistible invitation to both seasoned readers and beginners to explore the esoteric wisdom of the cards.
Download or read book The History of Playing Cards written by Edward S. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whist Scores and Card table Talk written by George Hempl and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tarot of the Bohemians written by Papus and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geared toward initiates, this volume's topics include an introduction to the study of the Tarot cards as well as their symbolism and applications. Preface by A. E. Waite.
Download or read book A General Catalogue of Books written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rachel Pollack s Tarot Wisdom written by Rachel Pollack and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved by nearly half a million Tarot enthusiasts, Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom forever transformed the study of Tarot. This much-anticipated follow-up to Pollack's classic guidebook will inspire Tarot aficionados and inform a new generation of Tarot students. Enhanced by the author's personal stories and insights gained over the past three decades, this book on tarot invites you on a fascinating and fun adventure. Offering an abundant array of new ideas mixed in with enlightening discussions about Tarot's checkered past, this tarot guidebook features innovative ways to interpret and use Tarot, and a wealth of original spreads to try for yourself—including spreads for predictive, psychological, magical, and spiritual readings. All seventy-eight cards are explored from fresh angles: history, art, psychology, and a variety of spiritual and occult traditions, using cards from seven diverse decks so you can easily contrast and compare. No matter where your starting point on the path of personal discovery, this tarot book will prove a trusted companion for your journey.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of Mr Charles Henry Hart written by Charles Henry Hart and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
