The Tarot is an instruction manual in alchemical metaprogramming
The real origins of the picture book known as Tarot are shrouded in the mists of time. The earliest direct pieces of evidence of a tarot as we know it are from the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe, but the knowledge represented by the book is far older. It is a fair mystery how such knowledge could come to be encoded over the last six hundred years by independent artists and researchers. At one time there may have been communication between monks of the church, who wanted to use the cards to inculcate church virtues, and the mystics and occultists, who were hiding information in the card symbols that the church would have preferred to keep secret. Some authors through that time were revealing more and deeper information as society grew more accepting and the dangers of the rack or stake receded. Others felt it their mission to bury the teachings deeper, obscuring and hiding the keys, and misdirecting the curious. Another main stream in the development of the cards is that they were concurrently being developed into a parlor card game still played in Europe under various regional names such as Tarrochi. Given the various streams of development it is nothing short of miraculous that such a sublime and Universal structure has been constructed to carry and teach the most important of the Mysteries…
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