History of the Occult Tarot
by Michael Dummett
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When the Tarot pack was invented in Italy in the early 15th century, it was simply a pack of cards, used for playing games. Esoteric interpretations of the pack date from late eighteenthcentury France, and were confined to that country for a hundred years. Now the cards are used throughout the Western world and not only for fortune telling. For re...
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