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Tarot 10
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nine volumes, 1773–1782; the Tarot essay in volume VIII, 1781
Le Monde primitif
Volume VIII contains the famous Tarot essay asserting an Egyptian origin and a 'Book of Thoth'.
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installments 1783–1785
Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées Tarots
The first systematic published instructions for divinatory Tarot. It assigns upright and reversed meanings and integrates astrology and elemental correspondences.
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1785
Fragment sur les hautes sciences
Further develops his 'higher sciences'.
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c. 1790
Cours théorique et pratique du Livre de Thot
A late synthesis of his Tarot theories.
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c. 1888
Book T
Book T is the Golden Dawn's central instructional document on tarot. It specifies card designs and connects the twenty-two trumps with Hebrew letters and Tree paths, the...
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1888
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1889
The Tarot of the Bohemians
Integrates Tarot with Kabbalah, numerology and esoteric cosmology.
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1910
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
The textual companion to the deck illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith.
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1913
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1944
The Book of Thoth
Crowley's account of the Tarot system embodied in the deck painted by Frieda Harris.