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>From Kathleen
Food for thought from the book, Beyond the Big Bang by Paul A. LaViolette.
Just finished reading this wonderful book and had to send it back before I
could fully digest it--ordered it through the state library system. This is
am must have! Have been studying Tarot for several years and was fascinated
with
the origins so described by LaViolette.
LaViolette writes that the theory from where Tarot came to Europe
was via ancient Egypt--that gypsies migrated from India to Egypt,acquired
the
knowledge, and moved on to Europe. According to LaViolette, this idea was
first suggested by Court de Gebelin in 1781 who indicated that the word
tarot
was derived from the Egyptian "tar" meaning "path" and "ro" meaning "royal"
--when put together mean "the royal path". It has been suggested by others
that Tarot has also gone by the names Rota, traced to "wheel" from Latin and
Thora associated with the Torah, the body of wisdom and law contained in the
Jewish scripture.
LaViolette goes on to say that Alliette, a French Hermeticist, claiming to
know of the Tarot's Egyptian origin, stated that it was a remnant of the
legendary Book of Thoth that conveyed the ancient science of Thoth. Then
the
French physician Gerard Encausse, writing under the pen name of Papus,
conjectured that the Egyptian magi may have purposefully created the cards
as
an alternate way of ensuring the survival of their sacred knowledge.
This idea becomes even more a factor from a treatise attributed to
Iamblichus
and which was translated by Paul Christian (the French esoteric scholar
Jean-Baptiste Pitois), and entitled An Egyptian Initiation. According to
these writings initiation into the Temple of the Mysteries occurred in a
long
narrow gallery whose walls were adorned by 22 frescoes positioned between
columns, eleven on each side. The fresco descriptions closely match the
correspondedingly numbered major arcana in the Marseilles Tarot, considered
to be the most exact reproduction of the oldest gypsy Tarot decks.
LaViolette goes on to say that "contrary to the more popularly held view
that
the Tarot is of ancient orgin, the esoteric scholar Richard Cavendish
speculated that the Tarot may be a product of the intellectual climate of
Renaissance humanism, and that it was invented in the north of Italy as a
means o conveying teachings about the world that could not be easily
expressed using a 52 card deck. He proposes that the 22 major arcana were
developed separately from the minor arcana, as a later addition, and that
the
card deck probably got its name from its use in the valley of the Taro
River,
a tributary of the Po between Genoa and Bologna."
LaViolette concludes " This Italian-origin theory seems rather implausible
in
light of the present discovery that the Tarot portrays an advanced creation
science. For then one would have to explain how, more than 100 years before
Galileo, Renaissance Italiams could have concocted a science that
anticipated
20th century nonequilibrium thermodynamics concepts and at the same time
kept
its knowledge secret from the rest of the world. Since the Tarot's creation
metaphysics so closely parallels that found in ancient creation myths, an
earlier origin seems more likely. Moreover, Iamblichus's treatise on the
Eqyptian mysteries suggests that the Tarot is of considerable antiquity."
You would have to read the book to understand how LaViolette relates Tarot
to
nonequilibrium thermodynamics concepts--it would take much more time and
space than I have to relate it here. However LaViolette shows how the order
of Tarot and its concepts join smoothly together to describe a science or
order genesis--from 1-10 showing principles governing the creation of the
physical universe and 11-21 relating to human evolution and spiritual
development.
Many that study the esoterics of Tarot recognize the higher order of
knowledge thus conveyed and are fully aware that the very least of the
original purposes was divination.
Kathleen
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