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Before Aleister Crowley, Arthur Edward Waite, and Pamela Colman Smith, before the Golden Dawn, before Papus, Éliphas Lévi, and Etteilla, the first author to describe an occult version of the Tarot was Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, Comte de Mellet, writing in Antoine Court de Gébelin’s 1781, eighth volume of his monumental encyclopedia, Monde primitif.
Comte de Mellet associated the Tarot’s trumps with the Classical Ages of Man: the Age of Gold, the Age of Silver, and the Age of Iron. He correlated the Trumps with the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, described the minor suits in detail, and provided the earliest discussion of a divination technique for the Tarot.
For the first time, de Mellet’s vision for the Tarot exists as a complete deck and book. This is the set: The First Occult Tarot. The deck has 78 cards, and the book has 143 pages.


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78
3.5 x 5 inches
Heavy card stock with a durable matte finish. Gold edged cards.
Included
143

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