The First Occult Tarot Deck and Book Set

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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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Artist

Robert M. Place

Cards

78

Size

3.5 x 5 inches

Material

Heavy card stock with a durable matte finish. Gold edged cards.

Guidebook

Included

Pages

143

Robert M. Place

Robert is an internationally known visionary artist whose award-winning paintings, sculptures, and jewelry have been displayed in galleries and museums worldwide. He is best known as the designer, illustrator, and coauthor of the original Alchemical Tarot.

He is also the designer, illustrator, and author of The Alchemical Tarot Renewed, The Tarot of the Saints, The Angels Tarot, The Raziel Tarot, The Vampire Tarot, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, and numerous other oracle decks, including The Buddha Tarot, which received international acclaim for its amalgamation of Eastern and Western mysticism.

Robert is the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, which Booklist said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot,” and Astrology and Divination, among others. Robert is the curator of The Fool’s Journey and the author of the catalog for an exhibition of Tarot art that originated at the LA Craft and Folk-Art Museum. He has lectured and conducted workshops on mysticism and the tarot throughout the United States and five continents.