The Tarot

By S. L. MacGregor Mathers

Master the mysteries of fate and fortune with The Tarot by S. L. MacGregor Mathers.

This comprehensive guide empowers you to unlock the wisdom hidden within each card,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Left of Brain Books
• Release date: Jan 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9781396324956

S. L. MacGregor Mathers

The Tarot includes works by some of the most important founders of the modern tarot and esoteric movement, including: Arthur Edward Waite, Papus, Harriette Augusta Curtiss & F. Homer Curtiss, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, Eliphaz Levi, P. R. S. Foli, P.D. Ouspensky, Manly P. Hall, and A.E. Thierens.

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THE TAROT

Its Occult Significance, Use in

Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc.

By

Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathersu

First published in 1888

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PUBLISHER’S PREFACE

About the Book

This is a short essay on the Tarot, by a prominent occultist of the 19th Century. Mathers also wrote The Kabbalah Unveiled.

(Quote from sacred-texts.com)

About the Author

Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854 - 1918)

Samuel Liddell (or Liddel) MacGregor" Mathers, born as Samuel Liddell (January 8 or 11, 1854 - November 5 or 20, 1918), was one of the most influential figures in modern Occultism. He is primarily known as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a ceremonial magic order whose offshoots still exist today.

Samuel Liddell was born on January 8 or January 11, 1854 in Hackney, London, England. His father, William M. Mathers, died while Samuel Liddell was still a boy. His mother, whose maiden name was Collins, died in 1885. He attended Bedford Grammar School, subsequently working in Bournemouth, Dorset, as a clerk, before moving to London following the death of his mother.

His wife was Moina Mathers (nee Mina Bergson), sister of the philosopher Henri Bergson."

(Quote from wikipedia.org)

CONTENTS

PUBLISHER’S PREFACE

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 1

SYMBOLISM OF EACH OF THE KEYS ........................................... 10

MEANINGS OF THE CARDS ......................................................... 15

METHODS OF DIVINATION ......................................................... 26

TAROT GAME PLAY ..................................................................... 31

OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TAROT CARDS ........................... 35

INTRODUCTION

Its Occult Significance, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc

TO enter, within the limits of this short treatise, upon any long inquiry into the History of Cards is utterly out of the question; and I shall therefore confine myself to examining briefly into what relates to their most ancient form, the Tarot, or Tarocchi Cards, and to giving, as clearly and concisely as possible, instructions which will enable my readers to utilise them for fortune-telling, to which they are far better adapted, from the greater number and variety of their combinations, than the ordinary cards. I shall also enter somewhat into their occult and Qabalistical significations.

The term Tarot, or Tarocchi, is applied to a pack of 78 cards, consisting of four suits of 14 cards each (there being