The first was Antoine Court de Gébelin, a French clergyman, who wrote that after seeing a group of women playing cards he had the idea that tarot was not merely a game of cards but was in fact of ancient Egyptian origin, of mystical Qabalistic import, and of deep divine significance. Court de Gébelin published a dissertation on the origins of the symbolism in the tarot in volume VIII of work Le Monde primitif in 1781. He thought the tarot represented ancient Egyptian Theology, including Isis, Osiris and Typhon. For example, he thought the card he knew as the Papesse and known in occult circles today as the High Priestess represented Isis. [16] He also related four tarot cards to the four Christian Cardinal virtues: Temperance, Justice, Strength and Prudence. [17] He relates The Tower to a Greek fable about avarice. [18] Akron; Banzhaf, Hajo (1995). The Crowley Tarot: The Handbook to the Cards. Stamford, CT: U.S. Games Systems, Inc. p.11. ISBN 0880797150. placing The Fool before the other 21 trumps when determining the Qabalistic correspondence of the Major Arcana to the Hebrew alphabet Some versions of Crowley's tarot include two additional variants of this arcanum with different artwork. [106] [71] At one stage in the initiation procedure, Christian tells us...the postulant climbs down an iron ladder, with seventy-eight rungs, and enters a hall on either side of which are twelve statues, and, between each pair of statues, a painting. These twenty-two paintings, he is told, are Arcana or symbolic hieroglyphs; the Science of Will, the principle of all wisdom and source of all power, is contained in them. Each corresponds to a "letter of the sacred language" and to a number, and each expresses a reality of the divine world, a reality of the intellectual world and a reality of the physical world. The secret meanings of these twenty-two Arcana are then expounded to him. [29]

Claims such as those initiated by early freemasons today found their way into academic discourse. Semetsky, [23] for example, explained that tarot makes it possible to mediate between humanity and the godhead, or between god/spirit/consciousness and profane human existence. Nicholson [24] used the tarot to illustrate the deep wisdom of feminist theology. Santarcangeli [25] informed us of the wisdom of the fool and Nichols [6] spoke about the archetypal power of individuation boiling beneath the powerful surface of the tarot archetypes. Place, Robert (2005). The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. ISBN 9781585423491. Westcott, William Wynn; Mathers, Moina (December 1998). Küntz, Darcy (ed.). The Golden Dawn Court Cards as Drawn by William Wynn Westcott & Moina Mathers. Golden Dawn Studies Series. Vol.5 (2nded.). Sequim, WA: Holmes Publishing Group. ISBN 1-55818-336-1. Christina Nicholson. How to Believe Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Irigaray, Alicer, and Neo-Pagan Negotiation of the Otherworld. Feminist Theology, 2003. 11: 362-74. Personally, I love his advice to provide the Demon an offering before beginning such a ritual, so to entice the Demon to provide the answers to your questions. Remember that an offering should always be something that is both valuable to both yourself and desirable to the Demon. Generally, offerings should include food, flowers, incense, alcohol, blood, or candles. One should always take the time to research what a specific Demon prefers, and begin the offering at this point. Once you build a better relationship with that Demon, the Demon will share with you alternatives and additional preferences.Dummett, Michael (1993). Il mondo e l'angelo: i tarocchi e la loro storia. Napoli: Bibliopolis. pp.406–407. ISBN 978-8870882728. Zalewski, Pat; Zalewski, Chris (2019). The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn: Divination, Meditation and High Magical Teachings (reviseded.). London: Aeon. p.7. ISBN 978-1-911597-29-2. Despite this, Alexander and Shannon (2019), [27] still claim that "Romani people may have carried the cards to Europe." I here present the choicest offering I could find for you and any Demons that might come with you. Accept it as a sign of respect and adoration of you and your king”

Douglas, Claire, ed. (1997). Visions: Notes of the Seminar given in 1930–1934 by C. G. Jung, vol. 2. Bollingen Series. Vol.XCIX. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p.923. a b Greer, Mary K. (2008-05-20). "1969 – The Tarot Renaissance". Mary K. Greer's Tarot Blog. Archived from the original on 2019-09-17 . Retrieved 2020-08-01.Pamela Colman Smith wrote in a letter that it was "a big job for very little cash" – but her vibrant illustrations were key in widening the appeal of tarot. "I think there's something about her intuitive understanding of these archetypes and her skill as an amazing graphic artist," says Hundley. "She went to the Pratt Institute, and was really well versed in commercial art and posters. So she understood how to convey them in a way that felt very inclusive, and allowed other people to understand them in a way I think they maybe didn't before. Tarot owes a huge debt to what she created." But note that Revak identifies a single card labeled "1. Etteilla/Male querent" that does not correspond to any in the Tarot de Marseille. Well now, the Queen of Spades is your wife, and the Ace of Clubs is money… so your wife is stealing from you. I call upon you, unholy host of hell, to come before me, as I summon you to my presence. The seventh gate has been opened and within this infernal circle you are safe to appear, and do the work of your office”

You may wish to spend a few minutes meditating on this, and perhaps take some notes in your journal. In this option remember it is an Oracle. See Divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot for a detailed history of the construction of the occult tarot.

Frater S.M.R.D.; etal. (1967). The Secret Workings of the Golden Dawn: Book "T": The Tarot. Gloucester, England: Helios Book Service Ltd. Semetsky, Inna (2011). "Tarot images and spiritual education: the three I's model". International Journal of Children's Spirituality. 16 (3): 249–260. doi: 10.1080/1364436X.2011.613069. S2CID 144743688.