assigned each of the court cards, too, to the letters of the Tetragrammaton, thus associating both the court cards and suits to the four classical elements, [59] and published, under the imprint of his society, the Dictionnaire synonimique du Livre de Thot, a book that "systematically tabulated all the possible meanings which each card could bear, when upright and reversed." [30] OPTION A – If you’re following the Celtic cross spread for spiritual answers from the Demon continue with the following

The Occult Tarot was originally published in September 2018 as The Demon-Possessed Tarot by Bloodstone Studios. Beeb, John (1985). "A Tarot Reading on the Possibility of Nuclear War". Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought. 16 (1): 97. doi: 10.1080/00322928508407948. Lévi, Éliphas (1896). Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual. Translated by Waite, Arthur Edward. London: George Redway. What Does the Bible Say about Tarot Cards? by Whitney Hopler at crosswalk.com. Retrieved 6 June 2023. placing The Fool before the other 21 trumps when determining the Qabalistic correspondence of the Major Arcana to the Hebrew alphabetThe concept of the cards as a mystical key was extended by Éliphas Lévi. Lévi (whose actual name was Alphonse-Louis Constant) was educated in the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, was ordained as a deacon, but never became a priest. Michael Dummett noted that it is from Lévi's book Dogme et rituel that the "whole of the modern occultist movement stems." [35] Lévi's magical theory was based on a concept he called the Astral Light [36] and according to Dummett, he claimed to be the first to: [37] "have discovered intact and still unknown this key of all doctrines and all philosophies of the old world... without the tarot", he tells us, "the Magic of the ancients is a closed book...." 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]

See Divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot for a detailed history of the construction of the occult tarot. Peter F. Kopp: Die frühesten Spielkarten in der Schweiz. In: Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte 30 (1973), pp. 130–145, here 130. a b c d e f g h i Dummett, Michael A. E; Mann, Sylvia (1980). The game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City. ISBN 9780715610145.Maiden, Beth (2016-05-01). "#TarotsoWhite: A conversation about diversity in our cards". The Little Red Tarot Blog. Archived from the original on 2018-11-19 . Retrieved 2019-10-09. Crowley, Aleister (1974) [first published 1944]. The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot). New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc. ISBN 0877282684.