Le Tarot des Bohémiens

This deck of cards of the Bohemians is a marvelous book, as Court de Gébelin (1) and especially Vaillant (2) have seen. This deck, under the names of TAROT (3), THORA (4), and ROTA (5), has successively formed the basis of the synthetic teaching of all ancient peoples (6).

Where the common man sees only a means of amusement, the thinker finds the key to this tradition that is otherwise so obscure; Raymond Lull bases his Ars Magna Original: "Ars Magna" (Great Art). on the Tarot and manages to replace the human brain with the Tarot in motion; Jerome Cardan writes a treatise on subtlety regarding the keys of the Tarot (7); Guillaume Postel finds in this Tarot the key to hidden things, while Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, the Unknown Philosopher, sees described within it the mysterious links that unite God, the Universe, and Man!

It is thanks to the Tarot that we are going to be able to recover and develop this synthetic law hidden in all symbolisms.

The hour approaches when the lost word shall be found; Masters, Rosicrucians, and Kadosh A high rank in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry., you who form the sacred triangle of initiation, remember!

[Diagram of a triangle containing a cross divided into four sections, each with a Hebrew letter: Yod, He, Waw, He—the Tetragrammaton.]

(1) Court de Gébelin — Le Monde primitif (The Primitive World).
(2) Vaillant — Les Rômes, histoire des Bohémiens (The Roma, History of the Bohemians).
(3) Eliphas Levi — Rituel de Haute Magie (Ritual of High Magic).
(4) Vaillant — Op. cit.
(5) Guillaume Postel — Clavis (Key).
(7) See Eliphas Levi — Op. cit.