THE ALCHEMIST: Sit down. I promised a great secret and I will not disappoint you. Is this the end of our adventure? Nothing has an end. ...

Tarot je špil od sedamdeset osam karata. Tu postoje četiri boje, kao i u suvremenim kartama za igranje, koje su iz njega nastale. Međutim “dvorskih karata” ima četiri umjesto tri. Uz to tu su i dvadeset i dvije karte koje se nazivaju “aduti”, od kojih svaka predstavlja po jednu simboličku sliku vlastitog naziva. Na prvi pogled bi se moglo pomisliti da je ovakav raspored proizvoljan, ali nije tako. On je nužno uvjetovan strukturom Svemira, posebno Sunčevog sistema, kako ga simbolički predstavlja sveta kabala.
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THE ALCHEMIST: Sit down. I promised a great secret and I will not disappoint you. Is this the end of our adventure? Nothing has an end.

The Tarot is a pack of seventy-eight cards. There are four suits, as in modern playing cards, which are derived from it. But the Court cards number four instead of three. In addition, there are twenty-two cards called “Trumps”, each of which is a symbolic picture with a title itself. At first sight one would suppose this arrangement to be arbitrary, but it is not. It is necessitated, as will appear later, by the structure of the universe, and in particular of the Solar System, as symbolized by the Holy Qabbalah.
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