TAROT CARDS - GEBELIN DESIGN - HERMIT - SUN - STAR - MOON Top left] The Hermit, card 9 of the set pictured by the French Mason, Court de Gebelin, in 1773, based on the Marseille decks he had seen. Gebelin referred to the card as 'The Wise Man'. See Court de Gebelin, Le Monde primitive, Vols. III [1773] and VIII [1781]. [Top right] The Sun, card 19 of the Gebelin design. [Bottom left] The Star, card 17 of the Gebelin design, which (with the typical symbolism associated with eighteenth century Masonary, he called Sirius, or 'The Dog Star', identifying the naked lady below the star with Isis
TAROT CARDS - GEBELIN DESIGN - HERMIT - SUN - STAR - MOON Top left] The Hermit, card 9 of the set pictured by the French Mason, Court de Gebelin, in 1773, based on the Marseille decks he had seen. Gebelin referred to the card as 'The Wise Man'. See Court de Gebelin, Le Monde primitive, Vols. III [1773] and VIII [1781]. [Top right] The Sun, card 19 of the Gebelin design. [Bottom left] The Star, card 17 of the Gebelin design, which (with the typical symbolism associated with eighteenth century Masonary, he called Sirius, or 'The Dog Star', identifying the naked lady below the star with Isis. [Bottom right] The Moon, card 18 of the Gebelin design. Court de Gebelin's theory of the origins of the Tarot cards was entirely fanciful, yet it caught the imagination of an entire generation of occultists. He recognised the cards as 'a book of 78 pages', which had escaped the destruction of the Egyptian libraries: it was of Egyptian design - even though the cards the reproduced in his own book reveal not a vestige of Egyptian learning or symbolism. He invented for the word Tarot an Egyptian etymology, insisting that it meant 'Royal Road' (this etymology was just as fanciful as his view that the cards were Egyptian in origin).
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