Tarot of the Bohemians: Chapter XVIII. The Kabbalistic Tarot: Chapter XIX. List of the Authors who Have Interested Themselves in the Tarot

Raymond Lulle--Cardan--Postel--The Rosicrucians--Court de Gébelin--Etteila--Claude de Saint--Martin--J. A.--Vaillant--Christian--Eliphas Levi--Stanislas de Guaita--Joséphin Péladan--The Platonist--Theosophical Publications--F. Ch. Barlet--Oswald Wirth--Poirel--Ely Star--H. P. Blavatsky--Ch. de Sivry--Mathers.

SOME ACCOUNT

OF THE AUTHORS WHO HAVE SPECIALLY INTERESTED THEMSELVES IN THE TAROT.

RAYMOND LULLE (1235-1315), an eminently learned man, the founder of a system of philosophy, but chiefly of logic, entirely based upon the application of the Tarot; this is the Ars Magna.

CARDAN (JÉRÔME). Born in Paris in 1501, died in 1576. Professor of Mathematics and Medicine at Milan and Boulogne.

Travelled through Scotland, England, and France, working miraculous cures.

His treatise On Subtility (1550) is entirely based on the keys of the Tarot.

POSTEL (GUILLAUME). Born at Dolerie (diocese of Avranches)

F. CH. BARLET. One of the most learned and most highly-esteemed authorities amongst French Occultists. The summary of one of his works on the Tarot Initiatique (1889) is quoted in extenso, page 253.

OSWALD WIRTH has studied the astronomical Tarot (see Chapter XVI.), and has carefully reproduced the twenty-two symbolical figures, according to the most recent information obtainable upon Symbolism (1889).