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Game of Saturn by Peter Mark Adams
£45.00
For the first time in over five hundred years, the clues embedded within the cards have been decoded to reveal a pagan ritual tradition active amongst the members of the Renaissance elite.
Beneath its beautifully decorated surface, its imagery ranges from the bizarre to the grotesque; we encounter scenes of homoeroticism, wounding, immolation and decapitation redolent of hidden meanings, violent transformations and obscure rites.
Conveyed from Byzantium to Italy in the dying years of the Byzantine Empire, the pagan Platonist, George Gemistos Plethon, sought to ensure the survival of Neoplatonic theurgy by transplanting it into the elite families of the Italian Renaissance.
Plethon’s vision of an elite, illumined Saturnian brotherhood marks the birth of the idea of an illumined elite over three centuries before Adam Weishaupt’s Illuminati.
‘The Game of Saturn’ fully explores the historical context for the deck’s creation against the background of Byzantine decline, interstate diplomatic intrigue and Ferrarese-Venetian warfare.
The recovery of the deck’s encoded narratives constitutes a significant contribution to Renaissance scholarship, art history, tarot studies and the history of Western esotericism.
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The Tarot, Magic, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism (3rd Edition) by Robert M Place
£36.99
n exploration of the Tarot’s mystical roots, with a guide to The Tarot of Marseilles, The Waite Smith Tarot, The Alchemical Tarot, and The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery. Now with 59 updates since the second edition and two new illustrations
The Tarot, Magic, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism Third Edition incorporates the material that was in Alchemy and the Tarot and The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, but updates the facts and, as you can tell by the title, covers a lot more material—about three times as much, with 680 pages and over 302 illustrations.
The First Occult Tarot Book by Robert M. Place
£19.99
The First Occult Tarot as Envisioned by Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, comte de Mellet, in 1781
Before Aleister Crowley, before Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, before the Golden Dawn, before Papus, Éliphas Lévi, and Etteilla, the first author to describe an occult version of the Tarot was Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, comte de Mellet, writing in Antoine Court de Gébelin’s, 1781, eighth volume of his monumental encyclopedia, Monde primitif.
The comte de Mellet associated the Tarot’s trumps with the Classical Ages of Man: the Age of Gold, the Age of Silver, and the Age of Iron. He correlated the Trumps with the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, he described the minor suits in detail, and he provided the earliest discussion of a divination technique for the Tarot.
Two Esoteric Tarots by Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet
£30.00
A conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet on the esoteric tarot, in relation to the elite and Saturnian Sola-Busca tarocchi and the popular and luminous Tarot de Marseille. The two leading researchers into the hidden legacy of the tarot discuss the significance of their discoveries, which overturn the prevailing academic orthodoxy, and in doing so transform our understanding of the role of tarot in Western esotericism.
Standard hardback edition limited to 800 copies.
Bound in mandarin cloth stamped in gold, black endpapers. Printed in colour on premium 150 gsm paper.
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