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THE TAEOT OF THE BOHEMIANS.

ABSOLUTE KEY TO OCCULT SCIENCE.

THE TAROT

OF THE BOHEMIANS.

THE MOST ANCIENT BOOK IN THE WOELD.

FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF INITIATES.

By PAPUS.

FROM THE FRENCH BY A. P. MORTON.

ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES AND WOODCUTS.

LONDON:
GEORGE REDWAY.

1896.

The Tarot pack of 78 Cards, or Plates,
may be obtained on application to the
Publisher— Mr. George Redway, 9
Hart Street, Bloomsbury, London.

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TO ALL ITS DISCIPLES.

PREFACE.

The Tarot pack of cards, transmitted by the Gypsies
from generation to generation, is the primitive book of
ancient initiation. This has been clearly demonstrated
by Guillaume Postel, Court de Gébelin, Etteila, Eliphas
Levi, and J. A. Vaillant.

The key to its construction and application has not yet
been revealed, so far as I know. I therefore wished to
fill up this deficiency by supplying Initiates, i. e. those
who are acquainted with the elements of occult science,
with an accurate guide, which would assist them in the
pursuit of their studies.

The uninitiated reader will find in it the explanation of
the lofty philosophy and science of ancient Egypt ; whilst
ladies are enabled to practise the use of the divining
Tarot, by methods which we have rendered easy in