The task, Remedios Varo
A storm, 1932, Rene Magritte
Size: 56.1x40.6 cmMedium: gouache
The task, Remedios Varo
A storm, 1932, Rene Magritte
Size: 56.1x40.6 cmRoger Freeing Angelica (St. George and the Damsel), 1970, Salvador Dali
Tarot of the Bohemians, along with the Pictoral Key to the Tarot, constitute the core literature of 19th and early 20th century ‘Tarotism’. However, PTK is to the TOB as arithmetic is to differential calculus. If you have no experience reading occult literature of this period, you may find yourself profoundly lost after the first couple of pages, staring at the abundant and profoundly esoteric tab les, charts and diagrams, trying to get a clue as to what Papus is talking about. Papus is after a ‘Theory of Everything’, and finds evidence for it in the Tarot and a set of correspondences with everything from the tetragrammaton to numerology and astrology.
As Papus notes, all of the early cards depict people dressed in the costume of this period.
This book is hard work, but if you master it you will have a profound grasp of the inner life of the Tarot deck.
–J.B. Hare
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David Batchelor
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Star Catcher, Remedios Varo
Zdzislaw Beksinski