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The tarot cards and playing cards are languages that conceal deep spiritual knowledge. Who would imagine, in this rapid technological age, that the very objects used in gambling can reveal to us the evolution and involution of both man and the universe?

The Garden of Eden, Adam, Eve, the unconscious, subconscious and supra-conscious states of the mind, kundalini or the serpent power, matter, illusion or Satan, the divine temple and the Lord within, and so many occult realities are hidden in these cards. The tarot is defined as the key to eternal wisdom ... (extract from 'Wisdom of the Ancients')

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