Amazingly detailed and gracefully beautiful, Alasia's tempera-on-papyrus paintings meld the stunning style of ancient Egyptian art with the mysteries of the Tarot. To shape the interpretations, Alasia relied on the conceptions of Jean-Baptiste Pitois, who linked the Tarot tradition to the legendary Book of Thoth. Replete with ancient and exotic symbols, these cards speak to the soul.
Inlcudes booklet.
Publisher Review:
One of the first books I read when I began studying occultism was The History and Practice of Magic by Paul Christian. This was the Anglicized name of Jean Baptiste Pitois for a book first published in France in 1870, seven years before his death.
The reason I liked it was because of the dramatic and imaginative writing style, part of which included a fascinating, fantastic, and almost phantasmagorical story of initiation in ancient Egypt that merged...read more.
The Tarot is a living being! It has its own intelligence, a personality you can feel every time you use the Tarot. When we take the Tarot Trumps in our hands, we do not hold an ancient document or an inanimate book. The Arcana of the Tarot are a real tool that allow us to invoke or evoke an immaterial and invisible mind. These Tarot Trumps are the... read this article
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