Mirror of the Free - Couverture souple

Swift, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846944198 ISBN 13 : 9781846944192

Editeur : John Hunt Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The images on the Marseille Tarot cards started out as illustrations of Sumero-Bablyonian myths, preserved through the centuries on cylinder seals. They were copied by people who didn't understand them but who also had access to some form, whether written or oral, of the wisdom encoded in those myths and in Bible stories. That wisdom is identical with Sufi teachings as espoused by teachers like Ibn al 'Arabi, Rumi, and others, including Gurdjieff and his teachings about the enneagram. The myths and stories are decoded in this book using the multiple meanings conveyed by Arabic consonantal word roots and by reference to those doctrines and to modern discoveries about conditioning and the hemispheric specialization of the brain. Arabic is the closest existing descendant of the ancient Protosemitic language. The Kabbalah, long rumoured to be linked to the Tarot, is shown to come from the same sources, and originally had eight, not ten, sefiroth. The visual evidence alone is overwhelming: the mystery of where the Tarot comes from has been definitively solved.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nicholas Swift was born in St. Catharines, Canada, and is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Hunt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846944198
• ISBN 13: 9781846944192
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 190
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• Personne responsable: non disponible