Watercolor paintings on papyrus from the Nile, these images contain the mysteries of Egyptian magic. If the legends are true and tarot was born in ancient Egypt, then this deck bears symbols and imagery that go back thousands of years.
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 merge...read more.
