The Tarot is benedictine's work!
The goal of this
site is to offer guidance to explorers of the Tarosphere by discussing
the secret coding of the names of the Arcana of the Conver Tarot
de Marseille. My page 12 is dedicated to the Fool (Le Mat) and
contains information needed to understand the secret code. The
link can be found at the bottom of the page.
On page 13 of this site we will discuss the creator of the Tarot, the Benedictine monk
Suger (1081-1151), protector of the Knights Templar and regent to the kingdom of France
during the Second Crusade (12th Century). Suger is known as the father of Gothic art. He
renovated the abbey church of St. Denis, an architectural masterpiece that is a silent
hymn to light. I submit that his other main contribution is the Tarot, a luminous,
silent book that can be seen as a temple, a portable miniature cathedral, an Oracle
meant to bridge the gap between man and the Divine Will. It can be seen as a sacrament.
Cutting the deck before reading, a sacred gesture!
ORACLE = ORA CLE, ORA T (cle (20) is substituted by the 20th
letter, T), TARO. The added T symbolises the various known crosses.
TAROT! We needed a T/cross here because Taro is also Rota, a wheel.
A cross makes the symbolism complete. A wheel and a cross together,
we have a whole symbolic story in the name. One of these types
of crosses, the Cross Potent (Croix potencée) is alluded to in
the context presented by Major XII, The Hanged Man. The gibbet
is called, in French, gibet or POTENCE=78! Cross Potent is also
known as Jerusalem cross and, in Heraldic symbolism, as Tau cross.
The whole scene in XII is exemplar to the presence of one of the
numerous Crucis dissimulates (hidden crosses) one can find in
Tarot de Marseille. 'Hanging to wood' is the Hebrew translation
for the word crucifixion. This gives us an idea of who is represented
here. Note also that this famous character has the shape of a
compass and also a key, two potent symbols!
The Oracle was designed as European kingdoms and the Catholic Church were fighting
in the Holy Land. It is the landscape of this time and place that
populates the images of the Tarot. The Order of the Temple, a
military religious order present in Palestine and Europe, flew
a flag representing a human cranium and two-crossed tibia [the
famous Skull and Crossbones] on their ships. The human cranium
is made up of 22 bones. The word "tibia", when decoded (see below),
gives us the sum of 39. Two tibias give us the sum of 78. Other
data of the sort point toward a link between the Templars and
Tarot.
Notice in the King of Swords (Roy d' Épée) image to the right that the figure is sitting
on a tomb with some markings near his calf. They are the letters G and H, or 7 and 8.
The tomb the King of Swords sits on is coded as 78! I believe that this image of a tomb
in the Tarot alludes to the cenotaph of St-Denis in France. Below the image of the King
is a picture of a scene inside the western entry to the basilica of St. Denis. The photo
shows a Skull and Crossbones sitting on top of two sphinxes looking in opposite
directions. That last symbol represents the line of horizon, the encounter between East
and West, night and day. Together with the Templar's crosses on the various altars,
these symbols clearly manifest the spirit of the time in France, the 'cultural
conquest' of Palestine.
Tarot is a set of 78 cards. In the heart of the so-called gothic cathedrals the same
number can be found, coded into the famous labyrinths (demonstrated on page 3). Tarot is
also indistinguishable from the book of the Apocalypse. The two complement each other.
This is the book the Popess is holding in her lap. The Tarot also has links to the rest
of the Bible as well as Grammar, Kabala, Astrology and Alchemy.
