Eternal

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This is a Gnostic tarot deck and as such is founded on some quite uncompromising beliefs. To whit – thousands of years ago the Angel Metatron gave the Tarot and Hebrew letters to mankind. The deeper meanings of the tarot (the keys to higher understanding) have been hidden from common folk, and the tarot decks that have been published over the centuries are both inauthentic and degenerate. But now a new era has arrived and the hidden knowledge and authentic tarot is revealed. The purpose of this tarot is solely for gaining self-knowledge and spiritual revelation. In line with this, reading tarot for others should only be done by a 'awakened master 'and reading the tarot for the purpose of fortune telling or for earning a living is both ridiculed and repudiated. While this is an exceptionally truncated version, it is essentially the essence of the introduction to The Eternal Tarot. There are several short chapters in the guidebook which further expands the Gnostic point of view, which is rather absolute and unbending, and may not fit in with those inclined to more liberal new-age beliefs and philosophies. However this is a meticulously constructed tarot deck founded on solid principl

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