Kingdom Highway
Scholarly deck honoring tarot history from Petrarch through modern occultism.
by John D. Williams · 2006
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The record
"Dedicated to Petrarch, the Estates of man, the divine Cosmos, the Virtues, the gamblers of Milan and Ferrara, the Visconti-Sforza family, Bonifacio Bembo, the immunerable wood cutters, Nicholas Conver and the city of Marseilles, Jacques Vieville, Court de Gebelin, Etteilla, Levi, Papus, Wirth, the Golden Dawn, the Anonymous of many and one, the legacy of Thoth, the Mamluk Empire, the Templar Knights, the Epher Yetzirah and the Holy Church, presented in 78 cards, the Royal Road, the Great Work, the Kingdom Highway." ~ JDW The Kingdom Highway Tarot is a new, hand-made deck from Tarot scholar and commercial illustrator, John D. Williams. Conceived to be a book of Tarot rather than a bundled collection of picturesque images, it was also designed to be both an art deck and a working deck, and to blur the distinction between the two. The initial impulse for the deck was artistic, as John was attracted by tarots use of symbolic imagery. The idea was to make a tarot about tarot, not to be a clone of existing models, but to reference the rich visual history of the tarot. John completed the cards in consecutive order to fulfill a spiritual journey, taking him through the history of the
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