Tarot's origin - any evidence?

[greyWiz]

Hi, it's my first post here at Bring4th.

I was re-reading the Law of One material regarding the archetypes and its relation to the tarot cards, when a couple of questions regarding tarot came into my mind:

1. Conventional history states that tarot first appeared around the 14th century, and that the first egyptian decks appeared after the statement of Court de Gébelin in 1781, saying that the tarot was a book that preserved egyptian wisdom. Does anyone know any fact or evidence that might help disproving these statements (tarot created around 14th century; egyptian decks appeared after 1781), in order to reinforce Ra's statement that they were one of the initial influences upon the creation of tarot in Egypt?

2. What was the tarot deck that Don, Carla and Jim used to formulate the questions to Ra?


My first question is specifically related to this part of Session 76:

76.6 Questioner: I am sorry that we have had such a long delay between the last session and this one. It couldn’t be helped I guess. Could you please tell me the origin of the tarot?

Ra: I am Ra. The origin of this system of study and divination is twofold: firstly, there is that influence which, coming in a distorted fashion from those who were priests attempting to teach the Law of One in Egypt, gave form to the understanding, if you will pardon the misnomer, which they had received. These forms were then made a regular portion of the learn/teachings of an initiate. The second influence is that of those entities in the lands you call Ur, Chaldea, and Mesopotamia who, from old, had received the, shall we say, data for which they called having to do with the heavens. Thusly we find two methods of divination being melded into one with uneven results; the, as you call it, astrology and the form being combined to suggest what you might call the correspondences which are typical of the distortions you may see as attempts to view archetypes.

76.7 Questioner: Then am I correct in assuming that the priests of Egypt, in attempting to convert knowledge that they had received initially from Ra into understandable symbology, constructed and initiated the concept of the tarot? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct with the addition of the Sumerian influence

I'm sorry if these are silly questions - I was planning on pursuing another line of thought before this one, but these questions are somewhat important to my current studies.

Thanks in advance and best regards!