Case : 451Esoteric iconography in tarot started with the influence of dark magic given in the famous book Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual) of Eliphas Levi, and also the translations of dark magic books by McGregors Mathers, A.E.Waite and others like Stanislas de Guaita, Yeats but mostly developed under influence of hermetic iconography. The darka side of hermetic has just fully illustrated at the first time in Crowley’s Thoth Tarot (1969) with black sex magic, one century later. It opened the black magic and dark art (and most of time, they linked with surrealism movement) that become the 2nd important tradition in tarot from 70’s until now. The most important works (before 1990) are Salvador Dali’s Dali Tarot (1970), Elisabetta Cassari’s Solleone Tarot (1983), Barbara Walker's Tarot (1986), Christos Beest’s The Sinister Tarot (1989), H.R.Giger’s Baphomet Tarot (1980).
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