Agrippa lived and worked in
Switzerland for only a few years, but he was in Basel--a hot
bed of printing and alchemy.
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Court de Gébelin, a
Swiss Protestant pastor and occultist, initiated the public
movement to interpret the Tarot as a repository of timeless
esoteric wisdom.
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Wirth was the first to
create an occult Tarot. His Major Arcana were based on
Levi, used to illustrate Papus, and owned by Crowley.
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