RHAPSODIES OF THE BIZARRE
The essays that changed the
world of Tarot forever
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Concerning the Game of Tarots
(Du Jeu des Tarots),
by Antoine Court de Gébelin,

&

Studies in Tarots
(Recherches sur les Tarots),
by Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce
de Mellet

In 1781 Antoine Court de Gébelin published 45 pages of text that changed the world of Tarot forever. While many people have read about these essays, and seen mention of them made frequently in the writings of occultists and Tarot historians, almost no one has actually read these works. For 221 years only private copies of complete English translations of these essays have been available. Why that has been true is one of the great Tarot mysteries, since without access to these texts, and their bountiful supply of original Tarotic dogma, one simply can not understand what occult Tarot is really all about.

Now, J. Karlin brings you Rhapsodies of the Bizarre, containing not only the first commercially available (and complete) English translation of these important essays, but also the fascinating story of how they came to be (and to be ignored) and what it all means, both then and now.

*Rhapsodies of the Bizarre, the Tarot Essays of Court de Gébelin and M. le Comte de Mellet, by J. Karlin.

•The complete Tarot essays of Court de Gébelin and M. le Comte de Mellet (known in the essays as M. le C. de M.***), in English. Included are the plates of Tarot cards printed in the 1781 edition.

•177 translator notes, explaining in great detail the esoteric references contained in the essays.

•Introduction and appendices to give you further help in understanding the continuing importance of these seminal but seldom-read Tarot texts.