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Hello everyone, this is my first contribution to this forum after having created an account years ago and having had lurked for even longer than I had the account.
There is a remarkable, but seemingly little-known book called "The Game of Saturn", by Peter Mark Adams, which gives a profound analysis of the Sola-Busca tarocchi, one of the oldest preserved Tarot decks, dating from the 15th century. The content of the book is relevant to various theories and lines of research discussed on this forum. The book contains some fascinating theses. It connects the Venetian patriciate, whose members ordered the production of the deck from the artisans of Ferrara, to a supposed secret cult of Baal Ammon, the Afro-Phoenician deity.
Some cards from the Sola-Buscha tarot
This is especially interesting in the context of chronological revisionism and the Venice-Phoenicia connection postulated by some. If the history is really shorter by some 700-800 years, as the late Dr. Gunnar Heinsohn suggested, the whole resettling of the Phoenicians to Venice becomes more plausible. And Adams' book offers the theory that the Venetian elite clandestinly worshipped Baal, the major deity of Phoenicia and performed malefic magic connected with Baal and Saturn.
I know some people propose that the British Empire was the continuation of the Venetian empire, it all having originated in Phoenicia. The book gives us a possible corroboration of the Venetian origin of the British demonic cults and suggests taht the Venetian cult itself originates from Phoenicia indeed. The whole Miles Mathis character looks hardly credible to me, but there may be something to his "Phoenician navy" theory in light of this.
There's another very interesting thread running through the book. Many of the cards of the Sola-Buscha tarot deck contain images of characters from the supposed Roman antiquity. The book describes some peculiarities of these depictions, and it all seems to offer clues (this is already my interpretation) that at least parts of the Roman ancient history that came down to us may have originated as coded symbolic tales for scholars and elites possesing the esoteric "master key" to the true meaning of the "deeds of ancient heroes", only later taken, or deliberately presented to the masses, as literal history.
It seems that if you traverse the world of the widely understood culture, from time to time you can discover an author who seems to be "in the know" about these things. My favourite writer, Jorge Luis Borges, is one of such authors. Of course, his aura of mystery and hinting at secret knowledge can be taken to be a literary convention. But on the other hand, the "literary convention" may be the easiest device to hide things in plain sight. I recommend to those interested in this topic to look at Borges' short stories, in particular "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Sect of the Phoenix", "The Sect of the Thirty", "Three Version of Judas", "The Rose of Paracelsus" and "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv". It seems that between the lines he is pointing to a gnostic (Luciferian?) sect, that he himself may have been a part of and seems to even suggest that their main "ritual" is sodomy; that it preaches to its members either total licentioussness or abstinence. Borges may have been one of the abstinent sectarians, according to some researchers he may have even never had sex. He certainly wasn't married until old age and never had children.
What's interesting, although we can identify the gnostic (and Luciferian?; Saturnian? - we can connect it to Adams' book somewhat; he is writing about the "Archontic gnostics", those who knew about the Archon control, but instead of defying Archons, chose to work with them for mundane gains; that's why I'm mentioning this topic in the same post) currents in the way Borges describes the sect, he also suggest that the sect itself doesn't have a fixed name and its members across the world do not necessarily keep close contact, or even recognition of one another. That would explain why, when we try to pinpoint Bohemian Grove, or Freemasonry, or Skull&Bones, or Jesuits, or Satanists, or elite sectarian Jews, (not going into the "non-human" theories here) as the main "directors from the shadows", we always seem to miss the mark, because the true "ruling brotherhood" may encompass or infiltrate all of the above and go without a name and tight organization, relying on an ancient secretive hereditary tradition instead, safeguarding itself against ever being revealed, tracked down and destroyed. It's a big club and you ain't in it, but this time you can't even ever pinpoint what exactly is the club.
I hope for an interesting discussion, I've opened this thread to recommend the book and possibly get input from members who may have valuable reflections on these topics.
There is a remarkable, but seemingly little-known book called "The Game of Saturn", by Peter Mark Adams, which gives a profound analysis of the Sola-Busca tarocchi, one of the oldest preserved Tarot decks, dating from the 15th century. The content of the book is relevant to various theories and lines of research discussed on this forum. The book contains some fascinating theses. It connects the Venetian patriciate, whose members ordered the production of the deck from the artisans of Ferrara, to a supposed secret cult of Baal Ammon, the Afro-Phoenician deity.
This is especially interesting in the context of chronological revisionism and the Venice-Phoenicia connection postulated by some. If the history is really shorter by some 700-800 years, as the late Dr. Gunnar Heinsohn suggested, the whole resettling of the Phoenicians to Venice becomes more plausible. And Adams' book offers the theory that the Venetian elite clandestinly worshipped Baal, the major deity of Phoenicia and performed malefic magic connected with Baal and Saturn.
I know some people propose that the British Empire was the continuation of the Venetian empire, it all having originated in Phoenicia. The book gives us a possible corroboration of the Venetian origin of the British demonic cults and suggests taht the Venetian cult itself originates from Phoenicia indeed. The whole Miles Mathis character looks hardly credible to me, but there may be something to his "Phoenician navy" theory in light of this.
There's another very interesting thread running through the book. Many of the cards of the Sola-Buscha tarot deck contain images of characters from the supposed Roman antiquity. The book describes some peculiarities of these depictions, and it all seems to offer clues (this is already my interpretation) that at least parts of the Roman ancient history that came down to us may have originated as coded symbolic tales for scholars and elites possesing the esoteric "master key" to the true meaning of the "deeds of ancient heroes", only later taken, or deliberately presented to the masses, as literal history.
It seems that if you traverse the world of the widely understood culture, from time to time you can discover an author who seems to be "in the know" about these things. My favourite writer, Jorge Luis Borges, is one of such authors. Of course, his aura of mystery and hinting at secret knowledge can be taken to be a literary convention. But on the other hand, the "literary convention" may be the easiest device to hide things in plain sight. I recommend to those interested in this topic to look at Borges' short stories, in particular "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Sect of the Phoenix", "The Sect of the Thirty", "Three Version of Judas", "The Rose of Paracelsus" and "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv". It seems that between the lines he is pointing to a gnostic (Luciferian?) sect, that he himself may have been a part of and seems to even suggest that their main "ritual" is sodomy; that it preaches to its members either total licentioussness or abstinence. Borges may have been one of the abstinent sectarians, according to some researchers he may have even never had sex. He certainly wasn't married until old age and never had children.
What's interesting, although we can identify the gnostic (and Luciferian?; Saturnian? - we can connect it to Adams' book somewhat; he is writing about the "Archontic gnostics", those who knew about the Archon control, but instead of defying Archons, chose to work with them for mundane gains; that's why I'm mentioning this topic in the same post) currents in the way Borges describes the sect, he also suggest that the sect itself doesn't have a fixed name and its members across the world do not necessarily keep close contact, or even recognition of one another. That would explain why, when we try to pinpoint Bohemian Grove, or Freemasonry, or Skull&Bones, or Jesuits, or Satanists, or elite sectarian Jews, (not going into the "non-human" theories here) as the main "directors from the shadows", we always seem to miss the mark, because the true "ruling brotherhood" may encompass or infiltrate all of the above and go without a name and tight organization, relying on an ancient secretive hereditary tradition instead, safeguarding itself against ever being revealed, tracked down and destroyed. It's a big club and you ain't in it, but this time you can't even ever pinpoint what exactly is the club.
I hope for an interesting discussion, I've opened this thread to recommend the book and possibly get input from members who may have valuable reflections on these topics.
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