The Tarot Trumps and the Holy Grail: Great Secrets of the Middle Ages

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This book presents an unusually coherent and cohesive theory about the origins of the Tarot Trumps and their relationship to the “Grail” heresy: the belief in medieval Europe that Jesus was married and that his bloodline survived in the Merovingians and related families in Europe. The trumps are here explained purely as an historical artifact without any reference whatever to divination. The images provide a “flash-card catechism” for the Grail story, including connections with the Knights Templar, the alleged “guradians of the Grail.” In my view, other theories of the origin of Tarot trumps do not provide as plausible an explanation for their images in a purely historical context as does this little book.