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Pitois had read about | Pitois had read about occultism and developed a strong anticlerical stance. During his life, many Eastern texts had been translated into French, as had the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. In 1859 Pitois turned his attention to writing ''Historie de la Magie, du monde Surnaturel et de la fatalité à travers les Temps et les Peuples'' (1870) (''History of Magic, the Supernatural World and Fate, through Times and Peoples''). | ||
Carefully written so as not to offend his largely Catholic audience, it immediately became popular public reading. It surveyed the whole of the [[occult]], explaining each element, and provided a history of occult practice in the West from ancient times. The book is especially notable for being the source of the terms [[Major Arcana]] and [[Minor Arcana]] to describe the sections of the [[Tarot]]. | Carefully written so as not to offend his largely Catholic audience, it immediately became popular public reading. It surveyed the whole of the [[occult]], explaining each element, and provided a history of occult practice in the West from ancient times. The book is especially notable for being the source of the terms [[Major Arcana]] and [[Minor Arcana]] to describe the sections of the [[Tarot]]. | ||