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[[Aleister Crowley]], who devised the [[Thoth Tarot]] deck along with Lady Frieda Harris, stated of the tarot: "The origin of this pack of cards is very obscure. Some authorities seek to put it back as far as the ancient Egyptian Mysteries; others try to bring it forward as late as the fifteenth or even the sixteenth century ... [but] The only theory of ultimate interest about the Tarot is that it is an admirable symbolic picture of the Universe, based on the data of the [[Kabbalah|Holy Qabalah]]."
[[Aleister Crowley]], who devised the [[Thoth Tarot]] deck along with Lady Frieda Harris, stated of the tarot: "The origin of this pack of cards is very obscure. Some authorities seek to put it back as far as the ancient Egyptian Mysteries; others try to bring it forward as late as the fifteenth or even the sixteenth century ... [but] The only theory of ultimate interest about the Tarot is that it is an admirable symbolic picture of the Universe, based on the data of the [[Kabbalah|Holy Qabalah]]."
Some Tarot decks designed for divination depart from the traditional structure and naming conventions of the Tarot. For example, the 1911 French deck, [[Tarot de la Reyne]], contains 120 cards with seven suits of seven cards; while the 2020 [[Hieronymus Bosch Tarot]] has eight suits of seven cards each.