The construction of the occult and divinatory significance of the tarot, and the Major and Minor Arcana, continued on from there. The occult significance began to emerge in the 18th century when Antoine Court de Gébelin, a Swiss clergyman and Freemason, published Le Monde Primitif. Michael Dummett writes that the Major Arcana originally had simple allegorical or esoteric meaning, mostly originating in elite ideology in the Italian courts of the 15th century when it was invented. The terms "Major" and "Minor Arcana" are used in the occult, and divinatory applications of the deck as in practising Esoteric Tarot and originate with Jean-Baptiste Pitois (1811–1877), writing under the name Paul Christian. When decks are used for card games ( Tarot card games), these cards serve as permanent trumps and are distinguished from the remaining cards, the suit cards, which are known by occultists as the Minor Arcana. There may have been allegorical and cultural significance attached to them, but beyond that, the trumps originally had little mystical or magical import.
Prior to the 17th century, the trumps were simply part of a special card deck used for gaming and gambling. They are typically numbered from 0 to 21. There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack. In occult practices, the Major Arcana are the trump cards of a tarot pack. The Major Arcana cards redesigned by Roberto Viesi.
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