Eliphas Levi
In the same way that Gebelin and Etteilla tried to demostrate scientifically the origins of the Egyptian tarot cards, this man believed that the letters of the alphabet were sacred tarot and hidden, that the Jews attributed to Enoch, eldest son of Cain, the Egyptians Trismegisto Hermes, the god Thoth, and the Greeks, to Cadmos, the founder of Tebas.
Eliphas Levi was a philosopher and a scholar of symbolism. His real name was Alphonse Louis Constant, and was a Catholic priest.
Levi saw the tarot cards as a synthesis of science and the key to interpreting the Kabbalah. He noted that in the Kabbalah the tree of life has twenty trails that connected the Sephiroth or numbers. Constantly trails combined with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
Finally, he stated that the twenty-two major arcans should be attached to the letters of the alphabet, thus achieving the complete symbiosis of letters, cards and paths.
