Curtis Penfold
It doesn't, but it could prove that, perhaps, spiritual numerology is a natural occurance. Some of it is historical, but perhaps, when we use the same number system (Arabic), we come up with similar ideas. We see a stableness in the number four or something like that.Greg Stanton said:You know, there's suits in Mah Jong too, and the tiles are numbered 1-10. There's also four winds, three dragons, four seasons and four flowers. I'm sure a clever Qabbalist can come up with plenty of correspondences (which is what they do). Still doesn't prove Mah Jong was invented by a secret order attempting to preserve their sacred teachings for a future generation...
I'm more comfortable saying that Kabbalah explains natural universal psychological tendancies more than it has somehow pushed itself into Occult symbolism found in everyday objects.
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Where is everybody? I wanted to see if there's any evidence supporting Kabbalah being connected to Tarot. So far, all the Tarot-Kabbalah believers are gone.