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• Etteilla was a French occultist who was first to popularise divination by Tarot to a wide audience. He became the first professional "Tarotist" in recorded history.
• Etteilla published his ideas of the correspondences between Tarot and Astrology.
• He was the first to issue a revised Tarot deck specifically designed for occult purposes.
• Etteilla's first book was "A Way to Entertain Yourself With a Deck of Cards" was a discourse on the usage of regular playing cards. (Some features included the "spread", or disposition on the table, and strictly assigned meanings to each card in regular and reversed positions).
• Etteilla also wrote another book, Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nomées Tarots ("How to Entertain Yourself With the Deck of Cards Called Tarot"). It was the first book on the methods of divination by Tarot.
• By 1790, he was interpreting the hermetic wisdom of the Egyptian "Book of Thoth" (Cour théorique et pratique du Livre du Thot), that included his reworkings of the Major and Minor Arcana, as well as the introduction of the four elements and Astrology.
• He proceeded to found a Tarot society, the Société des Interprètes du Livre de Thot. 
• Etteilla produced a special deck for divination according to his schemes. It was the first deck of cards specifically designed for occult purposes.

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