The Senet Tarot of

Ancient Egypt
Part 1
The Complete Works of Douglass A. White, Ph.D.
Volume 2

古埃及神圖塔羅(一)
白中道博士全集 第二冊

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The Senet Tarot of Ancient Egypt
Part 1

The Complete Works of Douglass A. White, Ph.D.

Volume 2

古埃及神圖塔羅牌 (一)
白中道博士全集 第二冊

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Enlightenment is a viewpoint every person
already has available and always has had.
It is our essential nature. No technique,
practice, or special life style is necessary.

開悟是一個觀點，每一個人都已經可以利用
它，而且每一個人都永遠擁有它，它是我們的
本性，不需要任何技術、練習、或特殊的生活
方式。

Douglass A. White, Ph.D. 1941~2021

He was born in Chicago in 1941, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1964
with Bachelor of Oriental Languages and Literature, after that he entered Taiwan
University and began to study the Chinese literature of the former Qin Dynasty in
1965. In 1968, he completed his master's thesis on "Research on Zuo Chuan Quote
Poems". Later he returned to Harvard University in the United States to complete his
Ph.D. in Oriental Languages and Ancient Civilizations, and wrote the dissertation the
Interpretation of the Central Concept of “The Book of Changer” by Scholars in the
Han、Song and Ming Dynasties.
The content of all his works: 1) Research on the wisdom of ancient civilizations,
including ancient Egypt, China, Buddhism, Judaism, India, etc., 2)Dialyze the
authenticity of physical science from the perspective of an observer to connect with
the spiritual, 3) Inspiring spirituality Wisdom to continue earth civilization. There are
24 books in total.

白中道博士於 1941 年出生於美國芝加哥，1964 年完成美國哈佛大學的東方語

文學士畢業後，1965 年進入台灣大學開始研究前秦中國文學，於 1968 年完成了
“左傳引詩研究＂的碩士論文;後來又回到美國哈佛大學完成東方語言與古文明
博士，論文寫“漢、宋、明代學者對易經中心觀念的解釋＂。他畢生所有著作內
容型態:1)古文明智慧研究，包括古埃及、中國、佛學、猶太、印度.....等等，
2)以觀察者角度來透析物理科學的真實面貌以與心靈接軌， 3)啟發靈性智慧以
延續地球文明。總共著作 24 本。
【The Complete Works Catalogue of Douglass A. White, Ph.D.】
1 ) The Cosmic Game (Volume 1)
2 ) The Senet Game Text of Ancient Egypt (Volume 1)
3 ) The Senet Tarot of Ancient Egypt ( Volume2~3)
4 ) A Tour of Atlantis / Amduat ( Volume4~6)
5 ) The Pyramid Texts (Volume 7~11)
6 ) The Litany of Ra(Tarok Naipa) (Volume 12)
7 ) Mantras and Yantras of Ancient Egypt (Volume13)
8 ) Solar-Lunar Calendar (Kemetic Calendar) (Volume13)
9 ) The Holistic Change Maker (Book of Changes) (Volume14~15)
10 ) The Ancient Egyptian Senet Tarot and The Game of Human Life(Volume16~17)
11 ) The Story of Ra and IsIs (Volume17)
12 ) Observer Physics (Volume 18~19)
13 ) The Popcorn Time (Volume 20)
14 ) A Plan for a Planet (Volume 20)
15 ) Harvard Ph. D.Dissertation of The Book Of Changes (Volume 21)
16 ) The Game Changer
《Cultural relics unearthed in 2013 bamboo slips》 (Volume 22)
17 ) The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Volume 23)
18 ) Research on Zuo Chuan Quote poems for master's thesis (Volume 24)
（Chinese）

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【白中道博士全集書目】
1 ) 宇宙遊戲 第一冊
2 ) 古埃及神圖遊戲經文 第一冊
3 ) 古埃及神圖塔羅 第二~三冊
4 ) 出來到日光中之訓示 / 阿密度瓦特 第四~六冊
5 ) 金字塔經文 第七~十一冊
6 ) 日神的連禱文 第十二冊
7 ) 古埃及咒音與象徵圖騰 第十三冊
8 ) 永恆的萬年曆 第十三冊
9 ) 古埃及與易經 第十四~十五冊
10 ) 古埃及神圖塔羅與人類生活遊戲 第十六~十七冊
11 ) 拉(日)神與愛西斯的故事 第十七冊
12 ) 觀察物理學 第十八~十九冊
13 ) 爆米花開悟的時刻與 第二十冊
14 ) 地球文明的計畫 第二十冊
15 ) 哈佛博士易經論文 第二十一冊
16 ) 《易經》2013 年出土易經竹簡 第二十二冊
17 ) 帕坦伽利瑜珈經 第二十三冊
18 ) 碩士論文左傳引詩研究/中文 第二十四冊

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The Senet Tarot of Ancient Egypt
Part I: A History from Pre-Dynastic Times to the Roman Era
Dr. White has written a breakthrough book about the early development of the Tarot
in which he identifies the man who not only may have designed the first 78-card Tarot
deck, but also who probably wrote the first book describing the deck and how to use
it.
Dr. White describes how this work evolved into an effective educational tool for
supporting the legitimacy of pharaohs as the leaders of ancient Egypt and a secret
society that shaped the course of the 19th and 20th dynasties during which Egypt
dazzled the world with its amazing civilization.
The "Da-Rekh" (Tarok) organization continued to clandestinely protect and preserve
the knowledge and artifacts associated with their wisdom cult, ensuring in
uniquely creative ways that they would last through the dark ages after the fall of
Egypt until our day when. they might shine again in a new age of enlightenment,
planetary in scale.
Dr. White also explores and documents the curious ways in which ancient Egyptian
culture was transferred through the medium of sacred geometry and spiritual writing
by means of special encoding techniques as part of the Kabbalah (Qabalah)
technology used by Phoenicians and Hebrews. The process began as early as the
Second Intermediate Period and continued into the Roman Era.

Part II: Discussion of the Cards, How to Do Readings, Spreads, and Games.
Part II of this 500 page work by Dr. White contains a detailed description of how
and why he designed his popular Senet Tarot Oracle Deck of Ancient Egypt in the
way he did and includes detailed information about each card as well as samples of
how to interpret the cards during readings.
He presents his theory of card readings and explores some of the ways by which
people from the time of pre-dynastic Egypt down to the Roman Empire may have
consulted ingenious Tarot-like oracles.
As evidence he produces examples from the archaeological finds of oracle boards and
amulets of various different designs that allowed consultations remarkably similar to
Tarot readings of today even though they were not carried out with printed cards such
as we use in our era.
The oracle boards also were calendars and astronomical charts as well as
embodiments of sacred geometry, refined art, and the essence of ancient Egyptian
wisdom culture.
Dr. White demonstrates how the ancient Tarot technology is a wizard's gateway for
awakening spiritual awareness, intuition, and a relaxed, abundant lifestyle. He
unveils for you a real ancient. Egyptian STARGATE Technology recovered from the
drifting desert sands. The technology evolved from man's inherent love of games and
the discovery that games can accurately model the way the universe functions.
Mastery of the game's internal design leads to knowledge of past, present, and future.
Every question has an answer. The challenge is how to interpret the information and
apply it successfully.
Senet Tarot of Ancient Egypt, Part I Text © Douglass A. White, 2011 V 151016

Table of Contents

Dedication 2
A Vision 3
An Ancient Vision 4
Preface/Postface: What is Intuition? 6
The Components of a Tarot Deck 15
The Primary Hypothesis of this Book 16
The Historical Origins and Development of the Tarot Cards 17
The Origin of Paper 19
The � and the Tarot Trumps 23
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Senet 25
Play of the Game 32
The Weighing of the Heart and Senet Divination 33
The Geo-Physiology of Ancient Egypt 45
Picking the Pips and Creating an Egyptian Tarot Deck 48
A Survey of Egyptian-Style Tarot Decks 49
The Ancient Egyptian Spiritual Books 52
The � and the Tarot 53
The 78 Avatars of Ra 54
The Tarot Deck of the Pharaohs 60
The Cult Tradition of the � 66
The King List Deck and Theme-Based Playing Cards 69
The Number 72, the Lunar Fraction 1/72, and 78 75
The Name of the Game: Where Did "Tarot" Come From? 83
Evidence in the� 84
The Core Concept of the Egyptian Divination System 85
The Great Pyramid and the Meditation of Ra 86
The Difference Between Creation and Meditation 89
Technical Terms of Yoga 91
The Basic Attention Cycle 91
The Cycle of Attention Summarized 93
Meditation Using Mantras 94
Meditation Using Yantras 98
The Tarok Spreads Beyond Egypt 100
Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Other Semitic Peoples in Egypt 102
Qabalah and the Alphabet 105
Totems and Codes 105
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The Qabalistic Origins of the Alphabet 107

Char t of the Qabalistic Hebrew Rune Alphabet 110
Rune Exercise 111
The Qabalistic Tree of Life and the Senet Oracle Board 112
A Link from Egypt to Qabalah: � of Her mes 115
Qabalistic Hebrew from the Roman Era to the Middle Ages 126
The Egyptian Technol ogy Transfer 127
A Peek at the Genesis Egyptian Code 128
The Bembine Tablet, the Senet Oracle Board, and the � 132
How Did They Divine on the Oracle Tablet? 140
Material Related to the Isiac (Bembine) Tablet 141
Games from Roman Times up to the Time of Paper and Printing 142
The Invention of Paper and Printing 143
Evolution of the Suit Cards (Cour ts and Pips) in China 144
AMyster
sterious
i Ancient Chinese Board Game 149
Mamluk Cards in the Middle East 159
Pictures of Royalty on Cour t Cards 161
Blood and Paper in the Great Transition 162
The Word "Cathar" and the Qabalah 163
The Cards in M oorish Style 164
Petrarch and the Triumphs 165
Hand Painted Tarot Cards and Ear ly Printed Deck s 169
Influence of the Occultists 171
What is the "Best" Tar ot Deck? 174
The Vedas, the Vedic Gods, and Vedic Rishis 174
The Sequence of the Trumps 176
The Relation of the Trumps to the Alphabet 178
Encoding of Meaning in Many Hebrew Roots 181
The Zodiac and the Planets 182
Secret Messages in the Alphabet Trumps 187
The Celestial Trump Sequence 188
The Book of Thoth and His 22 Triumphs 201
The Secret Message[s] in the Traditional Hebrew Alaphabet Sequence 202
The Senet Oracle Board Hebrew Code 208
Transliteration of Hebrew 212
Transliteration of Egyptian 213
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The Senet Tarot of Ancient Egypt:

Part I, A History from Pre-Dynastic Times to the Roman Era

by Douglass A. White, Ph.D.

A Delta Point Book

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Copyright © Douglass A. White, 2004, 2011

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*Companion for Study: The � and an

Egyptian-style Tarot deck based on Dr. White's reconstruction of the divination
system of ancient Egypt that was known as "Ra Passing Through [His
Avatars]" (Senet Ra) [� Chapter 115.] Available from
�.tw **Highly Recommended: The Rider-Waite version of the
Tarot deck. You will find this deck extremely useful when you study the
Tarot Card layouts and descriptions provided in Part II of this book. Much of
the book's material refers to the drawings by Pamela Colman Smith made under the
direction of Arthur Waite that form the Rider-Waite deck.
***Highly Recommended: The Builders of the Adytum version of the 22 Major
Arcana. These drawings by Jessie Bums Parke under the direction of Paul Foster
Case are well executed and frequent mention of them is made in this book.
****Also Highly Recommended: The deck designed by Oswald Wirth.
*****Publication details are in the References at the back of the book. More
detailed references are at the back of Part II.
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