The Tarot and the Magick of the Six Realms

Inspired by the Wisdom of Cosmas Indicopleustes and Amma Syncletica, as revealed to Jeff Carreira and Judith Marsden. What if the Tarot’s Major Arcana were never meant to predict the future — but to liberate the soul? In this groundbreaking work of mystical reconstruction, spiritual philosopher Jeff Carreira and independent scholar Judith Marsden unveil a visionary manuscript that traces the roots of the Tarot back to the desert mystics of early Christianity. At the center of this revelatory text is a fragment attributed to Amma Syncletica, a revered Desert Mother, who transmits a secret teaching said to have originated with Mary Magdalene herself — teachings that may have once formed part of the now-lost pages of the Gospel of Mary. Syncletica’s fragment describes twenty-two archetypal initiations the soul must pass through as it ascends through six mystical realms: Strength, Power, Will, Time, Eternity, and Creation. Through these symbolic trials, the soul sheds illusion, awakens i