Playing-cards relation to Tarot cards

Most people are not aware that the 52-card playing deck that can be found in almost every home is almost identical to the tarot deck, although research has not yet proven which came first. The traditional tarot deck contains a total of 78 cards. Twenty-two cards form the Major Arcana and 56 cards form the Minor Arcana, from which the regular playing deck is derived. Instead of three face cards, the tarot deck has four face cards, called court cards. They are Page, Knight, Queen and King. The Minor Arcana consists of four suits: Wands (Clubs); Cups (Hearts); Swords (Spades); and Pentacles (Diamonds). (Taken from What is Cartomancy?)

The book, A Dictionary of Symbols, by J.E. Cirlot, says on page 259-260, "Playing-cards The entire pack of playing-cards is symbolic in origin. It finds its fullest expression in the twenty-two major enigmas of the Tarot pack (each card representing an integral allegory which is, up to a certain point, complete in itself), followed by the fifty-six lesser enigmas. The latter comprise fourteen figures in each of the four suits. . . " It then goes on to specify the various symbols used on the playing cards, as well as mentioning the King, Queen, Knight, and Jack in relation to the Tarot Pack on p. 328. Not only are the Tarot cards used in the occult and witchcraft, they are apparently based on the Jewish Satanism of the Cabala, an exceedingly vile religion. In the same book on p. 329, we find that a man named Oswald Wirth " . . . indicates that the Cabala must have been well known to the authors of the Tarot, because they fixed the number of major enigmas at 22, which is the same number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, every one of them pregnant with symbolism, and the same, also, as the number of the teraphim, the hieroglyphs used by the Hebrews in divination." (Taken from Playing Cards.)