Lately I have been studying the tarot and Kaballah but not anywhere near the Judaic Perspective. I believe and have read information that, like almost all occult knowledge, the Kaballah stems from an earlier (most likely Egyptian) predecessor and has now been either changed completely or just distorted. But they still have their innate power when studied outside the confines of the xian philosophy. Tarot and Kaballah work together harmoniously with numerology and also with the chaos that is innate in the world, and hence, the shuffling of the deck. I also read that the Hebrew letters that are associated with the Tarot are distortions of the original Runic symbols. I really wish to hear more opinions on this, and learn places where I can study the deeper origins. Thank you!