Vincent
In the history section of the PKT Waite talks at some length about the Baldini deck, and say of the cards;
"...they could scarcely have lent themselves to divination or any form of fortune-telling..."
He later goes on to say;
"...We must set aside the fantastic attempts to extract complete Tarot sequences out of these denaries..."
and then details exactly which denaries should not be compared to specific Tarot suits.
My question is; why would Waite give such a wealth of detail about cards that he claims have nothing much to do with the subject of his book?
I realise this may be more of a Waite question, than an historical one, but does any one have any ideas about it?
Vincent
"...they could scarcely have lent themselves to divination or any form of fortune-telling..."
He later goes on to say;
"...We must set aside the fantastic attempts to extract complete Tarot sequences out of these denaries..."
and then details exactly which denaries should not be compared to specific Tarot suits.
My question is; why would Waite give such a wealth of detail about cards that he claims have nothing much to do with the subject of his book?
I realise this may be more of a Waite question, than an historical one, but does any one have any ideas about it?
Vincent