Waite's Christian orientation of allegory?
A.Waite's Quote:
"The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas,"
1.Cerulean's view:
I think of his most Christian definition of "body, embodiment"
Definition:
Body is defined most commonly in terms of the human body, the material frame of man, viewed as an organic entity. Though it sometimes refers only to the main portion of an animal or unit, it may also refer to a series of organized units, a collective whole, of things or persons. Within science it refers to any substance, simple or compound, solid, liquid or gaseous. Within Christian texts the body is understood as the sacrament, the metaphorical body of Christ. To Embody is to put into a body an idea or spirit, to give a concrete form to or to express (principles, thoughts, or intentions) within art, action, word combinations, or institutions. Thus, an embodiment of an idea or principle is its physical form, realization or expression, or the incarnation of that idea.
http://chicagoschoolmediatheory.net/glossary2004/bodyembodiment.htm
Cerulean suggests:
and while I believe that Papus through Oswald Wirth, Waite and later, Manly P. Hall believed that there were comparable card systems or divination systems from other cultures that 'embodied' the same ideals and psychological constructs. Thus, they believed tarot was a visual encoding of 'universal' symbolism.
B. Waite's Quote:
"behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind"
Definition:
(ĭm-plĭs'ĭt)
adj.
1. Implied or understood though not directly expressed: an implicit agreement not to raise the touchy subject.
2. Contained in the nature of something though not readily apparent: “Frustration is implicit in any attempt to express the deepest self” (Patricia Hampl).
3. Having no doubts or reservations; unquestioning: implicit trust.
Cerulean's suggestion
I think he was using the first and second definition in perhaps the same way I would use "beliefs or thoughts not fully understood"...
C. Waite's Quote:
, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths imbedded in the consciousness of all,
Cerulean's view:
I think I'm jumping ahead.
I wonder if Waite's ideas of realization might have been in context with perhaps a 1909-1910 movement that might have been a European Christian view' of realization...
...as expressed by a kindly-meant-for-the-time evangelical preacher about 1910...it seems this speech was in Edinburough and while this source was a Western American, do you think it helpful in shedding light to Waite's definition of realization and 'truths' --- which might be defined in terms of Christian allegory?
http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/wwarren/ccr/CCR15O2.HTM
This pastoral message was leading toward "Christianity is the only universal religion." Perhaps I'm confusing the issue and I'll delete these bits if not relevant to analyzing the quote.
D. Waite's quote:
"though they have not passed into express recognition by ordinary men"
Cerulean's view:
My guess is Waite is saying immediate and clear interpretation and reading by the mundane individual. Do you think Waite was describing his view ordinary individuals seeing tarot images 'through a mirror darkly' from their unenlightened soul and mundane eyes?
Please excuse me if I made the waters murky and added things not pertinant to the discussion. I was just trying to be clear from the context that I thought Waite was coming from in his Western European and Christian viewpoints of around 1910.
Regards,
Cerulean