Abrac
In the PKT, the section on "An Ancient Celtic Method of Divination," Waite says:
It seems like it should be the opposite, i.e. Kings representing an older man and the Knights a younger. Generally there are two theories for why Waite wrote it the way he did. 1) It's a misprint; and 2) He was using Golden Dawn correspondences. It seems most likely to me it's a misprint.
Let's say for the sake of argument Waite is referring to the GD correspondences of
King = Knight
Knight = King.
It still wouldn't make sense for the following reason, in the GD Knights are still young men and Kings are older men, though their arrangement is different, i.e. their positions are switched. The GD chose Knights as fire and the active, initiating force; they represent youthful vigor. By the same token, the Kings were older and more mature; they represented the qualities necessary to develop the energy first initiated by the Knight. It's illogical that Waite would be secretly referring to the GD attributions, because in the GD Knights are still younger and Kings still older.
It makes more sense to me that this is simply a misprint. Waite may have subconsciously been thinking of the GD ordering and wrote the wrong thing. At least that's my 2 cents.
"A Knight should be chosen as the Significator if the subject of inquiry is a man of forty years old and upward; A King should be chosen for any male who is under that age;"
It seems like it should be the opposite, i.e. Kings representing an older man and the Knights a younger. Generally there are two theories for why Waite wrote it the way he did. 1) It's a misprint; and 2) He was using Golden Dawn correspondences. It seems most likely to me it's a misprint.
Let's say for the sake of argument Waite is referring to the GD correspondences of
King = Knight
Knight = King.
It still wouldn't make sense for the following reason, in the GD Knights are still young men and Kings are older men, though their arrangement is different, i.e. their positions are switched. The GD chose Knights as fire and the active, initiating force; they represent youthful vigor. By the same token, the Kings were older and more mature; they represented the qualities necessary to develop the energy first initiated by the Knight. It's illogical that Waite would be secretly referring to the GD attributions, because in the GD Knights are still younger and Kings still older.
It makes more sense to me that this is simply a misprint. Waite may have subconsciously been thinking of the GD ordering and wrote the wrong thing. At least that's my 2 cents.