Teheuti
I'm starting a new thread with page 64 of The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, so that we don't get overly long threads on the subject.
I'm requesting that people keep the discussion to the text itself and to other works and information that can directly help elucidate the text.
Some of the following text has already been discussed in PKT:Secret Trad#1 - Study Group: http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=4419483&postcount=111
Basically Waite is saying that among the 22 Trumps there are two sets: 1) common conditions and virtues as found in the Mantegna Tarot and 2) those pertaining more particularly to the Secret Tradition.
Here's the info I earlier posted on The Manual of Cartomancy material: http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=4419535&postcount=113
I'm requesting that people keep the discussion to the text itself and to other works and information that can directly help elucidate the text.
Some of the following text has already been discussed in PKT:Secret Trad#1 - Study Group: http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=4419483&postcount=111
*Baldini. Waite mis-attributes the "Mantegna Tarot" to Baccio Baldini, as others did before him. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantegna_Tarocchi.PART II - "The Doctrine Behind the Veil - 1: The Tarot and Secret Tradition" continued
28. "The Trumps Major have also been treated in the alternative method which I have mentioned, and Grand Orient, in his Manual of Cartomancy, under the guise of a mode of transcendental divination, has really offered the result of certain illustrative readings of the cards when arranged as the result of a fortuitous combination by means of shuffling and dealing.
29. "The use of divinatory methods, with whatsoever intention and for whatever purpose, carries with it two suggestions.
30. "It may be thought that the deeper meanings are imputed rather than real, but this is disposed of by the fact of certain cards like the Magician, the High Priestess, the Wheel of Fortune, the Hanged Man, the Tower or Maison Dieu, and several others, which do not correspond to Conditions of Life, Arts, Sciences, Virtues, or the other subjects contained in the denaries of the Baldini* emblematic figures.
31. "They are proof positive that obvious and natural moralities cannot explain the sequence.
32. "Such cards testify concerning themselves after another manner; and although the state in which I have left the Tarot in respect of its historical side is so much the more difficult as it is so much the more open, they indicate the real subject matter with which we are concerned."
Basically Waite is saying that among the 22 Trumps there are two sets: 1) common conditions and virtues as found in the Mantegna Tarot and 2) those pertaining more particularly to the Secret Tradition.
Here's the info I earlier posted on The Manual of Cartomancy material: http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=4419535&postcount=113