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Fantastic reference to Francis Bacon regarding that passage in his Wisdom of the Ancients, kwaw. I must admit that though I had it noted many years ago in connection to my notes on Jupiter, I had never revisited the same in relation to the 'Belgian' Tarot, or had never read the passage at a time at which I was in any way looking at that deck.
Once read, it is so clearly obvious that the relation is allegorically there, at least in terms of Baconian considerations!
With regards to the Spanish Captain, I am a little reticent in seeing the relation suggested. I personally would be more convinced by a more direct connection made not in such a three-stepped round-about way, but rather something that showed a likely connection between at the very least Jupiter and it, or even more directly between Pope-like considerations and such a figure, even if distantly in jest or jab.
Once read, it is so clearly obvious that the relation is allegorically there, at least in terms of Baconian considerations!
With regards to the Spanish Captain, I am a little reticent in seeing the relation suggested. I personally would be more convinced by a more direct connection made not in such a three-stepped round-about way, but rather something that showed a likely connection between at the very least Jupiter and it, or even more directly between Pope-like considerations and such a figure, even if distantly in jest or jab.