Abrac
This is a little off the subject, but since you ask. In one of Waite's Fellowship of the Rosy Cross rituals, "The Ceremony of Consecration on the Threshold of Sacred Mystery," there's something interesting as it pertains to the Fool. In the beginning of the ritual the Postulant is given a wallet containing colored blocks of wood representing the "parts of his personality in their normal mode of being." Then toward the end the blocks are emptied from the wallet and replaced with all white blocks representing the inner life in it's purified state. The wallet is returned to the Postulant and the High Priest says, "I pray that your natural manhood may so be changed in God." The wallet's described like this: "The outlines of a Temple are depicted on one side of the wallet and on the other is an open eye."
The Fool is also described as having "a wallet curiously embroidered," and he is just beginning his journey like the Postulant in the ritual. It would be impossible to say the Fool is carrying blocks of wood in his wallet, but I believe Waite has given some insight into what is symbolically inside the wallet, that is "parts of his personality in their nomal mode of being." He also gives a clue in his mention of "an open eye" on one side of the wallet. A lot has been made about what kind of bird is depicted on the Fool's wallet [which I happen to think is probably an eagle], but now I think the more important part is the bird's eye.
I think there are answers if a person's willing to look hard and long enough; whether or not it's worth it depends on the person I guess.
The Fool is also described as having "a wallet curiously embroidered," and he is just beginning his journey like the Postulant in the ritual. It would be impossible to say the Fool is carrying blocks of wood in his wallet, but I believe Waite has given some insight into what is symbolically inside the wallet, that is "parts of his personality in their nomal mode of being." He also gives a clue in his mention of "an open eye" on one side of the wallet. A lot has been made about what kind of bird is depicted on the Fool's wallet [which I happen to think is probably an eagle], but now I think the more important part is the bird's eye.
I think there are answers if a person's willing to look hard and long enough; whether or not it's worth it depends on the person I guess.