Pardon my ignorance...

[Fulgour]

Originally Posted by Teheuti

It seems to me that Waite worked with what was expedient for the task at hand - while staying open until he had devised his own ceremonial deck (called the Trinick deck) which reorders and renames many of the cards.

My frequent experience has been to be told that
Waite was preserving his sacred oath of secrecy
and so many things he said or didn't, were blinds.

So then if Waite has hinted that Aleph is The Fool,
it is clear to me that The Fool cannot be Aleph.

[Teheuti]

Originally Posted by Fulgour

Waite was preserving his sacred oath of secrecy
and so many things he said or didn't, were blinds.

Actually, very little of what he wrote were blinds. He did regularly say that he couldn't reveal certain things - either because of a vow or because it could only be understood through experience. From the article "The Tarot and the Rosy Cross" it's clear that he worked with the GD system in the Independent and Rectified Order, but that he created his own, very different system for his Fellowship of the Rosy Cross.

Mary