§ 2. The Lesser Arcana- Otherwise The Four Suits Of Tarot Cards.

The lesser Arcana-Otherwise the Four Suits of Tarot Cards

Otherwise, the Four Suits of Tarot Cards will now be described according to their respective classes by the pictures to each belonging, and a harmony of their meanings will be provided from all sources.

Such are the intimations of the Lesser Arcana in respect of divinatory art, the veridic nature of which seems to depend on an alternative that it may be serviceable to express briefly. The records of the art are ex hypothesi the records of findings in the past based upon experience ; as such, they are a guide to memory, and those who can master the elements may — still ex hyphothesi — give interpretations on their basis. It is an official and automatic working. On the other hand, those who have gifts of intuition, of second sight, of clairvoyance — call it as we choose and may — will supplement the experience of the past by the findings of their own faculty, and will speak of that which they have seen in the pretexts of the oracles. It remains to give, also briefly, the divinatory significance allocated by the same art to the Trumps Major.