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from the Top of the Pack _Six_ other Cards laying them in a
downward Border, leftward, to the thirteen already placed. (Fig.
3.)
Nineteen cards now face you in the Series. Shuffle again, and deal
from the Bottom of the
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Pack, to the Right hand of the Figure a-making, _Five_ cards, in
an ascending Border. (Fig. 4.)
Shuffle again; and from the Top of the Pack deal down other
_Five_ Cards, laid in descent,
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as a Left-Hand Border. (Fig. 5.)
Your next Shuffling and Dealing will cause you to lay down, from
the Bottom of the Pack, _Four_ Cards, in a Right Ascension (Fig.
6), as you were laying
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a Tiled Floor or a Ceiling Pattern. There are now three-and-thirty
Cards laid. Again Shuffle, and from the Top of the Pack lay--
downward--a Leftward Border of _Four_ Cards. (Fig. 7.)
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Of the sudden appearing of the Fair _Cross_.
Observe that each side of your Figure thereby has Four Cards, and
its midmost Rows, horizontal and perpendicular contain, like the
first Row laid, Seven cards apiece; and offer thereby a Fair
_Cross_, the Goodliest Sign.
The first Figure needed, the _Square_, is now nearing Shape; its
Rows, diagonal or horizontal or perpendicular, equalizing. Shuffle,
and deal from the Bottom of the Pack, a Rightward Border of
_Three_ Cards, upward laid. (Fig. 8.) You have now four rows of
sevens, in your figure: a _Cross_, withal still to be found in its
middle--reckoned up and down and right and left.
You must now Shuffle--so well as your lessened cards will allow,
yet with but one Shuffle--and deal, from your Pack's Top, a
downward Left-Hand Border of _Three_ Cards. (Fig.9.) Note that
you now have in your Figure _three Rows of Sevens_; which you
may well
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wish were Guineas for your Purse.
Again Shuffle, as best you can, and from your Bottom Cards in the
Pack deal _Two_ Cards, laid at the right, upward, as in Fig. 10,
nearly finishing
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your Square, now holding _four_ rows of _Sevens_.
Again mix your cards; and deal from their Top, _Two_ Cards,
leftward laid in descent, as in Fig. 11. How much, O, Friend, in
Human Life is nearly
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perfect, yet not quite perfect!
Truly no Man shall reckon this Life a Perfect Matter with him!
R.A.
Confuse now, as best and honestest you may (for you can hardly
essay a shuffle), at least Once your two last Cards: and so
complete your _Square_
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_of Sevens_, out of which will presently rise the Parallelogram; by
laying its Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth cards in Opposition
Comers, as in Fig. 12.
The _Square_ is completed.
Consider this Figure attentively.
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FIG. 12
For now have you before you the very _Square of Sevens_: being
a magicall Square Figure of Forty-nine Cards, whose Rows
include ever _Seven_ Cards, taken anyways. And that same
mysticall Square now must be made ready for use in Reading your
Querist's Fortune (or Experiences) by making it into a
Parallelogram of smaller compass, through what is called its
formal _Reduction_.
_Of the Square Formally Reduced to The Parallelogram; and of
The Master-Cards & The Sacrifice_.
Having thus built your Square, chuse the extreme right-hand card
in its Uppermost Row. Lay it on such card of the same Suit as lieth
nearest it, in the same Row, if there be such; save on the last Card
on the Left of the Row.
Of the _Master-Card _and_ Master-Column_.
This Leftward Card in each Row is called the Row's _Master-Card_,
and it cannot be covered by any other card, nor be moved.
It must open and alone abide as it is; and the Seven Master-Cards,
counted downward on the Square's left Edge, make what is called
the _Master-Column_.
If you have no other card of the same Suit as your right-ward card
--or none save those of the _Master-Column_--let it lie. But if you
can lay it on another, not a _Master-Card_, of any degree in the
Suit--for observe the degree here matters not--so do. And then
mark if, leftward and toward the _Master-Card_ of the Row, lies
another of the same Suit. If so, take up the two cards you laid
together; and lay them on this third one. Look again and carefully;
and, if another of the Suit be found, carry to it the former ones. So
do until you have no more of its Suit toward its left, to join unto,
and until all the cards of one Suit in the Row lie piled together;
save the _Master-Card_, which even if it be of the Suit lieth alone,
leftward, as it was first dealt out and down, in the last Square.
Of the _Reduction_.
Proceed then with the next Suit in the Row: and so with each Row,
until you have thus sorted all the cards save the Master-Cards.
This is the _Reduction_.
Close now and straiten-up together each of the Rows thus broken
into Piles; pushing ever toward the _Master-Row_. Thus have you
a new Figure, smaller than the last Square of Sevens, and
somewhat irregular: there be in some Rows five cards, in others
less; even so few, though rarely, as three or two. Note that a Pile
of Cards is reckoned only as one card. Note, too, that with cards
that have become hid beneath others you have no concern.
Of the _Sacrifice_.
Next, cast or lay aside in a parcel, all Cards in the Figure that are
not contained in the three Columns, leftward (the _Master-Column_,
and two other Columns). If, your _Reduction_ done, any Row offer
to sight but two Cards--the _Master-Card_ and its neighbor--so
must the Row abide. But this comes rarely. You will best not
disturb the Cards hid in the Piles, for it is well to let
Sleeping Dogs lie, and moreover needless Fingering and Quiddling
of the Parallelogram is not commended. With the cards thus
rejected have you no more to do. They are called the _Sacrifice_.
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The _Parallelogram_ made.
Now have you a _Parallelogram_ of One-and-Twenty Cards in
sight (Fig. 13), reduced from the Square that formerly held
Nine-and-Forty. With these One-and-Twenty now under your eyes
I will be your Querist's affair.
You may indeed ask why so much Labour is made of building the Square
only to reduce it, to despoil it, and to force it to hide or to
part with so many of its Sevens--as by a sudden Slaughter or a
Panic or a Plague. But it is held that by such prior Shufflings,
Dealings, and Placings are much cherished the accidentall
Declarings of Fates intelligence; and that by the other Processes,
embracing The _Sacrifice_, there remain for _Reading_ just the
Cards decreed; free from disposition by light-fingered Craft, or
from ticklish Arrangements by Skill.
A Thing of Great Mystery and Fair Harmony--as Jacobus of
Utrecht calleth the _Soul_.
And the Square itself, the Parent of the Parallelogram, is of great
Harmony as a Mystery. Indeed all other Methods of reading
fortune in Cards are incomparable to it.
_Of Summarizing in the Parallelogram its Aspect and of the
Fortune or Experience of the Querist that it will Report_.
With your Parallelogram thus built, observe it as an Whole; and
remark if it hath an Agreeable or Unpleasing _Aspect_--one
Auspicious or Unkind, according as it contains rather the red or
the black Suits. For a Red Aspect is kindly. A Black Aspect
contains many less favorable cards, especially if they be _Spades_.
Of _Hearts_ as a Portent.
And, for another Matter, and a wider Notice as to the Suits of
Cards:--it has long been assured by those best knowing Card
Intelligences that the Suit of _Hearts_ is the Suit of the Affections,
Passions, Fancies and Feelings.
Of _Diamonds_.
And the Suit of _Diamonds_ ever refers to Condition in Life,
Society, Wealth, Position and the Fine Arts; and contains many
Comfortable Cards.
Of _Clubs_.
In the _Clubs_ lies the Judgment, the Intellect, the Will, and the
Affairs of a Man's Brains, and what he doeth of his own Mastery
and Genius.
Of the ominous _Spades_ suit.
The _Spades_ is ever the suit of doubtful or worse Prognosticks;
of the Events that arbitrarily fall to Man's Lot, those things which
hardly can any Prescience or Plans or Conditions of our own
making amend. Thence is it that in especiall comes a serious, nay
even a gloomy appearance to the _Parallelogram_. Your first
Glance at it, therefore, gives you a Generall Character in it, to
state first to the Querist before its details.
Of a particular _Uncertainty_ in a Prognostick.
But particularly note that Matters to be read in its Cards may often
refer not to the Future, or to the Present, but to the Past. Especially
is this the truth with the Old or Elderly or with those Wed. Such
must expect to be told of Experiences that lie behind them, rather
than before them, of Good or Evil; for Fate oft allows sparingly of
Incident to those of middle years, or later; and therewith she is
often pleased to make her Oracle speak coldly to a Querist, of
Ancient Circumstances.
The Shot seldom goeth twice into the same hole; and a Dead
Trouble or Joy rarely Reviveth. And a Blessed Thing that 'tis so!
Hence, whether a Significancy in a Card speak of what is come or
is yet to come, at best is none too certain; only it is true that the
greater or harder Experiences of Mortall Lives seldom be
duplicated. With the Young or Unwedded, the Significancies are
of the Future, with far more determination.
_Of the Reading of the Parallelogram, according to the Tavola;
and of the Wish-Cards_.
Note now your Card in the Right-Hand column, and also the Card
next it, of course to the Leftward; which Leftward Card is spoken
of as _Influencing _the other.
Of the Influences, In which the Philosophick will find a likeness to
Human Circumstances.
The Significancy of it, for good or evil, is given in the _Tavola_
that follows in this Book, by its proper Suit and Degree: and this
you will tell to your Querist. Next note the card, which was just
now an Influencing Card, but which, now in its turn, is to be
considered according to the _Influence_ cast _on_ it by the
Master-Card, beyond it, leftward. Declare this Significancy. Last,
declare what may be the Significancy of the Master-Card, as such
and alone. And so proceed, as to each card in the _Parallelogram_,
ever naming _last_ the Significance of the Master-Card, until your
_Parallelogram_ is all interpreted to the Querist. And note that the
Master-Card even as an _Influence_ is not more potent than
another, (as far as is known), and that its Dignity and Potency arise
only in its being uninfluenced; and, so speaking, from its
Significance with a certain Individuality not belonging to its
two Fellows. Nor are there; any Influences cast _Upward_ or
_Downward_ by the Cards, out of the Row in which each lieth.
Having read the Parallelogram from beginning to end, slowly and
honestly, lay forth those three _Wish Cards_, early chosen by your
Querist, but not dealt in the Square.
Of the _Querist's Wish_.
If they contain more _Red_ than _Black_ Cards, this shall come:
the Querist may wish a _Wish_ for his own Profit or Pleasure,
even in removal of an Evil that hath been read to him in the
_Parallelogram_. If there be Black rather than Red cards in the
Three, he must wish a like wish for _Another_. And in either case,
if the cards deciding his Privilege be of high degree, such as
_Court Cards_, Aces or above the Eight, his Wish is likely to be
granted, or at least it is not in vain in some sort. But if the Cards
be low in Values he has desired to Fruitlessness.
Let it be minded that by the Phrase an _high_ or a _low_ Card in a
Suit is ever meant, respectively, the cards above or below the
_Eight_; the Aces being reckoned as the highest in a Suit. And
indeed Cards must ever be read with a Considering of their
Degree, and of the Six in Court Cards. Where there be no speciall
Significancies given to the Degrees, the Judgement must I shift as
best it can.
It is well not to oblige, of any one evening, or on a set and single
occasion, more than a Querist or so--maybe, oblige at most three
Querists--by making Squares of Sevens and Reducing the same and
Reading what may lie therein. Too much of any good thing makes it
over-common, blunts the Appetite and dulls the Apprehensiveness
of the Reader. With fatigue, too, may come Carelessness and,
on good occasion, even Lying: and, besides, let us respect the
Supernaturall.
THE _TAVOLA_ OF SIGNIFICANICIES AND INFLUENCES, PROPER TO THE
TRUE _READING_ OF THE PARALLELOGRAM; ADJUSTED IN A SYSTEM OF
ALTERNATIVES