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My province was to see that the designs – especially those of the important Trumps Major – kept that in the hiddeness which belonged to a certain Greater Mysteries, in the Paths of which I was travelling… I saw to it therefore that Pamela Coleman Smith should not be picking up casually any floating images from my own or another mind. She had to be spoon-fed carefully over the Priestess Card, that which is called the Fool and over the Hanged Man. — AE Waite, Shadows of Life and Thought, 1938.