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medieval cathedrals were the “books of the people.” Kurt
Seligmann’s statement of this aspect of the cathedral (The
History of Magic , pp. 415­16) serves to bring out their
resemblance to the page of medieval scriptural commentary:
In this quality, the Tarot cards resemble the images
of other arts: the paintings, sculpture, and stained glass
windows of the cathedrals, which also clothed ideas in
human form. Their world, however, is the one above, while
the world of the Tarot is below. The trumps depict the
relation of the powers and the virtues to man; the
cathedrals on the other hand embody man’s relation to
the divine. But both images impress themselves upon the
mind. They are mnemonic. They contain a wide complex of
ideas that would fill volumes were they written down.
They can be “read” by the illiterate and the literate alike,