Exhibits · Entered into the record

Exhibits

The correspondence is placed before the reader for consideration.

A formal visual record introducing the exhibits.

Claim

The twenty-two Major Arcana may be read as a coherent sequence of encounter, inquiry, pursuit, descent, illumination, and transcendence.

The correspondence begins with something recognisably Sudic.

Within CREED?, the sequence Claim → Reply → Evidence → Examination → Determination closely resembles the procedure through which Sudaism tests belief. This correspondence was not designed in advance. Sudaism and the Creed of Five existed before the present OCCULT structure emerged.

Examination informs Determination. It does not itself establish that a Claim stands.

CHASE, UNDER, LIGHT and TRANSCEND describe not merely the examination of a claim, but what may happen after examination: pursuit, consequence, descent, altered understanding and passage beyond the position from which one began.

UNDER → LIGHT describes descent and changed seeing. The proposed sequence traces movement: examination → pursuit → descent → illumination → transcendence. This is a reading of the correspondence, not proof.

The independent Tarot Grove investigations also preceded the OCCULT correspondence. Their unexpected convergence is why this material has been entered into the record for consideration.

The Rider–Waite–Smith Major Arcana are not sacred objects. OCCULT is not revealed truth. The materials below are exhibits through which a larger structure has become visible.

It may be meaningful. It may be coincidental. It may be interpretation imposed after the fact. It may disclose a structure already latent within the sequence.

Whether an Exhibit constitutes Evidence for or against a Claim remains open to Examination.

Exhibit A

The OCCULT structure

The proposed division: 1 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 1.

Portrait overview of the OCCULT structure, from OH! through CREED?, CHASE, UNDER and LIGHT to TRANSCEND!.
The proposed structure. Select to inspect the full-size exhibit.

Exhibit B

The complete sequence

The detailed language associated with every stage, preserved as submitted.

Detailed horizontal record of all twenty-two stages and their correspondence with the Major Arcana.
The full record. Select to inspect at original size.

Exhibit C

The Grove

The Grove, a circular diagram arranging the twenty-two Major Arcana as a cyclical structure.
The Grove. Select to inspect the full-size exhibit.

The Grove is an earlier, independent investigation. The Major Arcana were already being explored as a structured whole before the present OCCULT correspondence emerged.

This does not prove the claim. It is of interest to the record.

But the Grove has another root.

Ogham also arranges itself in fives.

Four Aicmí of five trees form the old sequence.

And here, quite independently, twenty Tarot cards have divided themselves into four groups of five – CREED, CHASE, UNDER and LIGHT – while Fool and World remain at the threshold.

Spring becomes CREED.
Summer becomes CHASE.
Autumn goes UNDER.
Winter seeks the LIGHT.

Then the year turns.

No determination is made.