05-10-2014, 04:48 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:If it's not hidden at all well, as you suggest, then what is the true meaning of the tarot? Just curious...
Hidden only to those outside the School of Pythagoras at Croton and later Metapontum. It is, in essence, a mnemonic device containing calendrical, astronomical, mathematical, and other information provided by Pythagoras to his followers in a form that was easy to remember. It appears to be based upon an earlier Indian system related to the game of pachisi obtained at Babylon or in India itself sometime after 525 BC.
Just looking at the Walsingham estate at Chislehurst: It seems that Scadbury was inherited by Thomas Walsingham V, the son of Marlowe's patron, upon the latter's death in 1630. Scadbury, where Marlowe may have been arrested, was sold by Thomas V about 1655, so the question presents itself: If the Walsinghams were in possession of the original clear copies of "Shakespeare's" plays, did they remain at Chislehurst with Sir Richard Bettenson, who purchased the manor, or did they stay in the Walsingham family whose name died out within 2 more generations, but whose descendants survived under other surnames? And why, if they still exist, would they remain hidden away so long after the abolition of the Star Chamber?
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"And when I'm tired of the program, when it's taken its toll,
I can press a button and change the channel by remote control.
It's just another movie, another song and dance,
Another poor sucker who never had a chance.
It's just another captain goin' down with the ship,
Just another jerk takin' pride in his work."
--Timbuk3
"And when I'm tired of the program, when it's taken its toll,
I can press a button and change the channel by remote control.
It's just another movie, another song and dance,
Another poor sucker who never had a chance.
It's just another captain goin' down with the ship,
Just another jerk takin' pride in his work."
--Timbuk3