Kismet, Way Of The Sword Suit Of Dice Digital Tarot Cards & Booklet. Original UNEDITED DRAFT by Alchemist Publishing LLC

SUIT OF DICE

BY LONDA R. MARKS

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KiSMET

WAY OF THE SWORD THE SUIT OF DICE

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

“La Folie Ou L’Alchemiste : Madness or Alchemist

DIGITAL COLOR BOOKLET Minor Arcana Cards & Divinations Suit of Dice

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DEDICATION “Kismet, Way Of The Sword, La Folie ou L’Alchimiste : Madness or Alchemist,” is dedicated to Pete Way bass legend and founder of UFO, Fastway, Waysted & Pete Way Band. Pete has also performed with numerous top artists in rock music since 1969. Florence, Italy (Firenze) has been an artistic inspiration since Catholic grade school. Right after relocating my studio to Firenze in 2014 to study the Medici kismet/fate created a detour for me and Rock Legend News magazine was born after one of my first interviews for the magazine with one of rock’s most unique and inspiring artists, Pete Way. Having been involved in art and the rock music industry since 1970s, Florence, Italy art adventure has turned out to be the place where I would put my life’s work together. It is where my art and music interests united and above all has been a good test in what happens when you follow your heart. Now, I am at one with the Renaissance vibrations in Florence, Italy where they are undeniably quite active and certainly become part of your soul - or, maybe soul has returned to the root of its frequency. Shortly after doing the interview with Pete Way, in January 2015, I founded Pete Way Facebook Group and have kept it running every day since. Some of my artwork is included in Pete Way Facebook Group. After building Pete Way Facebook Group for 5 years I discovered that in 2018 David Bowie’s artist had released a tarot deck inspired by the work he did for David. With thirteen tarot decks in my

portfolio, “Lights On!” (as a pun to UFO’s “Lights Out” song). UFO founder Pete Way was standing in the shadows of Kismet who was pointing a finger at me. So, in September 2018, I began a few tarot design ideas. The name of the street where my studio is, Via della Spada, in English means: Way Of The Sword. I expressed to Pete Way a few years earlier that it might be a good name for his new album. He thought it was interesting but would keep the title for his album “Walking On The Edge.” Not until towards the end of 2019 did I conclude that “Way Of The Sword” would be a better title for the new tarot deck dedicated to Pete Way, originally titled: “Kismet, Thunderbird Soul,” since “Way Of The Sword” has been pretty much the way I have lived my life, it has Pete’s last name in the title and, it applies to the way Pete Way who has lived his life by: “Way Of The Sword.” KISMET! —Londa R. Marks

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ismet lies on either side of the blade disrupting surrealistic theatrical scenes

whilst the muse of music invokes mythological metal-gods cryptographically weaving them into a World of Tarot, by Way Of The Sword.

INTRODUCTION Londa Rae Marks was born February 26, 1952 (9), in Marietta, Ohio, the first settlement in the northwest territory. On her birthday February 26, 2014 in Florence, Italy, by a fluke or by the hand of kismet, Londa acquired her studio on Via della Spada (Way Of The Sword) - that afternoon. Via della Spada — one of a trio of streets shaped like three swords or a Y — with Via delle Belle Donne the right blade, in between is Via del Sole and Via della Spada the left blade. The three streets connect to Via del Morro. Bella Donna happens to be the title of a UFO song. Morro happens to be the name of a street that connected to Calimali (another street nearby in Firenze) the street Londa lived on in Woodland Hills, California, where Hawk was developed. On Via della Spada where her studio is Art, Music & Technology is based on Cryptography; The Art of Writing Codes or Solving Codes; the underlying foundation of Londa R. Marks Studio, Firenze, Italy. The harlequin theme of “Kismet, Way Of The Sword,” is based on a harlequin-esque style that Pete Way has adhered to for stage wear much of his life. His style has been emulated by top rock stars like Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe and Steve Harris of Iron Maiden. It is the hawk who leads the way for Londa, a co-founder of glam rock band Hawk in Los Angeles CA during the 1980s. The name Hawk was given to the rock band by her ex-husband, Hawk guitarist, Doug Marks who came up with the name one morning while walking in the hills where they lived on Calimali Rd., with vocalist Charles Morrill. Hawk has become a relentless spirit guide offering omens and is seen throughout this deck along with crows and other birds. The band is no longer together but the official Hawk Facebook page founded in 2012 by Londa is still run by her and Doug Marks still sells the Hawk album. Crow’s Magick Tarot is a deck Londa created in 1997 for U.S. Games Systems, Inc., also due to her love

of crows and how she sees them as a messenger from the magickal plane in the universe, always bestowing messages and great thoughts to us mortals. Harlequin role was definitively popularized by the Italian actor Tristano Martinelli in 1584–1585. The Harlequin is characterized by his chequered costume. Alichino is also the name of a demon in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, a guardian of Malebolge — the name derives from Arlecchino, the harlequin. Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” also includes his love of music. Throughtout Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso began in 1308 and completed in 1320 in his “Divine Comedy” many parallels to the theatre of rock music and art are found. Born in the year 1265 in the city of Florence, Dante Alighieri has been long considered one of Italy’s first romantic figures and greatest poets. Throughout this deck are images of rock god bass legend Pete Way and visual artist Londa R. Marks, both mostly their youthful years because who you are as youth is still who you are as adult regardless of the human changes that occur. In fact, youthful images are more of a pure depiction of who the person is at soul level. Experience the artists adventure on their journey through World Of Tarot by Way Of The Sword. THE CARDS SCENES Tarot, a symbolic art system/instrument assists the mind, psyche and soul in deeply interpreting the subtle nuances of a reality. Each card in this deck is a theatrical tarot scene highlighted with some of Dante Alighieri’s words and works from his Divine Comedy and Florence, Italy art - Italy arts, images of rock music lifestyles entwined with mythology and theatrical characters resulting in a deeply meaningful cryptography featuring Artists as Music Muse and Rock Star, surrealistically assigned to Kismet, Way Of The Sword.

Kismet, Way Of The Sword Minor Arcana Four Suits Cups - Water P Love, Heart, Empathy - Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio Swords - Air M Mind, Observation, Challenge - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius Staves - Fire N Creativity, Action, Spirit - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Dice - Earth O Home, Health, Wealth - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Roman Numerals 1I 2 II 3 III 4 IV 5V 6 IV

7 VII 8 VIII 9 IX 10 X 11 XI 12 XII

DICE

“Bone dice.” “Rollin’ Bones.” The line between divination and gambling is blurred. In the first millennium BC, civilizations in Greece, India, and China all threw dice. In Rome, it was common for gamblers to call out the goddess Fortuna’s name while rolling a 20-sided die during a game of chance. The next time you find yourself rolling a pair of dice, know that you’re tapping into something primordial keeping alive an ancient tradition that began long before recorded history. Archaeologists can’t pinpoint the first human who threw dice, but they do know dice-throwing appeared independently all across the populated world. The oldest known dice dates back at least 8,000 years.

13 14 15 16 17 18

XIII X IV XV XVI XVII XVIII

19 20 21

XIX XX XXI

“The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.” — Dante Alighieri

A Refelcted Light

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DIVINATION O everlasting Light, you dwell alone In yourself, know yourself alone, and known And knowing, love and smile upon yourself! That middle circle which appeared in you To be conceived as a reflected light, After my eyes had studied it a while, Within itself and in its coloring Seemed to be painted with our human likeness So that my eyes were completely focused on it As the geometry specialist who sets himself To square the circle and who cannot find, For all his thought, the principle he needs, Just so was I on seeing this new vision I wanted to see how our image fuses Into the circle and finds its place in it, And my own wings were far too weak for that. But then my mind was struck by light that flashed And, with this light, received what it had asked. Here force failed my high fantasy; but my desire and will were moved already—like a wheel revolving uniformly (From Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy Paradiso – Canto XXXIII: The Final Vision)

Card upward keywords: “As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.” ― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso Card reversed keywords: “Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow.” ― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

Poetic Strength

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DIVINATION In Dante’s paradise, the nine circles of heaven are an allegory for the angelic hierarchy using the planets of our solar system as names including, in order, “the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, and the Primum Mobile.” Canto XX, where it concerns the soothsayers and sorceries and the spellcasters, and the origin of Mantua, which dealt with giving Manto an enchantress; and their pain and misery and their poor condition, in the fourth bedlam and many others. Master poet Dante Alighieri of Florence, Italy loved music. He holds his harp class lyre, to accompany his song and recitation; his poetry. “Fer the city over that death bone; and for the one who first chose the place, Mantüa appealed without further fate. His thicker people were already out, before the deception from Casalodi da Pinamonte was deceived. But I assure you that if you ever hate to originate my land otherwise, the truth will not lie deceit.“ “You see the sad ones who left the needle, the spool and the spindle, and became divinities; made sickness with herbs and with imago. But he came now, for he already holds the boundary of both sides and touches the wave under Sobilia Cain and the thorns; and the round moon was already yesterday: well ten de ‘remember, because it did not harm you once for the deep forest.“ Yes he spoke to me, and we went to meet each other. (Excerpts from Canto XX Inferno) Card upward keywords: Straighten your head, straighten up, and see where the land began to appear in Teban’s eyes. Card reversed keywords: So that as pain it remained for the wedges - wishes to cut the first rope. High tragedy sings in some place: you know it well that you know it all.

Frequencies

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“Astrology, the nobelest of sciences.” —Dante Alighieri

a sun that illuminated them all, just as ours conquers sight;

“O grace abounding and allowing me to dare to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light, so deep my vision was consumed in it!

Just as he who, dreaming, sees, when after the dream the emotion impressed remains, but the rest does not return to the mind, so was I, since almost all of my vision has ceased, and yet distilled in my heart is the sweetness born from it. Thus the snow is unsealed by the sun; thus in the wind, in the light leaves, the sentences of the Sybil are lost.

I saw how it contains within its depths all things bound in a single book by love of which creation is the scattered leaves: How substance, accident, and their relation were fused in such a way that what I now describe is but a glimmer of that Light.” ― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso ‘Transcend humanity’ to describe in words is not possible; therefore let the example serve for those to whom grace reserves the experience. Just as, during serene moonlit nights, Trivia laughs among the eternal nymphs that decorate the sky in all its expanse, I saw, above thousands of lights

In the deep and clear essence of the the lofty light appeared to me three circles of three colors and one circumference; and one from the other, like rainbow from rainbow, seemed reflected, and the third appeared like a flame that the one and the other equally breathed forth (Il Paradiso)

Card upward keywords: Mastery. Frequencies. Acumen. Lofty vision Card reversed keywords: “Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.”

―Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

Marvel At Your Climbing

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DIVINATION In the Late Middle Ages, most poetry was written in Latin, making it accessible only to the most educated readers. In De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended the use of the vernacular in literature. He would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the Divine Comedy; this highly unorthodox choice set a precedent that important later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and his depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. That when Peneian branches can incite someone to long and thirst for them, delight must fill the happy Delphic deity. Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrhaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s god for aid--that he may answer. The lantern of the world approaches mortals by varied paths: but on that way which links four circles with three crosses, it emerges. Every nature has its bent, according to a different station, nearer or less near to its origin. Card upward keywords: Feel more marvel at your climbing than you would were you considering a stream that from a mountainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s height falls to its base. Card reversed keywords: A living flame stood still.

Spheres

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DIVINATION “Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind’s root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.” ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy In the third and the last section of Dante’s epic poem of Divine Comedy, the Italian poet describes his journey through Heaven, the things he sees and people he encounters on the way to the so-called Empyrean, the true home of God, saints, angels and the souls of the faithful. In the sky that takes most of its light it was I, and I saw things that say neither knows nor can those who descend from there; I was within the heaven that receives more of His light; and I saw things that he who from that height descends, forgets or can. Card upward keywords: Holy warriors. Revel in the work of that great Artist who so loves His art, His gaze is fixed on it perpetually. Card reversed keywords: Reasons for the dark marks on the Moon. Exile.

A Matter of My Song

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DIVINATION Danteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s singing in Hell is exceptional, but for the rest of the poem, his singing is normal. The exceptional citation of the parody of a metrical Latin hymn Vexilla regis in Hell foreshadows the singing of the metrical hymn Te lucis ante terminum in Purgatory. Here Te lucis is described as being sung facing East, the traditional direction of facing God, and thus it projects a sense of moving to the goal. This hymn in turn becomes a type for the hymn Summe Deus clementiae, sung at the beginning of the seventh terrace. There the souls face a purgation of fire, and sing the hymn together. Since God is outside of time, and music inside time, music is not an attribute of God. It is inconceivable that God should have sung in the Commedia. To be sure, God is seen as creator of motion, and thus of music, but he is himself unmoved and beyond music. So as Dante approaches the vision of God, there is no more talk of music. Card upward keywords: By approaching his disire, our intellect deepens so much that behind memory it cannot not speak; for nearing its desired end, our intellect sinks into an abyss so deep that memory fails to follow it. Card reversed keywords: Truly as much of the holy kingdom as I could treasure my mind, it will now be matter of my song.

Goalkeeper

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DIVINATION Canto IX : Antipurgatory: the goalkeeper angel Il canto XIV del paradiso. Canto XIV, in which Salamone solves anything doubted; and mount in the star of Mars. The fifth part starts here. From the center to the circle, and yes from the circle to the center, the water moved in a round vase, according to whether it was struck out or inside: in my mind this case I immediately said, yes how the glorious life was silent of Tommaso, for the similarity that arose of his speaking and that of Beatrice, which he liked to begin after: To him he makes trades, and he does not say to you, neither with his voice nor thinking again, or a other truth, go to the root. Tell them if the light from which your substance grows, will remain with you eternally as it is now; and if it remains, say how, then: whereby the visĂŻon grows together, the ardor that lights up grows, the ray that comes from it grows. Card upward keywords: O good Appollo, at the last work make me of your valor has become a vessel, as you ask to give the beloved laurel. Card reversed keywords: O godly force, if you so lend yourself to me, that I might show the shadow of the blessed realm inscribed within my mind.

Heavy Weights Of Labor

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Building the Tower of Babel was, for Dante, an example of pride. After being introduced to humility, Dante and Virgil meet the souls of the proud, who are bent over by the weight of huge stones on their backs. As they walk around the terrace, they are able to profit from the sculpted examples of humility. The first of these souls is Omberto Aldobrandeschi, whose pride lies in his descent (“I was Italian, son of a great Tuscan: / my father was Guiglielmo Aldobrandesco”), although he is learning to be more humble (“I / do not know if you have heard his name”). Oderisi of Gubbio is an example of pride in achievements – he was a noted artist of illuminated manuscripts. Provenzano Salvani, leader of the Sienese Ghibellines, is an example of pride in dominating others (Canto XI). In Canto XIII, Dante points out, with “frank self-awareness,” that pride is also a serious flaw of his own: “I fear much more the punishment below; my soul is anxious, in suspense; already I feel the heavy weights of the first terrace” After his conversations with the proud, Dante notes further sculptures on the pavement below, this time illustrating pride itself. The sculptures show Satan (Lucifer), the building of the Tower of Babel, King Saul, Niobe, Arachne, King Rehoboam, and others. The poets reach the stairway to the second terrace at noon. As they ascend, the Angel of Humility salutes them and brushes Dante’s forehead with his wings, erasing the letter “P” (peccatum) corresponding to the sin of pride, and Dante hears the beatitude Beati pauperes spiritu (“Blessed are the poor in spirit”, Matthew 5:3) (Canto XII). Dante is surprised to discover that climbing now seems easier than it did before. Virgil tells him that one of the initials has been removed from his forehead by the angel and that the effort will be increasingly lessened as he climbs higher. Dante compares the stairway to the easy ascent from the Rubiconte, a bridge in Florence, up to San Miniato al Monte, overlooking the city. Card upward keywords: Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. Card reversed keywords: The highest love we are to have is love for God.

Ascending

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DIVINATION And so, in Cantos XXXI-XXXIII, Dante is shown

The first mirrored the next, as though it were

by Bernard the throne room of God in the Prim-

rainbow from rainbow, and the third seemed

um Mobile, that point from which the spheres of

flame

the universe hanging and which moves them —

Breathed equally from each of the first pair.

or, rather, out of love for which all things move. And then Bernard turns his gaze upwards, to

How weak are words, and how unfit to frame

that vision of God reserved for the blessed:

my concept — which lags after what was shown so far, ‘twould flatter it to call it lame!

And so my mind, bedazzled and amazed, Stood fixed in wonder, motionless, intent,

Eternal light, that in Thyself alone

And still my wonder kindled as I gazed.

Dwelling, alone dost know Thyself, and smile On Thy self-love, so knowing and so known!

That light doth so transform a man’s whole bent

(Canto XXXIII, ll. 97-105, 115-126)

That never to another sight or thought Would he surrender, with his own consent; For everything the will has ever sought Is gathered there, and there is every quest made perfect, which apart from it falls short. Card upward keywords: The lamp of the world overcomes several mortals; but from what four circles come with three crosses. Card reversed keywords: And as a second ray it is customary to go out of the first and go up again, even as a pelegrin who wants to return.

Harmonies

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X OF DiCE BY LONDA R. MARKS

DIVINATION The Paradiso is suffused with a transcendent background of harmonious sonorities. These are not merely humanly audible harmonies (musica instrumentalis); rather, increasingly a direct apprehension by the soul (musica humana) of the harmonious order of the cosmos (musica mundana), and this perception increases only as the soul’s capability of grasping it increases; this is suggested when Dante asks, “Why in this wheel the sweet symphony of Paradise is silent, which below through the others so devoutly sounds,” and the answer comes, “You have the hearing as the sight of mortals.” You are not yet capable of hearing it. “Ladies that have intelligence of Love, I of my lady wish with you to speak; Not that I can believe to end her praise, But to discourse that I may ease my mind. I say that when I think upon her worth, So sweet doth Love make himself feel to me, That if I then should lose not hardihood, Speaking, I should enamour all mankind.” Sixth Terrace (Canto XXV) Card upward keywords: Bliss. Card reversed keywords: Renassiance audeience and road crew stage checks.

The Journey is my Song

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PAGE OF D iCE BY LONDA R. MARKS

DIVINATION The source of all motion and light, who will be the final goal of his journey through the heavens, saying that this journey will be the “subject of my song.” The music of Dante’s “song” as it leads to his ultimate vision of God. In Dante’s time, singing is a natural concomitant of poetry: Lyric poetry of Dante’s predecessors, such as Arnaut Daniel, is transmitted with music, and in several places Dante refers to his own activity as song. In such a poem as this on a sacred subject, the liturgy is an apt point of comparison, since the norm at that time was that everything spoken aloud in the liturgy was sung. Music is a prominent feature of the Paradiso; but Dante treats it in all three cantiche—very differently for each one. At the end of the Purgatorio, the procession with the gryphon is accompanied by transcendent music: “I did not understand, nor is it sung back here, the hymn those people sang then, nor did I endure all its melody.” The traditional notion of the music of the spheres of the philosophers might suggest a monotonous grind of a constant chord, but here the sounding music in the heavens of the planets is produced by the souls who inhabit the turning wheels, singing and dancing. Dance is prominent: “those carols differently dancing, allowed me to judge their richness, being fast and slow.” A carol is a round dance, perfectly suited to the “wheels” being depicted. Card reversed keywords: Hell is a region characterized by noise: its proper sound is “shrieks, moans, and lamentation.” Card reversed keywords: And while I sang these notes to him, he accused Constantine of avarice.

We Astute Sullen

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KNIGHT OF DiCE BY LONDA R. MARKS

DIVINATION “As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.” ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy “We sullen were in the sweet air, which by the sun is gladdened, bearing within ourselves the sluggish reek; now we are sullen in this sable mire..” (Inferno, Canto VII) The banners of the king advance forward, the mystery of the cross does gleam, where the creator of flesh, in the flesh, by the cross-bar is hung.) Virgil recites it in the beginning of the final Canto of the Inferno, Canto 39, where he leads Dante through the lowest and final Ninth Circle of Hell. However, Virgil quotes a parodied version of the hymn – he instead saying, “The banners of the king of Hell advance forward.” Card upward keywords: We astute sullen, over and over they repeat their “song.” Card reversed keywords: The Sullen cannot sound their songs because they are “submerged” deep beneath the Styx.

Liturgy Of Hours

Your Desires

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QUEEN OF DiCE BY LONDA R. MARKS

DIVINATION .. in my dream, I seemed to see a woman both young and fair; along a plain she gathered flowers, and even as she sang, she said: Whoever asks my name, know that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Leah, and I apply my lovely hands to fashion a garland of the flowers I have gathered. To find delight within this mirror I adorn myself; never deserts her mirror; there she sits all day; she longs to see her fair eyes gazing, as I, to see my hands adorning, long: she is content with seeing, I with labor. (Seventh Terrace, has an immense wall of flame through which everyone must pass. As a prayer, they sing the hymn Summae Deus Clementiae (God of Supreme Clemency) from the Liturgy of the Hours, marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. Card upward keywords: Spirits of people who dedicated their lives to prayer, climbing up and down a golden ladder. Card reversed keywords: Faith, love and hope.

The Boss

Your Desires

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KiNG OF DiCE BY LONDA R. MARKS

DIVINATION That light supreme, with its fathomless Clear substance, showed to me three spheres, which bare Three hues distinct, and occupied one space; The first mirrored the next, as though it were Rainbow from rainbow, and the third seemed flame Breathed equally from each of the first pair. How weak are words, and how unfit to frame My concept — which lags after what was shown So far, ‘twould flatter it to call it lame! Eternal light, that in Thyself alone Dwelling, alone dost know Thyself, and smile On Thy self-love, so knowing and so known! (Canto XXXIII, ll. 97-105, 115-126) Card upward keywords: The Boss, Boss of Bone dice. “The devil is not as black as he is painted.”— Dante Alighieri Card reversed keywords: “The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.” — Dante Alighieri

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