Dodal, linked reproduction
As de Deniers
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗Coin, pentacle, moving disk
The suit’s changing name matters: look at what is drawn inside and around its single round object.
Start with the pictures
Ace of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 281
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
As de Deniers
One large gold-coloured coin with a floral centre fills the middle. Symmetrical red, blue and green plant ornaments extend above and below it.
Smith
Ace of Pentacles
A hand emerging from a cloud supports a large pentacle above a garden. A path passes through a leafy arch toward distant hills.
Harris
Ace of Disks · 1
A gold central disk contains nested angular shapes. Broad feathered and looping forms radiate around it over a green field.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite emphasizes comfortable material conditions and contentment, while warning within his own reversed account that wealth is not always advantageous to its possessor.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley explicitly rethinks Earth as active and revolving rather than inert. He identifies the central emblem with his own hieroglyph and gives the surrounding wings a solar significance.
What does the centre of each object ask you to notice before you think about wealth?
Write one thing you can point to in the image, one interpretation from a named author, and one inference of your own. Keeping the three separate gives you something useful to revisit.
Sources and image credits
The Dodal cards are one early-eighteenth-century Marseille witness. The black-and-white Smith plates come from the 1922 Rider reprint, whose title verso lists first publication in 1910. Colours in later editions can differ.
Foolmade supplies the linked Dodal reproductions. Its surrounding commentary is not the basis for our historical claims. These images are linked externally; the Smith illustration reuses the public-domain source scan with its full page context.
Harris’s paintings are linked on their host’s reference pages. Crowley’s text is the separately identified Thelemagick transcription of The Book of Thoth. Neither a modern reproduction nor a transcription replaces examination of the original artwork or edition.