Dodal, linked reproduction
Roy de Bastons
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗A throne becomes a chariot
Compare two seated Kings with Thoth’s moving Prince, using the stated title-based court pairing.
Start with the pictures
King of Wands
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 171
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Roy de Bastons
A crowned figure sits in decorated clothing, holding a long baton at an angle. The bent legs and substantial seat make an enthroned figure visible.
Smith
King of Wands
A crowned figure holds a leafy staff on a throne patterned with lions and curling creatures. A small lizard-like animal stands by the throne.
Harris
Prince of Wands · Prince
A figure rides in a chariot drawn by a lion. Flames and radiating lines surround the vehicle and the extended wand.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite emphasizes ardour, animation and conscientious character, relating the throne to the lion. His upright and reversed lists keep honesty and severity in view rather than offering a single interchangeable court personality.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley describes a lion drawing the Prince’s chariot across flames. His wand and radiating wheel belong to a force that expands and acts, rather than simply remaining enthroned.
What changes when authority sits in a vehicle that can move?
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.