Dodal, linked reproduction
Six de Bâtons
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗Order and recognition
Compare an orderly arrangement with a victory that is being publicly acknowledged.
Start with the pictures
Six of Wands
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 187
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Six de Bâtons
Three batons run in each diagonal direction, crossing into a dense, balanced lattice. Floral ornaments remain around the edges.
Smith
Six of Wands
A mounted figure wears a wreath and carries a staff with another wreath attached. Other people and staffs crowd around the horse.
Harris
Six of Wands · 6
Six decorated wands cross in a regular arrangement over a purple field. Small flames sit at repeated, balanced positions around them.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite offers victory, consequential news and hope reaching its object as related possibilities. The public procession can therefore represent both accomplishment and an announcement about it.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley describes Victory as Fire brought into balance through Tiphareth and Jupiter in Leo. He contrasts the orderly wands and steady flames with the disturbance of the Five.
Is success being displayed to others, or made visible through the arrangement itself?
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.