The very title of his first collection of verse, A Book of Change, implies Frederick Morgan's attraction to the notion of metamorphosis, and that of his second, Poems of the Two Worlds, suggests precisely how quotidian life may transform itself into something richer and stranger. So, too, does The Tarot of Cornelius Agrippa…. (p. 1052)

If it is the self in its fullness that The Tarot of Cornelius Agrippa seeks (in the manner of classic occultist works, of which Agrippa himself, a contemporary of Luther's, was a master), the book also seeks to prove that one cannot scheme one's way to it. Any effort to foist allegorical structure on the passages, then, quickly reveals its poverty. Magician, Rogue, Hermit, Angel: are these figures observed by a pilgrim, or are they aspects of the pilgrim himself? Moot: for it's not here a matter of either/or but, as Jung said...