are infinitely more complex than Chess, a Chess played on an 
infinité boarci with men whose moves are indeterminate, and made 
still more difficult by the interférence of impondérable forces and 
unformulated laws; while its conduct demands not only the 
virtues, themselves rare enough, of intellectual and moral 
integrity, but intuition combining delicacy with strength in such 
perfection and to such extremes as to make its existence appear 
monstrous and miraculous against Nature. 
To admit this is not to discrédit oracles. On the contrary, the 
oracles fell mto disrepute just because they pretended to do more 
than they could. To divine concerning a matter is little more than 
to calculate probabilities. We obtain the use of minds who hâve 
access ro knowledge beyond ours, but not to omniscience. Hru; the 
gréai angel set over the Tarot, is beyond us as we are beyond the 
antj but, for ail we know, the knowledge of Hru is excelled by 
some mightier mind in the same proportion. Nor hâve we any 
warrant for accusing Hru of ignorance or error if we read the 
Taroi to our own delusion. He may hâve known, he may hâve 
spoken trulyj the fault may lie with our own insight.1 
The Master Therion has observed on innumerable occasions 
that divinations, made by him and dismissed as giving untrue 
answers, hâve justified themselves months or years later when he 
was able to revise his judgment in perspective, untroubled by his 
Personal passion. 
It is mdeed surprising how often the most careless divinations 
give accurate answers. When things go wrong, it is almost always 
possible to trace thæ error to one’s own self-willed and insolent 
presumption in insisting that events shall accommodate themselves 
to our egoism and vanity. It is comically unscientific to adduce 
i. The question of the sense in which an answer is true arises. One 
not mix up the planes. Yet, as Mr. Russell shows, Of Cit. f. 61, the 
worlds which lie behind phenomena must possess the same structure as our 
own. Every proposition having a communicable significance must lie 
in just that essence of individuality which, for that very reason, is irrelevant 
to science , Just so : but this is to confess the impotence of science to 
attam truth, and to admit the urgency of developing a mental instrument 
of supenor capacity. 
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