Fortune-Telling by Cards
P. R. S. Foli · 1902
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About the book
Every parlour method of reading an ordinary deck, collected by «Professor Foli» — in private life the newspaper magnate who founded the Daily Express. Thirty-two-card spreads, the Grand Star, wish cards and the master method, written for the drawing room and none the worse for it.
Try the short course
Part 1 · Where the pack came from. The first six slides, free.
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Deal a pack for a rubber of whist or a quiet game of Patience and you are handling what Foli calls “those smooth, highly-glazed playthings”. He asks you to stop for a moment and see what else they are.
The documented history of playing cards, he says, reaches back only about five hundred years. Behind it he places an older story that cannot be traced: India, China and Chaldea had cards of their own, different in design and in use, and their wise men treated them with none of the contempt the West later showed.
To them a card was a medium for the partial revelation of the Unknowable. Keep hold of the word partial. From the first page of his history, Foli's cards reveal a little, never everything.
Inside the course
12 parts- How we got our pack of cardsFree above
- What the individual cards signify
- The selected pack of thirty-two
- Quartettes, triplets and pairs
Questions
Is Fortune-Telling by Cards free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. Fortune-Telling by Cards is waiting in the app’s library.
