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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.
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character of them. Remember that the common thirty-fours, or what are called "constants," number fourteen, Of "variables," as they are called, a cross tarot has as follows:

Quadrilaterals like diagram A 2
Quadrilaterals like diagram C 4
Quadrilaterals like diagram L 4
Quadrilaterals like diagram M 2
Quadrilaterals like diagram N 2
Quadrilaterals like diagram O 4
Total variables 18
Total constants 14
Grand total 32

In other words the quadratic and line thirty-fours are equal to just twice the squares of the tarot. There are still other quadratic thirty-fours not given in the above. Some tarots have few; others nearly as many as the samples exhibited. The tarot which represents a given person has the qualities of the person so represented. Some persons have high geometrical natures, others are low geometrically. This is beautifully illustrated in the combination or superimposing of tarots of males and females. But that subject cannot be taken up in this work, but will be fully exemplified in the work which I shall soon publish, devoted exclusively to tarotology.

As a curiosity we herewith give a tarot with very slight quadruplex character. To the right will be found the Quadrate of it:

An examination of No. 2 will show that the quadrate has knocked out every thirty-four in it, except the diagonals X,