Dummett's Errata sheet for "Wicked Pack of Cards"

Looking at Dummett and Decker's 2002 book, A History The Occult Tarot 1870-1970, for more information on the subjects covered in chapter 19 of Il Mondo e l'Angelo, I noticed in the footnotes several "errata" entries referring back to their (with Depaulis) 1996 Wicked Pack of Cards. Since that book is cited in the literature more often than the 2002 book, I thought it might be useful to know what in Wicked Pack they thought was erroneous. So here is a kind of "errata sheet" for Wicked Pack, based on the entries cited in the index of the 2002 book under th heading "Wicked Pack of cards, errors in". I can't see it in a blog of its own, so I will put it here. The page numbers, unless otherwise indicated, refer to Wicked Pack.

On p. 16: "the list of homonyms in the third column is compiled from Kircher's first and second lists, and 'viri fortes' should be replaced by 'principium'."

On p. 16: "the ranks in the Christian hierarchy thus identified by Kircher are shown in the right-hand column. Powers and Virtues there should be interchanged. Kircher variously departs from the usual Christian authorities on the ranking of angelic choirs."

On p. 17: "it should have been specified that 'Kircher's' homonyms in fact were borrowed from St. Jerome."

On p. 24: "pp. 24 erroneously gives the pack's publisher as 'E. Poirot'. 'Poirot' was our mistake; the 'E' comes from A.P. Morton's English translation of Papus' Le Tarot des Bohemians. According to Baylot 1975 [Jean Baylot, Oswald Wirth 1880-1943, renovateur et mainteneur de la veritable Franc-Maconnerie, Paris], the pack's publisher was Georges Poirel."

On p. 47: "An incorrect hypothesis to account for the use of the term 'Pentacles' is given in Decker, Depaulis & Dummett 1996, p. 47."

The 2002 book (p. 51) offers the following instead:

"The revelation of the Shechinah (1887), a somewhat obscure and dithyrambic commentary on the Tarot, is ascribed to 'Vincit Qui Se Vincit', the motto in the S.R.I.A. of Frederick Holland. (38). On pp. 17-18, his description of the Tree of Life contains the statement, 'the whole of the Archetypal world becomes the En Soph to three more, and form the four decads of the Tora...the true wheel of life'. 'These four decads form the different kinds of cards,' we are told, 'but instead of being clubs, cups, swords and pentacles, they are the four letters of the great name.' This is probably the first appearance in print of the term 'Pentacles' for the Coins suit. It was presumably that used among Holland's associates. It seems to have meant 'talismanic images' and was not limited to five-pointed stars. Only later, as in the Tarot by Comte C. de Saint-Germain and in the Waite/Smith Tarot, were stars conjoined with the circular suit-signs. In his writings, Levi had used the term pantacles in the sense of 'talismanic images', associating it with the suit of Deniers or Coins; A.E. Waite, in translating Levi's texts, retained 'Pantacles', a word unknown to the Oxford English Dictionary. (39).
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38. In the previous year, 1886, he had published The Temple Rebuilt, also using his Latin motto as is pen-name.
39. Both points are illustrated by the phrase of Levi rendered by Waite as 'the four suits, Clubs, Coins [sic: Waite's text actually has "Cups", at least at http://hermetic.com/crowley/aa/Rituel%2 ... Part_I.pdf]. Swords, and Circles, or Pantacles, commonly called Deniers'; see Levi/Waite 1923, p. 101, (Chapter X of Eliphias Levi, Dogma de la haute magie.) Levi had not meant by pantacle a five-pointed star, for which he used the word pentagramme. In the original edition of his Clef des grands mystere of 1861, there are four illustrations of pantacles, of which three are in fact pentagrams, although the fourth is decidedly not. Mary Greer, in correspondence, has kindly drawn our attention to Grand Orient, Manual of Cartomancy (London 1909)p. 136, where the suit is called "Pantacles". (Grand Orient' was a pseudonyum of Waite's.) An incorrect hypothesis to account for the use of the term 'Pentacles' is given in Decker, Depaulis & Dummett 1996, p. 47. "

On p. 181: "P. 181 incorrectly makes Bulwer-Lytton a president of the S.R.I.A. and cites a date before the society was even founded". [P. 41 of Occult Tarot gives the correct information: "Lord Lytton was elected an Honorary Member in 1870, largely on account of the 'Rosicrucian' themes in some of his novels. He was nominated Grand Patron, a courtesy he declined, resigning even his membership in 1872."]

On p. 236: "Faucheux's first name is incorrectly given as Alfred." [The passage to which this note is attached, on p. 41 of Occult Tarot, reads "The Theosophical Society had no special doctrine regarding the Tarot. However one Frenchman in the Society, Albert Faucheux (1838-1921), a civil servant, gave the trumps a Theosophical twist. When writing on the occult, he called himself Francois-Charles Barlet (the surname being an anagram of Albert). An essay by Barlet appears in Le Tarot des Bohemiens (The Tarot of the Bohemians, Paris 1889), an influential book by Papus (1865-1916)...]