![]() ![]() Yet it is just this which may seem doubtful, in the present instance, not only to Mr. ![]() Smith, even in the literary reviews, are of no importance unless they happen to agree with our own, but in order to sanctify this doctrine we must take care that our opinions, and the subjects out of which they arise, are concerned only with the highest. It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling. It seems rather of necessity than predilection in the sense of apologia that I should put on record in the first place a plain statement of my personal position, as one who for many years of literary life has been, subject to his spiritual and other limitations, an exponent of the higher mystic schools. THE METHOD OF READING BY MEANS OF THIRTY-FIVE CARDS AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF READING THE TAROT CARDSĩ. SOME ADDITIONAL MEANINGS OF THE LESSER ARCANAħ. THE GREATER ARCANA AND THEIR DIVINATORY MEANINGSĤ. THE LESSER ARCANA, OTHERWISE, THE FOUR SUITS OF TAROT CARDSģ. DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE GREATER AND LESSER ARCANAĢ. PART III: THE OUTER METHOD OF THE ORACLESġ. THE TRUMPS MAJOR AND THEIR INNER SYMBOLISM THE FOUR SUITS, OTHERWISE, LESSER ARCANAĢ. THE TRUMPS MAJOR, OTHERWISE, GREATER ARCANAģ. ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.Ĭover Image: illustrations from the Rider-Waite tarot deck, first published 1909.Ģ. And the cards themselves are good.(9/10) Read moreĬover.jpg THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT BEING FRAGMENTS OF A SECRET TRADITION UNDER THE VEIL OF DIVINATION By A. ![]() And of course, you have to ask yourself, if he really loved the philosophical sort of esotericism as exclusively as he would have you believe if you actually believed some of the things he wrote-though that's really just words, and any student of myth ought to know what lies words are-well, if all that's so, why would he go out of his way to unveil what's now the most famous Tarot spread of them all, which even a newbie (and a boy!) like me now knows, I mean, what a thing to *do*, if he really scorned the oracles as much he said he did, back when the sun never set on the British Empire, and Queen Victoria wasn't even dead ten years yet, hell, she was hardly even cold, back then. Waite, I mean, such a thing to *do*, after all, he protested so much, and so *earnestly* that it was really "the doctrine behind the veil" and not "the outer method of the oracles" which drew him, all the way back in distant 1909 or 1910 or 1911 or whenever this thing hit the presses of M. It is clear to me, at least, and I think it's proven, even, that certain bits of it, say, Part III, Section 4, "Some Additional Meanings Of The Lesser Arcana", were actually written by certain others, which is really-if you think about it, right!-a rather shocking concession for a man like M. For all that, though, I think the boy has won his spurs more, or, at least, *at least as much* by what he has *permitted*, than by what he has thought or written or decided. He prefers the 'higher' realms of thought and he seems to fancy-flowery rosy-intellectual philosophical sorts of sentences. It should be noted that Waite considers the actual divinatory uses of his subject with some aversion. Waite’s guide remains as useful as when it was first written a century ago and is an essential addition to the library of anyone who practices the tarot or wishes to learn more about its meaning. In addition to a discussion of the significance of each card and the images that appear on it, Waite also includes instructions on how to conduct a reading. Waite extensively researched the significance of each card’s symbolism and deeper meaning as part of the creation of the deck and shares these insights in “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”. It was also the first to illustrate all 78 cards fully when most decks only illustrated the 22 Major Arcana cards. While there were many tarot decks created and distributed around the world prior to this, the Rider-Waite deck was the first to become widely famous. An American-born British poet and mystic, Waite is famed for co-creating the Rider-Waite tarot deck, sometimes referred to as the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. First published in 1911, “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” is a guide to the divinatory tarot deck by A. ![]()
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