Arthur Edward Waite (1857–1942)
Autore di The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
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Arthur Edward Waite was born on October 2, 1857 in Brooklyn, New York. He was a poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Waite joined the Outer Order of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in January 1891 mostra altro after being introduced by E.W. Berridge. In 1899 he entered the Second order of the Golden Dawn. He became a Freemason in 1901, and entered the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia in 1902. In 1903 Waite founded the Independent and Rectified Order R. R. et A. C. Waite was a prolific author and many of his works were well received in academic circles. He wrote occult texts on subjects including divination, esotericism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and ceremonial magic, Kabbalism and alchemy; he also translated and reissued several important mystical and alchemical works. His works on the Holy Grail, influenced by his friendship with Arthur Machen, were particularly notable. A number of his volumes remain in print, including The Book of Ceremonial Magic (1911), The Holy Kabbalah (1929), A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry (1921), and his edited translation of Eliphas Levi's 1896 Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual (1910), having seen reprints in recent years. Waite also wrote two allegorical fantasy novels, Prince Starbeam (1889) and The Quest of the Golden Stairs (1893). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Arthur Edward Waite
The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, the Unknown Philosopher, and the Substance of his Transcendental Doctrine (1901) 43 copie
Collectanea Chemica: Being Certain Select Treatises on Alchemy and Hermetic Literature (1991) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 37 copie
Quest of the Golden Stairs: A Mystery of Kinghood in Faerie (A Newcastle occult book X-28) (1974) 23 copie
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, Volume II: Hermetic Medicine and Hermetic Philosophy (1976) — A cura di — 16 copie
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, Volume I: Hermetic Chemistry (1976) — A cura di — 16 copie
Complete Rosicrucian Initiations of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross by Arthur Edward Waite, Founder of the Holy Order… (2005) 15 copie
Understanding the Tarot Deck: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination (2000) 13 copie
Complete Manual of Occult Divination A Manual of Cartomancy: Manual of Cartomancy and Occult Divination, Volume I and… (1972) 9 copie
The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry: And an Analysis of the Inter-Relation Between the Craft and the High Grades: In… (1911) 9 copie
The Weiser Tarot: A New Edition of the Classic 1909 Waite-Smith Deck (78-Card Deck with 64-Page Guidebook) (2022) 8 copie
Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers Based on Materials Collected in 1815 (Classic Reprint) (2012) 6 copie
Rosicrucian Rites and Ceremonies of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross by Founder of the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn… (2008) 4 copie
The Book Of Lambspring: A Noble Ancient Philosopher Concerning The Philosophical Stone (1985) 3 copie
The Life of Louis Claude De Saint-Martin, the Unknown Philosopher, and the Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine (2013) 2 copie
The Unknown World 2 copie
The way of divine union, being a doctrine of experience in the life of sanctity, considered on the faith of its… (1915) 2 copie
Collected Poems of A. E. Waite 2 copie
Der Bilderschlüssel zum Original Rider Waite Tarot Fragmente einer geheimen Überlieferung hinter dem Schleier… (2005) 2 copie
Hermetic Writings Paracelsus 2 copie
The Quest for Bloods 2 copie
A Short Lexicon of Alchemy: Explaining the Chief Terms Used by Paracelsus and Other Hermetic Philosophers (1990) 2 copie
Various writings by A. E. Waite 1 copia
Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot 1 copia
Meaning Tarot (Rider) 1 copia
The Weiser Tarot Card Sticker Book: Includes Over 2,500 Stickers (32 Complete Sets of All 78 Tarot Cards)―Perfect for… (2023) 1 copia
Guía ilustrada del Tarot (Traducción) Arthur Edward Waite - Traducción original de Nahuel Coca con… (2023) 1 copia
The Traveller's Tarot 1 copia
ceremonial black magic 1 copia
Independent and Rectified Martinist Order or Order of Unknown Philosophers — Compositore — 1 copia
Mia unua esperanta libro 1 copia
Way To Divine Wisdom 1 copia
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot 1 copia
RAYMUND LULLY 1 copia
New Pearl of Great Price 1 copia
Doctrine of the Kabalah 1 copia
A Manual of Cartomancy 1 copia
Occult Science 1 copia
Lamps of Western mysticism 1 copia
Astrological Prediction as Deduced From The Character Of The Sign Of The Zodiac Ascending At The Birth Of The… (2010) 1 copia
Arthur Edward Waite and the Rectified Scottish Rite: a selection of extracts from his writings 1 copia
Albino-WaiteTarot deck 1 copia
Michael Maier: A Great German Rosicrucian and Alchemist a Great German Rosicrucian and Alchemist (2010) 1 copia
Hermetic Museum 1 copia
Obermann 1 copia
Lamps of Western Mysticism ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE ~ First Edition 1923 ~ Occult 1st (1777) — Autore — 1 copia
Opere correlate
The works of Thomas Vaughan, mystic and alchemist (Eugenius Philalethes) (1968) — A cura di — 35 copie
Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan also known as Eugenius Philalethes (1992) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 10 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Waite, Arthur Edward
- Data di nascita
- 1857-10-02
- Data di morte
- 1942-05-19
- Luogo di sepoltura
- London, England
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
London, England, UK - Istruzione
- St. Charles' College
- Attività lavorative
- author
scholar
writer
occultist - Organizzazioni
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia
The Independent and Rectified Rite of the Golden Dawn
Fellowship of the Rosy Cross
Freemasons
The Philalethes Society - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Past Senior Grand Warden of Iowa
Past Provinicial Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies (Bucks)
Past Inner Grand Guard (English Grand Mark)
Past Great Captain of the Guards
Past Grand Historiographer Etc.
Fellow of the Philalethes Society
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The brief history of tarot is nice. Although there is probably some useful information in here, it is not really the simplest book for a beginner to learn about tarot. It can certainly be used as a reference but it is not written well for a quick cheat sheet type reference. There are multiple meanings to each card listed in separate sections of the book
Warning: This largely overlaps A. E. Waite, The Holy Kabalah q.v.
The classic "standard" tarot deck - if you see a gypsy fortune teller in an old American movie reading the cards, this is the deck she's using. The packaging on this edition is a bit questionable - tough to get the cards out and the book in. Also in the book, a few of the illustrations are printing in color - but only the first few cards. And the color has bled thru the page! Weird - haven't ever seen this is a modern paperback. But still three stars for the "King James" version the tarot.
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
- #5,250
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 52
- ISBN
- 473
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 8
It is a little hard getting distance from the classic pack enough to review it; with most Rider-derived decks, I’ll pick a few cards to talk about how they differ from the 1909 images; obviously that doesn’t work with the 1909 images themselves. But I’ve briefly flipped through—I don’t count them as ‘read’ yet, since I didn’t carefully study a few a day, and Crowley in particular made no sense; it was like, This is a horse of a different color! This is a Fancy Horse!—both the Tarot de Marseille and the Thoth Tarot, which I’m told are the two main other decks that have influenced Tarot history—readings and musings and derivative decks—other than the classic deck, which is what’s shaped most modern Tarot studies the most, being the main image-template for the large majority of Tarot fools, you know. (Although Arthur came before Eden Gray grandmothered the hippie generation, you know. Arthur probably thought of himself as the Hermit, or perhaps a sort of Hermit-Emperor that only he could understand, right.)
Anyway. It must be a let-down after all that—although that’s not long for me—but I guess I can just say that I can get get how the 1909 pack rode off with the Tarot world, you know. It’s fashionable to deride the almost-popular alt culture; it’s certainly cool to say that Wiccans are already too popular, (where? one almost has to ask), although the Thoth has never really made many popularity-contest inroads on Arthur and Pam, you know. But although I get why it might be fun to learn Thoth Tarot, and the desert-sands and/or modern architecture simplicity of Marseilles is also immediately apparent, I can get the value of the classic set of cards. It’s the easily-dismissed middle-way, that the masses often tend to love in all its forms. It’s in between the pictorially ‘laconic’ Marseille and the (to a non-initiate, busy) ‘fancy’ Thoth; 1909 produces images that are simple and sometimes unmistakable, although sometimes ambiguous and often quite profound as well.
It’s as though it mastered the art of seeming commonplace—at least for a Tarot deck; some people see any card, the Four of Pentacles, probably, and run—while actually having layers. While actually being profound. Marseilles isn’t un-profound, of course; but it’s rough. 1909 is simple, but polished: smooth.… (altro)