Arthur Edward Waite (1857–1942)
Autor/a de The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de Arthur Edward Waite
The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, the Unknown Philosopher, and the Substance of his Transcendental Doctrine (1901) 42 exemplars
Collectanea Chemica: Being Certain Select Treatises on Alchemy and Hermetic Literature (1991) — Editor, algunes edicions — 37 exemplars
Quest of the Golden Stairs: A Mystery of Kinghood in Faerie (A Newcastle occult book X-28) (1974) 23 exemplars
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, Volume II: Hermetic Medicine and Hermetic Philosophy (1976) — Editor — 16 exemplars
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, Volume I: Hermetic Chemistry (1976) — Editor — 16 exemplars
Complete Rosicrucian Initiations of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross by Arthur Edward Waite, Founder of the Holy Order… (2005) 15 exemplars
Understanding the Tarot Deck: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination (2000) 13 exemplars
The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry: And an Analysis of the Inter-Relation Between the Craft and the High Grades: In… (1911) 9 exemplars
Complete Manual of Occult Divination A Manual of Cartomancy: Manual of Cartomancy and Occult Divination, Volume I and… (1972) 9 exemplars
The Weiser Tarot: A New Edition of the Classic 1909 Waite-Smith Deck (78-Card Deck with 64-Page Guidebook) (2022) 8 exemplars
Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers Based on Materials Collected in 1815 (Classic Reprint) (2012) 6 exemplars
The Golden Stairs: Tales from the Wonder-World 4 exemplars
Rosicrucian Rites and Ceremonies of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross by Founder of the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn… (2008) 4 exemplars
The Book Of Lambspring: A Noble Ancient Philosopher Concerning The Philosophical Stone (1985) 3 exemplars
Three Famous Alchemists: Raymund Lully, Cornelius Agrippa, Theophrastus Paracelsus (1992) 3 exemplars
The Quest for Bloods 2 exemplars
The Pictorial Symbols Of Alchemy: From The Co-Creator Of The Rider Waite Tarot Deck (2017) 2 exemplars
Hermetic Writings Paracelsus 2 exemplars
The way of divine union, being a doctrine of experience in the life of sanctity, considered on the faith of its… (1915) 2 exemplars
Collected Poems of A. E. Waite 2 exemplars
The Unknown World 2 exemplars
Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism 2 exemplars
A Short Lexicon of Alchemy: Explaining the Chief Terms Used by Paracelsus and Other Hermetic Philosophers (1990) 2 exemplars
Guía ilustrada del Tarot (Traducción) Arthur Edward Waite - Traducción original de Nahuel Coca con… (2023) 1 exemplars
Rare Arthur Edward Waite PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1st Ed. in DJ, 1973 [Hardcover] Waite, Arthur Edward 1 exemplars
The Weiser Tarot Card Sticker Book: Includes Over 2,500 Stickers (32 Complete Sets of All 78 Tarot Cards)―Perfect for… (2023) 1 exemplars
RAYMUND LULLY 1 exemplars
Meaning Tarot (Rider) 1 exemplars
A Lyric of the Fairy Land: And Other Poems 1 exemplars
Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot 1 exemplars
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot 1 exemplars
The Traveller's Tarot 1 exemplars
Occult Science 1 exemplars
Way To Divine Wisdom 1 exemplars
New Pearl of Great Price 1 exemplars
A Manual of Cartomancy 1 exemplars
Mia unua esperanta libro 1 exemplars
Various writings by A. E. Waite 1 exemplars
Prince Starbeam: A Tale of Fairyland 1 exemplars
The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith 1 exemplars
Lamps of Western mysticism 1 exemplars
ceremonial black magic 1 exemplars
Doctrine of the Kabalah 1 exemplars
Independent and Rectified Martinist Order or Order of Unknown Philosophers — Redactor/compositor — 1 exemplars
The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz 1 exemplars
Astrological Prediction as Deduced From The Character Of The Sign Of The Zodiac Ascending At The Birth Of The… (2010) 1 exemplars
The Mysteries Of The Goetic Theurgy According To The Lesser Key Of Solomon The King (2005) 1 exemplars
Albino-WaiteTarot deck 1 exemplars
Arthur Edward Waite and the Rectified Scottish Rite: a selection of extracts from his writings 1 exemplars
A Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn: A Retrospective Review In The Form Of Memoirs (2005) 1 exemplars
Complete Set of Tarot Cards (Rider-Waite) 1 exemplars
Hermetic Museum 1 exemplars
The Collected Poems of Arthur Edward Waite 1 exemplars
Dogma and Ritual of High Magic Part I: Part I, The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic (2016) 1 exemplars
Smith-Waite Tarot — Borderless Edition 1 exemplars
The Life of Louis Claude De Saint-Martin, the Unknown Philosopher, and the Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine (2013) 1 exemplars
Michael Maier: A Great German Rosicrucian and Alchemist a Great German Rosicrucian and Alchemist (2010) 1 exemplars
Der Bilderschlüssel zum Original Rider Waite Tarot Fragmente einer geheimen Überlieferung hinter dem Schleier… (2005) 1 exemplars
Obermann 1 exemplars
Lamps of Western Mysticism ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE ~ First Edition 1923 ~ Occult 1st (1777) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The works of Thomas Vaughan, mystic and alchemist (Eugenius Philalethes) (1968) — Editor — 34 exemplars
Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan also known as Eugenius Philalethes (1992) — Traductor, algunes edicions — 10 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Waite, Arthur Edward
- Data de naixement
- 1857-10-02
- Data de defunció
- 1942-05-19
- Lloc d'enterrament
- London, England
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
London, England, UK - Educació
- St. Charles' College
- Professions
- author
scholar
writer
occultist - Organitzacions
- 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 - Premis i honors
- 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
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 214
- També de
- 9
- Membres
- 4,743
- Popularitat
- #5,302
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 52
- ISBN
- 472
- Llengües
- 8
- Preferit
- 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.… (més)