Arthur Edward Waite

The classic text for the Rider-Waite deck. Discusses the major and minor arcana, what each card means, reversed card meanings, and how to do a basic reading.

Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Pamela C. Smith

The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack

The Grail legend is the centerpiece of Arthurian literature, and this classic work by the renowned scholar Arthur Edward Waite ranks among the most informative and profound books ever written on the subject. While the myths surrounding the Holy Grail are seemingly in harmony with orthodox religion, Waite reveals that beneath their pious surface, they are as subversive as any other form of mysticism — illustrating the symbolic nature of doctrinal teachings, no more intended for literal interpretation than is any fiction. With this informative study, Waite restores the full and true meaning of the knightly quests for honor and adventure as journeys of the soul.

History, Legend, and Symbolism

The Holy Grail

The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal

Including the Rituals of Black Magic, Containing True Sorcery, Infernal Necromancy, Pacts and the Rites & Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Ceremonies, and Magic

The Complete Book of Black Magic and Witchcraft

This fully revised and updated edition explains the history of the tarot, the symbolism of the cards and how to use the cards.

The Key to the Tarot

Pamela Colman Smith

A guide that shows how to interpret various Tarot spreads, handle cards, prepare for a reading, distinguish the elements of a great reading and identify what the Tarot can--and can't--do for you.

The Rider Tarot Deck

Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Studies in Mysticism and Certain Aspects of the Secret Tradition

Considered by some as Hebrew witchcraft, the Kabbalah is the "occult" and "secret" tradition of Judaism, with origins far in the distant past. Here 19th-century scholar and researcher Arthur Edward Waite takes a penetrating yet sensible look at this world of mystery.

A Study of the Secret Tradition in Israel as Unfolded by Sons of the Doctrine for the Benefit and Consolation of the Elect Dispersed Through the Lands and Ages of the Greater Exile

The Holy Kabbalah

Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goëtic Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy

The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts

THE ordinary fields of psychological inquiry, largely in possession of the pathologist, are fringed by a borderland of occult and dubious experiment into which pathologists may occasionally venture, but it is left for the most part to unchartered explorers. Beyond these fields and this borderland there lies the legendary wonder-world of Theurgy, so called, of Magic and Sorcery, a world of fascination or terror, as the mind which regards it is tempered, but in either case the antithesis of admitted possibility. There all paradoxes seem to obtain actually, contradictions coexist logically, the effect is greater than the cause and the shadow more than the substance. Therein the visible melts into the unseen, the invisible is manifested openly, motion from place to place is accomplished without traversing the intervening distance, matter passes through matter. There two straight lines may enclose a space; space has a fourth dimension, and untrodden fields beyond it; without metaphor and without evasion, the circle is mathematically squared. There life is prolonged, youth renewed, physical immortality secured. There earth becomes gold, and gold earth. There words and wishes possess creative power, thoughts are things, desire realises its object. There, also, the dead live and the hierarchies of extra-mundane intelligence are within easy communication, and become ministers orÊtormentors, guides or destroyers, of man. There the Law of Continuity is suspended by the interference of the higher Law of Fantasia. But, unhappily, this domain of enchantment is in all respects comparable to the gold of Faerie, which is presumably its medium of exchange. It cannot withstand daylight, the test of the human eye, or the scale of reason. When these are applied, its paradox becomes an anticlimax, its antithesis ludicrous; its contradictions are without genius; its mathematical marvels end in a verbal quibble; its elixirs fail even as purges; its transmutations do not need exposure at the assayer's hands; its marvel-working words prove barbarous mutilations of dead languages, and are impotent from the moment that they are understood; departed friends, and even planetary intelligences, must not be seized by the skirts, for they are apt to desert their draperies, and these are not like the mantle of Elijah.

The Book of Ceremonial Magic

Sin duda, A. E. Waite revolucionó la mayoría de los conceptos sobre el Tarot anteriores a él, y hoy no se concibe el estudio de esta materia sin su extraordinaria contribución. Esta aportación consistió en presentar a los interesados en el ocultismo una nueva visión del Tarot basada en el simbolismo hermético,y que plasmó, por una parte, en un libro, y, por otra, en el diseño de su famosa baraja. Pero mientras el Tarot que él creó es hoy día difundido y conocido en todo el mundo, el libro que contenía su estudio es, sorprendentemente, mucho más desconocido. En este estuche se incluye dicho libro, publicado en 1910 en Inglaterra bajo el título de La clave ilustrada del Tarot, junto a su famosa baraja de Tarot. Con seguridad, este libro y la baraja constituyen en su conjunto la obra sobre Tarot más importante creada hasta la fecha y un referente imprescindible para toda persona interesada en esta disciplina.

La clave ilustrada del Tarot

The Turba Philosophorum; Or, Assembly of the Sages, Called Also the Book of Truth in the Art and the Third Pythagorical Synod

Alchemy

THE art which is called Goetic, being that of incantation, of sorcery, fascination and of the illusions and impostures connected therewith, has come somewhat arbitrarily to signify the last issue in diabolism of the more catholic and general art which is termed Practical Magic. The latter designation implies that there is a Magic on the theoretical side, or, as it may be, a philosophy of the subject, and this again is of two kinds: in modern days it has embodied various attempts to provide an explanation, a working hypothesis, for alleged phenomena of the past; of old it came forward with the accent of authority and carrying the warrants of a peculiar and secret knowledge; it taught rather than explained."

A Lyric of the Fairy Land, and Other Poems

The subject of occultism, by which we mean those sciences, called transcendental and magical, a knowledge of which has been transmitted and accumulated in secret, or is contained in books that have an inner or secret meaning, has been very fully dealt with during recent years by various students of eminence. But the works of these well-equipped investigators are, in most instances, unsuited to an elementary reader, and they are all somewhat expensive. It has remained for the results of their studies to be condensed into a portable volume, which shall conduct the inquirer into the vestibule of each branch of "the occult sciences," and place within his reach the proper means of prosecuting his researches further in any desired direction. It is such an unpretending but useful task which we have set ourselves to perform in the present volume, which embraces, as we would claim, in a compressed and digested form, the whole scope of occult knowledge, expressed in the language of a learner.

By Arthur Edward Waite

The Occult Sciences

Eliphas Levi

The History of Magic (1913) is a treatise on the origins of ceremonial magic. Written by mystic and occultist Éliphas Lévi and translated by British scholar A.E. Waite, this is a foundational book for any student of the occult.

Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries

The History of Magic

This is one of A. E. Waite's less known works on freemasonry but still essential to understand the order in itself. This edition includes a detailed essay about Freemasonry, its history and origins, written by Hermann Gruber. Contents: Part I A System Of Morality The First Degree The Meaning Of Initiation Entered, Passed, Raised Imperfect Symbolism The Third Degree Part II The Book Of The Dead The Christian Mysteries The Mystical Fact The Place Of Darkness Operative Masonry The Old Charges Living Stones Part III The Kabalah The Divine Name The Temple The Builder Craft Masonry

Some Deeper Aspects Of Masonic Symbolism (Annotated Edition)

Most Faithfully Instructing All Disciples of the Sopho-spagyric Art how that Greatest and Truest Medicine of the Philosopher's Stone May be Found and Held

Arthur Edward Waite

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