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"The works of A. E. Waite are in a different category, and of these I have made much use, though, as G. Scholem has said, Waite’s valuable work is marred by lack of critical sense."--The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) by Frances Yates


"The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. Given the inward meaning of its emblems, they do become a kind of alphabet which is capable of indefinite combinations and makes true sense in all."--The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910) by A. E. Waite

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Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 – 19 May 1942) was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider–Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith deck). As his biographer R. A. Gilbert described him, "Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism—viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion."

Lovecraft has a villainous wizard in his short story "The Thing on the Doorstep" called Ephraim Waite; according to Robert M. Price, this character was based on Waite.

Publications

  • Israfel: Letters, Visions and Poems, London: Allen, 1886.
  • The Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi, London: George Redway, 1886.
  • The Real History of the Rosicrucians, London, 1887.
  • Alchemists Through the Ages, 1888
  • Songs and Poems of Fairyland: An Anthology of English Fairy Poetry, London, 1888
  • Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers. London: George Redway, 1888.
  • The Occult Sciences: A Compendium of Transcendental Doctrine and Experiment, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1891.
  • The Hermetic Museum, in two volumes. London, 1893.
  • The Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly, London, 1893.
  • Turba Philosophorum (translator), 1894
  • Devil-Worship in France. London: George Redway, 1896.
  • The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, 1898.
  • The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. London: William Ryder & Son, Ltd., 1911.
  • The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, in two volumes. London: Rebman, 1911.
  • The Book of Destiny and The Art of Reading Therein, London: William Rider & Son Ltd., 1912.
  • The Book of Ceremonial Magic, London: 1913.
  • A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1921.
  • Saint-Martin: The French Mystic and the Story of Modern Martinism, 1922.
  • The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross: Being Records of the House of the Holy Spirit in its Inward and Outward History, London: William Rider & Son Ltd., 1924.
  • The Secret Tradition in Alchemy: Its Development and Records, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
  • The Holy Kabbalah, 1929.
  • The Tarot of the Bohemians (translated by A. E. Waite; 1958)
  • The collected poems of Arthur Edward Waite, in two volumes, London: William Rider & Son Ltd.
  • A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (Ars Magna Latomorum) and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature, and History, New York: Wings Books, 1994. Template:ISBN.
  • The Hidden Church of the Holy Grail: Its Legends and Symbolism Considered in Their Affinity with Certain Mysteries of Initiation and Other Traces of a Secret Tradition in Christian Times], Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Fredonia Books, 2002. Template:ISBN.
  • Inner and Outer Order Initiations of the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn, Canada: Burnaby, 2005. Template:ISBN.
  • Theories As to the Authorship of the Rosicrucian Manifestos, Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2005. Template:ISBN.





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