The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

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Introduction sacred-texts Waite Index Next The Pictorial Key to the Tarot Being fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination Arthur Edward Waite Originally published in 1910 Preface 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. 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. Now, the opinions of 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. Yet it is just this which may seem doubtful, in the present instance, not only to Mr. Smith, whom I respect within the proper measures of detachment, but to some of more real consequence, seeing that their dedications are mine. To these and to any I would say that after the most illuminated Frater Christian Rosy Cross had beheld the Chemical Marriage in the Secret Palace of Transmutation, his story breaks off abruptly, with an intimation that he expected next morning to be door-keeper. After the same manner, it happens more often than might seem likely that those who have seen the King of Heaven through the most clearest veils of the sacraments are those who assume thereafter the humblest offices of all about the House of God. By such simple devices also are the Adepts and Great Masters in the secret orders distinguished from the cohort of Neophytes as servi servorum mysterii. So also, or in a way which is not entirely unlike, we meet with the Tarot cards at the outermost gates--amidst the fritterings and débris of the so-called occult arts, about which no one in their senses has suffered the smallest deception; and yet these cards belong in themselves to another region, for they contain a very high symbolism, which is interpreted according to the Laws of Grace rather than by the pretexts and intuitions of that which passes for divination. The fact that the wisdom of God is foolishness with men does not create a presumption that the foolishness of this world makes in any sense for Divine Wisdom; so neither the scholars in the ordinary classes nor the pedagogues in the seats of the mighty will be quick to perceive the likelihood or even the possibility of this proposition. The subject has been in the hands of cartomancists as part of the stock-in-trade of their industry; I do not seek to persuade any one outside my own circles that this is of much or of no consequence; but on the historical and interpretative sides it has file:///C|/My%20Documents/Spiritoality/Books/The...0to%20the%20Tarot%20-%20A.E.%20Waite/pktintr.htm (1 of 3) [15/07/2001 23:09:50]
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Zero. The Fool an example, to those
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2.3 Conclusion as to the Greater Ke
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3.1 Distinction between the Greater
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Queen of Wands sacred-texts Waite I
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Queen of Cups sacred-texts Waite In
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3.3 The Greater Arcana and their Di
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3.4 Some Additional Meanings of the
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3.4 Some Additional Meanings of the
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3.5 The Recurrence of Cards in Deal
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3.6 The Art of Tarot Divination sac
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3.7 An Ancient Celtic Method of Div
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3.7 An Ancient Celtic Method of Div
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3.8 An Alternative Method of Readin
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3.8 An Alternative Method of Readin
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3.9 The Method of Reading by Means
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Bibliography The Works of Etteilla.
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Bibliography Fiction et du Fait, bu
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Bibliography The Magical Ritual of
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