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A Complete Guide to the Tarot. New York: Crown Publishers. Mackey, Albert Gallatin (1966). "Mallet". Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Macoy Pub. and Masonic Supply Company. Archived from the original on 2007-08-25 – via Masonicdictionary.com. Waite, A. E. (1979) [1910]. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. New York: Samuel Weiser. ISBN 0-87728-218-8.
Case promoted the deck in his 1947 book The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages, which also marked one of the first references to the work of Carl Jung by a tarotist. [ 82 ] Esoteric use of the Rider–Waite–Smith Tarot was also promoted in the works of Eden Gray , whose three books on the tarot made extensive use of the deck.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is a divinatory tarot guide, with text by A. E. Waite and illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith.Published in conjunction with the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, the pictorial version (released 1910, dated 1911) [1] followed the success of the deck and Waite's (unillustrated 1909) text The Key to the Tarot. [2]
The Rider–Waite Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [1] [2] first published by William Rider & Son in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
The card pictured is the Wheel Of Fortune card from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. A.E. Waite was a key figure in the development of the tarot in line with the Hermetic magical-religious system which was also being developed at the time, [1] and this deck, as well as being in common use today, also forms the basis for a number of other modern ...
According to A.E. Waite's 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Star card carries several divinatory associations: [7]. 17.THE STAR.--Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says-Hope and bright prospects, Reversed: arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.
The illustration of the tarot card "The Magician" from the Rider–Waite tarot deck was developed by A. E. Waite for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1910. Waite's magician features the infinity symbol over his head, and an ouroboros belt, both symbolizing eternity. The figure stands among a garden of flowers, to imply the manifestation ...
Strength (VIII) from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. Strength is a Major Arcana tarot card, and is numbered either XI or VIII, depending on the deck. Historically it was called Fortitude, and in the Thoth Tarot deck it is called Lust. This card is used in game playing as well as in divination.