The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (Summarized Edition)

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot presents a tripartite manual: a brief history, an iconographic reading of Major and Minor Arcana, and directions for divination, including the Celtic Cross. In lucid yet antiquarian prose, Waite rejects fantasies of an Egyptian origin while advancing a Christian-mystical, Kabbalistic, and Hermetic synthesis. Written amid the late occult revival and keyed to the Rider...