A. E. Waite Quotes


We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.


Citations

Waite, Arthur Edward. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. William Rider & Son, 1911.

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A. E. Waite
A. E. Waite
  • Born: October 2, 1857
  • Died: May 19, 1942
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Author

Arthur Edward Waite was an American-born 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."