The pictorial key to the Tarot : being fragments of a secret tradition under the veil of divination

Originally published 1910.

Waite's last word on the Tarot. Introduction. Preface. Part 1 - The veil and its symbols. 1 Introductory and general. 2 Class 1 - The trumps major, otherwise greater arcana. 3 Class 2 - The four suits, otherwise lesser arcana. 4 The Tarot in history. Part 2 - The doctrine behind the veil. 1 The Tarot and secret tradition. 2 The trumps major and their inner symbolism. 3 Conclusion as to the greater keys. Part 3 - Thke outer method of the oracles. 1 Distinction between the greater and lesser arcana. 2 The lesser arcana, otherwise, the four suits of Tarot cards. 3 The greater arcana and their divinatory meanings. 4 Some additional meanings of the lesser arcana. 5 The recurrence of cards in dealing. 6 The art of Tarot divination. 7 An ancient Celtic method of divination. 8 An alternative method of reading the Tarot cards. 9 The method of reading by means of thirty-five cards. Note on the tarot as a game

'This set of mystical Tarot cards, which Arthur E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith developed together, seemed at the time a mere trifle to both of them, compared with their more ambitious projects. Yet their Tarot is one of the few published works by either of them that has remained almost continuously in print for nearly fifty years.'

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