THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT: Being Fragments Of A Secret Tradition Under The Veil Of Divination. With 78 Plates, Illustrating The Greater And Lesser Arcana, From Designs By Pamela Colman Smith
Language: English
Published by NY. 1995. Barnes & Noble Books, 1995
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small, yellow & black ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings.~. first printing ( # 1 in # line) of this reprint of the 1910 original. decorative title pg. ix + 340p. b&w illustrations of the tarot cards. bibliography. religion. psychology. philosophy. theosophy. divination. hermeticism. medieval history. book of thoth. history of playing cards. cartomancy. history of tarot cards. occultism. ~"The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all." ~Arthur Edward Waite ~The age~old fascination with Tarot cards is here captured in one of the most popular treatments available on the subject. First published in 1920 and handsomely illustrated with 78 plates, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is divided into three sections. The first deals with the history of the Tarot~specifically, the sources of all the symbols and a discussion of the original occult wisdom connected with these cards. The second part examines the symbolism itself, according to its higher or occult aspects, and this serves to introduce the complete and rectified Tarot as it exists and is used today. The third section discusses the spiritual aspects of the Tarot cards; here, Arthur Edward Waite draws from a wealth of published sources a harmony of the meanings that have been attached to the various cards, and gives prominence to one method of working with the Tarot deck~a method that involves a simplicity of approach with a universal applicability.…
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- Title
- THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT: Being Fragments Of A Secret Tradition Under The Veil Of Divination. With 78 Plates, Illustrating The Greater And Lesser Arcana, From Designs By Pamela Colman Smith
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- Waite, Arthur Edward
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- NY. 1995. Barnes & Noble Books
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1566199123
- ISBN 13
- 9781566199124
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- medieval philosophy, occultism, theosophy
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