Arthur E Waite Quotes

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• Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman;…
• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands…
• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
• All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such…
• First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of…
• Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or…
• We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known…
• 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…
• The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

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