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The Pictorial Key To The Tarot
The
Pictorial
Key
to
the
Tarot
by A.E. Waite (1910)
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Tarot Reading
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Introduction
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1.1 The Veil and its Symbols, Introduction
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1.2 Class I. The Trumps Major
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1.3 Class II. The Four Suites
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1.4 The Tarot In History
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2.1 The Doctrine Behind the Veil: The Tarot and Secret Tradition
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2.2. The Trumps Major and Inner Symbolism
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I. The Magician
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II. The High Priestess
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III. The Empress
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IV. The Emperor
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V. The Hierophant
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VI. The Lovers
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VII. The Chariot
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VIII. Strength, or Fortitude
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IX. The Hermit
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X. Wheel of Fortune
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XI. Justice
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XII. The Hanged Man
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XIII. Death
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XIV. Temperance
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XV. The Devil
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XVI. The Tower
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XVII. The Star
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XVIII. The Moon
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XIX. The Sun
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XX. The Last Judgement
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Zero. The Fool
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XXI. The World
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2.3 Conclusion as to the Greater Keys
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3.1 Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana
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King of Wands
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Queen of Wands
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Knight of Wands
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Page of Wands
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Ten of Wands
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Nine of Wands
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Eight of Wands
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Seven of Wands
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Six of Wands
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Five of Wands
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Four of Wands
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Three of Wands
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Two of Wands
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Ace of Wands
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King of Cups
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Queen of Cups
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Knight of Cups
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Page of Cups
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Ten of Cups
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Nine of Cups
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Eight of Cups
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Seven of Cups
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Six of Cups
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Five of Cups
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Four of Cups
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Three of Cups
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Two of Cups
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Ace of Cups
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King of Swords
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Queen of Swords
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Knight of Swords
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Page of Swords
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Ten of Swords
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Nine of Swords
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Eight of Swords
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Seven of Swords
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Six of Swords
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Five of Swords
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Four of Swords
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Three of Swords
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Two of Swords
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Ace of Swords
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King of Pentacles
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Queen of Pentacles
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Knight of Pentacles
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Page of Pentacles
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Ten of Pentacles
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Nine of Pentacles
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Eight of Pentacles
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Seven of Pentacles
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Six of Pentacles
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Five of Pentacles
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Four of Pentacles
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Three of Pentacles
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Two of Pentacles
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Ace of Pentacles
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3.3 The Greater Arcana and their Divinatory Meanings
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3.4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
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3.5 The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
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3.6 The Art of Tarot Divination
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3.7 An Ancient Celtic Method of Divination
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3.8 An Alternative Method of Reading the Tarot Cards
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3.9 The Method of Reading by Means of Thirty-Five Cards
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Bibliography
rot reading application is presented for entertainment purposes only. We cannot answer any
questions about its results or outcome.
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The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Being fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination
Arthur Edward Waite
Originally published in 1910
Layout by Caput Mortuum for the Ayin Quadma’ah Movement
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Preface
IT seems rather of necessity than predilection in the sense of apologia that I should put on record in the first
place a plain statement of my personal position, as one who for many years of literary life has been, subject
to his spiritual and other limitations, an exponent of the higher mystic schools. 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
method of fortune-telling. Now, the opinions of Mr. Smith, even in the literary reviews, are of no importance
unless they happen to agree with our own, but in order to sanctify this doctrine we must take care that our
opinions, and the subjects out of which they arise, are concerned only with the highest. Yet it is just this
which may seem doubtful, in the present instance, not only to Mr. Smith, whom I respect within the proper
measures of detachment, but to some of more real consequence, seeing that their dedications are mine. To
these and to any I would say that after the most illuminated Frater Christian Rosy Cross had beheld the
Chemical Marriage in the Secret Palace of Transmutation, his story breaks off abruptly, with an intimation
that he expected next morning to be door-keeper. After the same manner, it happens more often than might
seem likely that those who have seen the King of Heaven through the most clearest veils of the sacraments
are those who assume thereafter the humblest offices of all about the House of God. By such simple devices
also are the Adepts and Great Masters in the secret orders distinguished from the cohort of Neophytes as
servi servorum mysterii . So also, or in a way which is not entirely unlike, we meet with the Tarot cards at the
outermost gates--amidst the fritterings and débris of the so-called occult arts, about which no one in their
senses has suffered the smallest deception; and yet these cards belong in themselves to another region, for
they contain a very high symbolism, which is interpreted according to the Laws of Grace rather than by the
pretexts and intuitions of that which passes for divination. The fact that the wisdom of God is foolishness
with men does not create a presumption that the foolishness of this world makes in any sense for Divine
Wisdom; so neither the scholars in the ordinary classes nor the pedagogues in the seats of the mighty will be
quick to perceive the likelihood or even the possibility of this proposition. The subject has been in the hands
of cartomancists as part of the stock-in-trade of their industry; I do not seek to persuade any one outside my
own circles that this is of much or of no consequence; but on the historical and interpretative sides it has not
fared better; it has been there in the hands of exponents who have brought it into utter contempt for those
people who possess philosophical insight or faculties for the appreciation of evidence. It is time that it should
be rescued, and this I propose to undertake once and for all, that I may have done with the side issues which
distract from the term. As poetry is the most beautiful expression of the things that are of all most beautiful,
so is symbolism the most catholic expression in concealment of things that are most profound in the
Sanctuary and that have not been declared outside it with the same fulness by means of the spoken word. The
justification of the rule of silence is no part of my present concern, but I have put on record elsewhere, and
quite recently, what it is possible to say on this subject.
The little treatise which follows is divided into three parts, in the first of which I have dealt with the
antiquities of the subject and a few things that arise from and connect therewith. It should be understood that
it is not put forward as a contribution to the history of playing cards, about which I know and care nothing; it
is a consideration dedicated and addressed to a certain school of occultism, more especially in France, as to
the source and centre of all the phantasmagoria which has entered into expression during the last fifty years
under the pretence of considering Tarot cards historically. In the second part, I have dealt with the
symbolism according to some of its higher aspects, and this also serves to introduce the complete and
rectified Tarot, which is available separately, in the form of coloured cards, the designs of which are added to
the present text in black and white. They have been prepared under my supervision-in respect of the
attributions and meanings-by a lady who has high claims as an artist. Regarding the divinatory part, by which
my thesis is terminated, I consider it personally as a fact in the history of the Tarot - as such, I have drawn,
from all published sources, a harmony of the meanings which have been attached to the various cards, and I
have given prominence to one method of working that has not been published previously; having the merit of
simplicity, while it is also of universal application, it may be held to replace the cumbrous and involved
systems of the larger hand-books
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