THIS 7 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Book of Black Magic and Ceremonial Magic, by Arthur Edward Waite. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766107590.
Arthur Edward Waite was a scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot 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."