The Occult Sciences: A Compendium of Transcendental Doctrine and Experiment

by Arthur Edward Waite

2021 Reprint of the 1891 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. A. E. Waite's The Occult Sciences contains an extensive guide to all things occult, dealing with magical practices, spiritualism, mesmerism, theosophy, necromancy, and much more. Waite was a British scholarly mystic, poet, and a prolific writer on occult and esoteric subjects. The book is a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment, embracing an account of magical practices; of secret sciences in connection with magic; of the professors of magical arts; and of modern spiritualism, mesmerism and theosophy,

Contents: Part I: Magical Practices: Magic: Definitions; White Magic: The Evocation of Angels; White Magic: The Evocation of Spirits of the Elements; Black Magic: The Evocation of Demons; Necromancy: The Evocation of the Souls of the Dead; Part II: Secret Sciences in Connection with Magic: Alchemy; The Elixir of Life; Crystallomancy; The Composition of Talismans; Divination; The Divining Rod; Astrology; Kabbalism; Part III Professors of the Magical Art: The Mystics; The Rosicrucians; The Freemasons; Part IV, Modern Phenomena: Mesmerism; Modern Spiritualism; Theosophy.

Genres: Occult

302 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1891

About the author

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."

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