Queen of Tarot

The ancient wisdom of the cards

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Contents

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  1. Home
  2. History of Tarot Cards
  3. The Hermetic Tradition
  4. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by A. E. Waite
  5. Preface and Contents
  6. Contents

PREFACE

  • An explanation of the personal kind—An illustration from mystic literature—A subject which calls to be rescued—Limits and intention of the work.

PART I: THE VEIL AND ITS SYMBOLS

  • section 1.—Introductory and General.
  • section 2.—Class I. The Trumps Major, otherwise Greater Arcana.
  • section 3.—Class II. The Four Suits, otherwise Lesser Arcana.
  • section 4.—The Tarot in History.

PART II: THE DOCTRINE BEHIND THE VEIL

  • section 1.—The Tarot and Secret Tradition.
  • section 2.—The Trumps Major and their Inner Symbolism.
  • section 3.—Conclusion as to the Greater Keys.

PART III: THE OUTER METHOD OF THE ORACLES.

  • section 1.—Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana.
  • section 2.—The Lesser Arcana, otherwise, the Four Suits of Tarot Cards
    • The Suit of Wands.
    • The Suit of Cups.
    • The Suit of Swords.
    • The Suit of Pentacles.
  • section 3.—The Greater Arcana and their Divinatory Meanings.
  • section 4.—Some additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana.
  • section 5.—The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing.
  • section 6.—The Art of Tarot Divination.
  • section 7.—An Ancient Celtic Method of Divination.
  • section 8.—An Alternative Method of Reading the Tarot Cards.
  • section 9.—The Method of Reading by Means of Thirty-five Cards.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CHIEF WORKS DEALING WITH THE TAROT AND ITS CONNEXIONS