Arthur Edward Waite was a noted and controversial christian mystic and occultist.
This book describes how to use the Rider-Waite deck, a divinatory tarot deck.
A difference from Marseilles style decks is that Waite use scenes with esoteric meanings on the suit cards.
These esoteric, or divinatory meanings were derived in great part from the writings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn group, of which Waite had been a member.
The meanings and many of the illustrations .
Alicia Editions The pictorial key to the tarot: being fragments of a secret tradition under the veil of divination, hardcover/arthur edward waite
