Dover Occult: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (Paperback)

from Anituel

I know that it isn't popular to like A. E. Waite in modern occultism, but I really do appreciate him. While some of his sincerest opinions are a bit ridiculous, most of his research is sound and he was clearly speaking from experience on a number of important points. His insight into the Tarot is...

from marc_beherec

Waite is interesting, both because of his broad reading of all things occult and because of the contempt with which he holds most occultists. It's difficult to tell how much he believes anything. The Key is primarily a description of the tarot deck Waite designed. I was a little disappointed in t...

from jarvenpa

Good, basic, very early tarot learning based on the Rider/Waite deck, which is kind of the King James Version of Tarot (learn it, and you know the basics and can go on to other stuff).This also happens to be the only book I ever in my life shoplifted. I took it from a mega bookstore at which I wa...

from macoram

"... the rectified and perfected tarot which accompanies this work." (page 33) a phrase which says much about its author, Edward Waite. A self-proclaimed "master" of arcane knowledge who pretentiously imposed his miscellanic recycled multi-sourced esoteric constructs, creating a distorted and chi...

from lonorising

Lousy book. Near total rip-off. Quality & quantity of info contained within totally lacking. Buy almost any other commentary on the tarot and you will be better off.