We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

- A. E. Waite

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

- A. E. Waite

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that th…

- A. E. Waite

All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a ma…

- A. E. Waite

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

- A. E. Waite

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining…

- A. E. Waite

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

- A. E. Waite

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a…

- A. E. Waite

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of for…

- A. E. Waite