Baphomet Rising, Part III: The Rider-Wait Tarot Deck

Part III: The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck

“With more than his usual derision for the arts which he pretended to respect and interpret as a master therein, Eliphas Levi affirms that the Baphometic figure is occult science and magic.”
A.E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot.

Arthur Edward Waite was a mystic, a scholar, a member and, after the expulsion of S.L. MacGregor Mathers, the leader of the Golden Dawn. Waite’s early interest in the esoteric turned fully to the tradition of western hermeticism...