Waite's Final Tarot: 1921-22

Fulgour

The Great Symbols of the Paths (J.B.Trinick Tarot) was a set of Majors
created exclusively for A. E. Waite. The artist was John Brahms Trinick,
with some additional work provided by the sadly unknown, Wilfrid Pippet.

Waite used this, his mature Tarot, in his "Fellowship of the Rosy Cross."
Has anyone studied these images to discover possible correspondences?
 

Zephyros

I'd love to see them, but the Great Oracle by the Most Exalted name of Google was silent about them. Do you know where I could see images of the cards.
 

Rusty Neon

closrapexa said:
I'd love to see them, but the Great Oracle by the Most Exalted name of Google was silent about them. Do you know where I could see images of the cards.

clsorapexa ... No images, the oracle Google found me only this:

http://www.tarotpassages.com/mkgtimeline.htm
see entry for the year 1921-22
 

Fulgour

hi closrapexa

A few of them were published in the book
"A History of the Occult Tarot 1870-1970"

The designs look modernistic and all fuzzy.
 

Cerulean

Only one drawing by J.B. Trinick online--Waite's portrait

http://www.adepti.com/adepti.orig/ports4.html

I just posted elsewhere I was trying to look for name variations and found a John Trinick and found a stained glass artist of England and Melbourne, Australia...but I don't know if there's any relationship....

Later: I found out John Trinick was a Christian mystic and perhaps his book on alchemy might have more information. The information below has the website link, scroll down to the bottom...note that Waite is not mentioned, but the indications are they are of the same time and may have moved in the same circles...

The Stained Glass Windows

The churches impressive stained glass windows are the work of John Trinick, who born in Melbourne, Australia, on 17 August 1890, sailing to England with his parents in 1893 before returning to Australia in 1907. He studied in the art school of the National Gallery of Victoria between 1910 and 1915 before returning to England in 1919 to continue his studies at the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole school of Art.

Trinick began to specialise in glass in 1921 when in joined the studios of William Morris Merton and ten years later is opened his own studio in Upper Norwood, London. He rapidly became famous for the quality of his work, exhibiting widely at The Royal Academy, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in Vitoria, Spain, in addition to providing stained glass windows for several churches, including a complete set of chapel windows for St. Michael's in 1951. Among his other work was a panel, Opus Sectile, depicting Our Lady of Walsingham in Westminster Cathedral; 11 windows for St. Pius X, London and the entire chapel scheme for Salmerston Grange, Margate.

He was also an accomplished illustrator in watercolour, pencil, pastel and crayon, a collection of Trinick's watercolour copies of European stained glass windows being purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, where it forms part of the V and A archives.

Although the majority of Trinick's work involved ecclesiastical commissions, he did not limit his exploration of spirituality to Christianity. He actively explored many modes of thinking throughout his life, including Rosicruianism and Freemasonry. He had a strong interest in alchemy and other forms of ancient spirituality. In 1922 he published a book of poetry entitled Dead Sanctuary and, in 1967, at the age of 84, he published a philosophical volume, The Fire Tried Stone, an appraisal of the work of Carl Jung.

John Trinick died in 1974, many of his designs returning to Australia...

http://www.geocities.com/stmichaelstockwell/history/full_history.html

Melbournites, you might be able to find a Christian mystic linked with Waite if you see his windows and drawings...

I'll post here if I find anything else.

Regards,

Cerulean
 

Cerulean

Dummett and Decker describe Trinick...

as the same watercolor and stained glass artist that Waite commissioned. Trinick's portrait of Waite and Trinick's later books on alchemy, poetry and Carl Jung's work are mentioned, plus his membership in Freemasonary, but he did not publish anything on tarot.

The book says of Pippet, "Pippet was not a membner of the F.R.C., and nothing is known about him. We have seen the plates throught the great kindness of the Mr. R.A. Gilbert."

The majors described in Dummett and Decker from page 157 to 160 suggest Waite was thinking of new ways to correspond Hebrew letters and tarot trump symbols and his secret attributions are even mysterious to the authors.

The book that mentions this is A History of the Occult Tarot 1870-1979 by Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett.
 

Cerulean

On Mary Greer's Timeline posted at www.tarotpassages.com

1921-22 J. B. Trinick Tarot or Great Symbols of the Paths, a set of Majors painted for A.E. Waite by John Brahms Trinick and Wilfrid Pippet and used in his Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. [Dummett & Decker]

I wonder if anyone ever made it to JB Trinick's stained glass windows--turns out it is in South London (See the St. Michaels link in the earlier post, two places above) or ever saw anything at the Victoria and Albert's museum in London?

Earlier, I thought there were items in Melbourne of Trinick, but it may be only designs in an archive at a university of Melbourne (see above). Sorry, I edited the information to be more accurate.

Cerulean
 

Cerulean

The paintings as reported by Mary Greer, new from Marcus Katz

of Tarosophy and another researcher to release at the end of 2011

deleting for now, not certain what happened...will return later if more pertinent info...
 

graspee

The thread linked to above is giving me an error. I had posted several messages on it. Did I get banned from a specific thread for my views or did the thread get moved to a subscriber only area?