A.E.Waite aka "Grand Orient"

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A French Method of Fortune Telling by Cards
by A.E. "Grand Orient" Waite

Waite's original Grand Orient offering, "A Handbook of Cartomancy",
was published in 1889. In 1909 "A Manual of Cartomancy" appeared,
heavily revised with a few additional chapters. The title page identifies
the book as the fourth edition (it was actually the second) and it is this
edition that is reproduced by University Books and others, and is the
one you find on the shelves at Borders and B. Dalton's today. In 1912
a fifth edition (actually the third) appeared, essentially identical to the
fourth (second), but containing two additional chapters.

This is one of those two.


Waite was received into the Golden Dawn in January 1891
although his attendance and involvement was sporadic.
Waite precipitated a schism in the Golden Dawn
later in 1903. He purged magic from the rituals,
replacing it with mysticism. This society, the Independent
and Rectified Rite of the Golden Dawn, was soon torn
by further feuds and was dissolved by Waite in 1914,
to be replaced by the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross
in 1915. By this time there were some half dozen
offshoots of the Original Golden Dawn, Waite's
version being a minor note in the main theme.

Subject: Arthur E. Waite
 

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Moongold

Looks interesting. Always wanted to read Polish :)

Seriously my adoptive niece is of Polish background

My sight may not be good enough to pick up a translation button. Perhaps there is not one?

Apart from other things I'm interested to read what the site says about Jung and Tarot.

Moongold
 

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I wonder more what Carl G. Jung might have thought of
Grand Orient, maybe quoting a favourite reference:

"Know this:
The self is the owner of the chariot,
The chariot is the body,
Soul buddhi is the body's charioteer,
Mind the reins that curb it"

Katha Upanishad (Death of Reason)
 

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The Belfry Quarry Auger Constabulary

Sir Grimble of Albans, once having sat upon an ertswhile auger,
bespoke himself thus: "Quotha!" said he, "Run up the belfries!"
Not reckoning his imperilment, a constable delved the quarry.

So too it may be fancied, Sir Grimble of Albans, partakening he
freshly to bemuse the toothsome sundry quarry stones augered
upon his constable's belfrytop, spoke beforehand to the tinker.

Soforto ever, as thence did Sir Grimble of Albans fancifully recall,
"Constables aplenty are nimbly apt they," as was his bottlewit e'er.
Auger'd naught twixt the quarry mill and belfry stairs, he parsed.

Fairly thence was it as when Sir Grimble of Albans cut a petit four.
"Handily," spake he, "comeso oft to mind as were turn't all furlong."
Nine constables parsed the quarry, but none could auger a belfry.
 

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Moongold said:
Apart from other things I'm interested to read what the site says about Jung and Tarot.
Click to expand...
I've written them asking if there is a translation available. We shall see...
 
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