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THE ATLAS OF THE ORDER THAT TOOK

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Pictorial Key
nature
Waite's companion book to the deck — card-by-card descriptions and divinatory meanings, written in his characteristically guarded and elliptical prose.

Shows Waite hedging in public about the very correspondences his deck encodes. He knew the Kabbalistic attributions were contested and published the deck anyway; the hedge and the artefact went out together.
rhymes with
sephirahhod
whyThe gloss on the object — and a study in how a scholar's caution loses to a picture.
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pictorial key · waite · tarot meanings
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