A. E. Waite

Scholar, mystic, translator and prolific editor; leader of the Independent and Rectified Rite after the schism. He wanted a mystical society rather than a magical one, and was more cautious about the tarot-Kabbalah weld than his own famous deck implies.

The most successful transmission vector in the history of Western esotericism. His 1909 deck put the Order's path-attributions, its Kabbalistic frame and its two pillars into the hands of millions of people who have never heard of the Order.