The Illustrated Key
To The Tarot
THE VEIL AND ITS SYMBOLS.
SECRET TRADITION UNDER THE VEIL OF DIVINATION.
ART OF TAROT DIVINATION.
OUTER METHOD OF THE ORACLES.
THE TAROT IN HISTORY.
INNER SYMBOLISM.
THE GREATER KEYS.
L. W. de Laurence
Author Of, The Master Key. The Immanence Of God,Know Thyself. God, The Bible, Truth And ChristianTheology. Medical Hypnosis And Magnetic Hypnotism.Manual Of Disease And Modern Medicine. Valmondi:The Old Book Of Ancient Mysteries. The Dead Man'sHome. Self-Consciousness In Public. The GreatBook Of Magical Art, Hindu Magic And East IndianOccultism, A Self Guide For All Men, Etc., Etc.
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It seems rather of necessity than predilection in the sense ofapologia that I should put on record in the first place a plainstatement of my personal position, as one who for many yearsof literary life has been, subject to his spiritual and other limitations,an exponent of the higher mystic schools. It will bethought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at thisday with what appears at first sight and simply a well-knownmethod of fortune-telling. Now, the opinions of some, even inthe literary reviews, are of no importance unless they happen toagree with our own, but in order to sanctify this doctrine wemust take care that our opinions, and the subjects out of whichthey arise, are concerned only with the highest. Yet it is justthis which may seem doubtful, in the present instance, not onlyto those, whom I respect within the proper measures of detachment,but to some of more real consequence, seeing that theirdedications are mine. To these and to any I would say thatafter the most illuminated Frater Christian Rosy Cross hadbeheld the Chemical Marriage in the Secret Palace of Transmutation,his story breaks off abruptly, with an intimation that heexpected next morning to be door-keeper. After the same manner,it happens more often than might seem likely that those whohave seen the Occult Powers of Nature through the most clearestveils of the sacraments are those who assum