Arthur Edward Waite
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Oct 2, 2026
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And then came the deck that carried this system far beyond private occult lodges.
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Arthur Edward Waite was a writer, translator, and Golden Dawn member with a deep interest in mysticism.
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In 1909, he worked with artist Pamela Colman Smith to create what is now usually called the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, named for Smith, Waite, and the publisher William Rider.
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Waite supplied the esoteric framework.
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French occult writers connected them to systems of esoteric philosophy.
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Eliphas Levi and later the Golden Dawn tied tarot to ideas about Kabbalah, astrology, alchemy, and ceremonial magic.
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Pamela Colman Smith and Arthur Edward Waite created images that made the minor cards feel like tiny scenes from a dream, a struggle, a memory, or a warning.
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Countless artists after them carried the structure into entirely new worlds.
KozlowskiHOST
three new leaders of this new Golden Dawn, each of which kind of has their own legacy.
KozlowskiHOST
First of the three is our guy M.W. Blackdin, who ends up teaming up with A.E. Waite, and they basically secure control of the Isis-Urania temple.
KozlowskiHOST
Like, they are the new leaders now that Yates and Horniman and Farr are all kind of like, leaving in order to find greener pastures where there isn't quite so much drama and so much publicity circling around.
KozlowskiHOST
They do retain control of the temple.
KozlowskiHOST
But Bullock kind of just resigns pretty quickly after all the, you know, kerfuffle with the Madame Horos business.
KozlowskiHOST
And his position is taken over by a guy by the name of Dr. R.W. Falcon.
KozlowskiHOST
Um, Falcon basically is in favor of continuing to do magical stuff and wants to do it in London, but again, now that the Isis-Urania temple is being used more for this Christian mysticism thing under Blackton and Waite, Falcon ends up founding his own London temple, sort of affiliated with the Golden Dawn, but at this point kind of breaking with a lot of their traditions.
KozlowskiHOST
Um, he changes the name, he calls this the Stella Matutina.
E.A. KoettingGUEST
So the family I was adopted into named me Matthew Lawrence Coedding.
E.A. KoettingGUEST
fine name beautiful name it's also taken by at least one major actor and a couple couple not major actors and because i you know i've looked it up before i before i actually busted into the writing scene and started taking my writing seriously you know i i did some searches on on uh on my name and i was like that that's a terrible name to use if i want to stand out in this field and uh and so actually when i started writing as ea co-editing was um And it's kind of a throwback to an older tradition of older occult authors like Arthur Edward Waite was A.E. Waite, S.L. McGregor Mathers.
E.A. KoettingGUEST
There was this abbreviation they would do with their names that I thought was really cool.
E.A. KoettingGUEST
And so as I was stepping into an author in this tradition, I took my birth name and did pretty much the same thing with it.
Joel ThomasGUEST
And it also leads to one of his biggest missions out the gate as a secret agent.
Joel ThomasGUEST
Now- What he ends up doing is he gets a hold of a book called The Book of Black Magic and Pacts by an Arthur Edward Waite.
Joel ThomasGUEST
Now, Arthur Edward Waite's important for a couple reasons.
Joel ThomasGUEST
One, he's the creator of the Rider-Waite tarot deck that is probably one of the most famous tarot decks that's out there, and he was also a Freemason, part of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Joel ThomasGUEST
Now, what Crowley does, he starts writing him when he gets a hold of the book, asking him questions about it.
Frater RCHOST
One example is Oswald Wirth, 1860-1943, former secretary to Gaeta and renovator of the symbolism of French Freemasonry who published Le Tarot de Magie de Moyen-Ège, the Tarot of the Medieval Artists in 1926.
Frater RCHOST
These speculations crossed the English Channel at the end of the 19th century with Arthur Waite, a disciple of Levi, who published the Pictorial Key to the Tarot in 1910, while in 1913 P.D. Uspensky published another study of its symbolism as a model of the universe in the light of Oriental religion and of Carl Gustav Jung's depth psychology.
Frater RCHOST
The occultist and paramasonic society of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn played a large role here.
Frater RCHOST
The notes of one of its founders, MacGregor Mathers, were collected by Israel regarding in the Golden Dawn Tarot.
Steven J. RolfesGUEST
And people such as Samuel Little Mathers, who as we know is one of the great, uh, founders of the Order of the Golden Dawn.
Steven J. RolfesGUEST
Uh, also Arthur Machen, uh, the poet Yeats, Arthur Edward Waite, and a person very important to this, uh, narrative, a woman named Pamela Colman Smith.
Steven J. RolfesGUEST
Waite was designing a new set of tarot cards.
Steven J. RolfesGUEST
Pamela Colman Smith was the artist, also very much a mystic herself, and she would sit and she would talk with Bram Stoker all about the tarot and mysticism and strange things.
T. Susan ChangHOST
First of all, rank.
T. Susan ChangHOST
In the Rider–Waite-Smith tarot, knights present as masculine, and they are the next rank up from the pages.
T. Susan ChangHOST
You can think of the queen and king as being the archetypal mother and father of the suit, and the knight and page as being the archetypal son and daughter of the suit.
T. Susan ChangHOST
As always, however, let's remember that we each contain all 16 court cards.
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T. Susan ChangHOST
The Tree of Life is a representation of all creation unfolding, and all you gotta know about the Knight is that they are always in the middle of all that.
T. Susan ChangHOST
They are always where the action is.
T. Susan ChangHOST
All right, let's have a look at Arthur Edward Waite's pictorial key to the tarot.
T. Susan ChangHOST
He writes, "He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed, is not on a warlike errand.
Nasty NealHOST
So I learned that from your show.
Cassie WorkmanGUEST
Arthur Edward Waite published a book called The Book of Black Magic, and so out of that we get these Goetic demons, and King Paimon is one of the Goetic demons.
Nasty NealHOST
So I assume this was an interest of yours before the series.
Nasty NealHOST
It wasn't like, I'm going to learn all this for the
LindsayHOST
Which, why are pyramids on this deck? This isn't the only time we've seen Egyptian imagery in this deck.
LindsayHOST
In fact, Pamela Coleman-Smith and Arthur Waite were quite fond of Egyptian imagery.
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One common reason given for the inclusion of the pyramids on the wands court cards is that the pyramids symbolize human innovation over nature.
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So think about it.
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