Arthur Edward Waite

“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”

“There is a secret tradition concerning the Tarot, as well as a secret doctrine contained therein.”

“The pictorial symbols of the Tarot are gateways to the soul's memory.”

“Genuine magical procedure is not an arbitrary and fantastic ceremonial.”

“The literature of the Holy Grail is a literature of quest.”

“A good deal of confusion has arisen in the minds of students with respect to the Tarot cards and their origin.”

“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind.”

“Ceremonial Magic is the ancient art of invoking and controlling spirits by a scientific application of certain formulae.”

“The mystic is one who has a direct experience of the Divine.”

“All symbols are keys to the doors of truth.”

“Divination is the quest for that which is hidden, but the highest divination is to know oneself.”

“The path of the soul is a solitary path.”

“What we know of the world is but a shadow of what is.”

“It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours.”

“The visible is the ladder to the invisible.”