The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
THE PICTORIAL KEY TO
THE TAROT
THE PICTORIAL KEY
TO THE TAROT
Being Fragments of a Secret
Tradition under the Veil
of Divination
With 78 Plates, illustrating the Greater and Lesser Arcana,
from designs by Pamela Colman Smith.
LONDON
WILLIAM RIDER & SON LIMITED
1922
First Published . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
1910 | |
Reprinted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
1922 | |
The Contents
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An explanation of the personal kind—An illustration from mystic literature—A subject which calls to be rescued—Limits and intention of the work.
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| PART I | |||
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| § 1. | Introductory and General. | ||
| § 2. | Class I. The Trumps Major, otherwise Greater Arcana. | ||
| § 3. | Class II. The Four Suits, otherwise Lesser Arcana. | ||
| § 4. | The Tarot in History. | ||
| PART II | |||
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| § 1. | The Tarot and Secret Tradition. | ||
| § 2. | The Trumps Major and their Inner Symbolism. | ||
| § 3. | Conclusion as to the Greater Keys. | | |
| PART III | |||
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| § 1. | Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana. | ||
| § 2. | The Lesser Arcana, otherwise, the Four Suits of Tarot Cards. | ||
| The Suit of Wands. | |||
| The Suit of Cups. | |||
| The Suit of Swords. | |||
| The Suit of Pentacles. | |||
| § 3. | The Greater Arcana and their Divinatory Meanings. | ||
| § 4. | Some additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana | ||
| § 5. | The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing. | ||
| § 6. | The Art of Tarot Divination. | ||
| § 7. | An Ancient Celtic Method of Divination. | ||
| § 8. | An Alternative Method of Reading the Tarot Cards. | ||
| § 9. | The Method of Reading by Means of Thirty-five Cards. | ||
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |||
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