Arthur Edward Waite on The Tarot
“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine - which is the realization by the few of truths imbedded in the consciousness of all, though they have not passed into express recognition by ordinary men.”
“If the Tarot were of fortune-telling in the root-matter thereof, we should have to look in very strange places for the motive which devised it - to Witchcraft or the Black Sabbath, rather than any Secret Doctrine.”
“It should be understood here that I am not denying the possibility of divination, but I take exception as a mystic to the dedication which bring people into these paths, as if they had any relation to the Mystic Quest.”
- Arthur Edward Waite, The Doctrine Behind The Veil, The Pictorial Key To The Tarot