Arthur Edward Waite AKA A.E.Waite AKA Sacramentum Regis AKA The Sacrament of Kings; mocked as "dead Weight" America / England 1857 – 1942 Teachers: Johannes Trithemius; Francis Barrett; Paracelsus Eliphas Levi; Papus; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Sigismond Bacstrom; Frederick Hockley; Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie ;Rev. A.F.A. Woodford; William Wynn Westcott; Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers; William Robert Woodman; William Alexander Ayton ; Cagliostro; Robert Wentworth Little; Johann Friedrich Falk; Arthur Machen; Edmund Berridge; Eliphas Levi; Hargrave Jennings; Michael Sendivogius; Thomas Norton; George Starkey AKA Eirenaeus Philalethes; Michael Maier; John Frederick Helvetius; Henry Madathanas; John A. Mehung; Nicolas Flamel; Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas; Basilius Valentinus; Comte de Saint-Germain; Zosimus the Panopolite ; Morienus of Rome; Adfar ; King Calid ; Cedrenus ; Gerber AKA Jābir ibn Hayyān; Rhasis; Al Farabi; Ibn Sina (Avicenna); Artephius; Alphonso, King of Castile; William de Loris , 1272; Arnold of Villanova AKA Arnoldus de Villa Nova; Peter d'Apona AKA Pietro d'Abano; Albertus Magnus; Thomas Aquinas; Abbot Reginald; Raymond Lull aka Raymond Lully; John Cremer, Abbot of Westminster ; Isaacs Hollandus Sr; Isaacs Hollandus, Jr; John Read, Professor of Chemistry; Artist Elias; Sigmund Richter; Roger Bacon; Sir George Ripley; Pierce, the Black Monk; Thomas Charnock; Dr. John Dee; Edward Kelly; Thomas Vaughan AKA Eugenius Philalethes ; George Starkey AKA Eirenaeus Philalethes ; Sir Isaac Newton;Alexander Seton, a Scot; Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai; Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero AKA Moses De Leon; Rabbi Isaac the Blind and his translator Guillaume Postel; Jean de Pauly AKA "Pavly"; Émile Lafuma-Giraud; Gershom Scholem; Adolphe Franck, author of La Kabbal, 1843; Rabbi Isaac Luria; Rabbi Abraham Cohen de Herrera AKA Abraham Irira; Rabbi Elia del Medigo; Jacobus Gaffarel; Richard Simon; Jacob Frank; Heinrich Khunrath; Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin; Martinez de Pasqually; Karl Eckartshausen;

Students: Charles Williams, poet AKA Charles Walter Stansby Williams ; R.A. Gilbert; Archibald Cockren; W. L. Wilmshurst aka Worshipful Brother Walter Leslie Wilmshurst Friends: Pamela Colman Smith, artist of the Tarot deck; Evelyn Underhil, 1924; Enemies: Aleister Crowley, the Beast 666 ; H. P. Lovecraft; Organizations: Theosophical Society; The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Stella Matutina ; his Christian oriented Fellowship of the Rosy Cross (1915); the Order of the Independent and Rectified Rite aka the short-lived Independent and Rectified Rite of the Golden Dawn; Freemasonry, 1901 at Runymede Lodge No. 2430 at Wraysbury, Bucks , became WM in 1910; Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, (SRIA), 1902; Holy Royal Arch, in Metropolitan Chapter No. 1507, 1902; Knights Templar; York Rite of Freemasonry; Author: co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck and accompanying booklet and book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot; Inner and Outer Order Initiations of the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn; The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross: Being Records of the House of the Holy Spirit in its Inward and Outward History, 1924 (may be the same as Ordo Rosae Rubeae Et Aureae Crucis or it may be a separate but related text; Israfel: Letters, Visions and Poems, 1886; The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry; A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (Ars Magna Latomorum) and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature, and History; Theories As to the Authorship of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes; The Hidden Church of the Holy Grail: Its Legends and Symbolism Considered in Their Affinity with Certain Mysteries of Initiation and Other Traces of a Secret Tradition in Christian Times; private diaries from 1909 to 1942, an extended diary for 1902-1903, the Minute Books of his Rosicrucian Order; Shadows of Life and Thought; Some Deeper Aspects Of Masonic Symbolism; The Pictorial Symbols Of Alchemy; What is Alchemy; The Hermetic And Rosicrucian Mystery; The Secret Doctrine In Israel; The Templar Orders In Freemasonry; A Detection Of Damnable Riftes Practiced By Three Witches Arraigned At Chelmisforde In Essex; A French Method Of Fortune Telling By Cards ; The Doctrine And Literature Of The Kabalah; The Hermetic Museum, Vol 1 &2, 1893 - from the Latin Latin in 1678 edition; The Real History Of The Rosicrucians; Turba Philosophorum AKA Assembly Of The Sages; Alchemists Through the Ages; The Holy Kabbalah; The Book of Ceremonial Magic - The Literature of Ceremonial Magic and a complete Grimoire; Strange Houses of Sleep, with Arthur Machen; Devil-Worship in France, 1896; Spagyrical Witings of Paracelsus AKA Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus (translated); The Secret Tradition in Goetia; A French Method of Fortune Telling by Playing Cards; Ordo Roseae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis; Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism; The Meaning of Alchemy; Louis Claude de St. Martin aka Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, 1901; translated The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary by Karl Eckartshausen; Ode to Astronomy,1877; The Unknown World magazine (editor, chief writer); ‘The Mysteries of Magic - a Digest of the writings of Eliphas Levi, 1886, which Albert Pike borrowed from in Morals and Dogma; Handbook of Cartomancy, 1889; The Occult Sciences,1891; Studies in Mysticism , 1906; Emblematic Freemasonry, 1925; Quest of the Golden Stairs; Belle and the Dragon; (translated) The Works of Thomas Vaughan; The Way of Divine Union; Strange Houses of Sleep; Azoth or the Star in the East; Raymond Lully: Illuminated Doctor (aka Raymond Lull) ; Alchemist and Christian Mystics; Three Famous Mystics; Understanding the Tarot Deck;

Comments; Rosicrucian; Qabalist; Freemason; Alchemy; a very thorough but difficult writing style led Aleister Crowley to call him Dead Weight; after the Golden Dawn disolves, his desire for Mysticism over Magick leads Dr. Robert Felkin and John William Brodie-Innes to form the “Order of the Stella Matutina” seperate from Waite's organization(s); Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Edward_Waite; http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3AArthur%20Edward%20Waite%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts ; read him here - http://www.sacred-texts.com/cat/srchauth.htm?search_str=waite ; http://www.mastermason.com/luxocculta/waite.htm; also read him here - http://darkbooks.org/collection/Arthur-Edward-Waite.html ; and here - http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/hermmuse/index.htm ; http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Arthur_Edward_Waite ; read him here - http://www.occult-underground.com/waite.html ; read him at http://archive.org/details/thesecretdoctrin00waituoft; http://www.controverscial.com/Arthur%20Edward%20Waite.htm ; his papers and letters at Iowa Grand Lodge Library, Ceder Rapids. USA;