Arthur Edward Waite was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on the occult and Western esotericism. He was the co-creator of the Rider–Waite Tarot. As his biographer R. A. Gilbert

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, more commonly the Golden Dawn, was a secret society from the Western esoteric tradition, that was heavily based on Rosicrucianism and inspired by Freemasonry, ch