Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin, co-directors of Tarot Professionals, have just published a new book of great historical significance.
Abiding in the Sanctuary: The Waite-Trinick Tarot, A Christian Mystical Tarot (1917-1923) is the result of several years of research into the second deck created by Arthur Edward Waite. Not a divinatory deck, these images were designed as meditations on the 22 paths of the Tree of Life. Their placement on the Tree is quite different from that of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Waite was a member of the Golden Dawn, but after the schism that led to the order’s eventual dissolution, Waite founded his own mystical order.
Waite wanted to emphasize mystical Christianity in his work and rituals, and did so through his Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. He worked with artists John Trinick and Wilfrid Pippet in the creation of the images, which illustrate what he called “The Great Symbols of the Paths”. These images were used in the FRC rituals as meditations on the paths of the Tree of Life.
These images were never seen by the public until a few of them were illustrated in Decker and Dummett’s A History of the Occult Tarot (1870 -1970), published in 2002. Through a amazing series of synchronicities, Marcus and Tali were able to locate, photograph and secure publication rights to document these images in this beautiful book.
Published in hardcover, with both color and black and white photographs and illustrations, this book is a limited edition of 250 copies. With a preface by Mary K. Greer, the book includes biographical accounts of Trinick and Pippet (as well as other examples of their artwork), additional material about A. E. Waite, and the glorious images themselves. A two-page spread illustrates the placement of the images on the paths and two methods of contemplation using the images are also detailed.
Expected to sell out, this limited edition is available here.
