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Earlier, Crowley wrote in his ''Confessions'' that: "As far as I was concerned, Mathers was my only link with the Secret Chiefs to whom I was pledged. I wrote to him offering to place myself and my fortune unreservedly at his disposal; if that meant giving up the Abra-Melin Operation for the present, all right." | Earlier, Crowley wrote in his ''Confessions'' that: "As far as I was concerned, Mathers was my only link with the Secret Chiefs to whom I was pledged. I wrote to him offering to place myself and my fortune unreservedly at his disposal; if that meant giving up the Abra-Melin Operation for the present, all right." | ||
In 1888, MacGregor Mathers' text, ''The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune Telling, and Method of Play'', was published. Twenty-two years later, in 1910, [[A.E. Waite]]'s own book, ''[[The | In 1888, MacGregor Mathers' text, ''The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune Telling, and Method of Play'', was published. Twenty-two years later, in 1910, [[A.E. Waite]]'s own book, ''[[The Key to the Tarot]]'' was made available to the public (along with the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck). Mathers' text was listed as "XIV" in the bibliography. In that entry, Waite delivered a scathing critique of Mathers' scholarship. | ||
A. E. Waite, as a critic, however, wrote from the position of a Victorian [[occultist]]. A position, possibly, entailing (according to Wouter J. Hanegraaff's definition) that: "the magical pursuits of occultist organizations should be rejected in favor of an idiosyncratic form of [[Christianity|Christian]] mysticism." | A. E. Waite, as a critic, however, wrote from the position of a Victorian [[occultist]]. A position, possibly, entailing (according to Wouter J. Hanegraaff's definition) that: "the magical pursuits of occultist organizations should be rejected in favor of an idiosyncratic form of [[Christianity|Christian]] mysticism." | ||