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[[File:SL-Mathers.jpg|350px|thumb|Mathers in Egyptian garb during a magic ritual]] | [[File:SL-Mathers.jpg|350px|thumb|Mathers in Egyptian garb during a magic ritual]] | ||
'''Samuel Liddell (or Liddel) MacGregor Mathers''' (8 or 11 January 1854 – 5 or 20 November 1918), born '''Samuel Liddell Mathers''', was a British [[occultist]]. He is primarily known as one of the founders of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], a ceremonial magic order of which offshoots still exist. He became so synonymous with the order that Golden Dawn scholar [[Israel Regardie]] observed in retrospect that "the Golden Dawn was MacGregor Mathers." | '''Samuel Liddell (or Liddel) MacGregor Mathers''' (8 or 11 January 1854 – 5 or 20 November 1918), born '''Samuel Liddell Mathers''', was a British [[occultist]]. He is primarily known as one of the founders of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], a [[ritual magic|ceremonial magic]] order of which offshoots still exist. He became so synonymous with the order that Golden Dawn scholar [[Israel Regardie]] observed in retrospect that "the Golden Dawn ''was'' MacGregor Mathers." | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
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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 Pictorial 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. | 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 Pictorial 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 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." | ||
==Death== | ==Death== | ||