The Illustrated Key To The Tarot THE VEIL OF DIVINATION Illustrating The Greater And Lesser Arcana EMBRACING THE VEIL AND ITS SYMBOLS. SECRET TRADITION UNDER THE VEIL OF DIVINATION. ART OF TAROT DIVINATION. OUTER METHOD OF THE ORACLES. THE TAROT IN HISTORY. INNER SYMBOLISM. THE GREATER KEYS. By L. W. de Laurence Author Of, The Master Key. The Immanence Of God, Know Thyself. God, The Bible, Truth And Christian Theology. Medical Hypnosis And Magnetic Hypnotism. Manual Of Disease And Modern Medicine. Valmondi: The Old Book Of Ancient Mysteries. The Dead Man's Home. Self-Consciousness In Public. The Great Book Of Magical Art, Hindu Magic And East Indian Occultism, A Self Guide For All Men, Etc., Etc. The de Laurence Company Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. Copyright, 1918 By de LAURENCE, SCOTT & CO. SPECIAL NOTICE The illustrations, cover design and contents of this Volume are protected by copyright, and must not be reproduced or copied without written permission from the Publishers. Disregard of this warning will subject the offender to the penalty provided by law. This book is manufactured in strict conformity with Government regulations for saving paper. Printed in U.S.A. Preface It seems rather of necessity than predilection in the sense of apologia that I should put on record in the first place a plain statement of my personal position, as one who for many years of literary life has been, subject to his spiritual and other limitations, an exponent of the higher mystic schools. It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling. Now, the opinions of some, even in the literary reviews, are of no importance unless they happen to agree with our own, but in order to sanctify this doctrine we must take care that our opinions, and the subjects out of which they arise, are concerned only with the highest. Yet it is just this which may seem doubtful, in the present instance, not only to those, whom I respect within the proper measures of detachment, but to some of more real consequence, seeing that their dedications are mine. To these and to any I would say that after the most illuminated Frater Christian Rosy Cross had beheld the Chemical Marriage in the Secret Palace of Transmutation, his story breaks off abruptly, with an intimation that he expected next morning to be door-keeper. After the same manner, it happens more often than might seem likely that those who have seen the Occult Powers of Nature through the most clearest veils of the sacraments are those who assume thereafter the humblest offices of all about the House of Wisdom. By such simple devices also are the Adepts and Great Masters in the secret orders distinguished from the cohort of Neophytes as servi servorum mysterii. So also, or in a way which is not entirely unlike, we