Author: Arthur Edward Waite
Alternate names: A.E. Waite; Arthur E. Waite; Arthur, E. Waite; A.e Waite; A., E. Waite; A., E. WAITE; A. E. Waite
Born: 2 October 1857
Died: 19 May 1942
Bio: Arthur Edward Waite, commonly known as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. As his biographer R. A. Gilbert described him, "Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism—viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion."

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