The Mystic Test Book
Subtitle: or the Magic of the Cards
Publisher: Astro-Cards Enterprises/Iain McLaren-Owens
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Scottsdale, Arizona
Format: Comb bound
Description: This is the only addition that combines all of Olney H. Richmond's editions from 1893 1st edition + 1896 1st supplement + 1919 Third Edition + 2nd supplement + extensive endnotes and explanations by Iain McLaren-Owens. This edition was also restructured to provide similar/like information together to aid the reader and student.
Table of contents: label: Publisher's Statement; label: Publisher's Preface; label: ToC:; label: Original Title Pages
title: i; label: Important Notice
title: iii; label: Dedication
title: iv; label: Introduction
title: v; label: Original Index Pages
title: vi; label: Chapter I; label: The Little Book
title: 9; label: The Book of Seven Thunders
title: 9; label: The Origin of Playing Cards
title: 10; label: Mystic Emblems
title: 10; label: Tarot Cards
title: 10; label: Atlantis
title: 10; label: The Temple of Wisdom on Atlantis
title: 11; label: Chapter II; label: The Religion of the Stars
title: 14; label: The Sacred Trident 22,000 Years Ago
title: 14; label: The Original "Sacred Seven"
title: 14; label: Symbolism of Numbers
title: 15; label: The Number of the Infinite, or the Divine Soul
title: 16; label: Occult Properties of the Number 9, & the Mystic Star
title: 17; label: Astronomical Arrangement
title: 18; label: The Court Cards
title: 20; label: Playing Cards
title: 20; label: Chapter III; label: An Astronomical Measure
title: 22; label: The Jester or Joker
title: 22; label: Chapter IV; label: Astral Numbers of Things
title: 24; label: The Spirit of Numbers
title: 24; label: Nth Root
title: 25; label: Spirits & Numbers of the Mystic Emblems
title: 25; label: The Emblem Value of the Cards
title: 25; label: Solar Values
title: 26; label: Symbolism of the Suits
title: 26; label: Geometrical Symbolism
title: 26; label: Chapter V; label: Relations to Time and Magnetic Forces
title: 28; label: To Form a natural Test Book
title: 28; label: Ruling Emblems
title: 29; label: Planetary Life and Time Lines
title: 31; label: Preparing the Test Book
title: 32; label: Planetary Cutting
title: 32; label: Drawing the Emblems
title: 33; label: Exceptions to this Order
title: 33; label: Piling the Emblems
title: 34; label: Quadration of the Test Book
title: 35; label: Explanation of this Deal
title: 35; label: Single Quadrate
title: 35; label: Laying the Grand Spread
title: 36; label: Independent Solar Spread
title: 37; label: Chapter VI; label: The Day and Birth Cards
title: 38; label: Rule for Finding
title: 40; label: Position of the Birth Card
title: 41; label: The Mystic Cross
title: 41; label: Examples of Mystic Crosses
title: 42; label: Rule for Finding the Lay-Out
title: 43; label: Cut Showing Turned Cards
title: 44; label: General Lines of Darkness and Light
title: 44; label: A Recapitulation of the Work
title: 47; label: Endnotes (1-34) to Chapters-1 to (VI)
title: 49; label: Chapter VII; label: Definition of the Mystic Emblems-Introduction
title: 61; label: Definition of the Mystic Emblems-Hearts
title: 62; label: Definition of the Mystic Emblems-Clubs
title: 88; label: Definition of the Mystic Emblems-Diamonds
title: 114; label: Definition of the Mystic Emblems-Spades
title: 140; label: Chapter VIII; label: Grand Cross
title: 166; label: The Solar Quadrate
title: 167; label: Farther Explanation of Delineating
title: 167; label: Quadrated Age Spreads (x 11)
title: 169; label: Quadrated Astral Spreads (x 3)
title: 180; label: Farther Explanation of Delineating (cont.)
title: 183; label: A Wonderful Peculiarity
title: 184; label: Characteristic Effect of the Planets
title: 185; label: The Effect of the Sun
title: 186; label: The Planet Jupiter, Millions of Years Hence
title: 186; label: Chapter IX; label: Tarotology
title: 187; label: Wonderful Properties of the Test Book Tarots
title: 187; label: The Mystic Star & the Double Triangle
title: 189; label: The 16 Magic Tarots - Birth Tarots
title: 190; label: Rule for Finding Negative Spirit of Cards
title: 192; label: Examples of Double Astrals
title: 192; label: Examples of the Tarots with Negative Astrals
title: 193; label: Names of the Five "Points" of a Tarot
title: 195; label: Male and Female Lines
title: 195; label: Planetary Transformations
title: 196; label: Chapter X; label: The Tarot and the Zodiac
title: 199; label: Signs of the Zodiac on the Tarot
title: 200; label: Formation of Tarot No. 1 Characteristics
title: 201; label: The Wonderful 36 Tarots and Frames
title: 201; label: The Astro-Phrenological Head
title: 202; label: Calculations of Potencies
title: 204; label: Chapter XI; label: The Lost Word of Oriental Mysticism
title: 205; label: Strange Co-ordinations of the Mystic Triangle
title: 208; label: Spirit Co-ordinations of the Mystic Triangle
title: 210; label: The Triangular Formation
title: 211; label: Unique 3 x 3 Court Tarot
title: 212; label: The Explanations of the Magic Chart
title: 213; label: Can This Be Chance
title: 214; label: Endnotes (35-69) to Chapters VIII - XI
title: 215; label: Order of the Magi. A Final Word - (original)
title: 226; label: Chapter XII; label: 1st Test Book Supplement (1896)
title: 227; label: Directions for Delineating a Grand Spread
title: 228; label: Delineation Under the Seven Planets
title: 228; label: The Quadratic Layout
title: 229; label: Quadration of Tarots
title: 233; label: Diagram of the Vibrators
title: 236; label: Parallelograms of Birth Tarots
title: 236; label: Chart of Magic Cross and Cubes
title: 239; label: General Birth Tarot Transformers
title: 240; label: Charts of Zodiacal Coordinates
title: 241; label: The Great Mystic Triangle
title: 243; label: The Shadow of the Cross
title: 245; label: Chart of Minute Cards
title: 247; label: Chart of Normal Hour Rulers
title: 250; label: The Zodiac Naturals
title: 251; label: The Mystic Story of Atlantis
title: 252; label: The Grand Cross of OM
title: 253; label: Astral-Phrenology. With Chart
title: 256; label: Rulings of the Zodiac
title: 257; label: The Four Test Book Crosses
title: 264; label: Light for Terra
title: 266; label: Endnotes (70-115) to Chapter - (XII)
title: 267; label: Chapter XIII; label: 2nd Test Book Supplement (1919)
title: 283; label: Altar Cloth Used in Tarotology & Altars of OM
title: 284; label: Inspired Tarots. With Emblems
title: 285; label: Tarot Values and Souls of Tarots
title: 285; label: Transformation of Pyramid Tarots
title: 287; label: Marvelous Birth Element Tarot
title: 288; label: Twelve Month Diagrams
title: 291; label: The Great Electric and Diamond Groups
title: 295; label: Souls of Other Wonderful Tarots
title: 297; label: Four Birth Card Zodiacs and Directions
title: 299; label: The Twelve Lights of OM and Colors
title: 301; label: Endnotes (116-132) to Chapter - (XIII) & Plates
title: 303; label: Order of the Magi. A Final Word
title: 308; label: Appendix: A. Numerical Values of the Cards
title: 311; label: Appendix: B. Mystic Star Tarot
title: 321; label: Appendix: C. Quadration Formula
title: 333; label: Appendix: D. Magic Squares of the Planets
title: 335; label: Appendix: E. Tarot Special
title: 341; label: Appendix: F. Tarot Squares (Parts 1-4)
title: 345; label: Appendix: G. Mystic Triangle
title: 361; label: Appendix: H. Quadratic Emblematic Cross
title: 373; label: Editor's Epilog
title: 381; label: Index
title: 383; label: Table of Page Correspondences
title: 387; label: Plates; label: 1 Astropathy
title: 48; label: 2 Planets & People (1896)
title: 282; label: 3 Magnetic Shields
title: 310; label: 4 Cabala of Magic
title: 332