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Alchemical Verse -Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum

• The Hunting of the Greene Lyon.
• A Discription of the Stone
• A short work of George Ripley
• AEnigma Philosophicum
• Alchemical Aenigmas by Thomas Charnock
• Anonymous Alchemical Poems
• Dialogue Between a Father and his Son
• Experience and Philosophy
• Hermes Bird.
• John Gower concerning the Philosophers’ Stone
• Liber Patris Sapientiae
• Pearce the Black Monke upon the Elixir
• Testament of John Dee John Gwynn
• The Hermet’s Tale
• The Magistry
• The Mistery of Alchymists
• The Work of John Dastin
• The Worke Of Rich Carpenter
• Thomas Charnock – The Breviary of Alchemy
• Thomas Robinsonus De Lapide Philosophorum

Ancient Art and Ritual

ARADIA or the Gospel of the Witches

Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold

• Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold

Famous Author Archive

• Foundations Of Taoist Practise
• Legends Of Old Honolulu
• Myths of the Norsemen
  • I. The Beginning
  • II. Odin
  • III: Frigga
  • IV: Thor
  • IX: Frey
  • V: Tyr
  • VI: Bragi
  • VII: Idun
  • VIII: Niörd
  • X: Freya
  • XI: Uller
  • XII: Forseti
  • XIII: Heimdall
  • XIV: Hermod
  • XIX: Hel
  • XV: Vidar
  • XVI: Vali
  • XVII: The Norns
  • XVIII: The Valkyrs
  • XX: Ægir
  • XXI: Balder
  • XXII: Loki
  • XXIII: The Giants
  • XXIV: The Dwarfs
  • XXIX: Greek and Northern Mythologies
  • XXV: The Elves
  • XXVI: The Sigurd Saga
  • XXVII: The Story of Frithiof
  • XXVIII: The Twilight of the Gods
• The Celtic Twilight
  • Table of Contents
    • A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the Disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries
    • "And Fair, Fierce Women"
    • "Dust hath closed Helen’s Eye"
    • A Coward
    • A Knight of the Sheep
    • A Teller Of Tales
    • A Visionary
    • A Voice
    • An Enduring Heart
    • Aristotle of The Books
    • Belief And Unbelief
    • By The Roadside
    • Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory
    • Dreams That Have No Moral
    • Drumcliff and Rosses
    • Earth, Fire and Water
    • Enchanted Woods
    • Happy and Unhappy Theologians
    • Into the Twilight
    • Kidnappers
    • Miraculous Creatures
    • Mortal Help
    • Our Lady of the Hills
    • Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni
    • The Devil
    • The Eaters of Precious Stones
    • The Friends of the People of Faery
    • The Golden Age
    • The Last Gleeman
    • The Man and his Boots
    • The Old Town
    • The Queen and The Fool
    • The Religion of a Sailor
    • The Sorcerers
    • The Swine of the Gods
    • The Thick Skull of the Fortunate
    • The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries
    • The Untiring Ones
    • Village Ghosts
    • War
• The Egyptian Book of The Dead
• The Egyptian Book of The Dead (part 2 of 3)
• The Egyptian Book of The Dead (part 3 of 3)
• The Indian Fairy Book – From the Original Legends
  • III.—Strong Desire and the Red Sorcerer
  • I.—The Celestial Sisters
  • II. The Boy Who Set a Snare for the Sun
  • IV.—The Wonderful Exploits of Grasshopper
  • IX.—The Origin of the Robin
  • V.—The Two Jeebi
  • VI.—Osseo, the Son of the Evening Star
  • VII.—Gray Eagle and his Five Brothers
  • VIII.—The Toad-Woman
  • X.—White Feather and the Six Giants
  • XI.—Sheem, the Forsaken Boy
  • XII.—The Magic Bundle
  • XIII.—The Red Swan
  • XIV.—The Man with his Leg Tied Up
  • XIX.—Leelinau, the Lost Daughter
  • XV.—The Little Spirit or Boy-Man
  • XVI.—The Enchanted Moccasins
  • XVII.—He of the Little Shell
  • XVIII.—Manabozho, the Mischief-Maker
  • XX.—The Winter Spirit and his Visitor
  • XXI.—the Fire-Plume
  • XXII.—Weendigoes and the Bone-Dwarf
  • XXIII.—The Bird Lover
  • XXIV.—Bokwewa the Humpback
  • XXV.—The Crane that Crossed the River
  • XXVI.—Wunzh, the Father of Indian Corn
• The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
  • Bibliography A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CHIEF WORKS DEALING WITH THE TAROT AND ITS CONNEXIONS
  • 0 ZERO The Fool
  • CUPS Ace
  • CUPS Eight
  • CUPS Five
  • CUPS Four
  • CUPS Knight
  • CUPS Nine
  • CUPS Page
  • CUPS Queen
  • CUPS Seven
  • CUPS Six
  • CUPS Ten
  • CUPS Three
  • CUPS Two
  • I. The Magician
  • II. The High Priestess
  • III The Empress
  • IV The Emperor
  • IX The Hermit
  • PART III The Outer Method of the Oracles § 1 Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana
  • PENTACLES Ace
  • PENTACLES Eight
  • PENTACLES Five
  • PENTACLES Four
  • PENTACLES Knight
  • PENTACLES Nine
  • PENTACLES Page
  • PENTACLES Queen
  • PENTACLES Seven
  • PENTACLES Six
  • PENTACLES Ten
  • PENTACLES Three
  • PENTACLES Two
  • SWORDS Ace
  • SWORDS Eight
  • SWORDS Five
  • SWORDS Four
  • SWORDS Knight
  • SWORDS Nine
  • SWORDS Page
  • SWORDS Queen
  • SWORDS Seven
  • SWORDS Six
  • SWORDS Ten
  • SWORDS Three
  • SWORDS Two
  • THE SUIT OF CUPS King
  • THE SUIT OF PENTACLES King
  • THE SUIT OF SWORDS King
  • THE SUIT OF WANDS King
  • V The Hierophant
  • VI The Lovers
  • VII The Chariot
  • VIII Strength, or Fortitude
  • WANDS Ace
  • WANDS Eight
  • WANDS Five
  • WANDS Four
  • WANDS Knight
  • WANDS Nine
  • WANDS Page
  • WANDS Queen
  • WANDS Seven
  • WANDS Six
  • WANDS Ten
  • WANDS Three
  • WANDS Two
  • X Wheel of Fortune
  • XI Justice
  • XII The Hanged Man
  • XIII Death
  • XIV Temperance
  • XIX The Sun
  • XV The Devil
  • XVI The Tower
  • XVII The Star
  • XVIII The Moon
  • XX The Last Judgment
  • XXI The World
  • § 1.–Introductory and General.
  • § 1.–The Tarot and Secret Tradition.
  • § 2. THE LESSER ARCANA Otherwise, the Four Suits of Tarot Cards
  • § 2.-The Trumps Major and their Inner Symbolism.
  • § 2.–Class I. The Trumps Major, otherwise Greater Arcana.
  • § 3 Conclusion as to the Greater Keys
  • § 3.–Class II. The Four Suits, otherwise Lesser Arcana.
  • § 4 SOME ADDITIONAL MEANINGS OF THE LESSER ARCANA
  • § 4.–The Tarot in History.
  • § 5 THE RECURRENCE OF CARDS IN DEALING In the Natural Position
  • § 6 THE ART OF TAROT DIVINATION
  • § 7 AN ANCIENT CELTIC METHOD OF DIVINATION
  • § 8 AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF READING THE TAROT CARDS
  • § 9 THE METHOD OF READING BY MEANS OF THIRTY-FIVE CARDS