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The Occult Library

Hard old books, made readable: clean text, the original pictures, search, and tools for study. Everything here is public domain and free to use.

Four tools, one path

  1. Read a cardStart in Four Keys to the Tarot: a card a day, what Waite, Mathers, Ouspensky and Papus each say about it, and where they disagree.
  2. Take it apartIn the 3D workshop the card comes to pieces. Every piece carries the authors' words, and links to the same symbol on the other trumps.
  3. Lay out a readingOn the reading table, deal the books' own spreads and read each position in the four authors' words.
  4. Go to the sourceAgrippa's Occult Philosophy is the textbook the tarot authors assumed you had read. A glossary and Jev's notes say what it assumes in turn.

The shelf

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Three Books of Occult PhilosophyHenry Cornelius Agrippa, English translation, London 1651. The full text with every table and figure, the magic squares, seals and a reader beside the original pages.Open Agrippa ›
 The Magician, Waite–Smith deck
Four Keys to the TarotWaite, Mathers, Ouspensky and Papus, read card by card, with the 1909 Waite–Smith deck, the Wirth and Marseille trumps, exercises and the books' own spreads.Open the Tarot ›
 The sign of life over the Magician's head
The Tarot WorkshopAll 22 trumps in 3D, taken apart piece by piece, with a symbol index across the deck and a reading table.Open the workshop ›