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Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) A Selective Bibliography
Alchemy The Secret Tradition in Alchemy: Its Development and Records. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926.
Divination A Handbook of Cartomancy, Fortune-Telling and Occult Divination. London: Redway, 1889 [5th rev. ed. 1912]
Freemasonry The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry. London: Rebman, 1912. A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry (Ars magna latomorum) and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature and History. London: Rider, 1921 (2 vols.) Emblematic Freemasonry and the Evolution of Its Deeper Issues. London: Rider, 1925. The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry. [Rev. ed.] London: Rider, 1937.
Grail The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal: Its Legends and Symbolism Considered in Their Affinity with Certain Mysteries of Initiation and Other Traces of a Secret Tradition in Christian Times. London: Rebman, 1909. The Holy Grail, Its Legends and Symbolism: An Explanatory Survey of Their Embodiment in Romance Literature and a Critical Study of the Interpretations Placed Thereon. London: Rider, 1933.
Kabbalah The Secret Doctrine in Israel: A Study of the Zohar and Its Connections. London: Rider, 1913. The Holy Kabbalah: A Study of the Secret Tradition in Israel. London: Williams & Norgate, 1929.
Martinism The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, the Unknown Philosopher, and the Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine. London: Welby, 1901. Saint-Martin the French Mystic and the Story of Modern Martinism. London: Rider, 1922.
Rosicrucianism The Real History of the Rosicrucians Founded on Their Own Manifestoes and on Facts and Documents Collected from the Writings of Initiated Brethren. London: Redway, 1887. The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross. London: Rider, 1924 [revision of above title]
Tarot The Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination. London: Rider, 1910 [issued with a deck of cards designed by Waite] The Pictorial Key to the Tarot … 1911 [reprint of above title with card illustrations reproduced in the book]
General mysticism & occult spirituality The Occult Sciences: A Compendium of Transcendental Doctrine and Experiment, Embracing an Account of
Magical practices, of Secret Sciences in Connection to Magic, of the The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. London: Redway, 1898. Studies in Mysticism and Certain Aspects of the Secret Tradition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. The Book of Ceremonial Magic: The Secret Tradition in Goetia, Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy. London: Rider, 1911 [revised edition of The book of Black magic] The Book of Destiny, and the Art of Reading Therein. London: Rider, 1912. Raymund Lully, Illuminated Doctor, Alchemist and Christian Mystic. London: Rider, 1922. Lamps of Western Mysticism: Essays on the Life of the Soul in God. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1923.
Prince Starbeam: A Tale of Fairyland. London: Burns, 1889. The Golden Stairs: Tales from the Wonder-World. London: Theosophical Pub., 1893. Belle and the Dragon: An Elfin Comedy. London: James Elliott, 1894. The Collected Poems of Arthur Edward Waite. London: Rider, 1914. Shadows of Life and Thought: A Retrospective Review in the Form of Memoirs. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1938 [autobiography] Works edited &/or translated by Waite
The Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi. London: Redway, 1886 [2nd ed., rev. & enlarged.1897]
Elfin Music: An Anthology of English Fairy Poetry. London: Scott, 1888. Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers / [Francis Barrett]. London: Redway, 1888.
The Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly. London: James Elliott, 1893. Collectanea Chemica: Being Certain Select Treatises on Alchemy and Hermetic Medicine. London: James Elliott, 1893. A Golden and Blessed Casket of Nature’s Marvels / Figulus Benedictus. London: James Elliott, 1893. The Hermetic Museum Restored and Enlarged. London: James Elliott, 1893. A Lexicon of Alchemy / Martin Ruland. London: James Elliott, 1893. The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony / Basilius Valentinus. London: James Elliott, 1893.
The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great. London: James Elliott, 1894 (2 vols.) The New Pearl of Great Price / Petrus Bonus of Ferrara. London: James Elliott, 1894.
Transcendental Magic / Eliphas Levi. London: Redway, 1896. The Turba Philosophorum; or, Assembly of the Sages. London: Redway, 1896.
The Gift of the Spirit: A Selection from the Essays of Prentice Mulford. London Redway, 1898. Neurypnology; or, The Rationale of Nervous Sleep, Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism or Mesmerism / James Braid. London: Redway, 1899. Obermann / Etienne Pivert de Senancour. London: Welby, 1903. The Gift of Understanding: A Second Series of Essays / Prentice Mulford.. London: Philip Wellby, 1907. The History of Magic / Eliphas Levi. London: Rider, 1913. The Works of Thomas Vaughn. London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1919 [based on earlier editions of Vaughn by Waite in 1888 & 1910].
Works about Waite Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 1983 (1421-2) Longman Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature, 1970. New Encyclopedia of the Occult / John Michael Greer. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2003. Twentieth Century Authors. New York: Wilson, 1942 (1462-3)
Elisabeth Brewer. “Charles Williams and Arthur Edward Waite” in VII: An Anglo- American Literary Review 4 (1983) 54-67. Robert Galbreath. “Arthur Edward Waite, Occult Scholar and Christian Mystic” in Bulletin of Bibliography 30:2 (April-June 1973) 55-61. R. A. Gilbert. A. E. Waite: A Bibliography. Aquarian Press, 1983. R. A. Gilbert. A. E. Waite: Magician of Many Parts. Wellingborough: Crucible, 1987. Harold van Buren Voorhis. Arthur Edward Waite: A Checklist of His Writings, 1932.
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