CONTENTS to the ORIGINAL EDITION
The Contents
PREFACE
An explanation of the personal kind—An illustration from mystic literature—A subject which calls to be rescued—Limits and intention of the work.
PART I
THE VEIL AND ITS SYMBOLS
1. —Introductory and General.
2. —Class I. The Trumps Major, otherwise Greater Arcana. 3.—Class II. The Four Suits, otherwise Lesser Arcana.
4.—The Tarot in History.
PART II
THE DOCTRINE BEHIND THE VEIL
1. —The Tarot and Secret Tradition.
2. —The Trumps Major and their Inner Symbolism. 3.—Conclusion as to the Greater Keys.
PART III
THE OUTER METHOD OF THE ORACLES.
1. —Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana.
2. —The Lesser Arcana, otherwise, the Four Suits of Tarot Cards The Suit of Wands.
The Suit of Cups. The Suit of Swords. The Suit of Pentacles.
3. —The Greater Arcana and their Divinatory Meanings.
4. —Some additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana 5.—The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing.
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.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A concise bibliography of the chief works dealing with the Tarot and its connexions.