Arthur Edward Waite
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Birth Date 2 October 1857
Death Date 19 May 1942
Personal Name Arthur Edward Waite
Alternate Names
- A.E. Waite
- Arthur E. Waite
- Arthur, E. Waite
- A.e Waite
- A., E. Waite
Arthur Edward Waite, commonly known as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. As his biographer R. A. Gilbert described him, "Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism—viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion."
--Wikipedia