Complete Manual on Occult Divination byA.E. Waite

Volume 1 A manual on cartomancy + Volume 2 The Book of Destiny

Forward by Leslie Shepard

Two works written by Waite under the pseudonym “Grand Orient”The first volume, “A Manual of Cartomancy: Fortune-Telling and Occult Divination,” is a broad ranging study of divination, with chapters on cartomancy (divination using playing cards, Tarot cards), “The Art of Invoking Spirits in the Crystal,” “An Egyptian Method of Fortune Telling,” “To Read A Person’s Character by Means of Kabalistic Calculations,” etc. The second volume “The Book of Destiny” comprises a number of short texts of unknown origin: “The Great Oracle of the Gods”; “The Art of Knowing the Good Genii and their Influence upon the Destiny of Men”; “The Occult Science of Jewels”; “Sidelights on Workings of Destiny in Business and Pleasure”; “Some Names of Womanhood”; etc. etc. With a new introdution by University Books editor Leslie Shepard, who calls it “an intriguing collection of mystical card and other divination systems.

Condition:Publishers green cloth boards, both dust jackets protected in mylar,duser jackets are unclipped with only minor scuff to volume 2, both jackets and books are clean, Near Fine!