The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
A. E. WaiteBeneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.
A. E. WaiteWe have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
A. E. Waite