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What is Alchemy? - Arthur Edward Waite
Τεληστήριον
ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
WHAT IS ALCHEMY?
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Title: What is Alchemy?
Author: Arthur Edward Waite
Publishing Series: Telestèrion
Editing and preface by Nicola Bizzi
ISBN e-book version: 979-12-5504-096-5
Cover image: illustration from the Splendor Solis, an alchemical text
attributed to Salomon Trismosin, 1582
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ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE AND THE SECRETS
OF THE WESTERN MYSTERY TRADITION
By Nicola Bizzi
Arthur Edward was a British poet, writer, Freemason, esotericist and one of the greatest scholars of the Western Mystery Tradition. As his biographer Robert Andrew 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».
He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Waite’s father, Capt. Charles F. Waite, died when he was very young, and his widowed mother, Emma Lovell, returned to her home country of England, where he was then raised. They were well enough off to educate Waite at a small private school in North London. When he was 13, he was educated at St. Charles’ College. When he left school to become a clerk he wrote verse in his spare time. In 1863 Waite’s mother converted to Catholicism but Arthur would become an Anglican. The death of his sister Frederika Waite in 1874 soon attracted him into psychical research. At 21, he began to read regularly in the Library of the British Museum, studying many branches of esotericism. In 1881 Waite discovered the writings of the French esotericist Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant).
When Waite was almost 30 he married Ada Lakeman (also called Lucasta
), and they had one daughter, Sybil. Some time after Lucasta’s death in 1924, Waite married Mary Broadbent Schofield. He spent most of his life in or near London, connected to various publishing houses and editing a magazine, The Unknown World.
From 1900 to 1909, Waite earned a living as a manager for Horlicks, the famous manufacturer of malted milk.
Waite joined the Outer Order of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in January 1891 after being introduced by Edmund William Berridge, a medical doctor in London, homoeopathist in the United States and occultist. In 1899 he entered the Second order of the Golden Dawn and became a Freemason in 1901, being welcomed into the English regular Freemasonry (UGLE, United Grand Lodge of England).
Here are some stages of his Masonic itinerary: in 1902 he was Master Mason, Royal Arch and member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA); in 1903 (in Switzerland) he became a Beneficent Knight of the Holy City (Chevalier Bienfaisant de la Cite Sainte) in the Rectified Scottish Rite. Waite believed that the Rectified Scottish Rite, more than any other Masonic Rite, represented the Secret Tradition
of mystical spiritual illumination. In 1909 Waite became Knight of the Rose Croix, 18th degree (Ancient & Accepted Rite, an English and self-styled Christian
version of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite) and from 1910 to 1911 he was Venerable Master of his Lodge. In 1935 became Knight Kadosh, 30th degree of the Ancient & Accepted Rite. Waite was interested in the higher degrees of Freemasonry and saw initiation into Craft Masonry as a way to gain access to these rites.
According to some scholars Arthur Edward Waite, around 1896, would have unmasked the mystification of Leo Taxil (1854-1907). Taxil was a former Freemason who from 1885 made revelations
on Masonic Satanism then