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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Waite, A E

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(1857-1942) US-born UK writer, a foremost explainer of modern mysticism during the Fin-de-Siècle occult revival which influenced the fantasy of writers from Arthur Machen to H P Lovecraft and Charles Williams. Waite was a leader of and ritual-writer for mystical orders such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross (see Rosicrucianism), which latter he founded. His study of the seventeenth-century Rosicrucian movement, The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross (1924), is a significant historical work. The Secret Doctrine in Israel (1913) is a study of the Cabbala. Waite was also a poet and a writer of Victorian Literary Fairytales – e.g., Prince Starbeam (1889) and The Golden Stairs (1893). His memoir, Shadows of Life and Thought (1938), tells much about the literary side of modern mysticism. [DMH]

Arthur Edward Waite

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