The Procurer General Joseph Maxwell (1858 – 1938) is one of the dominant figures of serious occult-psychic studies during the past hundred years, yet he has been strangely neglected. Maxwell’s bibliography is impressive. Apart from some pseudonymous mystical novels, his work embraces law, criminology, sociology, spiritualism and the occult. He translated into French the most important works of Sir Oliver Lodge, and maintained a correspondence with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Tarot is a resume of Maxwell’s experience and wisdom. The book comprises a detailed study of the arcana with a comprehensive view of their esoteric symbolism and both their astrological and numerical significances. There is special reference to the colour symbolism of the cards.
The Tarot has never before been translated or even quoted from. The translator, Ivor Powell, has been a student of Tarot for twenty years, and is a well-known cartomanicer. His copy of The Tarot is never out of his hands, and he freely refers to it during complex consultations.
The Tarot is neither a ‘popular’ nor ‘do-it-yourself’ manual, but is written with that simple desire to hand on the true knowledge which is the hallmark of great esotericists.
