Editing A. E. Waite (section)

===Writer and scholar===
Waite was a writer and many of his works were well received in the esoteric circles of his time, but his lack of academic training is visible in his limitations as a historian and in his belittling of other authors.{{sfnp|Gilbert|1986}}

He wrote texts on subjects including [[divination]], [[Western esotericism|esotericism]], [[freemasonry]], and [[ceremonial magic]], Kabbalism and [[alchemy]]; he also translated and reissued several mystical works. He wrote about the [[Holy Grail]], influenced by his friendship with [[Arthur Machen]].{{sfnp|Waite|1938|p={{pn|date=November 2022}}}}{{sfnp|Gilbert|1987|p={{pn|date=April 2022}}}} A number of his volumes remain in print, including ''[[The Book of Ceremonial Magic]]'' (1911), ''The Holy Kabbalah'' (1929), ''A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry'' (1921), and his edited translation of [[Eliphas Levi]]'s 1896 ''[[Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie|Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual]]'' (1910), having been reprinted in recent years.

Waite also wrote two allegorical fantasy novels, ''Prince Starbeam'' (1889) and ''The Quest of the Golden Stairs'' (1893), and edited ''Elfin Music'', an anthology of poetry based on English [[fairy]] folklore.{{sfnp|Stableford|2009|pp=420–21}}