Notable masonic and esoteric writer A. E. Waite left behind a treasure trove of writings. Collected here are some of his varied essays: The Hermetic and Rosicrucian Mystery, Mystical Realization, The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary, Discourse on the Fellowcraft Degree, The Importance of Ceremonial Magic, Emblematic Freemasonry, Building Guilds and Hermetic Schools, Fama Fraternitatis, Confessio Fraternitatis, The Threefold Division of Mysticism, The Kabbalistic Conclusions of Pico della Mirandola, The Stone of the Philosophers, Mysticism and Occultism, The Legend of the Holy Grail and its Connection with Templars and Freemasons, The Veil of Alchemy and Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism.