Oswald Wirth
See also: Wirth
Oswald Wirth (August 5th 1860 with Brienz, Swiss - March 9th 1943) was the secretary of Stanislas de Guaita, and drew in collaboration with him a Tarot published today under the name of Tarot of Wirth . This Tarot is explained and commented on in its work the Tarot of the imagiers of the Middle Ages , become traditional.
Biography
Joseph Paul Oswald Wirth was born the August 5th 1860, around 9 hours of the morning, with Brienz, small village Suisse of 2.500 inhabitants bordering the lake of the same name. Of three brothers, two died in low age, and Edward, officer of Zouave S, perishes with the field of honor in 1894. A sister, Elects, born in 1875, was the partner of Oswald of her youth until her death.He said all humbly to have in Stanislas de Guaita, met for the first time in spring 1887, and which did it its secretary and friend.
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(…) the entry in relation to Stanislas de Guaita became for me a capital event. It made ego his friend, his secretary, and his collaborator. Its library was at my disposal, and, profiting from its conversation, I have in him a professor of Qabbale, of high metaphysics, as much as French language. Guaita took the trouble to form me the style, to trim me literarily (…) I him must write lisiblement (dedication with the Tarot of the imagiers of the Middle Ages ).
Even if one can easily agree that Guaita could teach art to him to turn its sentences fortunately, in our language which the foreigners regard as so difficult - Oswald Wirth was originating in German-speaking Switzerland -, it is undeniable that the disciple thereafter equalized, if not exceeded, the Master, at least in the field of the symbolism; one indeed owes him a certain number of works which became the traditional ones: hermetic Symbolism in its relationship with alchemy and Freemasonry , astrological Symbolism , and especially the Tarot of the imagiers of the Middle Ages in which it resumes the study symbolic system of the major Lame S that it had drawn for Guaita.
Generally, and contrary to that which he regarded as his Master, it more was interested in the Franc-Maçonnerie that with the Rosicrucian brotherhood. the mysteries of the royal art , and Freemasonry made understandable with its followers give an account of it brilliantly.
Oswald Wirth died the March 9th 1943 at 11 a.m. It is buried with the cemetery of Mouterre-on-Blourde, in the south of Poitiers (86).
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