Francis Israel Regardie (1907-1985) is an important figure in certain Occult circles.
In 1932 he published “A Garden of Pomegranates” - which contained Regardie’s Qabalistic studies, and “The Tree of Life” - which is considered one of the most complete texts of practical magic ever written.
In 1937 he published “The Golden Dawn” - which contained the bulk of the rituals and teachings of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and “The Philosopher’s Stone” - a book about alchemy from a Jungian perspective.
Onto the query:
There’s an unsubstantiated rumor among pinball machine enthusiasts that Regardie was employed by the Gottlieb family, which owned D. Gottlieb & Company, a major manufacturer of arcade games and world famous for it’s pinball machine innovations. It is alleged that Regardie was the head games designer from 1933 to 1952 and that he pioneered the transfer of many of the mysteries hidden in the tarot deck to the playing field of the pinball machine.
Is this true?