1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 107
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1Cf. the Coat‐of‐Arms of the family of the Author of this book.
yet they dwell upon the earth. They represent the next stage which is to be attained by man‐
kind, in which complete freedom is alike the cause and the result of the new access of solar
energy upon the earth. The restriction of such ideas as sin and death in their old sense has
been abolished, At their feet are the most sacred signs of the old Aeon, the combination of the
Rose and Cross from which they are arisen, yet which still forms their support.
The card itself symbolizes this broadening of the idea of the Rose and Cross. The Cross
is now expanded into the Sun, from which, of course, it is originally derived. Its rays are
twelve‐not only the number of the signs of the Zodiac, but of the most sacred title of the most
holy Ancient Ones, who are Hua. (The word HUA, “he”, has the numerical value of 12.) The
limitation of mundane law, which is always associated with the number Four, has disappeared.
Gone are the four arms of a Cross limited by law; the creative energy of the Cross expands
freely; its rays pierce in every direction the body of Our Lady of the Stars.
With regard to the wall, it should be noted that it completely encircles the top of the
mound; this is to emphasize that the formula of the Rose and Cross is still valid in terrestrial
matters. But there is now, as was not previously the case, a close and definite alliance with the
celestial.
It is also most important to observe that the formula of the Rose and Cross (indicated
by the wall‐girt mound) has completed the fire‐change into “something rich and strange”; for
the mound is green, where one would expect it to be red, and the wall red, where one would
expect it to be green or blue. The indication of this symbolism is that it must be one of the
great advances in adjustment of the new Aeon to work out simply and without prejudice the
formidable problems which have been raised by the growth of civilization.
Man has advanced so far from the social system, though it was not a system, of the cave
man, from the primitive conception of property in human flesh. Man has advanced so far from
crude anatomical classification of the soul of any given human being; he has accordingly
landed himself in the most dreadful mire of psychopathology and psycho‐analysis. Tiresome
and tough are the prejudices of the people that date morally from about 25,000 B.C.
Largely owing to their own intransigeance, those people have been born under a dif‐
ferent spiritual law; they find themselves not only persecuted by their ancestors, but bewil‐
dered by their own uncertainty of foothold. It must be the task of the pioneers of the new
Aeon to put this right.
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