1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 126
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FORTUNE
R.O.T.A.—THE WHEEL2
“There cometh a peacock into the stone, filling the whole Aire. It is like the vision called
the Universal Peacock, or, rather, like a representation of that vision. And now there are count‐
less clouds of white angels filling the Aire as the peacock dissolves.
“Now behind the angels are archangels with trumpets. These cause all things to appear
at once, so that there is a tremendous con‐ fusion of images. And now I perceive that all these
things are but veils of the wheel, for they all gather themselves into a wheel that spins with
incredible velocity. It hath many colours, but all are thrilled with white light, so that they are
transparent and luminous. This one wheel is forty‐nine wheels, set at different angles, so that
they compose a sphere; each wheel has forty‐nine spokes, and has forty nine concentric tyres
at equal distances from the centre. And wherever
1Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici, the motto of the Master Therion as an 8°=3°
2The Vision and the Voice (4th Aethyr.)
the rays from any two wheels meet, there is a blinding flash of glory. It must be understood
that though so much detail is visible in the wheel, yet at the same time the impression is of a
single, simple object.
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