1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 172
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PRINCESS OF DISKS
The Princess of Disks, the last of the Court cards, represents the earthy part of Earth.
She is consequently on the brink of transfiguration. She is strong and beautiful, with an ex‐
pression of intense brooding, as if about to become aware of secret wonder.
Her crest is the head of the ram, and her sceptre descends into the earth. There its
head becomes a diamond, the precious stone of Kether, thus symbolizing the birth of the high‐
est and purest light in the deepest and darkest of the Elements. She stands within a grove of
sacred trees before an altar suggesting a wheatsheaf, for she is a priestess of Demeter. She
bears within her body the secret of the future. Her sublimity is further emphasized by the disk
which she bears; for in the centre thereof is the Chinese ideogram denoting the twin spiral
force of Creation in perfect equilibrium; from this is born the rose of Isis, the great fertile
Mother.
The characteristics of an individual signified by this card are too various to enumerate;
one must summarize by saying that she is Womanhood in its ultimate projection. She contains
all the characteristics of woman, and it would depend entirely upon the influences to which
she is subjected whether one or another becomes manifest. But in every case her attributes
will be pure in themselves, and not necessarily connected with any other attributes which in
the normal way one regards as symbolic. In one sense, then, her general reputation will be of
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