1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 184
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THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE
ACE OF WANDS
This card represents the essence of the element of Fire in its inception. It is a solar‐
phallic outburst of flame from which spring lightnings in every direction.
These flames are Yods, arranged in the form of the Tree of Life. (For Yod, see Atu IX su‐
pra.)
It is the primordial Energy of the Divine manifesting in Matter, at so early a stage that it
is not yet definitely formulated as Will.
Important: although these “small cards” are sympathetic with their Sephirotic origin,
they are not identical; nor are they Divine Persons. These (and the Court Cards also) are pri‐
marily sub‐Elements, parts of the “Blind Forces” under the Demiourgos, Tetragrammaton.
Their rulers are the Intelligences, in the Yetziratic world, who go to form the Schemham‐
phorasch. Nor is even this Name, “Lord of the Universe” though it be, truly Divine, as are the
Lords of the Atu in the Element of Spirit. Each Atu possesses its own private, personal and
particular Universe, with Demiourgos (and all the rest) complete, just as every man and every
woman does.
For example II’s or VI’s Three of Disks might represent the establishment of such an
oracle as that of Delphi, or VIII’s might be the first formula of a Code such as Manu gave to
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