1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 213
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PEACE
TWO OF SWORDS
This card is ruled by Chokmah in the Element of Air. This suit, governing all intellectual
manifestations, is always complicated
1How strikingly this fact confirms the counterchange of IV and XVII, above fully expounded: as a link
between Chokmah and Tiphareth, the Emperor would have no great significance, and this exquisite doctrine of
the Three Mothers would be lost.
and disordered. It is subject to change as is no other suit. It represents a general shak‐
ing‐up, resulting from the conflict of Fire and Water in their marriage; and proceeds, when
Earth appears, to crystallization. But the purity and exaltation of Chokmah are such that this
card manifests the very best idea possible to the suit. The energy abides above the onslaught
of disruption. This comparative calm is emphasized by the celestial attribution: the Moon in
Libra.
The Moon is change, but Nature is peaceful; moreover, Libra represents balance; be‐
tween them, they regulate the energy of the Swords.
In the card appear two swords crossed; they are united by a blue rose with five petals.
This rose represents the influence of the Mother, whose harmonizing influence compounds
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