1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 238
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WEALTH
TEN OF DISKS
The number Ten, Malkuth, as always, represents the final issue of the Energy. Here is
great and final solidification. The force is completely expended and results in death. Mercury
rules this card in Virgo; and this may imply that the acquired wealth, being inert, will be dissi‐
pated unless put to further use by devoting its power to objects other than mere accumula‐
tion.
The disks, or (as they have now become) coins, are arranged on the Tree of Life, but
the Tenth coin is much larger than the rest; the image indicates the futility of material gain.
These disks are inscribed with various symbols of mercurial character, except that the
coin in the place of Hod (Mercury) on the Tree is marked with the cipher of the Sun. This indi‐
cates the only possibility of issue from the impasse produced by the exhaustion of all the ele‐
mental forces. At the end of matter must be complete stagnation, were it not that in it is al‐
ways inherent the Will of the Father, the Great Architect, the Great Arithmetician, the Great
Geometer. In this case, then, Mercury will represent the Logos, the Word, the Will, the Wis‐
dom, the Eternal Son, and Virgo the Virgin, in every implication of that symbol. This card is in
fact a hieroglyph of the cycle of regeneration.
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