1944 · PDF PAGE 1
The Book of Thoth
THE BOOK OF THOTH (Egyptian Tarot) by THE MASTER THERION (Aleister Crowley)
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The Book of Thoth
…also solar in character, and is therefore shown coming forth in golden light. The whole of this symbolism is thoroughly explained in the Book of the Law. It should, by the way, be noted that the name Heru is identical with Hru, who is the great Angel set over the Tarot. This new Tarot may therefore be regarded as a series of illus‐ trations to the Book of the Law; the doctrine of that Book is everywhere implicit. At the bottom of the card we see the letter Shin itself in a form suggestive of a flower; the three Yods are occupied by three human …
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1944 · PDF PAGE 265
The Book of Thoth
…the Hebrew alphabet, Shin, Aleph and Mem, in its three sections. The importance of this symbol is mainly that the Tarot is primarily the Book of Thoth or Tahuti, the Egyptian Mercury. For the understanding of this book it is necessary to learn how to transmute instinctively and automatically every simple symbol into every complex symbol and back again; for only so is it possible to realize the unity and diversity which is the solution of the cosmic problem.
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1944 · PDF PAGE 10
The Book of Thoth
…e.v.). Liber XXX Aerum vel Saeculi sub figura CCCCXVIII: being of the Angels of the 30 Aethyrs the Vision and the Voice (1911 e.v.). The Book of Lies (1913 e.v.). Magick in Theory and Practice (Book 4, Part III) 1929 e.v. He published a full account of the Tarot, according to the MSS. of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in The Equinox, Vol.1, Nos. 7 and 8 (1912 e.v.). 1To trace his progress in the Order will assist the reader to follow his work. He attained the grade of Adeptus Minor 5°=6° (Fra: R.R. et A.C.) in January, 1900 e.v. That of …
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1944 · PDF PAGE 143
The Book of Thoth
All these correspondences of the Yî King are to be studied in that book (S.B.E. vol. XVI) and reference is here made to the text when important passages are too long to be conven‐ iently quoted.
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1944 · PDF PAGE 2
The Book of Thoth
THE BOOK OF THOTH A SHORT ESSAY ON THE TAROT OF THE EGYPTIANS BEING THE EQUINOX VOL. III No. V by THE MASTER THERION (Aleister Crowley) Artist Executant: Frieda Harris An Ixviii Sol in O° O O" Aries March 21, 1944 e. v. 5:29 p.m. N O C T P R E S S 2 0 1 0
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1944 · PDF PAGE 9
The Book of Thoth
…es alone during his first Voyage around the earth in search of the Hidden Wisdom. On 8th, 9th and 10th April, 1904 e.v., he received the Book of the Law. Chosen bv the Masters to carry out Their sublime plan, he began to prepare the way for the establishment of the New Aeon, as They instructed him. (See The Equinox of the Gods for a very full and de‐ tailed account of this, the most important event in his career). He accordingly published the previously secret attributions of the Tarot in the Book 777
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1944 · PDF PAGE 260
The Book of Thoth
…iagram illustrates the conventional theory of the structure of the Universe adopted as convenient for the purposes of calculation in the Book called The Tarot. The el‐ lipse, parabola, and hyperbola, show the three Veils of the Negative; the ten circles refer to the ten numbers of the decimal scale; and their general spiritual and moral significance is given on the rims. The necessity and propriety of this system is set forth in the Naples Arrangement, and it is discussed quite fully in the text of the Prefatory Note. The lines joining these ci…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 101
The Book of Thoth
…re represents Nuith, our Lady of the Stars. For the full meaning of this sentence it is necessary to understand the first chapter of the Book of the Law. The figure of the goddess is shown in manifestation, that is, not as the surrounding space of heaven, shown in Atu XX, where she is the pure philosophical idea continuous and omniform. In this card she is definitely personified as a human‐seeming figure; she is repre‐ sented as bearing two cups, one golden, held high above her head, from which she pours wa‐ ter upon it. (These cups resemble br…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 18
The Book of Thoth
…attributes of the numbers to the forms of nature, and found nothing incongruous. But when (8th April, 1904 e.v.) he was writing down the Book of the Law from the dictation of the messenger of the Se‐ cret Chiefs, he seems to have put a mental question, suggested by the words in Chapter I, verse 57: “the law of the Fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God” (“The House of God” is one name of the Tarot Trump numbered XVI) to this effect: “Have I got these attribu‐ tions right?” For there came an interpolated answer, “All these old lette…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 5
The Book of Thoth
…complete, may’st thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. [There is no first or last.] And lo! thou art past through the Abyss. The Book of Lies KEΦ.OH.
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1944 · PDF PAGE 226
The Book of Thoth
…nnected with the perhaps arbitrary differentiation 1See The Grands Annales ou croniques Tresveritables des filz. Roy des Dipsodes. 1542. Book I, Chapter LVIII, where is given not only a remarkable description of the social conditions of the twentieth century e.v., but even, in the last line of the Prophetic Riddle, a clear indication of the Magical Motto of the Adept chosen by the Masters to announce this Formula‐this Word, openly given in the name of the Abbey itself. But, as so often is the case, it was too simple and straightforward to be se…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 105
The Book of Thoth
… on watch, wait the jackals themselves, to devour the carcasses of those who have not seen Him, or who have not known His Name. 1See the Book of Lies Cap. πβ, Bortsch. This is the threshold of life; this is the threshold of death. All is doubtful, all is mysteri‐ ous, all is intoxicating. Not the benign, solar intoxication of Dionysus, but the dreadful mad‐ ness of pernicious drugs; this is a drunkenness of sense, after the mind has been abolished by the venom of this Moon. This is that which is written of Abraham in the Book of the Beginning: …
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1944 · PDF PAGE 63
The Book of Thoth
…; as soon as the influence of the triad descends below the Abyss, there is the completion of concrete idea. The following chapter of the Book of Lies (falsely socalled), may assist the student to understand this doctrine by dint of meditation: DUST DEVILS. In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked. This desert is the Abyss wherein is the Universe. The Stars are but thistles in that waste. Yet this desert is but one spot accurséd in a world of bliss. Now and again Trav…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 173
The Book of Thoth
…rubim; But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth wrap us round, our nature cannot hear it. Let every student of this Essay, and of this book of Tahuti, this living Book that guides man through all Time, and leads him to Eternity at every page, hold fast this simplest, most far‐reaching Doctrine in his heart and mind, inflaming the inmost of His Being, that he also, having explored each recess of the Universe, may therein find the Light of Truth, so come to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and accomplish the Great Work…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 36
The Book of Thoth
…d as a practical instrument for Qabalistic calculations and for divination. In it is little place for abstract ideas. The subject of the book—the Tarot is called The Book of Thoth or Tahuti—is the influence of the Ten Numbers and the Twenty‐two Letters on man, and his best methods of manipulating their forces. There is therefore no mention of the Three Veils of the Negative, which was dis‐ cussed in the description of the Tree of Life. The description begins with the “small cards”, numbered I to 10. These are divided into four suits according t…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 171
The Book of Thoth
…the primary colour of Earth not black, but green; it insists that every Disk is a living and revolving symbol. The central thesis of the Book of the Law asserts the Perfection of the Universe. In its pantheistic conception all possibilities are equal in value; each and every Point‐Event is “a play of Nuit”, as it is written in the Book of Wisdom or Folly, “Bind noth‐ ing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whose availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!” Lib…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 164
The Book of Thoth
…presented by the i8th hexagram, Ku. This means “troubles”; it is, for all practical and material matters. the most unhappy symbol in the book. All the fine qualities of Air are weighed down, suppressed, suffocated.
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1944 · PDF PAGE 89
The Book of Thoth
…t in sacrifice.” “Every man and every woman is a star.” The whole idea of sacrifice is a misconception of nature, and these texts of the Book of the Law are the answer to it. But water is the element of Illusion; one may regard this symbol n evil legacy from the old Aeon; to use an anatomical analogy, it spiritual vermiform appendix. It was the water, and the Dwellers of the Water that slew Osiris; it is the crocodiles that threaten Hoor‐Pa‐Kraat. This card is beautiful in a strange, immemorial, moribund manner. It is the card of the Dying God;…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 78
The Book of Thoth
…t and demanding exact and precise satisfaction. More than this, she is the complete formula of the Dyad; the word AL is the title of the Book of the Law, whose number is 31, the most secret of the numerical keys of that Book. She represents Manifestation, which may always be cancelled out by equilibration of opposites. She is wrapped in a cloak of mystery, the more mysterious because diaphanous; she is the sphinx without a secret, because she is purely a matter of calculation. In Eastern philoso‐ phy she is Karma. Her attributions develop this …
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