1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 106
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XIX. THE SUN
This card represents, in heraldic language, “the Sun, charged with a rose, on a mount
vert”.1
This is one of the simplest of the cards; it represents Heru‐ra‐ha, the Lord of the New
Aeon, in his manifestation to the race of men as the Sun spiritual, moral, and physical. He is
the Lord of Light, Life, Liberty and Love. This Aeon has for its purpose the complete emanci‐
pation of the human race.
The rose represents the flowering of the solar influence. Around the whole picture we
see the signs of the Zodiac in their normal position, Aries rising in the East, and so on. Free‐
dom brings sanity. The Zodiac is a kind of childish representation of the body of Nuith, a dif‐
ferentiation and classification, a chosen belt, one girdle of Our Lady of infinite space. Conven‐
ience of description excuses the device.
The green mound represents the fertile earth, its shape, so to speak, aspiring to the
heavens. But around the top of the mound is a wall, which indicates that the aspiration of the
new Aeon does not mean the absence of control. Yet outside this wall are the twin children
who (in one form or another) have so frequently recurred in this whole symbolism. They rep‐
resent the male and female, eternally young, shameless and innocent. They are dancing in the
light, and
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