1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 117
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Attainment of the Virgin of the Absolute; who, being manifested, is the Player upon the seven‐
fold pipe, the Great God Pan, and, being withdrawn into the Perfection that he willed, is Si‐
lence.
2. DE SAPIENTIA ET STULTITIA1
O, my Son, in this the Colophon of mine Epistle will I recall the Title and Superscription
thereof; that is, the Book of Wisdom or Folly. I proclaim Blessing and Worship unto Nuith our
Lady and her Lord, Hadith, for the Miracle of the Anatomy of the Child Ra‐Hoor‐Khuit, as it is
shewed in the design Minutum Mundum, the Tree of Life. For though Wisdom be the Second
Emanation of His Essence, there is a path to separate and to join them, the Reference thereof
being Aleph, that is One indeed, but also an Hundred and Eleven in his full Orthography; to
signify the Most Holy Trinity. And by metathesis it is Thick Darkness, and Sudden Death. This
is also the Number of AUM, which is AMOUN, and the Root‐Sound of OMNE or, in Greek, PAN;
and it is a Number of the Sun. Yet is the Atu of Thoth that correspondeth thereunto marked
with ZERO, and its Name is MAT, whereof I have spoken formerly, and its Image is The Fool. 0,
my son, gather thou all these Limbs together into one Body, and breathe upon it with thy
Spirit, that it may live; then do thou embrace it with Lust of thy Manhood, and go in unto it,
and know it; so shall ye be One Flesh. Now at last in the Reinforcement and Ecstasy of this
Consummation thou shalt wit by what Inspiration thou didst choose thy Name in the Gnosis, I
mean PARZIVAL, “der reine Thor”, the True Knight
1From Lieber Aleph: The Booh of Wisdom or Folly.
that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and made whole the Wound of Amfortas, and ordered Kun‐
dry to Right Service, and regained the Lance, and revived the Miracle of the Sangraal; yea, also
upon himself did he accomplish his Word in the end: “Höchsten Heiles Wunder! Erlösung dem
Erlöser!” This is the last Word of the Song that thine Uncle Richard Wagner made for Worship
of this Mystery. Understand thou this, O my Son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistle, that the
Summit of Wisdom is the Opening of the Way that leadeth unto the Crown and Essence of all,
to the Soul of the Child Horus, the Lord of the Aeon. This is the Path of the Pure Fool.
DE ORACULO SUMMO
And who is this Pure Fool? Lo, in the Sagas of Old Time, Legend of Scald, of Bard, of
Druid, cometh he not in Green like Spring? O thou Great Fool, thou Water that art Air, in whom
all complex is resolved! Yea, thou in ragged Raiment, with the Staff of Priapus and the Wine‐
skin! Thou standest upon the Crocodile, like Hoor‐pa‐Kraat; and the Great Cat leapeth upon
Thee! Yea, and more also, I have known Thee who Thou art, Bacchus Diphues, none and two,
in thy name IAO! Now at the End of all do I come to the Being of Thee, beyond By‐coming, and
I cry aloud my Word, as it was given unto Man by thine Uncle Alcofribas Nasier, the oracle of
the Bottle of BACBUC. And this Word is TRINC.
3. DE HERBA SANCTISSIMA ARABICA
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