1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 136
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THE UNIVERSE—
THE VIRGIN UNIVERSE1
“We are come unto a palace of which every stone is a separate jewel, and is set with
millions of moons.
‘And this palace is nothing but the body of a woman, proud and delicate, and beyond
imagination fair. She is like a child of twelve years old. She has very deep eyelids, and long
lashes. Her eyes are closed, or nearly closed. It is impossible to say anything about her. Slie is
naked; her whole body is covered with fine gold hairs, that are the electric flames which are
the spears of mighty and terrible Angels whose breastplates are the scales of her skin. And the
hair of her head, that flows down to her feet, is the very light of God himself. Of all the glories
beheld by the Seer in the Aethyrs, there is not one which is worthy to be compared with her
littlest finger‐nail. For although he may not partake of the Aethyr, without the ceremonial
preparations, even the beholding of this Aethyr from afar is like the par taking of all the for‐
mer Aethyrs.
“The Seer is lost in wonder, which is Peace.
“And the ring of the horizon above her is a company of glorious 1
1From The Vision and The Voice 9th Aethyr.
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