1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 155
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and imperturbable, but this is a mask of the most intense passion. He is on the surface suscep‐
tible to external influences, but he accepts them only to transmute them to the advantage of
his secret designs. He is thus completely without conscience in the ordinary sense of the
word, and is therefore usually distrusted by his neighbours. They feel they do not, and can
never, understand him. Thus he inspires unreasonable fear. He is in fact perfectly ruthless. He
cares intensely for power, wisdom, and his own aims. He feels no responsibility to others, and
although his abilities are so immense, he cannot be relied upon to work in harness.
In the Yî King, the airy part of Water is represented by the 61st hexagram, Kung Fû.
This is one of the most important figures in the Yî: it “moves even pigs and fish, and leads to
great good fortune”. Its dignities and correspondences are manifold and great; for it is also a
“big Li”, the trigram of Sol formed by doubling the lines. By shape it suggests a boat, but also
the geomantic figure of Carcer, Saturn in Capricornus.
This card is in consequence one of great power; Libra going over into Scorpio is of tre‐
mendous, active, critical energy and weight. To such people good will, sincerity, and right mat‐
ing are the essentials of success; their danger is overweening ambition.
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