1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 183
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to Mercury in Virgo. When wealth accumulates beyond a certain point, it must either become
completely inert and cease to be wealth, or call in the aid of intelligence to use it rightly. This
must necessarily happen in spheres which have nothing whatever to do with material posses‐
sions, as such. In this way, Carnegie establishes a Library, Rockefeller endows Research, sim‐
ply because there is nothing else to do.
But all this doctrine lies behind the card; it is the inner meaning of the card.
There is another view to consider, that this is the last of all the cards, and therefore
represents the sum total of all the work that has been done from the beginning. Therefore, in
it is drawn the very figure of the Tree of Life itself. This card, to the other thirty‐five small
cards, is what the twenty‐first Trump, The Universe, is to the rest of the Trumps.
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