1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 197
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THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF WATER
ACE OF CUPS
This card represents the element of Water in its most secret and original form. It is the
feminine complement of the Ace of Wands, and is derived from the Yoni and the Moon exactly
as that is from the Lingam and the Sun. The third in the Hierarchy. This accordingly represents
the essential form of the Holy Grail. Upon the dark sea of Binah, the Great Mother, are Lotuses,
two in one, which fill the cup with the Life‐fluid, symbolically represented either as Water, as
Blood, or as Wine, according to the selected purpose of the symbolism. This being a primor‐
dial card, the liquid is shown as water; it can be transformed into Wine or Blood as may be
required.
Above the Cup, descending upon it, is the Dove of the Holy Ghost, thus consecrating the
element.
At the base of the Cup is the Moon, for it is the virtue of this card to conceive and to
produce the second form of its Nature.
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