1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 200
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ABUNDANCE
THREE OF CUPS
This card refers to Binah in the suit of Water. This is the card of Demeter or Perseph‐
one. The Cups are pomegranates: they are filled bountifully to overflowing from a single lotus,
arising from the dark calm sea characteristic of Binah. There is here the fulifilment of the Will
of Love in abounding joy. It is the spiritual basis of fertility.
The card is referred to the influence of Mercury in Cancer; this carries further the
above thesis. Mercury is the Will or Word of the All‐Father; here its influence descends upon
the most receptive of the Signs.
At the same time, the combination of these forms of energy brings in the possibility of
somewhat mysterious ideas. Binah, the Great Sea, is the Moon in one aspect, but Saturn in an‐
other; and Mercury, besides being the Word or Will of the All‐One, is the guide of the souls of
the Dead. This card requires great subtlety of interpretation. The pomegranate was the fruit
which Persephone ate in the realms of Pluto, thereby enabling him to hold her in the lower
world, even after the most powerful influence had been brought to
bear. The lesson seems
to be that the good things of life, although enjoyed, should be distrusted.
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