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The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 215

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      SORROW    THREE OF SWORDS      Binah, the Great Mother, here rules the realm of Air. This fact involves an extremely dif‐ ficult doctrine which must be studied at length in The Vision and the Voice: Aethyr 14.    Binah is here not the beneficent Mother completing the Trinity with Kether and Chok‐ mah. She represents the darkness of the Great Sea.    This is accentuated by the Celestial Lordship of Saturn in Libra.    This card is dark and heavy; it is, so to speak, the womb of Chaos. There is an intense  lurking passion to create, but its children are monsters. This may mean the supreme tran‐ scendence of the natural order. Secrecy is here, and Perversion.    The symbol represents the great Sword of the Magician, point uppermost; it cuts the  junction of two short curved swords. The impact has destroyed the rose. In the background,  storm broods under implacable night.     
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