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The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 224
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principle itself. But, viewing the Hexagram as a weapon or method of procedure, it counsels
the ruler to purge the state of unworthy officers. Curiously, the invention of written characters
to replace knotted strings is ascribed among Chinese scholars to the use of this hexagram by
the sages. Gemini is ruled by Thoth; 10 is the key of the Naples Arrangement; and Apollo (Sol)
is the patron of literature and the arts: so his suggestion might appear at least no less suitable
to the Qabalistic correspondences than to their double emphasis on Water and the Sun.
Apart from this, however, the parallelism is complete.
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