1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 247
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First Operation
This shows the situation of the Querent at the time when he consults you.
1. The pack being in front of you, cut, and place the top half to the left.
2. Cut each pack again to the left.
3. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left.
4. Find the Significator. If it be in the Yod pack, the question refers to work, business,
etc.; if in the Hé pack, to love, marriage, or pleasure;, if in the Vau pack, to trouble, loss, scan‐
dal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the Hé final pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters.
5. Tell the Querent what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divinati6n.
6. If right, spread out the pack containing the Significator, face upwards.
Count the cards from him, in the direction in which he faces.
The counting should include the card from which you count.
For Knights, Queens and Princes, count 4.
For Princesses, count 7.
For Aces, count 11.
For small cards, count according to the number.
For trumps, count 3 for the elemental trumps; 9 for the planetary trumps; 12 for the
Zodiacal trumps.
Make a “story” of these cards. This story is that of the beginning of the affair.
7. Pair the cards on either side of the Significator, then those outside them, and so on.
Make another “story”, which should fill in the details omitted in the first.
8. If this story is not quite accurate, do not be discouraged. Perhaps the Querent him‐
self does not know everything. But the main lines ought to be laid down firmly, with correct‐
ness, or the divination should be abandoned.
Second Operation
DEVELOPMENT OF THE QUESTION
1. Shuffle, invoke suitably, and let Querent cut as before.
2. Deal cards into twelve stacks, for the twelve astrological houses of heaven.
3. Make up your mind in which stack you ought to find the Significator, e.g. in the sev‐
enth house if the question concerns marriage, and so on.
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