1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 59
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I. THE JUGGLER
This card is referred to the letter Beth, which means a house, and is attributed to the
planet Mercury. The ideas connected with this symbol are so complex and so multifarious that
it seems better to attach to this general description certain documents which bear upon dif‐
ferent aspects of this card. The whole will then form an adequate basis for the full interpreta‐
tion of the card through study, meditation, and use.
The French title of this card in the medieval pack is “Le Bâteleur”, the Bearer of the
Bâton.1 Mercury is pre‐eminently the bearer of the Wand: Energy sent forth. This card there‐
fore represents the Wisdom, the Will, the Word, the Logos by whom the worlds were created.
(See the Gospel according to St. John, chapter I.) It represents the Will. In brief, he is the Son,
the manifestation in act of the idea of the Father. He is the male correlative of the High Priest‐
ess. Let there be no confusion here on account of the fundamental doctrine of the Sun and
Moon as the Second Harmonics to the Lingam and the Yoni; for, as will be seen in the citation
from The Paris Working, (see Appendix) the creative Mercury is of the nature of the Sun. But
Mercury is the Path leading from Kether to Binah, the Under‐
1Variant: LE PAGAD. Origin unknown. Suggestions:
(I) PChD terror (esp. Panic fear) a title of Geburah. Also a thigh: i.e. membrum virile. By
Arabic analogy, PAChD, causer of terror: Value 93!!
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