1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 64
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The Brothers of A A are one with the Mother of the Child.
The Many is as adorable to the One as the One is to the Many.
This is the Love of These; creation‐parturition is the Bliss of the One; coition‐dissolution is the
Bliss of the Many.
The All, thus interwoven of These, is Bliss.
Naught is beyond Bliss.
The Man delights in uniting with the Woman; the Woman in parting from the Child.
The Brothers of A A are Women; the Aspirants to A A are Men.
It is important to reflect that this card is wholly feminine, wholly virginal, for it repre‐
sents the influence and the means of manifestation (or, from below, of attainment) in itself. It
represents possibility in its second stage without any beginning of consummation.
It is especially to be observed that the three consecutive letters, Gimel, Daleth, Hé (Atu
II, III, XVII) show the Feminine Symbol (Yin) in three forms composing a Triune Goddess. This
Trinity is immediately followed by the three corresponding and complementary Fathers, Vau,
Tzaddi, Yod (Atu IV, V, IX). The Trumps 0 and I are hermaphrodite. T he remaining fourteen
Trumps represent these Primordial Quintessences of Being in conjunction, function, or mani‐
festation.
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