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The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 77
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VIII. ADJUSTMENT
This card in the old pack was called Justice. This word has none but a purely human
and therefore relative sense; so it is not to be considered as one of the facts of Nature. Nature
is not just, according to any theological or ethical idea; but Nature is exact.
This card represents the sign of Libra, ruled by Venus; in it Saturn is exalted. The equi‐
librium of all things is hereby symbolized. It is the final adjustment in the formula of Tetra‐
grammaton, when the daughter, redeemed by her marriage with the Son, is thereby set up on
the throne of the mother; thus, finally, she “awakens the Eld of the All‐Father.”
In the greatest symbolism of all, however, the symbolism beyond all planetary and Zo‐
diacal considerations, this card is the feminine complement of the Fool, for the letters Aleph
Lamed constitute the secret key of the Book of the Law, and this is the basis of a complete qa‐
balistic system of greater depth and sublimity than any other. The details of this system have
not yet been revealed. It has been thought right, nevertheless, to hint at its existence by equat‐
ing the designs of these two cards. Not only therefore, because Libra is a sign of Venus, but be‐
cause she is the partner of the Fool, is the Goddess represented as dancing, with the sugges‐
tion of Harlequin.
The figure is that of a young and slender woman poised exactly upon toetip. She is
crowned with the ostrich plumes of Maat, the Egyptian goddess of Justice, and on her fore‐
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