1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 93
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XIV. ART
This card is the complement and the fulfilment of Atu VI, Gemini. It pertains to Sagitta‐
rius, the opposite to Gemini in the Zodiac, and therefore, “after another manner,” one with it.
Sagittarius means the Archer; and the card is (in its simplest and most primitive form) a pic‐
ture of Diana the Huntress. Diana is primarily one of the lunar goddesses, though the Romans
rather degraded her from the Greek “virgin Artemis”, who is also the Great Mother of Fertility,
Diana of the Ephesians, Many‐Breasted. (A form of Isis‐see Atu II and III.) The connection be‐
tween the Moon and the Huntress is shewn by the shape of the bow, and the occult signifi‐
cance of Sagittarius is the arrow piercing the rainbow; the last three paths of the Tree of Life
make the word Qesheth, a rainbow, and Sagittarius bears the arrow which pierces the rain‐
bow, for his path leads from the Moon of Yesod to the Sun of Tiphareth. (This explanation is
highly technical; but this is necessary because the card represents an important scientific
formula, which cannot be expressed in language suited to common comprehension.)
This card represents the Consummation of the Royal Marriage which took place in Atu
VI. The black and white personages are now united in a single androgyne figure. Even the
Bees and the Serpents on their robes have made an alliance. The Red Lion has become white,
and increased in size and importance, while the White Eagle, similarly expanded, has become
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