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The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 98
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forms of Magic, had become mysterious and terrible. Panic suggested that Christian children
were stolen, sacrificed, and eaten. The belief persists to this day.
In every symbol of this card there is the allusion to the highest things and most remote.
Even the horns of the goat are spiral, to represent the movement of the all‐pervading energy.
Zoroaster defines God as “having a spiral force”. Compare the more recent, if less profound,
writings of Einstein1.
1Compare Saturn, at one end of the Seven Sacred Wanderers, with the Moon at the other: the aged man
and the young girl—see “The Formula of Tetragrammaton”. They are linked as no other two planets, since 32=9,
and each contains in itself the extremes of its own idea. (See also Appendix: Atu xxi.)
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