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PART ONE THE THEORY OF THE TAROT I. The Contents of the Tarot; The Origin of the Tarot; The Theory of the correspondences of the Tarot; The Evidence for the Initiated Tradition of the Tarot; I. Eliphaz Levi and the Tarot; 2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts; 3. The Tarot and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; 4. The Nature of the Evidence; Summary of the Questions Hitherto Discussed. II. The Tarot and the Holy Qabalah; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Tarot and the Elements; The Twentytwo Keys, …
1944 · PDF PAGE 6
CONTENTS PART ONE: THE THEORY OF THE TAROT I. The Contents of the Tarot; The Origin of the Tarot; The Theory of the correspondences of the Tarot; The Evidence for the Initiated Tradition of the Tarot; I. Eliphaz Levi and the Tarot; 2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts; 3. The Tarot and the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”; 4. The Nature of the Evidence; Summary of the Questions Hitherto Discussed. II. The Tarot and the Holy Qabalah; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Tarot and the Elements; The Twenty‐…
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
I THE CONTENTS OF THE TAROT THE TAROT is a pack of seventy‐eight cards. There are four suits, as in modern playing cards, which are derived from it. But the Court cards number four instead of three. In addi‐ tion, there are twenty‐two cards called “Trumps”, each of which is a symbolic picture with a title itself. At first sight one would suppose this arrangement to be arbitrary, but it is not. It is necessitated, as will appear later, by the structure of the universe, and in particular of the So‐ lar System, as symbolized by the Holy Qabalah. T…
1944 · PDF PAGE 275
‘The Court Cards of the Tarot with the Spheres of their Celestial Dominion = WANDS ‘The Knight of Wands, Rules 20° Mh to 20° t—including part of Hercules. ‘The Queen of Wands, 20° ¢ to 020° 7 ‘The Prince of Wands, 20° ax to 20° ‘The Princess of Wands. Rules one Quadrant of Heavens around North Pole. (See p. 177.) The Court Cards of the Tarot with the Spheres of their Celestial Dominion m= Swords. The Knight of Swords. Rules 20° ¥ to 20° IT ‘The Queen of Swards, 20° my to zo The Prince of Swords. 20° 5 to ‘The Princess of Swords. Rules a third Q…
1944 · PDF PAGE 8
CONTENTS—Continued INVOCATION AND MNEMONICS APPENDIX A—THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE TAROT: ITS USE IN THE ART OF DIVINATION The Behaviour of the Tarot; The Significator; First Operation; Second Operation— Development of the Question; Third Operation—Further Development of the Question; Fourth Operation—Penultimate Aspects of the Question; Fifth Operation—Final Result. Gen‐ eral Characters of the Trumps as they appear in Use. APPENDIX B—CORRESPONDENCES Correspondences; The Key Scale; The General Attributions of the Tarot; The Chinese Cosmos; The Caduceu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 10
… scientiae summae. Following the tradition of Eliphaz Levi, much of his magical writing is modelled on, or adorned by references to, the Tarot. Notable in this connexion are: Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum (The Sword of Song, 1904 e.v.). The Wake‐World (Konx Om Pax, 1907 e.v.). Liber XXX Aerum vel Saeculi sub figura CCCCXVIII: being of the Angels of the 30 Aethyrs the Vision and the Voice (1911 e.v.). The Book of Lies (1913 e.v.). Magick in Theory and Practice (Book 4, Part III) 1929 e.v. He published a full account of the Tarot, according to the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 1
THE BOOK OF THOTH (Egyptian Tarot) by THE MASTER THERION (Aleister Crowley)
1944 · PDF PAGE 245
APPENDIX A THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE TAROT: ITS USE IN THE ART OF DIVINATION
1944 · PDF PAGE 225
…er to insist a little strongly upon one of the essential theoretical theses which have inflamed the constitution of this present pack of Tarot cards; for this feature is significant, and distinguishes it from the numerous crude efforts of uninitiates to put themselves forward as adepts. The grotesque barber Alliette, the obscurely perverse Wirth, the poseur‐fumiste Pé‐ ladan, down to the verbose ignorance of such Autolycus‐quacks as Raffalovitch and Ouspen‐ sky; none of these or their kin have done more than “play the sedulous ape” to the conve…
1944 · PDF PAGE 260
…es the conventional theory of the structure of the Universe adopted as convenient for the purposes of calculation in the Book called The Tarot. The el‐ lipse, parabola, and hyperbola, show the three Veils of the Negative; the ten circles refer to the ten numbers of the decimal scale; and their general spiritual and moral significance is given on the rims. The necessity and propriety of this system is set forth in the Naples Arrangement, and it is discussed quite fully in the text of the Prefatory Note. The lines joining these circles represent …
1944 · PDF PAGE 246
THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE TAROT It being now established, at the conclusion of the Essay, that the cards of the Tarot are living individuals, it is proper to consider the relations which obtain between them and the student. Consider the analogy of a debutante at her coming‐out ball. She is introduced to sev‐ enty‐eight grown people. Assuming her to be a particularly intelligent girl, with a very high social education, she may know all about the position and general characteristics of these people. This, however, will not imply real knowledge of any …
1944 · PDF PAGE 37
THE ATU OF TAHUTI1 Or: The Twentytwo Houses of Wisdom, Or: The Twentytwo Trumps of the Tarot. Twenty‐two is the number of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It is the number of the Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah. These paths are the paths which join the ten numbers on the figure called the Tree of Life. Why are there twenty‐two of them? Because that is the number of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and one letter goes to each path. Why should this be so? Why should these paths be arranged on the Tree in the way that the diagram shows? Why s…
1944 · PDF PAGE 42
… small cards; these are derived from the “Great Name of God” of seventy‐two letters, called Shemhamphorasch. THE SHEMHAMPHORASCH AND THE TAROT This word means the Divided Name. The “Name” is Tetragrammaton: I.H.V.H., com‐ monly called Jehovah. He is the Supreme Lord of the Four Elements which compose funda‐ mentally the whole Universe. There are three verses in Exodus (xiv, 19, 20, 21) each containing seventy‐two letters. By writing down the first of these, and underneath this the next verse backwards, and under this again the last verse forwar…
1944 · PDF PAGE 15
…cal and physical laws of reaction in the human anatomy give a complete picture of a man. THE EVIDENCE FOR THE INITIATED TRADITION OF THE TAROT I. Eliphaz Levi and the Taro. Although the origins of the Tarot are perfectly obscure, there is a very interesting piece of quite modern history, history well within the memory of living man, which is extremely significant, and will be found, as the thesis develops, to sustain it in a very remarkable wav. In the middle of the nineteenth century, there arose a very great Qabalist and scholar, who still an…
1944 · PDF PAGE 2
THE BOOK OF THOTH A SHORT ESSAY ON THE TAROT OF THE EGYPTIANS BEING THE EQUINOX VOL. III No. V by THE MASTER THERION (Aleister Crowley) Artist Executant: Frieda Harris An Ixviii Sol in O° O O" Aries March 21, 1944 e. v. 5:29 p.m. N O C T P R E S S 2 0 1 0
1944 · PDF PAGE 16
2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts At the time of the French Renaissance of the eighteen‐fifties, a similar movement took place in England. Its interest centred in ancient religions, and their traditions of initiation and thaumaturgy. Learned societies, some secret or semi‐secret, were founded or revived. Among the members of one such group, the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Freemasonry, were three men: one, Dr. Wynn Westcott, a London coroner; a Dr. Woodford, and a Dr. Woodman. There is a lit‐ tle dispute as to which of these men went to the F…
1944 · PDF PAGE 9
… February of the year following, he attained the grade of Practicus, and was accord‐ ingly entrusted with the secret attributions of the Tarot, especially those of the Atu. (See pp. 5‐ 10). He worked daily on these MSS., for the most part under the personal instruction of G.H. Frater 7°=4°, D.D.C.F. (S. Liddell Matters) and V.H. Fratres 5°=6° Iehi Aour (Allan Bennett, later Sayadaw Ananda Metteya) and Volo Noscere (George Cecil Jones) as host or guest of one of these Adepts. He continued these studies alone during his first Voyage around the ea…
1944 · PDF PAGE 28
Queen of Disks, Water of Earth Prince of Disks, Air of Earth Princess of Disks, Earth of Earth The Tarot trumps are twenty‐two in number; they represent the elements between the Sephiroth or Things‐in‐Themselves, so that their position on the Tree of Life is significant. Here are one or two examples. The card called “The Lovers”, whose secret title is “The Chil‐ dren of the Voice, the Oracle of the Mighty Gods”, leads from the number 3 to the number 6. The number 6 is the human personality of a man; the number 3 is his spiritual intuition. Ther…
1944 · PDF PAGE 18
…d balances, thus obviously referring to tile zodiacal sign of Libra, the Balance. Frater Perdurabo had made a very profound study of the Tarot since his initiation to the Order on 18th November, 1898; for, three months later, he had attained the grade of Prac‐ ticus; as such, he became entitled to know the Secret Attribution. He constantly studied this and the accompanying explanatory manuscripts. He checked up on all these attributes of the numbers to the forms of nature, and found nothing incongruous. But when (8th April, 1904 e.v.) he was wr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 44
…ep till they are rested. They have no bad reac‐ tion, and they do not acquire the habit. Cocaine is a different story. The adepts of the Tarot would say, quite simply, “We are alive and the plant is alive, so we can make friends. If you kill the plant first, you are asking for trouble.” All this is here written in defence of the system of the makers and users of the Tarot, of their methods of dealing with Nature, of making experiments without undue attention to the wish to get things done quickly. They would expose a mixture to the rays of the …