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THE BOOK OF THOTH, CONTENTS PART ONE

THE BOOK OF THOTH (Egyptian Tarot) by Aleister Crowley

CONTENTS AND PART ONE partly linked, mostly proofread

Originally published in an edition limited to 200 numbered and signed copies, 1944 Reprinted by Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1969 First Weiser paperback edition, 1974 This printing, 1995

Samuel Weiser, Inc. Box 612 York Beach, Maine 03910

Library of Congress Card Number: 79-16399

ISBN 0-87728-268-4 ISSN 1050-2904 MG

Printed in the United States of America

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984

WHEEL AND---WHOA!

The Great Wheel of Samsara.

The \Vheel of the Law. (Dhamma.)

The Wheel of the Taro.

The Wheel of the Heavens.

The Wheel of Life.

Ail these Wheels be one; yet of all these the Wheel of the TARO alone avails thee consciously.

Meditate long and broad and deep, 0 man, upon this Wheel, revolvmg it in thy mind!

Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins.

Then, when thou know'st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may'st thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first.

[There is no first or last.]

And lo! thou art past through the Abyss.

The Book of Lies ΚΕΦ.ΟΗ.

p.vii

CONTENTS

PART ONE: THE THEORY OF THE TAROT pages 3-48

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;