This book describes the philosophy and the use of Aleister Crowley's
Thoth Tarot, a deck of Tarot cards designed by Crowley and co-designed
and painted by Lady Frieda Harris. The Thoth Tarot has become one of the
best-selling and most popular Tarot Decks in the world.
It is also
one of the most original interpretations of the tarot, incorporating
astrological, numerological, Egyptian, and Qabalistic symbolism. While
there are many other useful guides to this famous tarot deck, there are
no others that explain the deck in its designer's own words.
The book is divided into four major parts:
* Part One: The Theory Of The Tarot.
* Part Two: The Atu (Keys or Trumps).
* Part Three: The Court Cards.
* Part Four: The Small Cards.
Part
One is further divided into three chapters; Part Two into two chapters
and an appendix; Part Three into one chapter; and Part Four into one
chapter. The book includes a list of plates depicting the Tarot cards as
seen by Crowley and Harris.
There is an Appendix A: the use of the
Tarot in the Art of Divination; and an Appendix B which includes the
obiter dictum: "the 'correspondences' are not arbitrary". Appendix B
also includes the Key Scale of the Tree of Life with the conic sections
of mathematics and a diagram attributing the trigrams of the I Ching to
the ten Sephirot.
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