Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62421 in Books
• Published on: 1988-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 308 pages

Customer Reviews

actually not that short...
the perfect companion to the thoth tarot, but i'm probably just preaching to the perverted on that. yay crowley. anyone that hasn't checked out the disinformation guide to the occult should grab it, by the way. there's a great piece on crowley as perceived by six types of occultists.

Best book on the Tarot on the market
This book brings the great Hermetic tradition which spawned tarot cards into clear focus. The meanings and magical significance of each of these cards is described in detail. You won't find this invaluable information anywhere else. The ancient tradition exhibited in the Tarot deck comes to life with Crowley's ideas in mind. Any magician would find this knowledge worthwhile. "Book of Thoth" is a must for any practitioner's occult library.

The Master of the Tarot
Crowely's Book of Thoth shows his mastery of the tarot, cabala, astrology and occultism in general. I have read this book four or five times, and I still don't understand some of it, but the portions that I have been able to assimilate are outstanding -- far better than the fuzzy wuzzy new age writing that has been creeping in to the occult genre since the advent of modern paganism in all its incarnations. Herein lies power and truth so seering and bright that it will blind you. I am not a Thelemite, and I am not a Crowely worshipper, but I must take my hat off to good writing.

I chose one random sentence from the book to illustrate the power of the writing. Crowley writes on the Death card, "The card itself represents the dance of death..." and elsewhere concerning the Princess of Wands "...she is unclothed, shewing that chemical action can only take place when the element is perfectly free to combine with its partner." I dare you to find another tarot book more powerfully written. I daresay you won't be able to accomplish such a task.

The Book of Thoth is the Tiphareth of my occult resources. I refer to it even before I refer to Agrippa or Hall. Buy it. Read it. Commit it to memory, O' thou seeker of wisdom.