The Book of Thoth

A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians.

Being The Equinox Volume III, No. V.

 

 

Published Date:

21 March 1944 at 5:29 p.m. Crowley did not actually begin receiving bound copies of the book until 6 May 1944.

Publisher:

Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).

Printer:

The Chiswick Press Ltd, London, N. 11. 

Published At:

93 Jermyn Street, London, S.W. 1.

Pages:

xii + 287.

Price:

10 Guineas for State (b). 

State (a):

11 copies printed on Arnold unbleached hand-made paper and bound in half Morocco leather with patterned boards in a four-color Egyptian design.

State (b):

189 copies printed on Arnold unbleached hand-made paper and bound in quarter Morocco leather with patterned boards in a four-color Egyptian design.

 

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Contents

 

- Part One: The Theory of the Tarot

- Part Two: The Atu (Keys or Trumps)

- Part Three: The Court Cards

- Part Four: The Small Cards

- Appendix A

- Appendix B

 

Illustrations:

- The Hierophant (Mounted color plate)

- Lust (Mounted color plate)

- Ace of Swords (Mounted color plate)

- Ace of Disks (Mounted color plate)

- The Lovers (Mounted color plate)

- The Sun (Mounted color plate)

- The Universe (Mounted color plate)

- The Key Scale (Mounted color plate)

- The Small Cards (20 pages)

- Diagrams (4 pages)

 

 

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