Cover of The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley.

The Book of Thoth : A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians is the title of The Equinox, volume III, number 5, by Aleister Crowley. Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an occultist, mystic, hedonist and sexual revolutionary. ... The Equinox was a large bi-annual periodical published by Aleister Crowley that served as the official organ of the A∴A∴ and later the O.T.O. It was subtitled The Review of Scientific Illuminism. ... Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an occultist, mystic, hedonist and sexual revolutionary. ...

The book describes the philosophy and the use of his Thoth Tarot, a deck of Tarot cards designed by Crowley and painted by Lady Frieda Harris. The Thoth Tarot has become one of best-selling and popular Tarot Decks in the world. The Book of Thoth, while being the definitive commentary on the cards, was written for the reader already well-versed in a broad range of esoteric studies. An easier to digest commentary on the deck and book is offered by Crowley expert Lon Milo Duquette in his 2003 Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot. The Philosopher (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a field of study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, in which people ask questions such as whether God exists, whether knowledge is possible, and what makes actions right or wrong. ... The Thoth Tarot is a Tarot deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris according to instructions from Aleister Crowley. ... Lady Harris and Aleister Crowley // Frieda Harris and Thoth Tarot By an accident of fate Frieda Harris was commissioned by Aleister Crowley to paint the Thoth Tarot. ... Lon Milo DuQuette Lon Milo DuQuette (Born July 11, 1948), AKA Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, American writer, lecturer, and occultist best known as an author who applies humor in the field of Western Hermeticism. ...

Editions

• U.S. Games Systems, Inc., October 1977. ISBN 0913866121
• Weiser Books, June 1981. ISBN 0877282684

Other books on Crowley's Thoth Tarot

• The Crowley Tarot: The Handbook to the Cards, by Akron & Hajo Banzhaf. U.S. Games Systems, August 1995. ISBN 0880797150
• Keywords for the Crowley Tarot, by Hajo Banzhaf & Brigitte Theler. Weiser Books, July 2001. ISBN 1578631734
• Tarot: Mirror of the Soul : Handbook for the Aleister Crowley Tarot, by Gerd Ziegler. Weiser Books, January 1988. ISBN 0877286833
• Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, by Lon Milo Duquette. Weiser Books, November 2003. ISBN 1578632765

Lon Milo DuQuette Lon Milo DuQuette (Born July 11, 1948), AKA Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, American writer, lecturer, and occultist best known as an author who applies humor in the field of Western Hermeticism. ...

See also

• The Book of Thoth of Egyptian mythology
• Tarot
• Thelema
• Magick
• Occultism
• Works of Aleister Crowley

In Egyptian mythology, Thoth is the god of wisdom, time, writing, magic and the moon. ... The Tarot is a set of 78 cards with allegorical representations today used for divination, that first appeared in Medieval times. ... The Unicursal Hexagram, designed by Aleister Crowley, is one of the common symbols of Thelema Thelema is the English transliteration of the Ancient Greek noun θέλημα: will, from the verb ἐθέλω: to will, wish, purpose. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses of this term, see occult (disambiguation). ... Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)—mystic, occultist, and mountaineer—was a highly prolific writer, not only on the topic of Thelema and magick, but on philosophy, politics, and culture. ...

External links

• A site containing a PDF version of Crowley's the Book of Thoth