Aleister Crowley – Tarot Thoth

The Tarot is a pack of seventy-eight cards. There are four suits just as in the modern-day playing cards however, the Court cards number four instead of three and in addition, there are twenty-two cards called “Trumps,” each of which is a symbolic picture with a title to itself.

At first sight, one would suppose this arrangement to be arbitrary but it is not, it is however necessitated by the structure of the universe, and in particular the solar system, as symbolized by the Holy Qabalah.

“Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot” by Lon Milo DuQuette”

Aleister Crowley radically redesigned the Tarot deck and was once named by the press as the “wickedest man in the world” and labelled the “Beast” whilst to others he is seen as Icon in the theory of magic and one of the first Westerners to study Yoga and Buddhism. So, for those who would like to understand and discover a man who was born in 1875 England into a staunch Plymouth Brethren household and who died aged 72 addicted to drugs, penniless and alone in Hastings, England the author DuQuette enlightens us with “Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot” as he continues his project of demystifying the difficult but critical body of literature left behind by the The Great Beast.

Tarot deck image credit to www.flickr.com/photos/jenx5/3326041530/