Course on the Book of Thoth

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Ignorant one, you who wished to extinguish and tear away from human knowledge the second of all Sciences; a Science that can only fall with the general mass of the Universe! Why did you not have recourse to this simple reasoning: Here are the limits of our intelligence? You would have been saved from the contempt of the Sages.

Divination The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means; here, the author argues it is a rigorous, natural science. exists; I have proven it better than I have demonstrated it: read my writings, the Mysterious Zodiac, or the Oracles of Etteilla (1772), and do not forget The Man with a Plan Original title: l’Homme à Projet. (1783); you will see there a chain of events that extends beyond 1789. The year 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution. Etteilla is claiming he successfully predicted these world-altering events years in advance. Let us resume.

1. This is here figurative of the strong man. 2. The figurative of the weak man, and 3. the figurative of the strong and weak man: strong, for the happiness of the Consultant The person seeking guidance from the cards; the subject of the reading.; weak, for the misfortune of the Consultant.

If, as in the archetype of number and creation, we ask for a fourth term, this 4 will be the Book of Thoth A legendary ancient Egyptian book of wisdom. Occultists of this era, led by Etteilla and Antoine Court de Gébelin, believed the Tarot cards were the surviving pages of this lost book. which, seen as a whole, becomes again the figurative representation of unity 1—a Book.

From this whole, or unity 1, of the Book of Thoth, a new Ternary A set of three. In this system, numbers often move in cycles of three, with a fourth element acting as a bridge to the next level. will flow, but one even more lowered original: inférioré than the strong man, the weak man, and the variable man.