Course on the Book of Thoth

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of Cartomancy The original text uses the spelling "Cartonomancie.", the third deal will indicate the fourth to us, and the cartomancer, by referring to the cut of the seeker The "questionnant" is the person for whom the cards are being read, often called the querent. and to the number 2—the remainder from the third and final distribution of the first deal—this will indicate to us the manner of distributing the fifth and final deal.

Before proceeding further, we say: all souls are to one another, just as all spirits are to one another, what bodies are also to one another; and for the reason that bodies touch each other directly, or through their contiguity to one another, because they are part of the physical mass of our universe, the spirits emanating from the mass of the spirit of the universe also touch each other directly, or through contiguity; and they have coherence together, because they are but parts of their whole, just as our souls have the same proximity to God, who is their whole. This sentiment, copied word for word from the Book of Thoth The author refers to the Tarot deck as the legendary "Book of Thoth," an ancient Egyptian text supposedly containing the secrets of the universe., likewise yields the following consequence:

The unfeeling has a local movement just like the feeling; thus man and stone are carried along in the orb of the terrestrial mass, just as the spirit of all beings is in the orb of expanse; thus the souls of all...