Course on the Book of Thoth

is or is not established? How can one admit a correspondence of spirit that is always proven and yet always rejected?

I come to the most pressing point. Flame seeks out flame, adapting one to another to be rekindled; and would you not have it that the spirit—more subtle, more slender, more active, more strong—should seek its like, should merge together, and even exchange itself in small parts? . . . And what would become of Nature! What would even hope in God and in the goodness of men be, if my spirit were a captive within me? Do not mistake thought for spirit: the latter is a substance; thought is only a faculty. The author uses Enlightenment-era metaphysical definitions: a "substance" is a fundamental reality that exists in itself, while a "faculty" is merely a power or function of that substance. . . . Let us continue.

It is very easy for you to allow for the establishment of the correspondence of spirit; it depends, 1st, only on the art of the science and the wisdom that the Cartomancer original: "Cartonomancien." This is the author's specific term for a practitioner of the Book of Thoth (Tarot). must possess, and finally on your will; and 2nd, you alone can recognize whether the correspondence is established.

If the Cartomancer does not have within him the high virtues recommended, he is a wolf covered in sheep’s clothing to devour the flock: then nothing more cer-