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O! Friends, who seek that holy, hidden wisdom according to the will of God and the ever-active urge in your breast upon the traces of nature, that wisdom which was planted by the Creator into the first seeds of all beings, do you mistrust my hint when I call out to you: "come, open the Buch Thot Book of Thoth The author, Etteilla, identifies the Tarot as the lost Book of Thoth from ancient Egypt, you will find!"? No, do not mistrust me: my age, my experience, my tireless searching, my very office, to peer into the corners of the human heart, has allowed me to find your true education, to learn to know God, nature, and oneself, to find the education that you have not yet found and attained despite all your efforts.
Yes! Study in the divine Book of Thoth, in the book of God, of humanity, and of nature, which true sages among the first Egyptians recorded. These were sages who, not corrupted by the taste for petty arts or by restless, stormy passions, devoted all their time to recognizing this great Dreizahl triad: God, the human being, and nature. To us, this triad is still unknown, yet without its knowledge,
it is inevitable to mingle truth with error, and error with truth.
But I already hear how you, always accustomed to being deceived by imposters, ask me distrustfully whom I provide as a guarantor of my integrity, as a guarantor of this well-intentioned advice? Listen then! It is Tris Megistus Hermes Trismegistus The legendary "Thrice-Great" figure credited with authoring the Hermetic corpus himself who gives this teaching, who gives you this advice: Tris Megistus, whom you cannot possibly reject, since he offers himself as your guarantor.
Open the Book of Thoth: and among the thousand divine beauties, his prayer will shine out to you immediately upon the first glance at the first page: his prayer:
God, I desire to learn to know the things that are around me; I desire to understand what they are: and to understand what You Yourself are.
The Wissenschaft der Zahlen science of numbers Etteilla emphasizes numerology as the key to interpreting the cards is the main matter of all higher knowledge. It is very easy and simple to understand and perceive it before all others. You need nothing but to direct your intellect toward Moral morality or ethics in order to learn and comprehend it; for morality and the science