Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht ueber das Buch Thot

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...but the weak one, the questioner has nothing but misfortune to fear.

Just as in the first blueprint of creation and the basic units of the entire number system, we now look for a fourth here as well: and it is the Buch Thot Book of Thoth which immediately presents itself to us as the sought-after fourth (4), and which at the same time, when viewed as a whole, as a single book, becomes the representation of unity (1).

From this whole, from this unity of the Buch Thot, there now flows a new Dreizahl triad, which is indeed subordinate to the upper one (namely: the strong man, the weak man, and the one who is sometimes strong and sometimes weak). Since the unity (1) of the Buch Thot, from which we wish to derive that triad, is only the type and representation of the divine unity: so also is this unity (1)—because the Buch Thot contains within itself the science of the entire universe—composed of 78 Blättern leaves or cards. This composite whole now gives us that triad, by providing an opportunity for the wise revealer of the future and for the one who researches and asks him about it:

1. To mix the cards, 2. then to cut them, and 3. to place the two portions or parts, which resulted from the opening or cutting of the Buch Thot, back on top of one another to reunite them. Notice here at the same time how the starke Mensch strong man The strong man is the diviner who reveals the future from the cards of the Book of Thoth., by always bringing the book back to unity (1), must resist the will of the schwache Mensch weak man The weak man is the seeker who asks about the future and requests the diviner for the revelation., as the latter is always striving to place the book into the number 2, into two parts; however, I will speak more about that below.

But who will now bring forth the Vierzahl quaternity or the number 4? From what will it arise? You will ask. From the division of the book into three rows, if you lay out the entire book in three rows, I answer you; and specifically if you then, as you must do, always direct your attention to the middle row and use it.

The following are the author's original footnotes from the bottom of the page.
*) The strong man is, as already explained above, the one who reveals the future from the leaves, from the Buch Thot.
**) The weak man is the one who asks about the future and requests the former (the strong man) for the revelation.