Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht ueber das Buch Thot

half of it; half, however, and the 2 do not signify the Deity: thus 10 and 17 are more sublime and stronger than 11.

11 is the sign of the weakness of man, and at the same time, if one takes the opposite of human weakness, it is the sign of divine power and strength.

It is therefore necessary above all that the student of the wisdom of the Book of Thoth Buch Thot understands and knows this: 0 as the circumference of the entire universe; 1 as the point in the center; 2 as the woman and the man, and so on. Now back to our magical number table!

26 is the image of the soul; 17 the image of the spirit, and 11 the image of the body; for, as most initiates of the art say, our Philosopher’s Stone Stein der Weisen, just like man, has soul, spirit, and body.

From the union of these three substances life arises, which is represented by the number 24, which number remained in this form 11, 11, 2.

These remarks and these numbers 26, 17, 11, and 24, are now the most precious discoveries for the magical oracle-giver Orakelertheiler,

besides all those which he has already made, and which are still unknown to you. By imagining the entire Book of Thoth in four parts 26, 17, 11, 11 + 11; he finds that the fourth part of the book, 11 + 11, according to the hieroglyphs Hieroglyphen the symbolic images on the cards, is larger than all the other three parts of the book: for 26, 17, 11, 2 = 56, which is exactly the number that the fourth part of the Book of Thoth, viewed hieroglyphically, makes up.

Furthermore, he also finds something remarkable in the number 17: for according to the hieroglyphs, the first and second parts of the Book of Thoth make exactly 17 leaves cards, and the third part of the same makes 5 leaves.

Now lay the Book of Thoth out before you: you will find that the book is a whole, which, proceeding from 1 to 77 leaves, finally also consists of 78 leaves with the leaf marked with a zero.

This number 78, which is pyramidal and similar to a triangle, proves to me that 3 represents the spirit of the Book of Thoth. I say, therefore, that 3 is the spirit, 1 is the soul, and 78 is the body of the Book of Thoth.

The four divisions, which make up all knowledges—