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THE TAROT is a pack of seventy-eight cards. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Must for Serious Students of the Occult,
By Pamela Zepp (Kent, OH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Book Of Thoth P (Paperback)
My rating of the book is subject to change depending on the type of knowledge you think it will impart. If you want a simple interpretory key for Crowley's Thoth Tarot, I rate this book a 1 and think the booklet that accompanies the deck coupled with studies of the Golden Dawn with better serve you. As a reference tool to aid your understanding of Qabalah and some of the deeper (and I do mean DEEEEEP) belief systems underlying the tarot, I rate it a 5. That's why my overall rating of the book is a 3.To me, it's a must for any serious student of occult studies, especially if you're really drawn to the Tarot. The Book of Thoth is one of those books that can take a life time to read and its concepts can take quite awhile to digest. I'm a book junkie and I had a serious headache by the time I got a few pages into this one. Not that its content is not valuable - it is just very dense. Those already familiar with Crowley's work will probably have an easier time understanding it, but if you're a newcomer to metaphysics, I'd recommend waiting awhile before you pick this one up. Crowley chronicled so much metaphysical information in his lifetime and within his writing there is a lot of truth to be uncovered ... but then there's the chaff of his insanity to seperate from the grain of his experience. Having a background in some of the beliefs which influenced his own prior to immersing yourself in this book would probably aid your interpretation of it tremendously - I got it a year into my tarot studies and it was tooooooo much, but now, 14 years later, it's an easier read. Deciding whether or not you will purchase this book really depends on how deeply you want to scratch the surface of occult studies and that genius everyone loves to hate: Aleister Crowley. In closing, I strongly recommend that you read some excerpts from this book before committing to its purchase.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A MAGNUM OPUS,
This review is from: Book Of Thoth P (Paperback)
The Thoth Tarot has become one of the most popular Tarot decks in the world, and The Book of Thoth is Crowley's last word on the subject. Anyone interested in Tarot or the western mystery traditions should read and study it. It's Crowley's Magnum Opus, and I'd give it six stars if I could. However, for the beginning tarotist or someone unprepared for the style and erudition of Crowley's writing it can be an impossible read, and so I also recommend in the strongest terms Duquette's "Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot" --not as a replacement for The Book of Thoth, but as a companion text. It's the only commentary on the subject by a real Crowley expert (a 30 year veteran of Crowley's O.T.O.) and a real tarot expert (a Certified Tarot Grand Master). No one can make Crowley understandable like Lon Milo Duquette, and for me his book is Rosetta Stone of The Book of Thoth and the Thoth Tarot.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not so great for tarot instruction.,
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This review is from: Book Of Thoth P (Paperback)
Crowley the man is much more interesting than his writing. The actual Thoth Tarot Deck, as painted by Lady Frieda Harris is the most striking of the twentieth century, even more so than Dali's. Still, this book is unnecessarily complicated and seems to have another purpose: to elevate the reputation of its author. Like all his published work, this one is more useful for studying the man rather than its subject.
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