Sources
Primary texts, in the order they matter for this deck.
- Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (1944). The deck's own commentary; the divinatory meanings and court descriptions on the card pages are paraphrased from it.
- Aleister Crowley, Liber 777 (1909; revised 1955). The tables of correspondences: letters, paths, colours, god-names, angels.
- Aleister Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis (1904). The Book of the Law.
- Israel Regardie (ed.), The Golden Dawn. Contains Book T, the source of the Lord-of titles, the decan and court assignments and the Opening of the Key.
Commentaries on the Thoth deck.
- Lon Milo DuQuette, Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot. The clearest guide to the deck's structure.
- Gerd Ziegler, Tarot: Mirror of the Soul. A psychological reading of each card.
- Angeles Arrien, The Tarot Handbook. Thoth cards read as symbols of the psyche.
Kabbalah and the tarot.
- Robert Wang, The Qabalistic Tarot. The Tree of Life and the four decks compared.
- Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah. The Sephiroth.
Jung and the tarot.
- C. G. Jung, Visions Seminar (1933); Collected Works 9i, "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"; the foreword to Wilhelm's I Ching; Synchronicity (1952).
- Sallie Nichols, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey. The Marseille trumps read through Jung.
- Arthur Rosengarten, Tarot and Psychology. Tarot in clinical practice.
- Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom; Mary K. Greer, Tarot for Your Self. Psychological methods that transfer to the Thoth deck.
- Marie-Louise von Franz, Alchemy. Background for Art, the Lovers and the alchemical trumps.
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