Quoting Aleister Crowley:
„The New Comment (c. 1921) chap. 1 line 57“
Tzaddi is the letter of The Emperor, the Trump IV, and He is the Star, the Trump XVII. Aquarius and Aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of Pisces, just as, in the Trumps VIII and XI, Leo and Libra do about Virgo. This last revelation makes our Tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical.„Book of Thoth, page 10″For „The Star“ is referred to Aquarius in the Zodiac, and „The Emperor’ to Aries. Now Aries and Aquarius are on each side of Pisces, just as Leo and Libra are on each side of Virgo; that is to say, the correction in the Book of the Law gives a perfect symmetry in the zodiacal attribution, just as if a loop were formed at one end of the ellipse to correspond exactly with the existing loop at the other end.
„Book of Thoth, page 11 diagram“ The Double Loop in the Zodiac.
A comment to the New Comment by Modest
„The New Comment (c. 1921) chap. 1 line 57″
“Tzaddi is the letter of The Emperor, the Trump IV, and He is the Star, the Trump XVII.”
The double loop in Hebrew letters – Marseille’s/Crowley’s Thoth Tarot Trump numbers.
“Aquarius and Aries are therefore counterchanged, revolving on the pivot of Pisces, just as, in the Trumps VIII and XI, Leo and Libra do about Virgo.”
The double loop in Zodiac – Marseille’s/Crowley’s Thoth Tarot Trump numbers.
“This last revelation makes our Tarot attributions sublimely, perfectly, flawlessly symmetrical.”
There is no other way to make zodiac-trump-hebrew letter Tarot attributions symmetrical using Marseille’s/Crowley’s Thoth Tarot Trump number sequence.
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Trump IV The Emperor Tzaddi Aquarius
Trump XVII The Star He Aries
See Book of Thoth, page 279, the Columns under the name The Tarot of Egyptians. It is written that 11 Teth/Leo Lust, 8 Lamed/Libra Adjustment, 4 Tzaddi/Aquarius The Emperor, 17 He/Aries The Star.
P.S. Book of Thoth, page 11 diagram “ The Double Loop in the Zodiac“ is not zodiac-number symmetrical as anyone who can count sees and is not a correct drawing.
Now, the explanation why:
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This image shows how the GD Tarot number order is the MODIFIED Marseille’s Tarot order to make the zodiac round assuming that Strength is Leo and Justice is Libra.
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This image shows that Crowley’s Tarot leaves the Marseille’s Tarot number order intact therefore ONE loop forms in the zodiac if we assume that Strength is Leo and Justice is Libra.
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This image shows Crowley’s Tarot DOUBLE loop in the zodiac in order to solve the „Tzaddi is not The Star“ and make the zodiac symmetrical.
Therefore Teth is Leo Strength, Lamed is Libra Justice, Tzaddi is Aquarius The Emperor, He is Aries The Star. There are only two ways to get the zodiac in symmetry assuming that Strength is Leo and Justice is Libra. Either GD or Crowley. Crowley follows the tradition of Marseille’s Tarot number sequence and GD doesn’t follow any tradition – it’s their invention.
To make things crystal clear. The zodiac-hebrew letter attribution is form Sepher Yetzirah (Chapter 4) and is centuries old so far I know. Both Golden Dawn and Crowley use the Sepher Yetzirah zodiac attributions, the French Martinists do the same. In Sepher Yetzirah (Chapter 4) the attributions are Teth/Leo, Lamed/Libra, Tzaddi/Aquarius, He/Aries. To brake those attributions in a disorganized way would be not acceptable by anyone. There are NO LOOPS in Sepher Yetzirah zodiac-letter attributions. THE LOOPS are in zodiac to Marseille’s Tarot roman number sequence attributions (see pic 2, pic 3, pic 1) as Crowley stated himself.
Golden Dawn and Crowley differ in the way they solve the problem to achieve symmetry in the zodiac. Golden Dawn does MODIFY Marseille’s Tarot roman number sequence (pic 2) – Crowley does NOT (pic 3, pic 4, pic 1). But they both use the same Sepher Yetzirah attributions to fix that. Why Crowley kicked GD ass? Because he didn’t brake the Marseille’s Tarot roman number sequence attributions (in use since 1650) and achieved a kind of symmetry of the zodiac – that’s all. Solving „Tzaddi is not The Star“ is a by-product.