gregory
Far and away not the best book on the deck, though.
Your deck is "normal" except that it contains two extra Magus cards which were rejected by Crowley. Finally Harris painted one which was deemed satisfactory. Remove the extra Magus cards and you have a "normal" deck. The only "legitimate" Magus is this one:
I believe Stuart Kaplan wrote somewhere that the deck was never intended to be read with all three Magus cards in it. The extras were just a bonus to show what might have been (but thankfully wasn't).
The less romantic reason I know is that printing sheets generally produce eighty cards and the two extra cards were put there to fill the quota. But I like your reason better.![]()
I just looked at the pic on p1 f the three together .
Yikes ! yeah ... 'legitimate' . I'll accept that![]()
Rest assured MizGrace, you do have a 'legitimate Toth deck' - welcome to the club .... I mean Thoth deck![]()
My dear Zephyros , the 3 magus cards were obviously put in that version of the deck as a secret coded Illuminati message. They represent the 3 masters of a Thelemic rite that is so secret that I am the only one that knows about it.
All other non-initiates should remove them from their deck immediately and NOT read with them ... or ... mark my words ... dire consequences shall be revealed !