DuQuette's book on the Thoth

planetmoon

• #1

I don't know whether a thread exists elsewhere, however I just wanted to say how impressed I am with DuQuette's book on the Thoth.

It is cool, calm, knowledgeable, funny and authoritative IMHO. For me, it is to the Thoth what Rachel Pollack's book - and that is a blinder - is to the RWS.

If the Thoth is your cup of tea, as a work colleague said to me when he saw me on this forum looking over the shoulder onto my computer, then this is a book WELL worth owning!

 

Mariana

• #2

You will find that this book is mentioned often in the Thoth subforum. I have the impression most die-hard Thothers here would agree with you that Duquette is the best introduction to the Thoth deck.

 

planetmoon

• #3

It sure is, it is a good route into the Thoth, I don't want this book to end! But then that is how I felt with the Pollack '78 Degrees of Wisdom'. What I like about it is how it wants - the Duquette - to get under the not inconsiderable and yet thick skin of Crowley.

 

gregory

• #4

It is BRILLIANT.

And for those in need of kabalah training - his Chicken Qabala does the same for that and also has you on the floor laughing yourself helpless..... not something you'd expect from such a complex subject !

 

planetmoon

• #5

I will look out for the Chicken, I have seen it in a large esoteric bookshop. Thank you.

 

Elizabeth Genco

• #6

Chicken is WELL worth your time, if only because it will actually give you a solid footing on which to begin to comprehend things that are by themselves incredibly abstract.

I remember reading it for the first time at the International Tarot Congress in 2002, and thanking Lon profusely for writing it. Gushing, really!

 

gregory

• #7

And even if you don't "get" it after reading it, it is funnier than most TV !

 

Elizabeth Genco

• #8

This is an incredibly good point.