Given the iconic status of the Book of Thoth, it is amazing that it has taken so long for anyone to write a serious commentary. Rumours of the imminent publication of such a book by the O.T.O have been going on for years.
My province was to see that the designs – especially those of the important Trumps Major – kept that in the hiddeness which belonged to a certain Greater Mysteries, in the Paths of which I was travelling… I saw to it therefore that Pamela Coleman Smith should not be picking up casually any floating images from my own or another mind. She had to be spoon-fed carefully over the Priestess Card, that which is called the Fool and over the Hanged Man. — AE Waite, Shadows of Life and Thought, 1938.
Understanding Crowley’s Book of Thoth Review