Some Reference Materials for Further Reading Akron, and Hajo Banzhaf. The Crowley Tarot: The Handbook to the Cards by Aleister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris. Translated from German by Christine M. Grimm. Stanford, CT: U.S. Games, Inc. 1995. A good resource on Crowley and his interpretation of the Tarot. Antelme, Ruth Schumann and Stephane Rossini. Sacred Sexuality in Ancient Egypt: The Erotic Secrets of the Forbidden Papyrus. Translated by Jon Graham. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1999. This is a beautiful book on an important subject in Egyptology. It makes good supplementary reading to Thoth and the Tarot. Aviza, Edward A. Thinking Tarot: Be Your Own Reader and Adviser. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. Includes CD with computer program. Uses the Waite deck. Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code. NY: Doubleday, 2003. This is a best-selling novel based on the conspiracy theories that swirl around Magdalene, the Cathars, the Priory of Sion, the Templars, and so on. It has provoked a response from the Catholic Church in the form of a book called The Da Vinci Hoax that pompously exposes Brown's book as fiction. This is odd because Brown calls his work a novel, although the paintings and buildings he describes are real. Brown's book is so convincing that the Church even wants to forbid him the right of artistic license. The Hoax diatribe also notes that Catholics are forbidden to play with the Tarot. Budge, E. A. Wallis. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary in Two Volumes. NY: Dover, 1978. Based on 1920 ed. by John Murray, London. Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: (The Papyrus of Ani) Egyptian Text, Transliteration and Translation. NY: Dover, 1967. I also used the University Books (New Hyde Park, NY, 1960) edition that has no transliteration, but includes photographs of sections of the papyrus. This is the classic translation by Budge. More recent work has been done, but this gives the original text, which makes it adequate for our purposes. See also The Gods of the Egyptians, 2 Vols. Camp, Robert L. Love Cards: The Cards of Your Destiny Relationships Handbook. Walnut Creek, CA: Seven Thunders Publishing Company, 1994