书目注
1898年11月18日，阿莱斯特·克劳利加入黄金黎明学会的赫尔墨斯等级；他立下座右铭“'我将忍受'——我将坚持到底”。
[追溯他的等级晋升有助于读者理解他的工作。他在1900年1月获得小达人5º=6º。1904年4月，他获得大达人6º=5º 。1909年，他获得豁免达人7º=4º等级。1910年12月3日，他获得神殿导师8º=3º，并接受了之前（1906年10月）授予他的座右铭（见《418》第73-76页等）。1915年10月12日，他达到了术士9º=2º等级，并采用了相应的座右铭。]
次年二月，他获得了实践者学位，并因此被委任给塔罗牌的制定秘传属性，尤其是大牌的秘传属性。（见第5-10页）。
他每天在这些手稿上工作，大部分时间作为客人或主人在会友 7º=4º利德尔、会友 5º=6º 耶希和沃勒这些达人的个人指导下进行的。
他在他的首次环球旅行去寻找隐藏的智慧期间独自继续这些研究。
1904年4月8日、9日和10日，他的《法之书》受到广泛认可。大师们选中他来执行他们的崇高计划，指导他为新纪元的建立铺平道路。（这是他职业生涯中最重要的事件，详见《神的春分点》）。他于是在《777》中公开了之前秘传的塔罗牌解释。
多年来他一直公开谴责专业塔罗文本的缺失。中世纪的牌组已经无可救药地腐败，被现存政治体系的支持者篡改和编纂，或者远未能以连贯的系统或清晰美丽的形态呈现古代真理。
他在研究之初就热切地希望构建一个有价值的文本。
埃利法兹・莱维也曾希望完成类似的任务，但最终只留下了两张大牌，“战车”和“恶魔”。许多人也曾尝试这项工作，但他们甚至不知道真正秘传属性。他们的尝试显得粗陋、毫无意义，令人可怜地滑稽。
但那些一直观察、指导并批评本书作者的大师们，为他的劳动准备了奖励。他们介绍给他一位技艺高超的艺术家弗里达·哈里斯，尽管她之前对塔罗牌知之甚少，但她本身就具备这本书的本质精神。他们齐心协力地投入到准备《透特之书》78张牌的艰巨任务之中。
他最初的想法是按照中世纪编辑者的传统来制作一副牌，根据《春分》I、vii 和 viii 卷中的描述进行修正。但她发现了技术上的困难，例如在各处引入 “十只发光的天使之手”, 产生了怪诞的效果；她还观察到，他的教学在解释过程中比任何可用模型中的任何内容都要高深得多。因此，她强迫他 —— 三大洲最懒惰的人！—— 承担起一项从各方面来看都是原创性的工作，包括现代科学、数学、哲学和人类学的最新发现；简而言之，在古老卡巴拉传统的框架上绘制出他的整个魔法思维。他接受了这个巨大的负担；这重新激发了他的能量和热情。
然而，负担依然沉重：原本预期的三个月工作延长到了五年。作为他的翻译，她的成功令人难以置信。她不得不根据他非常粗糙的草图进行翻译，通常只是通过简单的描述，或者从旧纸堆的字里行间去理解。她将自己的天赋投入到这项工作中。她以难以置信的速度掌握了节奏，并以无限的耐心忍受着她召唤来的那位狂热奴隶主的修正，经常将同一张卡片画上八次，直到它与他的吹毛求疵相符！
愿她储存在这个真理与美的宝库中的热情 “意志之下的爱” 从她作品的光辉和力量中涌现，照亮世界；愿这张塔罗牌成为新纪元勇敢水手们的指南针，引导他们穿越理解的大海，前往金字塔之城！
随附的小册子是由阿莱斯特·克劳利脱离父母的帮助下独自迅速写成的。可以省略。
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
On 18th November, 1898 e.v., Aleister Crowley was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; he took the motto "'Perdurabo'---I shall endure to the end"
[To trace his progress in the Order will assist the reader to follow his work. He attained the grade of Adeptus Minor 5º=6º (Era: R.R. et A.C.) in January, 1900 e.v. That of Adeptus Major 6º=5º, taking the motto "OL SONUF VAORESAJI", in April, 1904 e.v. That of Adeptus Exemptus 7º=4º, taking the motto OY MH, in 1909 e.v. (Fra: A.: A. That of Magister Templi 8º=3ºon 3rd December, 1910 e.v. accepting the motto previously (Oct., 1906 e.v.) bestowed upon him, Vi Veri Voiversum Vivus Vici. See Liber 418pp. 73-76 et al. That of Magus 9º=2ºtaking the motto ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΘΗΡΙΟΝ on October 12, 1915 e.v. ]
In February of the year following, he attained the grade of Practicus, and was accordingly entrusted with the secret attributions of the Tarot, especially those of the Atu. (See pp.5-10).
He worked daily on these MSS., for the most part under the personal instruction of G.H. Frater 7º=4º, D.D.C. F. (S. Liddell Matters) and V.H. Fratres 5º=6º Iehi Aour (Allan Bennett, later Sayadaw Ananda Metteya) and Volo Noscere (George Cecil Jones) as host or guest of one of these Adepts.
He continued these studies alone during his first Voyage around the earth in search Of the Hidden Wisdom.
On 8th, 9th and 10th April, 1904 e,v., he received the Book of the Law. Chosen bv the Masters to carry out Their sublime plan, he began to prepare the way for the establishment of the New Aeon, as They instructed him. (See The Equinox of the Gods for a very full and detailed account of this, the most important event in his career). He accordingly published the previously secret attributions of the Tarot in the Book 777.
For many years he had deplored the absence of any authentic Text of the Tarot. The mediaeval packs are hopelessly corrupt, compiled by partisans of existing political systems, or otherwise far from presenting the Ancient Truth of the Book in a coherent system, or a shape of lucid beauty.
It had from the beginning of his study been his fervent wish to construct a worthy Text.
Eliphaz Levi had himself wished to execute a similar task, but succeeded only in leaving us two of the Atu, "The Chariot" and "The Devil". Many others have attempted the work, but without even the knowledge of the true Attributions. Their attempts have been gross, senseless, pitifully grotesque.
But the Masters who had watched, guided, and chastised the author of this present volume, had in store the reward of his labours. They introduced to him a skilled artist, Frieda Harris, who, though she had little or no previous knowledge of the Tarot, possessed in her own right the Essential Spirit of the book.
Together they bent their energies to the formidable task of preparing the 78 cards of the Book of Thoth.
His original idea had been to execute a pack after the tradition of the Mediaeval Editors, corrected in the light of the descriptions given in The Equinox I, vii and viii. But she found technical difficulties, such as introducing "10 rayed Angelic hands" all over the place, producing a grotesque effect;and she also observed that his teaching, in the course of his explanations went far higher and deeper than any-thing in any accessible models. She accordingly forced him---the laziest man in three continents!---to undertake what is to all intent an original work, including the latest discoveries in modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and anthropology; in a word, to reproduce the whole of his Magical Mind pictorially on the skeleton of the ancient Qabalistic tradition. He accepted this colossal burden; it renewed his energy and his enthusiasm.
Yet the burden was sore: the anticipated three months' work extended to five years. Her success as his interpreter surpasses belief. She had to work from his very rough sketches, often from mere descriptions, or from reading between the lines of the old packs. She devoted her genius to the Work. With incredible rapidity she picked up the rhythm, and with inexhaustible patience submitted to the corrections of the fanatical slavedriver that she had invoked, often painting the same card as many as eight times until it measured up to his Vanadium Steel yardstick!
May the passionate "love under will" which she has stored in this Treasury of Truth and Beauty flow forth from the Splendour and Strength of her work to enlighten the world; may this Tarot serve as a chart for the bold seamen of the New Aeon, to guide them across the Great Sea of Understanding to the City of the Pyramids!
The accompanying booklet was dashed off by Aleister Crowley, without help from parents. Its perusal may be omitted with advantage.
