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Originally Posted by foolMoon
His treatment of the minor cards in BoT is very minor  both in quantity and content , and seem half-hearted manner.
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Probably because by the time you get to that point he expects you to have a grasp of the tools at your disposal. One thing one cannot accuse the Book of Thoth of is spoonfeeding you everything. Having read the chapters about the Trumps, you are already familiar with the Crowley symbolic language, or have enough presence of mind to go further than what he discusses.
In any case, one does not have to devote a lifetime to studying all form of Qabalah in order to have a basic grasp of the Thoth, it's actually quite simple, if approached from the correct point of view. bradford's book is excellent, and there are also sources at the top of the Kabbalah forum right here. Concentrating on the Golden Dawn variant is very useful not only for the Thoth but for all modern decks in general.
I haven't seen this mentioned, but an excellent textbook is Lon Milo DuQuette's Chicken Qabalah. It isn't Tarot-specific, but I don't think any Tarot-specific book is all that good when you're studying the Kabbalistic "language." The student
must be able to make the connections themselves.