Dionysus

Crowley's fool is Dionysus - god of primordial revelry. It is of interest that the Fool carries a sack containing all the symbols of the Tarot on coins, all jumbled up. This is due to the fact that the beginner - the child - already has all the wisdom inherently within them - but it cannot be deployed, it has not yet been made available. The Tarot is thus no more than a map of classes and categories operating in a certain organization, which activates those latent potentials and puts them into use. Gradually the Fool transforms - as witnessed by the looping circle and by figure of the butterfly. Let your Folly evaporate, and distill it into wisdom.