F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby , is a manual for spiritual development. It is not a unique text, for many American modernist novels of canonical stature are similarly grounded in the occult. Fitzgerald was a follower of A. R. Orage who not only taught the Gurdjieff Work (the Fourth Way) but organized a vast literary network to further its goals. The chief reason that this occult literary tendency has remained in the shadows is that the arbiter of the movement has been poorly understood and critically neglected. The Great Gatsb y belongs to a genre of the novel invented by Carl Van Vechten. Van Vechten’s novel, The Blind Bow-Boy (1923) was the model for The Great Gatsby and for many other modern masterpieces. My annotated presentation of Fitzgerald’s novel performs three functions. Since emblematic novels are all written using the same phonetic-syllabic code, the alchemical cabala, I have decoded the novel and presented a running account of the coded subtext in footnotes. The actual texts that have decrypted are presented in italics. I have presented a breakdown of the coded names in Appendix 1. Emblematic novels are projections of graphic materials—the Tarot, alchemical emblems, and fine-art paintings and photographs, and Greek myths portrayed on vases and in frescoes. The emblems that Fitzgerald used in The Great Gatsby are in Appendix 2. P. D. Ouspensky’s book on the Tarot presents a scheme for randomly laying out the entire 78-card deck of Tarot cards, which is shown in Appendix 3. My annotations address the problem of authorship. Some of the Oragean writings are known to be the products of committees. There is some internal evidence in The Great Gatsby that Fitzgerald worked with a committee. Based on the names of people found in the novel, the committee would have consisted of Carl Van Vechten, Muriel Draper, Jean Toomer, Thyra Samter Winslow, and Zora Neale Hurston. Zora Neale Hurston is identified by Fitzgerald as having had some relationship to the code in his novel. As Hurston turns up in connection with the cabala code in other emblematic novels, she either edited the code in Fitzgerald’s code or coded it herself.