Tarot card

The High Priestess

The High Priestess sits before the veil, quiet and watchful. Her wisdom comes by patience, intuition and reflection; what she guards is approached slowly and is never wholly displayed at once.

3 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located · The High Priestess in full

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The oldest attribution here is Hebrew-letter attribution Gimel, first attested 1888 CE.

Hebrew-letter attribution

  • Gimel

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    A Golden Dawn correspondence, not a claim about the historical origin of the card or a universal Jewish letter-to-card system.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, columns VII and XIX, row 13

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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Astrological attribution

  • Moon

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    Book T's attribution carried by the Hebrew letter and therefore by this path.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, astrological and Tarot columns, row 13

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

      Read the source

Tarot trump of

  • Path 13 · Gimel

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    Book T establishes this Tarot-to-letter attribution. The path number and endpoints belong to this tradition's canonical Kircher arrangement.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

      Read the source

    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, Tarot Trump column, row 13

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

      Read the source