Tarot card
The Magician
The Magician raises one hand and points the other toward the earth. With the four suit emblems laid out before him, he turns intention into action and gives an imagined thing a worldly form.
3 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located · The Magician in full
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The oldest attribution here is Hebrew-letter attribution Beth, first attested 1888 CE.
Hebrew-letter attribution
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Beth
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
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, columns VII and XIX, row 12
Astrological attribution
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Mercury
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
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, astrological and Tarot columns, row 12
Tarot trump of
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Path 12 · Beth
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
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, Tarot Trump column, row 12