Tarot card

The World

The World gathers the long journey into a whole. Completion here is full and living: the pattern can be seen at last, even as its closing circle becomes the threshold of another beginning.

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

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The oldest attribution here is Tarot trump of Path 32 · Tav, first attested 1888 CE.

Tarot trump of

  • Path 32 · Tav

    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)

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    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, Tarot Trump column, row 32

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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Astrological attribution

  • Saturn

    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 32

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

      Read the source

Hebrew-letter attribution

  • Tav

    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)

      Read the source

    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, columns VII and XIX, row 32

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

      Read the source