Element

Air

One of the four classical elements.

18 correspondences · 3 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located

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The oldest attribution here is Elemental quality Hot, first attested 350 BCE.

Elemental quality

  • Hot

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Aristotelian elemental theory (from c. 350 BCE)
    Earliest verified attestation
    350 BCE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Attested
    Evidence
    The source states it

    This is Aristotle's historical natural-philosophical description of the simple body, not a modern chemical property.

    Evidence

    1. Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, c. 350 BCE — Book II, chapter 3, 330a30–331a6

      Ancient primary · systematises · Oxford translation by H. H. Joachim

      The passage states all four bodies and both qualities of each in a single sequence.

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  • Moist

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Aristotelian elemental theory (from c. 350 BCE)
    Earliest verified attestation
    350 BCE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Attested
    Evidence
    The source states it

    This is Aristotle's historical natural-philosophical description of the simple body, not a modern chemical property.

    Evidence

    1. Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, c. 350 BCE — Book II, chapter 3, 330a30–331a6

      Ancient primary · systematises · Oxford translation by H. H. Joachim

      The passage states all four bodies and both qualities of each in a single sequence.

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Element of

  • Aleph

    Canonical
    Who says so
    Sefer Yetzirah Mother letters (text composed between the 2nd and 6th centuries CE)
    Earliest verified attestation
    100 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Attested
    Evidence
    The source states it

    The Westcott translation states this Mother-letter pairing directly. Earth is not supplied because the cited three-Mother scheme does not assign it a fourth letter.

    Evidence

    1. Rabbi Akiva (traditional attribution); older versions attributed to Abraham, Sefer Yetzirah, 2nd–6th century CE (contested) — Chapter II, section 1

      Sacred primary · systematises · Westcott translation, 3rd edition, 1911 (first published 1887)

      The section names the three Mothers and the three elements together.

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    2. Rabbi Akiva (traditional attribution); older versions attributed to Abraham, Sefer Yetzirah, 2nd–6th century CE (contested) — Chapter III, section 5

      Sacred primary · repeats · Westcott translation, 3rd edition, 1911 (first published 1887)

      The later section states each letter's rule over its element individually.

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  • Ace of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Eight of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Five of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Four of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • King of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Knight of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Nine of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Page of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Queen of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Seven of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Six of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Ten of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Three of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Two of Swords

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

    Swords express the powers of Air: thought, judgment, conflict, communication and force consciously directed.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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Attribution of

  • The Fool

    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 11

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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