Path

Path 11 · Aleph

Path 11 joins Kether to Chokmah. It represents the first movement from undivided unity into active force and carries the Golden Dawn correspondences of Aleph, Air and The Fool.

2 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located

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The oldest attribution here is Letter class Mother, first attested 100 CE.

Letter class

  • Mother

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

    Established by Sefer Yetzirah 1:2 in every recension.

    Evidence

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

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

      Ten are the ineffable Sephiroth. Twenty-two are the Letters, the Foundation of all things; there are Three Mothers, Seven Double and Twelve Simple letters.

      The single most-cited passage in Sefer Yetzirah. Every claim about a letter's class (mother/double/simple) traces back here.

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Tarot trump

  • 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 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 11

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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