Path

Path 23 · Mem

Path 23 joins Geburah to Hod on the left pillar. It carries the Golden Dawn correspondences of Mem, Water and The Hanged Man and uses suspension and reversal to reconsider the habits of severity and analysis.

1 correspondence · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located

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The oldest attribution here is Tarot trump The Hanged Man, first attested 1888 CE.

Tarot trump

  • The Hanged Man

    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 23

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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