Trumps and Hebrew Letters
In the Hebrew Alphabet there are three types of letters:
- 3 Mother Letters
- 7 Double Letters
- 12 Simple Letters
In the Golden Dawn Tradition there are three types of astrological attributions for the trumps associated with the three types of letters:
| 7 Double Letters |  |
Tarot Key | Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Beth |  Mercury |
1. The Magician | Bitter, drawing and moving out of the harsh quality, which causes a sting within, and remains in that spirit, the existence of mobility. Light: doing good Dark: envy |
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Gimel |  Moon |
2. The High Priestess | The being, made of of the forenemaed six spiritual qualities, in which they lie bodily and in readiness, as in their coffer. Light: Christ’s flesh or body. Dark: bodily desire |
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Daleth |  Venus |
3. The Empress | Light, love, fire, which burns in the oil of Mercy, in which consists the heavenly life. Light: chastity Dark: lewdness |
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Kaph |  Jupiter |
10. Wheel of Fortune | Is the power from the life of light, in it is fulfilled God’s word of the cognition, sound, call and tone. Light: wisdom Dark: cunning |
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Peh |  Mars |
16. The Tower | Fear, heat, therein consists the sensibilities. Light: gentleness Dark: wrath |
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Resh |  Sun |
19. The Sun | Fire or life, half in darkness, half in light, is the setting alight and the goal of separation. Light: humility Dark: vanity |
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Tau |  Saturn |
21. The World | Harsh, hard, cold, severe, sharp, sour, inclined to rudeness and earthliness, its desire consists out of these qualities. Light: compassion Dark: avarice |
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
This 18th century compendium, drew on 17th century alchemical sources such as Adrian von Mynsich, with mystical pieces from Valentin Weigel, and Abraham von Franckenberg’s works on Jacob Boehme. It was an important and influential source of Rosicrucian ideas, albeit filtered thtough an 18th century perspective. Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert. Erstes Heft. Aus emem alten Mscpt. zum erstenmal ans Licht gestelit. Altona, 1785. Gedruckt und verlegt von J. D. U. Eckhardt. Zweites Heft. Altona, 1788.