Tarot card
The Hermit
The Hermit withdraws long enough for experience to ripen into wisdom. His solitude is not empty; the lantern he carries can light both his own next step and the road for those below.
3 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source · The Hermit in full
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The oldest attribution here is Tarot trump of Path 20 · Yod, first attested 1888 CE.
Tarot trump of
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Path 20 · Yod
Traditional- Who says so
- No school has been identified
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1888 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet checked
Book T establishes this Tarot-to-letter attribution. The path number and endpoints belong to this tradition's canonical Kircher arrangement.
Evidence
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, Tarot Trump column, row 20
Astrological attribution
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Virgo
Traditional- Who says so
- No school has been identified
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1888 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet checked
Book T's attribution carried by the Hebrew letter and therefore by this path.
Evidence
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, astrological and Tarot columns, row 20
Hebrew-letter attribution
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Yod
Traditional- Who says so
- No school has been identified
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1888 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet checked
A Golden Dawn correspondence, not a claim about the historical origin of the card or a universal Jewish letter-to-card system.
Evidence
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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, columns VII and XIX, row 20