Source books · The Golden Dawn

Book T

Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material) · c. 1888

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Traditions
The Golden Dawn Tarot
Role in the tradition
Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
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Book T is the Golden Dawn's central instructional document on tarot. It specifies card designs and connects the twenty-two trumps with Hebrew letters and Tree paths, the numbered minor cards with astrological decans and aces, and the court cards with elemental and zodiacal correspondences; later Rider–Waite–Smith and Thoth interpretations develop from this shared framework.

The primary source for the tarot–Tree of Life mapping. Path 25 gets Temperance (Sagittarius) here; Path 15 gets The Emperor (Aries) here. Not from Sefer Yetzirah, not from Agrippa — from Book T.

Cited for 398 sourced claims here, among them correspondences of Air, Fire, Water, Earth, The Emperor, The Star, Binah and Chesed.