Aleph: Fool
Beth: Magician
Ghimel: Popess
Daleth: Empress
He: Emperor
Vau: Pope
Zayon: Lovers
Cheth: Chariot
Teth: Justice
Yod: Hermit
Kaph: Wheel of Fortune
Lamed: Force
Mem: Hanged Man
Nun: Death
Samech: Temperance
Ayon: Devil
Peh: Falling Tower
Tzaddi: Star
Qoph: Moon
Resh: Sun
Shin: Judgement
Tau: The World
Is that "normal" ?
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Seems to be the order of the alphabet according to wikipedia... and the correspondences according to every site where I have ever looked this up.
Thanks for this again, gregory!
If these were the correspondences in the Kabbalistic Visions companion book, I was a bit puzzled. Referencing again the Liber Theta, there were two sets of inversions that I observed. One was the He: Emperor and Tzaddi: Star you mentioned, which was Tzaddi: Emperor and He: Star in the Liber Theta. The other one was Teth: Justice and Lamed: Force, which was Teth: Force (Lust) and Lamed: Justice (Adjustment) in the Liber.
So I counter-checked this out in my copy of The New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot by the Ciceros, which was the companion book for my Golden Dawn Magical Tarot. Regarding the He: Emperor and Tzaddi: Star in the Kabbalistic Visions companion book, this is the exact same correspondence in the Golden Dawn Ritual, so it seems that these both run counter to the Liber Theta. But then, I just remembered: as per the Thelema: "Tzaddi is not the Star". So the correspondence for the Emperor and for the Star is still correct since it strictly follows the Golden Dawn one and not the Thelema. As far as I know this is the only Major Card-Hebrew Letter inversion between the two systems. So now at least that concern is laid to rest.
But the Teth: Justice and Lamed: Force inversion still remained. I thought that perhaps this has something to do with the fact that the position between Justice and Strength in the RWS (11 and 8 respectively) were reversed in the Thoth, with Adjustment (Justice) being 8 and Lust (Strength) being 11. But no, just like in the Liber Theta, in the Golden Dawn Ritual it was Teth: Force (Lust) and Lamed: Justice (Adjustment). So to triple check this, I went to Google Books to check out The Golden Dawn: A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic by Israel Regardie since I don't have a copy of that book (yet, I'll get it one day!). I think this is one definitive book when it comes to Golden Dawn teachings. Using the following search:
https://books.google.com.ph/books?i...V7wKHWLoBkYQ6AEIKzAF#v=onepage&q=Teth&f=false
I came across the following quote on page 311
". . . while the letter of Libra, which is Lamed is lowermost"
and on page 214
". . . into the Path of Teth, answering to Leo, the Lion"
Using this search link
https://books.google.com.ph/books?i...kYQ6AEIKzAF#v=onepage&q=Libra justice&f=false
and expanding on page 599, I have both these quotes:
". . . 65. Fortitude. Rules the whole of Leo. . .
68. Justice. Rules the whole of Libra. . ."
Ergo as per Regardie's book, Teth: Fortitude and Lamed: Justice, which is exactly as stated in the New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot book and the Liber Theta, and which all run counter to that in the Kabbalistic Visions companion book.
So it seems that in the Kabbalistic Visions Tarot, all the 22 Path-Hebrew Letter correspondences accurately follow the Golden Dawn. It also retains the 22 Majors-Hebrew Letter correspondence in the GD except for his inversion of Teth: Justice and Lamed: Force, which I think can be justifiably pegged as a personal quirk of Marini's and not because of shoddy scholarship. And now I'm very curious as to why he decided to assign them as such.
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