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Tav and the World: The Tarot Overlay

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Tav and the World: The Tarot Overlay

This path is assigned the tarot trump The World, and the pairing is a fitting close to the sequence: the World, the last of the trumps, the card of completion, fulfilment, the finished cosmos and the dancer within the wreath, answers to the letter Tav, the final letter and the "mark" of completion, and to its planet Saturn, the bound and boundary of the created world.

The Golden Dawn read the World as the consummation of the whole journey, the return to Malkuth made whole. The mapping of the twenty-two letters onto the tarot trumps descends from Eliphas Levi and was codified by the Golden Dawn from 1888, as recorded in Liber 777. The provenance must be kept clear to the last.

The path from Yesod to Malkuth, the letter Tav, and its attribution to Saturn are Jewish in origin, from the Sefer Yetzirah, whereas the correspondence to the World is Hermetic Qabalah, the modern Western esoteric adaptation of 1888, distinct from the Jewish Kabbalah from which the thirty-two paths themselves derive.

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