The Twenty-Two Paths

The twenty-two paths join the ten sephiroth on the Tree of Life, and each is assigned a Hebrew letter, a tarot trump and an astrological attribution, a planet, a sign or an element. Together with the ten sephiroth they make up the thirty-two "ways of wisdom" of the Sefer Yetzirah, which counts the ten numbers and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet as the thirty-two paths by which the world was formed.

Where the sephiroth are states, the paths are the connections between them, the routes of ascent and the relationships of the attributes, and in the Western esoteric tradition they became a framework for meditation, "path-working", and the mapping of the tarot.