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The Emperor

Authority has a purpose

A decision becomes useful when it creates conditions in which work can happen. Give a boundary a reason, and distinguish responsibility from the desire to control every outcome.

What does your authority make possible for someone else?

Correspondences

Attribution
Aries
Hebrew letter · Thoth
Tzaddi

On the 1909 Tree

Sources

Book T lists The Emperor with Heh and Aries. The Thoth letter is shown above; changes are explained below.

Book T (1912) · printed p. 150 ↗

The Book of Thoth · Part II, The Emperor ↗

Symbols

Symbols in the Thoth account

Aries and Tzaddi; ram and sceptre.

Two accounts

Book T: The Emperor · Heh.

Thoth: The Emperor · Tzaddi.

The 1912 Book T gives the Emperor Heh; Crowley’s 1944 Thoth text gives him Tzaddi. Aries stays with the Emperor. These letter assignments are separate from any proposed rearrangement of the Tree’s paths.

Read Book T ↗

Related cards

Sources

Book T (1912) · printed p. 150 ↗

The Book of Thoth · Part II, The Emperor ↗