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THE ATLAS OF THE ORDER THAT TOOK

1652 · Kircher prints the Tree

1652
nature
Oedipus Aegyptiacus appears in Rome with the sephirot-and-paths diagram now called the Kircher Tree.

The first of the two bottlenecks. Every Tree in every occult book in English for the next three and a half centuries descends from this engraving — including, until 2026-07-25, this app's.
rhymes with
sephirahhod
whyA diagram is a Hod object. This one outlived its own scholarship by three hundred years.
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1652 · kircher tree · oedipus aegyptiacus
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Wikipedia — Athanasius Kircher, who printed it direct
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