Barzabel
The spirit is Mars's malevolent face: the planet worked unfortunate, which Agrippa says casts the powerful down from dignity, causes discord, strife and hatred among men and beasts, drives away bees, pigeons and fish, blights mills and hunting, and brings barrenness.
Agrippa's table gives Barzabel and the modern revival usually writes Bartzabel or Bartsabel, a difference of one letter that has hardened into two separate-looking names; the sums are the same and the character is the same. The Bartzabel of the twentieth-century magical orders, invoked as a spirit of Mars with a personality and a sigil of his own, is a modern figure built on Agrippa's name. planetary_talismans.json lists Barzabel as Mars's spirit.
Correspondences
- Planet
- Mars
- Chakra
- Solar Plexus Chakra
- Color
- Red
- Rank
- Planetary spirit
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- BartzabelBartsabel
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Conflict magicBindingCurse workProtectionMaterialization
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Spirit
- Office
The spirit is Mars's malevolent face: the planet worked unfortunate, which Agrippa says casts the powerful down from dignity, causes discord, strife and hatred among men and beasts, drives away bees, pigeons and fish, blights mills and hunting, and brings barrenness. That is the office in the only sense the text gives it — the same sphere, turned toward ruin. The later use of Barzabel as a martial servitor to be commanded in operations of attack is a development of the modern grimoire revival, not of Agrippa.
Details
- Order of angels
Powers (Potestates), or Dominations in the lists that give those; Agrippa's scale of ten gives Geburah the Seraphim. The caveat recorded on the intelligence of this sphere applies to the spirit as well.
- Archangel
- Chamuel
- Metal
- Iron
- Stone
- Bloodstone
- Sigil
Bet-Resh-Tzaddi-Bet-Aleph-Lamed, 2 + 200 + 90 + 2 + 1 + 30, summing to 325, the total of Mars's square. The cell holding 2 is touched three times, and the printed plate marks the three contacts with little bumps on the stroke — one of the few places where a sigil carries a note on its own drawing.
- Keywords
- MarsMaleficIronDiscordWarThe material side
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