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Planetary spirits

Tradition · Kabbalistic
Alternate Names
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Kind
Intelligence
Planet
Mars
Order of angels

Powers (Potestates) in the received planetary tables; some lists give Dominations instead, and the two have never been settled against each other. Agrippa's scale of ten gives Geburah, the sphere he assigns to Mars, the Seraphim — a third answer, and the one his own table actually states. All three are recorded; none is silently preferred.

Archangel
Chamuel
Metal
Iron
Stone
Bloodstone
Color
Red
Day
Tuesday
Hour planet
Mars
Rank
Planetary intelligence
Sigil

Gimel-Resh-Aleph-Pe-Yod-Aleph-Lamed, 3 + 200 + 1 + 80 + 10 + 1 + 30, summing to 325 — the total of Mars's five-by-five square. The yod and the aleph share the single cell that holds 11, so the trace marks that cell three times over before it goes on to the remaining letters.

Office

The intelligence is the benevolent face of Mars: the spirit 'to good' of a hard sphere, the courage, discipline and command that Mars gives when it is well disposed. Agrippa assigns it nothing beyond that polarity. The martial offices that the handbooks load onto it — victory, the binding of enemies, the power to strike fear — are Mars's own virtues listed as tasks, and the classical text does not distinguish them from the planet's action.

Keywords
MarsPowersSeraphimIronCourageCommand
Magical Uses
CourageProtectionStrengthCommandVictory

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