Graphiel
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 choir is the most disputed of the seven. The planetary lists put the Powers over Mars, some of them the Dominations; Agrippa's scale of ten (Book II, ch. 13) puts the Seraphim at Geburah, where Mars's sphere sits in the same table. The three attributions cannot all be right, and the disagreement is structural rather than a copying slip: the planetary lists are a later synthesis that assigns seven of the nine Dionysian choirs to the seven planets, while Agrippa assigns all nine to the sephiroth. Graphiel's sum, 325, is the total of Mars's square, which is the arithmetic that fixes the name.
Correspondences
- Planet
- Mars
- Chakra
- Solar Plexus Chakra
- Color
- Red
- Rank
- Planetary intelligence
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Graphial
Practice
- Magical Uses
- CourageProtectionStrengthCommandVictory
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Intelligence
- 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.
Details
- 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
- 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.
- Keywords
- MarsPowersSeraphimIronCourageCommand
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