Hagiel

Planetary spirits

Tradition · Kabbalistic
Alternate Names
Hagial
Kind
Intelligence
Planet
Venus
Chakra
Heart Chakra
Order of angels

Virtues in the received planetary tables, and Elohim — 'gods' — in Agrippa's scale of ten, which sets them at Netzach, the sphere he assigns to Venus. The two names are equated by the later tables; in Dionysius the Virtues are a different choir from the Elohim of the Hebrew lists, and the equation is a Hermetic convenience rather than a translation.

Archangel
Haniel
Metal
Copper
Stone
Emerald
Color
Green
Day
Friday
Hour planet
Venus
Rank
Planetary intelligence
Sigil

He-Gimel-Yod-Aleph-Lamed, 5 + 3 + 10 + 1 + 30, summing to 49 — the number of cells in Venus's seven-by-seven square. The name is short and the trace with it, and the plate prints it beside the characters of Venus and of Kedemel.

Office

The intelligence is Venus's benevolent face, the spirit 'to good' of the sphere: concord, attraction, beauty, the making of peace between men and women, and the fertility the chapter's account of the Venus table promises. Agrippa gives it no further office. The love-magic that the handbooks assign it is Venus's own operation, and the chapter already attributes the love of women to the table itself.

Keywords
VenusVirtuesElohimCopperLoveBeauty
Magical Uses
LoveBeautyAttractionFriendshipPeaceFertility

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