Hismael

Planetary spirits

Tradition · Kabbalistic
Alternate Names
—
Kind
Spirit
Planet
Jupiter
Order of angels

Cherubim (Kerubim) as the received planetary tables have it, with the same caveat that attaches to the intelligence of this sphere: Agrippa's scale of ten gives Jupiter's Chesed the Hasmallim, not the Kerubim.

Archangel
Zadkiel
Alternate archangel
Sachiel
Metal
Tin
Stone
Sapphire
Color
royal blue
Day
Thursday
Hour planet
Jupiter
Rank
Planetary spirit
Sigil

He-Samekh-Mem-Aleph-Lamed, 5 + 60 + 40 + 1 + 30, summing to 136 like the intelligence's name, and traced on the same four-by-four square. The character is printed in Agrippa's plate beside the characters of Jupiter and of Iophiel, and it is the one of the three that later handbooks reproduce most often, because the name is the easiest of the three to spell.

Office

Agrippa's spirit is the sphere's material or malevolent face: the same Jupiter, worked with the planet unfortunate, which the chapter says makes a tyrant, proud, ambitious, unsatisfiable, and brings a man to an ill ending. That is the office — the beneficence of the intelligence inverted, not a separate jurisdiction. The later handbooks that give Hismael charge of wealth, of the discovery of treasure or of the spirits of the air are extrapolating from the planet.

Keywords
JupiterMaleficTinExcessTyrannyThe material side
Magical Uses
BindingCurse workMaterializationAmbitionDissolution

Referenced by 0

Nothing in the library points at this entry yet.