Nachiel

Planetary spirits

Tradition · Kabbalistic
Alternate Names
NakhielNachial
Kind
Intelligence
Planet
Sun
Order of angels

Principalities in the received planetary tables, and Malachim — 'kings', also 'messengers' — in Agrippa's scale of ten, which sets them in the column of Tiphareth, the sphere he assigns to the Sun. The two names are treated as equivalent by the later tables, though in Dionysius the Principalities are a different choir from anything the Hebrew lists name.

Archangel
Michael
Alternate archangel
Raphael
Metal
Gold
Stone
Citrine
Color
Gold
Day
Sunday
Hour planet
Sun
Rank
Planetary intelligence
Sigil

Nun-Kaf-Yod-Aleph-Lamed, 50 + 20 + 10 + 1 + 30, summing to 111 — the row-sum of the Sun's six-by-six square, whose total is 666. The last segment of the character leads to the cell of 3 rather than the cell of 30, one of the places where the printed sigil cannot be reconstructed from the letters alone and where the copyists' versions diverge most.

Office

The intelligence is the Sun's benevolent face, the spirit 'to good' of the sphere: the drawing down of the Sun's virtue, which is life, radiance, honour, health and the power to be seen. Agrippa assigns it nothing beyond the polarity. The solar offices in the handbooks — fame, the favour of princes, the cure of fevers — are the Sun's own operations, and the chapter's own account of the solar table already promises renown, acceptability and elevation to high fortune without naming the intelligence at all.

Keywords
SunPrincipalitiesMalachimGoldRadianceHonour
Magical Uses
SuccessHonoursHealthVitalityFameProtection

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