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.

Tradition · Kabbalistic
A note on this entry

The name is Nachiel in the English of 1651 and Nakhiel in most modern lists; the sum, 111, is a row of the solar square. The choir is less disputed than the archangel. The tree this corpus follows gives Tiphareth the archangel Raphael with Michael as the alternate, while the planetary tables — and the Golden Dawn scheme that this corpus's talisman note cites — give Michael to the Sun and Raphael to Mercury; both entries exist in angels_demons.json, and the assignment is recorded here as unresolved rather than settled. The solar square's total of 666 is Agrippa's, and it is the reason the number attaches to the Sun's spirit rather than to the intelligence.

Correspondences

Planet
Sun
Color
Gold
Rank
Planetary intelligence

Sacred timing

Hour planet
Sun

Symbols and forms

Alternate Names
NakhielNachial

Practice

Magical Uses
SuccessHonoursHealthVitalityFameProtection

Nature and meaning

Kind
Intelligence
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.

Details

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
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.

Keywords
SunPrincipalitiesMalachimGoldRadianceHonour

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