Phaleg
Governs the 35 provinces of Mars and the things attributed to Mars: the person who possesses his character is raised by him to great honour in military affairs. The Arbatel says little more of him than this; the wider office of war, courage, command and victory that handbooks give him is later expansion.
Source: Arbatel de Magia Veterum (Basel, 1575); English in Turner (1655), bound with the spurious Fourth Book and therefore commonly misattributed to Agrippa. Disputed: the name is also given as Phalec or Pharos, and it is identical in form to the biblical Peleg (Genesis 10:25), though whether the borrowing is deliberate is not established. His office is the shortest in the Arbatel, so most of what circulates about him — war, courage, command — is later handbooks and not the source; the identification with Mars's spirit Bartzabel is likewise modern. Element is Mars's element in this corpus, not an Arbatel doctrine.
Correspondences
- Planet
- Mars
- Element
- Fire
- Chakra
- Solar Plexus Chakra
- Color
- Red
Sacred timing
- Day
- Tuesday
- Hour
- Mars
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- PhalecPharos
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Victory in warMilitary honourCourageCommandConflict magic
Nature and meaning
- Office
Governs the 35 provinces of Mars and the things attributed to Mars: the person who possesses his character is raised by him to great honour in military affairs. The Arbatel says little more of him than this; the wider office of war, courage, command and victory that handbooks give him is later expansion.
Details
- Order
- 3
- Metal
- Iron
- Stone
- Bloodstone
- Herb
- Nettle
- Sigil
His character: an abstract glyph, not a figure, printed in the Arbatel and assigned to iron, the metal of Mars. Copies diverge in the strokes, and the 1575 woodcut should be preferred to modern redrawings.
- Keywords
- MarsWarMilitary honourVictoryCommandIronConflict
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