Schad Barschemoth ha-Shartathan

Planetary spirits

The caption gives the office: this is the spirit of the spirits of the Moon, the grade at which the sphere's malevolent face is gathered into one name — the summation, on the material side, that the intelligence of the intelligence is on the benevolent side.

Tradition · Kabbalistic

A note on this entry

The name is a cluster of titles rather than a single word — Shad, 'the breast' or 'the almighty', Barschemoth, 'sons of the name', ha-Shartathan, 'of the servants' — and the translations offered for it differ accordingly; the common rendering 'demon son of the fame of the serving ones' is one editor's attempt and should be treated as such. The variants are many: Schedbarschemoth Schartathan in the 1651 English, Schad Barschemoth ha-Shartathan in the modern normalisation, and Schadde el Kohen in this corpus's planetary_talismans.json, which conflates the divine name Shaddai El Chai with the spirit and is recorded here as a variant rather than followed. planetary_talismans.json names the Moon's spirit with that form.

Correspondences

Planet: Moon
Chakra: Sacral Chakra
Color: Silver
Rank: Planetary spirit

Sacred timing

Day: Monday
Hour planet: Moon

Symbols and forms

Alternate Names: Schedbarschemoth SchartathanShad Barshemoth ha-ShartathanSchadde el Kohen

Practice

Magical Uses: Curse workBindingBanishingMaterializationProtection

Nature and meaning

Kind: Spirit
Office: The caption gives the office: this is the spirit of the spirits of the Moon, the grade at which the sphere's malevolent face is gathered into one name — the summation, on the material side, that the intelligence of the intelligence is on the benevolent side. Practically it is the Moon's harm worked at full strength: the chapter's unfortunate-Moon operations, the burial of the lead plate, the blighting of a place and of the men in it. It is not a spirit of dream or of divination in Agrippa, though it is often invoked as one today.

Details

Order of angels: Angels in the received tables, Ishim or Kerubim in the Hebrew lists, with Agrippa's scale of ten giving the Kerubim to Yesod, the Moon's sphere.
Archangel: Gabriel
Metal: Silver
Stone: Moonstone
Sigil: Shin-Dalet Bet-Resh-Shin-He-Mem-Ayin-Tav Shin-Resh-Tav-Tav-Nun, summing to 3321, the total of the Moon's nine-by-nine square — the same total as the intelligence of the intelligence, which is a genuine feature of this planet's table and not an error. The plate prints its character under the caption 'Of the Spirit of the Spirits of the Moon', and it is the second most elaborate of the set.
Keywords: MoonMaleficSilverSpirit of spiritsBlightThe material side

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