Sorath
Sorath is the Sun's malevolent face: the same luminary worked unfortunate, which Agrippa says makes a tyrant, proud, ambitious and unsatisfiable, and brings a man to an ill ending. That is the whole of its office in the source.
The name is given identically in Agrippa, in Barrett and in the modern lists, and the sum of 666 is what fixes it to the solar square. Because that number carries its own freight, Sorath has attracted more legend than any other planetary spirit: the identification with a demon of the Sun in later occultism, and the reading of the name as 'the banished', are both post-Agrippan. planetary_talismans.json lists Sorath as the Sun's spirit. Nothing in Agrippa's chapter says the spirit is evil in itself — it is the sphere's other face, and the polarity is Agrippa's own device.
Correspondences
- Planet
- Sun
- Chakra
- Solar Plexus Chakra
- Color
- Gold
- Rank
- Planetary spirit
Sacred timing
Practice
- Magical Uses
- BindingCurse workMaterializationAmbitionDissolution
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Spirit
- Office
Sorath is the Sun's malevolent face: the same luminary worked unfortunate, which Agrippa says makes a tyrant, proud, ambitious and unsatisfiable, and brings a man to an ill ending. That is the whole of its office in the source. The wealth of later legend around the name — Sorath as a solar demon, as a spirit of the number 666, as the adversary of the solar archangel — is modern and is not in Agrippa, who gives the name with no comment beyond the polarity.
Details
- Order of angels
Principalities in the received tables, Malachim in Agrippa's scale of ten; the caveat recorded on the intelligence of this sphere applies here too.
- Archangel
- Michael
- Alternate archangel
- Raphael
- Metal
- Gold
- Stone
- Citrine
- Sigil
Samekh-Vav-Resh-Tav, 60 + 6 + 200 + 400, summing to 666 — the total of the Sun's square, and the only one of the fourteen names whose sum is that number. Two letters share a cell at the beginning of the trace, and the plate marks the doubled contact with a bump, so the character starts with a knot before it runs.
- Keywords
- SunMaleficGoldTyrannyPrideThe material side
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