Tiriel
The intelligence is Mercury's benevolent face, the spirit 'to good' of the sphere: understanding, memory, eloquence, the learning of arts, and the divination that comes by dreams, all of which the chapter attributes to the Mercury table when the planet is fortunate. Agrippa assigns it nothing beyond the polarity.
Tiriel is the stable form; Tirial appears in the Latin column. The metal field is the metal of the planet, quicksilver, which cannot be engraved — the character is written or drawn, not cut, and the corpus records the traditional attribution without recommending the handling of a toxic metal. The archangel is where the sources diverge: this corpus's planets.json gives Hod the archangel Michael with Raphael as alternate, while the planetary tables and the corpus's talisman commentary give Raphael to Mercury. Both are entries in angels_demons.json and the assignment is left unresolved here. The choir caveat is the usual one.
Correspondences
- Planet
- Mercury
- Chakra
- Throat Chakra
- Color
- Orange
- Rank
- Planetary intelligence
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Tirial
Practice
- Magical Uses
- LearningCommunicationMemoryDivinationTradeQuick wit
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Intelligence
- Office
The intelligence is Mercury's benevolent face, the spirit 'to good' of the sphere: understanding, memory, eloquence, the learning of arts, and the divination that comes by dreams, all of which the chapter attributes to the Mercury table when the planet is fortunate. Agrippa assigns it nothing beyond the polarity. The later handbooks' long lists of Mercury's offices — languages, trade, thievery, the writing of books — restate the planet.
Details
- Order of angels
Archangels in the received planetary tables, and Bene Elohim — 'sons of God' — in Agrippa's scale of ten, which sets them at Hod, the sphere he assigns to Mercury. The equation is again the later tables' convenience: the Archangels of Dionysius are the second-lowest choir, while the Bene Elohim are a class of divine beings in the Hebrew literature.
- Archangel
- Raphael
- Metal
- Mercury
- Stone
- Agate
- Sigil
Tet-Yod-Resh-Yod-Aleph-Lamed, 9 + 10 + 200 + 10 + 1 + 30, summing to 260 — the row-sum of Mercury's eight-by-eight square, whose total is 2080. The yod and the aleph share the cell holding 11, and the plate marks the doubled contact with a double bump.
- Keywords
- MercuryArchangelsBene elohimQuicksilverLearningEloquence
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