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Metatron

מטטרון

Also written Meṭaṭron and Methraton.

Metatron towers over the Hekhalot literature as Enoch transformed: servant before the Divine Presence, heavenly scribe and guide through the palaces. Hermetic Qabalah later seats him at Kether, a correspondence with its own later history.

Metatron is not named in the Hebrew Bible. The figure's history and etymology are disputed; the Kether attribution is a separate, much later Hermetic claim.

3 sourced claims: 1 canonical , 1 traditional , 1 contested

Tree of Life associations

Hermetic Qabalah

1. Kether

Archangel unsourced

Metatron

Agrippa explicitly tabulates Metatron as Kether's intelligence in 1533, long before the Golden Dawn. The status remains unsourced because no originating Jewish primary source for that specific pairing has been identified. WHERE IT IS FIRST SEEN, read off the page in October 2026: Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book III chapter 10, where the first sephirah's divine name is 'Eheia' and its intelligence is spelled Meratiron. The spelling is recorded because it is what makes the locator checkable — a reader going to that chapter for the word 'Metatron' will not find it there. The same chapter offers Metatron AGAIN as an alternative for the tenth sephirah, so Agrippa has him at both ends of the Tree and this pairing is not exclusive even in the earliest place it appears.

Sources (2)
  1. Three Books of Occult Philosophy , English translation, J.F., London 1651 — Book III, chapter 10 · systematising, not originating

    An early verified Hermetic tabulation, not evidence for where the pairing originated.

    Read at esotericarchives.com ↗

  2. 777 , First edition, 1909 (anonymous) — Table VI, col. VIII (Archangel of Assiah) · systematising, not originating

    777 continues the attribution; it does not originate it.

    Read at hermetic.com ↗

Name and historical record 2 sourced claims

Name meanings, spellings and the earliest sources located in this research pass.

Historical attestation canonical

Named in rabbinic literature and developed extensively in 3 Enoch, where Enoch recounts his elevation as Metatron.

This early mystical identity is independent of the later Kether attribution.

Sources (2)
  1. 3 Enoch , 3 Enoch, or The Hebrew Book of Enoch — 3 Enoch 3–16

    Read at archive.org ↗

  2. The Jewish Encyclopedia , Metatron entry, 1906 — ‘Identical with Enoch’ and ‘In Later Records’

    Read at jewishencyclopedia.com ↗

Roles and titles 1 sourced claim

What particular texts actually say the figure does; later devotional generalisations are not substituted for them.

Title

Prince of the Divine Presence; heavenly scribe

These are roles in Hekhalot and related Jewish mystical sources, not titles supplied by the Tree diagram.

Sources (2)
  1. 3 Enoch , 3 Enoch, or The Hebrew Book of Enoch — 3 Enoch 1:1–5; 3:1–2; 10:3

    Read at archive.org ↗

  2. The Jewish Encyclopedia , Metatron entry, 1906 — ‘In Later Records’

    Read at jewishencyclopedia.com ↗

Traditional source

Title: Prince of the Divine Presence; heavenly scribe

  1. 3 Enoch , 3 Enoch, or The Hebrew Book of Enoch — 3 Enoch 1:1–5; 3:1–2; 10:3

    Read at archive.org ↗

  2. The Jewish Encyclopedia , Metatron entry, 1906 — ‘In Later Records’

    Read at jewishencyclopedia.com ↗

Correspondences 1 sourced correspondence
Relation To First attested
Archangel of Kether 1509 CE

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