Correspondences
The correspondence atlas
Start with a named circle and open it to reveal nearby correspondences. Then choose a line to read why those two things were joined, who made the claim, and the earliest source located for it. Keep opening circles to follow the chain, or switch to the tables for the same material in rows.
- Sourced links
- 788
- Ancient or scriptural source
- 99
- Searched; none located
- 36
- Schools of attribution
- 19
the interactive map
Follow one connection at a time
Open a circle to reveal its first links. Select a line to read the evidence behind it.
begin with the heavens
Start with a planet
The seven classical planets gather many of the oldest chains. The three modern bodies show where later occultists extended them.
- SunThe Sun marks the chart’s centre of gravity: the part of a life that seeks coherence, visibility and purposeful expression.
- MoonThe Moon describes habit, appetite, memory and the quick adjustments through which a person meets ordinary life.
- MercuryMercury concerns exchange: speech, writing, calculation, curiosity, dexterity and the way one thing is translated into another.
- VenusVenus describes attraction and agreement: what is valued, what gives pleasure, and how affinity is created or maintained.
- MarsMars shows directed force: the capacity to cut, compete, defend, pursue and act before consensus has formed.
- JupiterJupiter enlarges and gives direction: confidence, law, belief, generosity and the larger ideas by which a life finds its bearings.
- SaturnSaturn describes limits that acquire weight over time: duty, scarcity, endurance, structure, age and the consequences of delay.
- UranusModern astrology uses Uranus for rupture, invention and the insistence on a freer arrangement when an existing order has become rigid.
- NeptuneModern astrology uses Neptune for permeability: imagination, devotion, glamour, confusion and experiences in which ordinary boundaries soften.
- PlutoModern astrologers use Pluto for compulsion, exposure and irreversible change—processes that strip a situation down to what still has power.
the catalogue
Browse everything by kind
First choose a family, then a kind. Counts remain visible while the hundreds of individual entries stay out of the reading path.
Materials and living things 6 kinds · 203 things
Metals 12 things
Colours 2 things
Plants 94 things
- Agnus Castu
- Agrimony
- Amber
- Amber-grise
- Armoniack
- Aromaticus
- Balme
- Balsome
- Barley
- Bugloss
- Calamint
- Calamus
- Cartabana
- Cedar
- Cinnamon
- Cinquefoile
- Cloves
- Comfrey
- Coriander
- Corn
- Cummin
- Daffodill
- Darnell
- Dittany
- Dock
- Dragon-wort
- Elicampane
- Euphorbium
- Figs
- Five-leaved-grass
- Frankincense
- Fumitary
- Garden Basil
- Garlick
- Gentian
- Ginger
- Goos-foot
- Hart-wort
- Hazle
- Hearb Chinosta
- Hellebor
- Henbane
- Ivie
- Knotgrass
- Ladanum
- Laurell
- Libanotis
- Licorish
- Mace
- Maidenhaire
- Mandrake
- Marjoram
- Marygold
- Mastick
- Mints
- Mug-wort
- Mulleine
- Musk
- Opium
- Parsly
- Peony
- Pepper
- Pimpernell
- Pomegranats
- Radish
- Raisins
- Rib-wort
- Rosemary
- Rue
- Saffron
- Sallendine
- Sanders
- Sange
- Sap
- Scammony
- Scorpion-grass
- Selenotropion
- Sen-green
- Sowbread
- Spike
- Sugar
- Sulphur-wort
- Thyme
- Valerian
- Vervin
- Vervine
- Vine
- Violet
- Wheat
- Wolfs-bane
- Wound-wort
- Zedoary
- sweet Marjoram
- sweet Pears
Stones 30 things
Animals 58 things
- Also
- Ape
- Baboon
- Barbell
- Basilisk
- Bat
- Boar
- Bull
- Burgander
- Camel
- Cat
- Clemency
- Conies
- Crocodile
- Crow
- Cuckow
- Dogs
- Dragon
- Eel
- Flies
- Gilthead
- Gnats
- Goat
- Goats
- Hare
- Hog
- Horse
- Kid
- Lamprey
- Lapwing
- Latona
- Libard
- Lyon
- Mice
- Mule
- Partridge
- Pellican
- Pheasant
- Phoenix
- Pigeon
- Pike
- Pilchards
- Pismires
- Quaile
- Ram
- Scorpions
- Serpents
- Sheep
- Stork
- Swallow
- Swan
- Toad
- Vermin
- Wagtail
- Wolf
- horn-Owle
- scrich-Owle
- wild Ass
Parts of the body 7 things
Cosmology and measures 5 kinds · 25 things
Elements 4 things
Qualities 4 things
Days of the week 7 things
Spheres 4 things
Names, places and orders 7 kinds · 130 things
Hebrew letters 22 things
Countries and provinces 63 things
- Achaia
- Africa
- Apulia
- Arabia
- Armenia
- Assyria
- Babylon
- Bastarnia
- Bithivia
- Britany
- Cappadocia
- Carchedonia
- Carthage
- Caspia
- Celtica
- Chaldea
- Cilicia
- Colchica
- Comagena
- Creta
- Cyprus
- Cyrenaica
- Egypt
- Ela
- France
- Germany
- Getulia
- Greece
- Hircania
- Idumea
- Island Bractia
- Isles Cyclades
- Italy
- Judea
- Lybia
- Lycia
- Lydia
- Mantiana
- Marmarica
- Mauritania
- Media
- Mesopotamia
- Metagonium
- Nasamonia
- Numidia
- Oasis
- Oxiana
- Pamphylia
- Paphlagonia
- Parthia
- Persia
- Phazania
- Phenicia
- Phrygia
- Sauromatian Country
- Seres
- Sicilia
- Sogdiana
- Spaine
- Syria
- Thebais
- Troglodys
- Tuscana
Planetary intelligences 7 things
Angelic choirs 10 things
Divine names 18 things
Classes of letter 3 things
The alchemical work 3 kinds · 19 things
Alchemical principle 3 things
Alchemical stage 4 things
Alchemical operation 12 things
Who says so 19 school of attributions
The same symbol can carry different meanings in different schools. Each link names the tradition that made it.
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Aristotelian elemental theory
from c. 350 BCE
The four elements understood through two pairs of contrary qualities.
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Hebrew scripture and liturgy
from the Book of Daniel to the lexicons of 1903–06
How the names the rituals borrow stand in the Hebrew Bible, the prayer book and the dictionaries of both.
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Sefer Yetzirah Mother letters
text composed between the 2nd and 6th centuries CE
Aleph, Mem and Shin as Air, Water and Fire in the textual tradition.
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Mithraic ladder reported by Celsus
attested c. 175–180 CE
An ancient seven-gate planet–metal arrangement preserved by Origen.
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Sefer Yetzirah's counting
2nd–6th century CE (contested)
The numbers the Book of Formation actually counts.
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Planetary week reported by Cassius Dio
attested c. 211–229 CE
The weekday rulers and planetary-hour sequence recorded in Roman History.
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Latin alchemical planetary metals
attested after 1248 through 1533
The complete seven-metal series recorded by Albert and repeated by Agrippa.
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Agrippan occult philosophy
1509–1533
Renaissance natural magic and Christian Cabala as organised by Agrippa.
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Cordovero's channels
1548
The twenty-two sephirotic channels enumerated in Pardes Rimonim.
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The angelic conferences of Dee and Kelley
1581–1607
What the spirits were recorded as saying, in Dee's own sessions
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The Goetia's Classified List
compiled mid-17th century; this edition 1904
The appendix that ranks all seventy-two and gives each rank its metal.
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An order's own account of itself
1723 to now
What a body publishes about its own origin, descent and present life.
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Golden Dawn ritual practice
taught from c. 1888; first printed 1909
The rituals the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn taught its members, as its papers and their first printing give them.
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The academic study of Western esotericism
from the 1970s
Historians working on these bodies from outside them, with references.
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Courts asked which body owns a name
1985 to now
Public judgments in disputes between bodies using the same name.
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Paracelsian three principles
Paracelsus, 1520s–1541; in English 1894
Salt, sulphur and mercury as the inward composition of every body.
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Ripley's twelve gates
written 1471; printed 1591
The work divided into twelve operations, calcination to projection.
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Psychological reading of alchemy
Atwood 1850; Silberer 1914; Jung 1944
Alchemical imagery read as a description of inner processes.
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Latin alchemical corpus
circulating by the 13th century; this printing 1597
The Latin and early English treatises, quoted here from the 1597 Mirror of Alchemy.