Archangel
Metatron
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.
1 correspondence · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 1 with no source located · Metatron in full
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The oldest attribution here is Archangel of Kether, first attested 1509 CE.
Archangel of
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Kether
Unsourced- Who says so
- Not yet attributed to a school
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1509 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
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.
Evidence
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book III, chapter 10
An early verified Hermetic tabulation, not evidence for where the pairing originated.
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table VI, col. VIII (Archangel of Assiah)
777 continues the attribution; it does not originate it.