Cosmological sphere
Primum Mobile
The outermost moving sphere in Agrippa's geocentric table.
2 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located
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The oldest attribution here is Planet of Kether, first attested 1509 CE.
Planet of
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Kether
Traditional- Who says so
- Not yet attributed to a school
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1509 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
Not a planet proper: the sphere of primal motion above the fixed stars. This attribution reflects the medieval Ptolemaic cosmology of nested spheres, not modern astronomy.
Evidence
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book II, ch. 4-11 (on the celestial spheres)
Agrippa's account of the celestial hierarchy underlies the Renaissance-inherited cosmology the sephirothic planet assignments reflect.
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Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table VI, col. I (Sephiroth) and Table IV (Astrological)
Sphere of
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Kether
Traditional- Who says so
- Agrippan occult philosophy (1509–1533)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1509 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- None located
- Evidence
- The source states it
Agrippa's Renaissance Christian-Cabalist table is explicit. It is not presented as a planetary scheme stated by Sefer Yetzirah or another ancient Jewish source.
Evidence
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book II, chapter 13, Scale of the Number Ten
The table aligns the ten Sephiroth with the ten spheres in order.
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book III, chapter 10
Agrippa's prose names this Sephirah and the sphere through which its influence descends.