Sephirah

Hod

Hod is Splendour, the sphere of intellect, language and deliberate form-making. On the lower left pillar it analyses and organises the feelings and impulses associated with Netzach.

15 correspondences · 1 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located

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The oldest attribution here is Counts of 10, first attested 100 CE.

Counts of

  • 10

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Sefer Yetzirah's counting (2nd–6th century CE (contested))
    Earliest verified attestation
    100 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Attested
    Evidence
    The source states it

    Sefer Yetzirah counts ten sefirot but does not name them. Their order on this tree belongs to the later tradition, not to the book itself.

    Evidence

    1. Rabbi Akiva (traditional attribution); older versions attributed to Abraham, Sefer Yetzirah, 2nd–6th century CE (contested) — 1:2

      Sacred primary · originates · Westcott translation, 3rd edition, 1911 (first published 1887)

      Ten are the ineffable Sephiroth. Twenty-two are the Letters, the Foundation of all things; there are Three Mothers, Seven Double and Twelve Simple letters.

      The count, not the names.

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Angelic choir

  • Beni Elohim

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1170 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    Eighth of Maimonides's ranks. From Genesis 6:2 and 6:4.

    Evidence

    1. Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon, Rambam), Mishneh Torah, 1170–1180 — Yesodei HaTorah 2:7

      · Original Hebrew, Maimonides c. 1180

      There are ten names given to the angels: Chayot HaKodesh, Ophanim, Erelim, Chashmalim, Seraphim, Malachim, Elohim, B'nei Elohim, Cherubim, and Ishim.

      Maimonides's ten angelic ranks. The pairing of each class with a specific sephirah is a later Kabbalistic development. Available on Sefaria.

    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table VI, col. IX

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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Planetary attribution

  • Mercury

    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

    1. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book II, chapter 13, Scale of the Number Ten

      Esoteric primary · systematises · English translation, J.F., London 1651

      The table aligns the ten Sephiroth with the ten spheres in order.

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    2. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book III, chapter 10

      Esoteric primary · systematises · English translation, J.F., London 1651

      Agrippa's prose names this Sephirah and the sphere through which its influence descends.

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  • Mercury

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1907 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    Evidence

    1. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table VI, col. I / Table IV

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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Archangel

  • Michael

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1509 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    Michael is named in Daniel. Agrippa directly assigns him to Hod and Mercury, while also reporting an alternative planetary list that assigns Michael to the Sun.

    Evidence

    1. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book III, chapter 10

      · English translation, J.F., London 1651

      Agrippa's chapter 10 gives the Hod–Mercury assignment; chapter 24 preserves both planetary lists.

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    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table VI, col. VIII

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

      NB: In some 'planetary archangel' tables Michael is paired with the Sun; the Kabbalistic sephirothic assignment differs.

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Channel of

  • Geburah

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Cordovero's channels (1548)
    Earliest verified attestation
    1548 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    None located
    Evidence
    The source states it

    One of the twenty-two channels Pardes Rimonim 7:1 records as the opinion of the commentators. Drawn on this tree with the letter Mem (מ); the lettering is Kircher's and the Golden Dawn's, not Cordovero's.

    Evidence

    1. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim, 1548, first printed 1592 — Pardes Rimonim 7:1

      Esoteric primary · originates · Hebrew text

      The enumeration closes 'they total 22, as the numerical value of bakh'. Cordovero assigns no letters to these channels.

  • Netzach

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Cordovero's channels (1548)
    Earliest verified attestation
    1548 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    None located
    Evidence
    The source states it

    One of the twenty-two channels Pardes Rimonim 7:1 records as the opinion of the commentators. Drawn on this tree with the letter Peh (פ); the lettering is Kircher's and the Golden Dawn's, not Cordovero's.

    Evidence

    1. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim, 1548, first printed 1592 — Pardes Rimonim 7:1

      Esoteric primary · originates · Hebrew text

      The enumeration closes 'they total 22, as the numerical value of bakh'. Cordovero assigns no letters to these channels.

  • Tiphareth

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Cordovero's channels (1548)
    Earliest verified attestation
    1548 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    None located
    Evidence
    The source states it

    One of the twenty-two channels Pardes Rimonim 7:1 records as the opinion of the commentators. Drawn on this tree with the letter Ayin (ע); the lettering is Kircher's and the Golden Dawn's, not Cordovero's.

    Evidence

    1. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim, 1548, first printed 1592 — Pardes Rimonim 7:1

      Esoteric primary · originates · Hebrew text

      The enumeration closes 'they total 22, as the numerical value of bakh'. Cordovero assigns no letters to these channels.

Channel

  • Yesod

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Cordovero's channels (1548)
    Earliest verified attestation
    1548 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    None located
    Evidence
    The source states it

    One of the twenty-two channels Pardes Rimonim 7:1 records as the opinion of the commentators. Drawn on this tree with the letter Resh (ר); the lettering is Kircher's and the Golden Dawn's, not Cordovero's.

    Evidence

    1. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim, 1548, first printed 1592 — Pardes Rimonim 7:1

      Esoteric primary · originates · Hebrew text

      The enumeration closes 'they total 22, as the numerical value of bakh'. Cordovero assigns no letters to these channels.

  • Malkuth

    Contested
    Who says so
    Cordovero's channels (1548)
    Earliest verified attestation
    1548 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    None located
    Evidence
    The source states it

    Cordovero enumerates this channel and then rejects it: Malchut receives nothing except by way of Yesod, so the channels running straight down from Netzach and from Hod 'do not settle at all'. The Kircher tree draws it anyway. Drawn on this tree with the letter Shin, which is Kircher's lettering and not Cordovero's.

    Evidence

    1. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim, 1548, first printed 1592 — Pardes Rimonim 7:1

      Esoteric primary · originates · Hebrew text

      The enumeration closes 'they total 22, as the numerical value of bakh'. Cordovero assigns no letters to these channels.

    2. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim, 1548, first printed 1592 — Pardes Rimonim 7:3

      Esoteric primary · rejects · Hebrew text

      Where he rejects the two channels into Malchut, proving it from the Zohar at 1:59b.

Sephirah of

  • Eight of Cups

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    The Eights concentrate skill on the matter at hand. They can work with real precision and success, though the result may reach no farther than the immediate task.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — General meanings of the small cards under the Sephiroth, p. 27

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Eight of Pentacles

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    The Eights concentrate skill on the matter at hand. They can work with real precision and success, though the result may reach no farther than the immediate task.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — General meanings of the small cards under the Sephiroth, p. 27

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Eight of Swords

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    The Eights concentrate skill on the matter at hand. They can work with real precision and success, though the result may reach no farther than the immediate task.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — General meanings of the small cards under the Sephiroth, p. 27

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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  • Eight of Wands

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    The Eights concentrate skill on the matter at hand. They can work with real precision and success, though the result may reach no farther than the immediate task.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — General meanings of the small cards under the Sephiroth, p. 27

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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Divine name

  • Elohim Tzabaoth

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1907 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    Evidence

    1. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table VI, col. II

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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