1 Kether
The Crown
Kether is the Crown at the summit of the Tree. In Hermetic Qabalah it represents undifferentiated being and the first point of unity, before experience divides into subject and object.
12 sourced claims: 1 canonical , 8 traditional , 2 modern , 1 unsourced
Angelic hierarchy
Archangels of the sephirah and the angelic choir it leads. Maimonides gives the ten choirs; the sephirothic pairings are later Kabbalistic tradition.
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)
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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.
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777
, First edition, 1909 (anonymous)
— Table VI, col. VIII (Archangel of Assiah)
· systematising, not originating
777 continues the attribution; it does not originate it.
Correspondences 10 sourced correspondences
| Relation | To | First attested |
|---|---|---|
| Planetary attribution | Primum Mobile | 1509 CE |
| Sephirah of | Ace of Cups | 1888 CE |
| Mundane sphere | Primum Mobile | 1509 CE |
| Counts of | 10 | 100 CE |
| Channel | Chokmah | 1548 CE |
| Channel | Binah | 1548 CE |
| Channel | Tiphareth | 1548 CE |
| Archangel | Metatron | 1509 CE |