{"collection":"ritual-magic","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_The_Magus_Book_1_Part_2_Chapter_24/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_The_Magus_Book_1_Part_2_Chapter_24","id":"wikisource_The_Magus_Book_1_Part_2_Chapter_24","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Magus/Book_1/Part_2/Chapter_24","summary":null,"tags":["Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Subpages"],"text":"CHAP. XXIV.\n\nOF THE NUMBER NINE, AND THE SCALE.\n\nTHERE are nine orders of blessed angels, viz. Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Powers, Virtues, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, which Ezekiel figures out by nine stones, which are the sapphire, emerald, carbuncle, beryl, onyx, chrysolite, jasper, topaz, and sardis. This number hath also a great and occult mystery of the cross; for the ninth hour our Lord Jesus Christ breathed out his spirit. The astrologers also take notice of the number nine in the ages of men, no otherwise than they do of seven, which they call climacterical years, which are eminent for fome remarkable change. Yet sometimes it signifies imperfectness and incompleteness, because it does not attain to the perfection of the number ten, but is less by one, without which it is deficient, as Austin interprets it of the ten lepers. Neither is the longitude of nine cubits of Og, King of Basan, who is a type of the devil without a mystery.\n\nTHE SCALE OF THE NUMBER NINE.\n\nThe name of God with nine letters,\n\nJehovah Sabboath,\n\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05e6\u05d1\u05d0\u05d5\u05d4\n\nJehovah Zidkenu,\n\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u05e6\u05e8\u05e7\u05d1\u05df\n\nElohim Gibor,\n\u05d0\u05dc\u05d5\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d2\u05d9\u05e4\u05d5\u05e8\n\nIn the original world.\n\nNine quires of angels,\n\nSeraphim,\n\nCherubim,\n\nThrones,\n\nDominations,\n\nPowers\n\nVirtues,\n\nPrincipalities,\n\nArchangels,\n\nAngels;\n\nIn the intelligible world.\n\nNine angels ruling the heavens,\n\nMerattron,\n\nOphaniel,\n\nZaphkiel,\n\nZadkiel,\n\nCamael\n\nRaphael,\n\nHaniel,\n\nMichael,\n\nGabriel;\n\nNine moveable spheres,\n\nThe primum mobile,\n\nThe starry heaven,\n\nThe sphere of Saturn,\n\nThe sphere of Jupiter,\n\nThe sphere of Mars,\n\nThe sphere of the Sun,\n\nThe sphere of Venus,\n\nThe sphere of Mercury,\n\nThe sphere of the Moon;\n\nIn the celestial world.\n\nNine stones representing the nine quires of angels,\n\nSaphire\n\nEmerald,\n\nCarbuncle,\n\nBeryl,\n\nOnyx,\n\nChrysolite,\n\nJasper,\n\nTopaz,\n\nSardis;\n\nIn the elementary world.\n\nNine senses, inward and outward together,\n\nMemory,\n\nCogitative,\n\nImaginative,\n\nCommon sense,\n\nHearing,\n\nSeeing,\n\nSmelling,\n\nTasting,\n\nTouching;\n\nIn the lesser world.\n\nNine orders of devils,\n\nFalse Spirits,\n\nSpirits of lying,\n\nVessels of iniquity,\n\nAvengers of wickedness,\n\nJugglers,\n\nAiry Powers\n\nFuries sowing mischief,\n\nSisters or triers,\n\nTempters, or ensnarers;\n\nIn the infernal world.","title":"The Magus/Book 1/Part 2/Chapter 24","tradition":"ritual-magic","translated_text":null,"word_count":337}