Home›Articles›Hierarchies of spirits, benign and otherwiseArticlesHierarchies of spirits, benign and otherwiseCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Hierarchies of spirits, benign and otherwise." Accessed September 2, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/articles/angels-spirits-and-the-shadow-hierarchies-of-spirits-benign-and-otherwise.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Hierarchies of spirits, benign and otherwise. Retrieved September 2, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/articles/angels-spirits-and-the-shadow-hierarchies-of-spirits-benign-and-otherwiseCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-hierarchies-of-spirits-benign-and-otherw, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Hierarchies of spirits, benign and otherwise}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/articles/angels-spirits-and-the-shadow-hierarchies-of-spirits-benign-and-otherwise}, note = {Accessed September 2, 2026} }Copy BibTeXLearn MoreCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Learn MoreHierarchies of spirits, benign and otherwise This section gathers the ranked spirit-beings of the Western and Abrahamic traditions and their darker counterparts: the seventy-two Shem angels derived from the divine name, the nine choirs of Christian angelology, the seventy-two Goetic spirits with their courtly ranks, the four elementals, and, on the inverse side, the qliphoth of the shadow tree. It also holds the parts of the soul and the magical weapons of ceremonial practice. These are the intermediary beings of the tradition, above humanity, below the divine, through whom, in the older cosmology, the higher order was thought to act upon the lower.Cross-Tradition ConnectionsArticle OnAngels, Spirits & the Shadow, Sections Well-attested Source Divinity Atlas Long-Form Articles, First Editiontier 1SourcesDivinity Atlas Long-Form Articles, First Editiontier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year