The Kabbalistic Correspondence

In this collection Angels is also correlated with a sephirah of the Tree of Life, here Malkuth ("Kingdom"). Mapping the angelic choirs onto the ten sephiroth of Kabbalah is not part of the original Dionysian scheme; it is a later development of Christian Kabbalah, given its now-familiar form by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which paired each sephirah with a divine name, an archangel and an angelic choir. The correspondence is presented here as a documented feature of that esoteric system, distinct from the Christian theology of Pseudo-Dionysius and from the Jewish sources of the Tree of Life, and not as the doctrine of any single tradition.

This collection places Angels at Malkuth, Kingdom, the physical world itself in Kabbalistic cosmology, one sphere below the Agrippa-attributed sequential table's placement at Yesod, the last step in the consistent shift running through this entire set of six choirs. The Golden Dawn's own Hebrew table gives Malkuth to a host it calls Ishim, "souls" or "men," dropping the name Angels even though Malkuth's association with the physical, human world makes it, of all ten spheres, the one where a name meaning simply "messengers to humanity" would fit best.