The atlas carries a sephirah for each of the nine Dionysian choirs and records no source for the arrangement. This collection places the Thrones at Chesed. Pseudo-Dionysius assigns no choir to any sephirah, the Tree of Life being no part of his subject, so the pairing is a later editorial act by a hand the atlas cannot name. The whole set sits one place below the arrangement that follows from Agrippa, whose placement of the Cherubim at Chokmah and the Thrones at Binah this atlas records on its own Cherubim row. Fitting the nine to sephirot 2 through 10 leaves Kether free for the Kabbalistic first rank, so the shift may be an editorial convenience rather than a reading of any source.
What would resolve this A citation to a published table that makes these nine assignments, which would settle it outright. Failing that, a survey of the Renaissance and modern occult reference works that pair the Dionysian hierarchy with the Tree of Life, establishing whether any of them places the Thrones at Chesed, or whether the arrangement entered this collection from a secondary compilation, or was constructed to avoid a collision with the Kabbalistic orders. A negative result is a real answer here and the values should then be retired rather than kept.
Resolution Resolved 2026-08-14 by w1393-smallitems6. The divergent arrangement this question asked about was this entry's own entity-description, not a second source: it stated Chesed where the sourced sephirah property (Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, already cited on this entity) states Binah. An audit trail check found no insert record for either the description or the property, only a 2026-08-04 note-recovery touch on the property; the divergence traces to the original unaudited bulk port with no recoverable author. No source was found supporting the shifted value, so per this question's own resolution path the value has been retired: the description now names Binah, agreeing with the sourced property. · 08/14/2026 12:00:00 AM
ResolvedHistory of Western Esotericism, History of Renaissance OccultismHeinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy