All Angels, Spirits & the Shadow

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.

The tradition tends to arrange benign and malign spirits as mirror images within a single scheme: the seventy-two Shem angels against the seventy-two Goetic spirits, the Tree of Life against the qliphoth. The entries set out where each list comes from (the Shem HaMephorash read out of Exodus, the Ars Goetia of the Lesser Key of Solomon, the Celestial Hierarchy attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite), and treat the ceremonial practice around them descriptively.

The archangels proper, as figures of Jewish, Christian and Islamic belief, are gathered under Deities & Sacred Figures; this section concentrates on the graded hosts and their operative use in magic.