dsj: CHESED: "Mercy"
NUMBER: 4
CENTRAL IDEAS: Form (as opposite Force), Matter (as opposite Energy, at least a primal concepts), authority, generosity, benevolence.
KEYWORDS: Form, Authority, Justice, Leadership
ELEMENT: Water
HEAVENS (ASSIAH): Jupiter
SEPHER YETZIRAH: The Arresting or Receiving Intelligence - Arises like a boundary to receive the emanations of the higher intelligences which are sent down to it. Herefrom all spiritual virtues emanate by the way of subtlety, which itself emanates from the Supreme Crown.
SOME SYMBOLS: Cornucopia, scepter or orb, the square, the gavel
BEINGS:
Hebrew:
Hebrew Divine Name: EL
Archangel: Tzadkiel
Angelic Choir: Chasmalim "Shining Ones"
Archdemon: Astaroth
Demonic order: Agshekeloh ("Smiters, Breakers")
Greek:
Divine Name: ZARAIETOS
Archon (Briah): ORTHOTER
Power: KAPAIOS
Intelligence: ZATHANAT
Spirit: DEMORAS
COLORS
Golden Dawn.....................................Aurum Solis
Atziluth: deep violet.................................Lilac
Briah: dark blue ......................................Blue
Yetzirah: deep purple .......................Light royal blue
Assiah: deep azure-flecked yellow...Nacreous green-blue merging into shell pink
HUMAN BODY: Left arm
SCARED IMAGES:
Most traditions ascribe an enthroned.and crowned king
TAROT: The Fours
ANIMAL: Unicorn, (but see Jupiter in the Western Heptarchy)
PLANT: Olive, shamrock, Hawthorn, Cedar
PERFUMES/INCENSE: Cedar
METALS/MINERALS: Tin/amethyst, blue stones generally
MAGICKAL WEAPONS AND REMARKS: Wand, sceptre, crook
DEIFIC CORRESPONDENCES BY PANTHEON:
(see Gods associated with Jupiter on the
Western Heptarchy site)