NUMBER: 9

CENTRAL IDEAS: Synthesis, formation. The Crucible which receives the above forces and projects it out into Malkuth. The Astral plane. Sexual generation.

KEYWORDS: Image, imagination, romance (in a sanguine sense), fickleness, changeability.

ELEMENT: Air

HEAVENS (ASSIAH): The Moon, Luna

SEPHER YETZIRAH: The Purified Intelligence - purifies the numerations, prevents and stays the fracture of their images (proves and corrects the designing of their representations), for it establishes their unity, to preserve them from destruction and division by their union with itself (disposes their unity with which they are combined without diminution or division).

SOME SYMBOLS: The nonagon, enneagram. crescent moon, perfumes.

BEINGS:

Hebrew:

Hebrew Divine Name: SHADDAI EL CHAI
Archangel: Gabriel
Angelic Choir: Cherubim, "The strong"
Archdemon: Lilith ("the seducer")
Demonic order: Gamaliel ("the obscene")

Greek:

Divine Name: IAO
Archon (Briah): THEONOEMENOS
Power: ARMATEON
Intelligence: KAMAIRA
Spirit: IEROCHOS

COLORS

Golden Dawn.....................................Aurum Solis
Atziluth: indigo.....................................Red Purple
Briah: violet purple .................................Violet
Yetzirah: very dark purple ....................Lavender
Assiah: citrine flecked azure ....Pale lemon yellow, flecked white

HUMAN BODY: Genitals

SCARED IMAGES:

Popular images include any moon goddess and and "ithyphallic youth" (read: "has a woodie")

TAROT: The Nines

ANIMAL: Elephant, racoon. (but see Luna in the Western Heptarchy)

PLANT: Oak (but see Luna in the Western Heptarchy)

PERFUMES/INCENSE: Jasmine

METALS/MINERALS: Silver/quartz, moonstone

MAGICKAL WEAPONS AND REMARKS: Sandals or ceremonial footgear.

DEIFIC CORRESPONDENCES BY PANTHEON:

(see Gods associated with the Moon on the Western Heptarchy site)