Wikipedia Draft:Book of the Hidden Name



The Book of the Hidden Name - Magick of the Shem HaMephorash Angels is Maximus Tyrannus Avery's study of the occult and focuses specifically on the Shem HaMephorash Angels. This text explores various aspects of the powers of ritual magic, and its relationship with religion and kabbalah.

The earliest organized works on the angels of the Shem HaMephorash are found in the Henry Cornelius Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, in which tables of reference Angels are clearly listed and a primer in working with their energy is provided. There are several more detailed descriptions within the Blaise de Vigenère’s Arsenal 2495 Manuscript as well as the works of Dr. Thomas Rudd, who attributes each of the angels as balancing energy against when interacting with the Spirits of Solomon found within the Ars Goetia. OEedipus Aegyptiacus by Athanasius Kircher further developed the system and integrated them into his working of magickal cosmology. Kircher added the additional name title correspondence in Latin and the codified invocation scriptures (seventy-one of which being psalms, and Angel number seventy which is attributed to Genesis 1:1 which contains the trigram of the seventieth name “ יבֵֹמֵ ” (Yod Bet Mem) within the scripture.

MacGregor Mathers, in his works for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as well as The Societas Rosicruciana, discovered additional correspondences with the Angels.

Using these systems, one can find correspondences as well for each of the days of the year. Each angel exercises authority over a quinance or is half of a decan (five days) while each sign of the Zodiac has three decanates, which derive from the proper celestial sphere. Members of this angelic realm oversee specific twenty-minute intervals daily.