The Magus/Book 1/Part 2/Chapter 24
CHAP. XXIV.
OF THE NUMBER NINE, AND THE SCALE.
THERE are nine orders of bleffed angels, viz. Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Powers, Virtues, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, which Ezekiel figures out by nine ftones, which are the fapphire, emerald, carbuncle, beryl, onyx, chryfolite, jafper, topaz, and fardis. This number hath alfo a great and occult myftery of the crofs; for the ninth hour our Lord Jefus Chrift breathed out his fpirit. The aftrologers alfo take notice of the number nine in the ages of men, no otherwife than they do of feven, which they call climacterical years, which are eminent for fome remarkable change. Yet fometimes it fignifies imperfectnefs and incompleteneſs, becaufe it does not attain to the perfection of the number ten, but is lefs by one, without which it is deficient, as Auftin interprets it of the ten lepers. Neither is the longitude of nine cubits of Og, King of Bafan, who is a type of the devil without a myftery.
| The name of God with nine letters, | Jehovah Sabboath, יהוה צבאוה |
Jehovah Zidkenu, יהוהצרקבן |
Elohim Gibor, אלוהים גיפור |
In the original world. | ||||||
| Nine quires of angels, | Seraphim, | Cherubim, | Thrones, | Dominations, | Powers | Virtues, | Principalities, | Archangels, | Angels; | In the intelligible world. |
| Nine angels ruling the heavens, | Merattron, | Ophaniel, | Zaphkiel, | Zadkiel, | Camael | Raphael, | Haniel, | Michael, | Gabriel; | |
| Nine moveable spheres, | The primum mobile, | The starry heaven, | The sphere of Saturn, | The sphere of Jupiter, | The sphere of Mars, | The sphere of the Sun, | The sphere of Venus, | The sphere of Mercury, | The sphere of the Moon; | In the celestial world. |
| Nine stones representing the nine quires of angels, | Saphire | Emerald, | Carbuncle, | Beryl, | Onyx, | Chrysolite, | Jasper, | Topaz, | Sardis; | In the elementary world. |
| Nine senses, inward and outward together, | Memory, | Cogitative, | Imaginative, | Common sense, | Hearing, | Seeing, | Smelling, | Tasting, | Touching; | In the lesser world. |
| Nine orders of devils, | False Spirits, | Spirits of lying, | Vessels of iniquity, | Avengers of wickedness, | Jugglers, | Airy Powers | Furies sowing mischief, | Sisters or triers, | Tempters, or ensnarers; | In the infernal world. |