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Mohammed Salah

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We all well know that every planet has its unique hierarchy
like (Archangels , angels, olympians, spirits, demons, ....etc)
as you see a host of beings
I`d like to know who is the ruler and who is the supmissive, who is the powerful and who is less power.
I need an ordered Hierarchy.
 

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So... are you asking who is the ruling god of entire planet... and how are other gods and spirits sorted under that one?
 

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So... are you asking who is the ruling god of entire planet... and how are other gods and spirits sorted under that one?
Yes
From the supreme being downward to the lesser being from dominance perspective, because I need knowledge of the kabbalah ordering system specially in the spirit realm.
 

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If you are looking for a quick access to hierarchies then you need to understand that even individual systems like Kabbalah may have variants and overlaps that suggest more of a "tangled" order than any kind of fixed one. Plus, the systems of angelology that have come down to us tend to parallel each other in ways that suggest cultural crossovers in a back and forth kind of way.

If you just want a way in to some lists, David Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia is pretty useful for the scales of being, but its got a lot of mistakes/typos. But you also have sigils for the spirit beings and command authority listed.

But just for fun, to get an idea of what I mean, I can compare two systems, the so-called Pseudo-Dyonisian and one form of Kabbalah arrangement.

In Pseudo-Dyonisius, which I have heard (but not fully confirmed) is the first known attempt at angelic ordering, at the top is the Trinity of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Then you have:
1. Seraphim
2, Cherubim
3. Thrones (Sphere of Saturn)
4, Dominations (Jupter)
5, Powers (Mars)
6. Virtues (Sun)
7. Principalities (Venus)
8. Archangels (Mercury)
9. Angels (Moon)
10. Souls of the Redeemed (Sublunar sphere?)

By the way, the above is likely based on earlier Middle-Neo Platonic structuring based on a sort of abstracted Pagan deity setup rooted in Neo-Pythagoreanism. There's too many sources to go into, but this is just an example to give an idea of structure.

In one modern popular arrangement of Kabbalah (or Qabalah-Cabala, given my handy source) based on the Sephiroth, something similar with Archangelic rulers:
1. Chayoth Ha-Kadesh (Holy Living Creatures), ruled by the Metatron in Kether
2. Ophanim (Wheels), ruled by Raziel in Chockmah
3. Aralim (Thrones), ruled by Tzaphkiel in Binah and corresponding to the Sphere of Saturn
4. Chasmalim (Brilliant Ones, in one translation I have) ruled by Tzadkiel or Tzedekial in Chesed and the Sphere of Jupiter
5. Seraphim (Fiery Serpents) ruled by Kamiel (which may be an alteration Samael? I recall a number of flame wars on this) in Geburah and Mars.
6. Melekim (Kings but often rendered as angels) and ruled by Raphael (but wait...shouldn't be Michael = more flame wars, lol) and this is for Tiphareth and the Sun.
7. Elohim (Gods, but also an important name of God), and these are ruled by Haniel and in Netzach and Venus
8. Beni Elohim (Sons of the Gods), Michael (err...see #6...) in Hod and Mercury
9. Kerubim (Strong Ones) ruled by Gabriel and in Yesod and the Moon
10. Eshim (Flames, or Souls + multipled meanings pointing to exalted former humans) ruled by Sandalphon in Malkuth (our beloved Samasara).

I typed the above mostly from memory, I do not claim dogma here, and I just know that that way cleaner and more "ad fontes" versions can be found - Agrippa will surely not match mine (switch 9 and 10), and Jewish sources I have read tend to be more fluid, but I just wanted to show that this is a rabbit hole and you may end up having to make focused choices where crossovers get confusing. The same goes with demonic hierarchies which generally mirror the above within the general "Abrahamanic framework."

Also to note, the same issues exist outside this framework too - Hindu and Buddhist orderings of their own entities can get wild and be overlapping in funhouse mirror ways.

I honestly think that, in the West, such structurings were one of the reasons for the development of the so-called "Occam's Razor." In voluntarist theology, God doesn't need all these "middlemen". He can do whatever He wants whenever He wants instantaneously and somehow this becomes the spark to develop boring old secular humanist scientific naturalism. Blah blah to that.
 

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Ever heard of Google?
Also, as stalkinghyena stated- there are numerous sources as much as there are Kabbalistic schools of thought. I am personally a fan of Pseudo-Dionysius' text known as The Celestial Hierarchies which laid out this with YHVH being the highest of the Order:

  • First (Highest) Hierarchy:
    • Seraphim
    • Cherubim
    • Thrones
  • Second (Middle) Hierarchy:
    • Dominions (Dominations)
    • Virtues
    • Powers
  • Third (Lowest) Hierarchy:
    • Principalities
    • Archangels
    • Angels
 

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Ever heard of Google
:ROFLMAO:

In The Dictionary of Angels there are a couple of variations given for the angelic choirs (I think 4 different ones) and in the notes Tyson gives in Agrippa's Three books there are angelic choirs for the sephiroth and the planets. But basically every single book or website on Kabalah will list some version yeah.
the supreme being downward to the lesser being
In those books (websites etc) also the Archangels of the sephiroth are included, and if you look for example at the pentacles in the Greater Key you can find names of angels that are under these Archangels. How accurate the names are is up for anyone to decide for themselves.
 
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