Spiritual concepts

Intelligences and their synonyms

One of the perhaps hugely confusing aspects about the spiritual plane is that different spiritual systems have named each Intelligence in the Intelligence Hierarchy differently.

There are actually only a limited number of higher Intelligences in the spirit world, but they have hundreds of names. There are thousands and thousands of lower Intelligences simply because each one has to correspond with a species or a sub-system of the universe, but at higher levels – the realms of very very high functionality, there are not that many.

There are not male and female Intelligences, they are, as it were, dual sexed [though this is meaningless in this context], but in order to name the Intelligences they were often given a male and a female persona and name which make it even more confusing. It is worth noting that the Greeks, Hindus, Babylonians, Egyptians, Australian Aborigines, Siberians all have or had ‘gods’ and were quite right when they said that powerful beings that were the ‘gods’ of each species or ‘class’ or ‘entity’ created the universe.

There were.

The problem with saying this is that the spiritual realm became for them a morass of Spirit Entities with no clear pattern of correspondences. Which is why the Jews said ‘Enough – there is only one God’– and made things a lot simpler [though perhaps less comprehensive] for people.

It is worth emphasising I think that the physical planets were named after the Intelligences. We are still naming stars and planets, moons and suns with the names of mythological characters, so the process continues. We have to think of each 'planet' name as a storage level rather than as a physical form.....

Alphonse Toussenel – L’Esprit des Betes
Analogy had proclaimed the telescopic planets before the invention of the telescope, and the planet Leverrier [now Neptune] before the birth of the astronomer

Many people trying to explain this refer to these symbolic planets as ‘spheres’ rather than planets because it makes it clear there is a difference. I supposed we could imagine them to be like computer packages which group the functions.

In the 1600s Angelo Berardi attempted to draw up a table showing the synonyms. He used the work of the Kabbalists as well as Francesco Giorgi and produced a synthesis of others' work. The following was the result [I have added some extras using Cirlot and Wikipedia]. I have no idea whether it is right or wrong, but it should help to show the problems faced when dealing with this area. There are only one set of Intelligences shared by us all, but they have a lot of names!

Table one correspondences

Planet name	Esoteric	Jewish Sephirot	Christian	Chaldeans Sumerian	Greeks	Romans	Hindu
Primum mobile	Crown	Kether	Seraphim				Ketu [south lunar node]
							Rahu [north lunar node
Firmament	Wisdom	Chokmah	Cherubim
Saturn	Intelligence	Binah	Thrones	Ninib?	Cronos	Saturn	Shani
Jupiter	Mercy	Chesed	Dominions	Iškur / Adad	Zeus	Jupiter	Brhaspati *
Mars	Fortitude	Gevurah	Virtues	Ninurta?	Ares	Mars	Mangala
Sun	Beauty	Tiphereth	Powers	Shamash	Apollo	Helios	Surya
Venus	Eternal victory	Netzach	Principalities	Ishtar	Aphrodite	Venus	Shukra
Mercury	Glory	Hod	Archangels	Enki/Nabu	Hermes	Mercury	Budha
Moon	Foundation	Yesod	Angels	Sin	Artemis	Diana	Chandra
[5 levels]	Kingdom	Malkuth	Blessed souls
Ceres					Demeter	Ceres	Shakti
Uranus					Uranos	Caelus	Vasuki
Neptune					Poseidon	Neptune	Varuna
Pluto				Nergal	Hades	Pluto	Kubera

* Although Berardi favours Brhaspati, most of the evidence seems to point to Indra as being the more obvious choice for this correspondence, as he is a god of thunder as is Zeus and the Nordic god Thor [not shown]

One of the abiding expressions we use even today is that of ‘being in seventh heaven’. So where is seventh heaven? The seven heavens correspond to the planets, Saturn being the seventh heaven and the Moon being the first heaven. The different nomenclature was used within Judeo, Islamic and Christian cosmology to avoid the use of the Greek names – which were regarded as being ‘pagan’. The levels are, however, identical.

Apart from this known naming, the following tables may be incorrect for which I apologise, but no sources seem to agree on the correspondences here

Table two correspondences

Planetary system	Alchemical metal	Colour	Bird	Musical system	No
Elements	-			Parhypate meson
Moon	Silver	Silver or white	Owl	Lichanos Meson	1st heaven
Mercury	Mercury	Purple	Storm petrol	Mese	2nd heaven
Venus	Copper [or bronze]	Green	Dove or swan	Trite synemmenon	3rd heaven
Sun	Gold	Gold or yellow	Pea cock	Trite diezeugmenon	4th heaven
Mars	Iron	Red	Falcon	Paranete diezeugmenon	5th heaven
Jupiter	Tin	Azure blue	Eagle	Nete diezeugmenon	6th heaven
Saturn	Lead	Sable or black	Crow or raven	Trite hyperbolaion	7th heaven
Firmament	-			Paranete hyperbolaion
Primum mobile	-			Nete hyperbolaion

According to Jewish teachings in the Talmud, the names of the seven heavens are as shown below:

Vilon (וילון), also Isaiah 40:22
Raki'a (רקיע), also Genesis. 1:17
Shehaqim (שחקים), also Psalm. 78:23
Zebul (זבול), also Isaiah 63:15, I Kings, 8:13
Ma'on (מעון), also Deuteronomy. 26:15, Psalm. 42:9
Machon (מכון), also 1 Kings 7:30, Deuteronomy. 28:12)
Araboth (ערבות), The seventh Heaven

The name of the seven heavens in Islam, derived from a Hadith from Ali, are as shown below.

Rafi' (رفیع) the least heaven (سماء الدنیا)
Qaydum (قیدوم)
Marum (ماروم)
Arfalun (أرفلون‏)
Hay'oun (هيعون‏)
Arous (عروس)
Ajma' (عجماء)

For the ext table, there is again no agreement on these names, one source can contradict other sources, so it may be better to view the names as a list of synonymous names.

Table four correspondences

Planetary system	Jewel	Norse	Indo European	Hebrew letter	Feudal rank	Names
Elements	Jasper				Peasant
Moon	Sapphire	Moon		Gimmel	Citizen	Sadai, Elhai, Adinia, Melec
Mercury	Agate	Woden		Beth	Knight	Ihvh Zevaoth
Venus	Emerald	Freya		Daleth	Baron	Elohim Zervaoth
Sun	Onyx	Sun		Resh	Viscount	Ihvh
Mars	Carnelian	TIW or TYW [Tue]		Peh	Earl	Elohim
Jupiter	Chrysolate	Thor	Dyaus	Kaph	Marquis	El
Saturn	Beryl	Saturn		Tau	Duke	Hihvh
Firmament	Topaz				King	Sem mephoras
Primum mobile	Chrysopase				Emperor	Ehieh asher ehieh

Revelation 21:1

The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the 5^th onyx, the 6^th carnelian, the 7^th chrysolate, the 8^th beryl, the 9^th topaz, the 10^th chrysoprase, the 11^th jainth, the 12^th amethyst.

The Ultimate origin of the names

Louis Jacolliot made a study into the Sanskrit names for various Hindu deities of extremely ancient times and believed that the origins of all the Intelligence names, plus a great many others found in legend and myth, could be found in Sanskrit. He surmised that it is a possibility that most of fables, myths and even Biblical stories have their ultimate origin in India. This table is derived from his book ‘The Bible in India’.

Source: The Bible in India - Louis Jacolliot

Intelligence/god/hero/mystic	Sanskrit
Jupiter/Zeus	In Sanskrit Zu-pitri, meaning Father in Heaven or Zeus-pitri from which the name Zeus derives
Pallas – in Greece the goddess of wisdom	In Sanskrit Pala-sa – meaning protecting wisdom
Athenia – in Greece goddess of chastity	In Sanskrit, A-tanaia – without children
Minerva	In Sanskrit, Ma-nara-va – who supports the strong
Bellona – a goddess of war	In Sanskrit Bala-na – warlike strength
Neptune	In Sanskrit, Na-pata-na – who governs the furious waves
Poseidon – an alternative name for Neptune	In Sanskrit Pasa-uda – who calms the waters
Mars – god of war	In Sanskrit, Mri – who gives death
Pluto – god of the underworld	In Sanskrit Plushta – who strikes with fire
Centaur – half man half horse	In Sanskrit Ken-tura a man-horse
Hercules	In Sanskrit Hara-kala, hero of battles
Theseus	In Sanskrit, Tha-saha, the associate or companion of Siva
Ariadne – the princess abandoned by Theseus who gave herself up to the enemy	In Sanskrit Ari-ana – seduced by an enemy
Andromeda – sacrificed to Nepune	In Sanskrit Andha-ra-medha – sacrificed to the passion of the Water god
Perseus	In Sanskrit Para-saha – timely succour
Pythagoras	In Sanskrit Pitha-guru – the school master
Anaxagoras	In Sanskrit Ananga-guru – the spirit master
Protagoras	In Sanskrit Prata-guru – the master of all sciences
Spartans	In Sanskrit Spardha-ta – the rivals
Hellenes	In Sanskrit Hela-na – worshippers of the Moon
Christ	In Sanskrit Christna or Krishna meaning created by God; the son of the Virgin Devanagny

The implications of this of course, are that ultimately, all the understanding of the Intelligences and their hierarchy and functions, and the myths and fables that were built up to demonstrate the characteristics of each, can be traced back literally thousands and thousands of years to the ancient Vedas, and possibly the civilisation and mystic system that was found in the Indus valley – Shaivism.

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The Ultimate origin of the names

Source: The Bible in India - Louis Jacolliot

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