Nines Minor Card in Liber 777
- Nine of Wands
- Fear, lamentation, grief, anxiety, worry.
- Nine of Cups
- Burdens, pressure, hard work, subtlety, dishonesty.
- Nine of Swords
- Boldness, freedom, welfare, liberality. Care of the land.
- Nine of Disks
- Self-praise. High mind, seeking after noble aims and knowledge.
| Magical Powers of the Nines | |
|---|---|
| The Perfumes and Sandals | Magical Weapon |
| A beautiful naked man, very strong | Magical image of the Sephira |
| The Vision of the Machinery of the Universe | Magical Power, Western |
| ALIM | Magical Formulae (See Magical Weapons) |
| Colour Scales of the Nines | Golden Dawn Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indigo | King Scale of Colour |  |
Moon in Sagittarius, l0th — 20th Degree. Yesod of Yod. (Strength, power, health. Recovery from sickness). |
| Violet | Queen Scale of Colour |  |
Jupiter in Pisces, l0th - 20th Degree, XLIII, The Lord of Material Happiness 9 OF CUPS Hand from cloud holding Lotuses or water lilies, one flower of which overhangs each cup, and from which water pours. Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y All the cups are full and running over. Above and below are the symbols of Jupiter and Pisces representing the Decan. Complete and perfect realisation of pleasure and happiness almost perfect. Self-praise, vanity, conceit, much talking of self, yet kind and lovable., and may be self-denying therewith. Highminded, not easily satisfied with small and limited ideas. Apt to be maligned through too much self—assumption. A good, generous, but maybe foolish nature. Yesod of Heh. (Complete success, pleasure, happiness, wish fulfilled). Therein rule Saliah and Aariel. |
| Very dark purple | Emperor Scale of Colour |  |
Mars in Gemini, lOth - 20th Degree Lll. The Lord of Despair and Cruelty. 9 OF SWORDS Four hands (somewhat as in preceding symbol) hold eight swords upright but with the points falling away from each other. A fifth hand holds a ninth sword upright in the centre, as if it had disunited them, and struck them asunder. No rose at all is shown (as if it were not merely cut in pieces but completely and definitely destroyed.) Above and below Mars and Gemini. Despair, cruelty, pitilessness, malice, suffering, want, loss, misery, burden, oppression, labour, subtlety and craft, lying, dishonesty. slander. Yet also obedience, faithfulness, patience, unselfishness, etc. according to dignity. Yesod of Vav. Therein rule Aaaneval and Mochayel. |
| Citrine, flecked azure | Empress Scale of Colour |  |
9 OF PENTACLES |
| Gods and the Nines | |
|---|---|
| Shu | Egyptian God |
| Asar and Asi - the Phallus | The Perfect Man |
| Ganesha, Vishnu (Kurma Avatar) | Hindu |
| Scandanavia | |
| Zeus (as Air), Diana of Ephesus (as phallic stone) | Greek |
| Diana (as moon) | Roman |
| God the Holy Ghost (as incubus) | Christian Attributions |
| Other Attributions of the Nines | |
|---|---|
| Elephant | Animals, real and imaginary |
| [Banyan], Mandrake, Damiana | Plants, real and imaginary |
| Quartz | Precious Stones |
| Jasmine, Ginseng, all Odoriferous Roots | Perfumes |
| Orchid Root | Vegetable Drug |
| Lead | Mineral Drug |
| Figures related to pure number | |
| Body | |
|---|---|
| Eastern Thought | |
|---|---|
| Dhamma - R | The Forty Buddhist Meditations |
| Hindu and Buddhist results | |
| Taoism | |
| The Heavenly Hexagram | |
| Independence | Transcendental Morality |
| Masonic attributions and the Nines | |
|---|---|
| MH | Passwords of the Grades |
| I.G. | Officers in a Masonic Lodge |
| 2=9 Theoricus, 1st Order | The Grades of the Order |
| Alphabet and the Nines | |
|---|---|
| Coptic | |
| 1000 | Arabic |
| 600 | Greek |
| Kabbalah and the Nines | ||
|---|---|---|
| YSVD - Foundation | Hebrew Name of Letter | |
| ShDY AL ChY | God Name in Assiah | Almighty and Every-Living God; refers to his function as Pangenetor |
| LBNH - Sphere of Luna | Heavens of Assiah | |
| GMLYAL | Order of Qlippoth | |
| 45 | Mystic Number of the Sephiroth | |
| Air | Element & Planetary ruler | Yesod, Air on account of the extremely important mystery expressed in Liber 418, Aethyr XI. The integrity of the Sephiroth is guaranteed by the fact that each one contains its contradictory in itself. Yesod, the Foundation, the principle of stability, cannot be shaken because it is also the ideal of elasticity, and instability. |
| 6th Plane, Middle Pillar | Tree of Life | |
| Pure or Clear Intelligence | Path of the Sepher Yetsirah | |
| Joseph | Saints or Adepts of the Hebrews | |
| Angels Foundations in the World of Yetsirah | ||
| MGL VYLVN YShShYM - Firmament | Heavens of Assiah | |
| Sol, Luna, planets, stars and 10 spheres | Contents of Palaces of Assiah | |
| VHYH | The Revolution of YHVH in Yetsirah | |
| RVCH - The Intellect | Parts of the Soul | |
| GBRYAL | Archangel of Assiah | |
| KRBYM - Angels of the Elements | Angels of Assiah | |
| DYAN | Revolution of Adonai in Assiah | |
| Signum foederis sancti | Ten divisions of the Body of God | |
| ThBL, ChLD - Wet Earth | The Ten Earths in Seven Palaces | |
| GYHNM - Hell | The Ten Hells in Seven Palaces | |
| LYLYTh | Some Princes of the Qliphoth | |
| The Dukes and Kings of Edom | ||
| South | Elements and Quarters () | |
| Saturn | Alchemical Tree of Life | |
| Mercury | Alchemical Metals | |
| Hindu attributions to the Nines | |
|---|---|
| Hati | Egyptian Attributions of the Parts of the Soul |
| Linga Sharira | The Soul (Hindu) |
| Muladhara (Lingam and Anus) | The Chakras |
| Kama | The Ten Fetters (Buddhism) |
| Arabic Heavens and the Nines | |
|---|---|
| Garden of Eden, or Everlasting Abode, made of red pearls or pure musk | Seven Heavens of the Arabs |
| Jannat al-Adn or al-Karar | Meaning of Seven Heavens of the Arabs |
| Hells and the Nines | |
|---|---|
| Frogs | The Ten Plagues of Egypt |
| Obscene Ones | Qlippoth |
| Jehannam | Seven Hells of the Arabs |
| Moslems | Seven Hells of the Arabs: Their Inhabitants |
