Kedemel
The spirit of Venus
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Kedemel is the spirit of Venus in Agrippa’s arrangement. It is set against Hagiel, the intelligence.
The character is not a drawing. It is the name itself, laid on the table of the planet. The Hebrew קדמאל has the letter values 100 + 4 + 40 + 1 + 30. A value larger than the square takes the cell that matches it by Aiq Bekar, so here 100 at 10. Joining those cells in the order the letters are written gives the figure, beginning at the small circle.
Added up, the letters of Kedemel come to 175 — the number every row and column of the square of Venus comes to.
Agrippa finished the three books of De occulta philosophia around 1510 and they were printed at Cologne in 1533. The second book is the one about number, and in it each of the seven planets is given a table of numbers, a seal, and two further figures for the intelligence and the spirit set over it. The figures here are traced from the English translation printed at London in 1651.
Henry Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres, Book II (Cologne, 1533), in the English translation printed at London in 1651. The text and the characters are in the public domain.
Traced from the plate, not redrawn. The broken strokes and thickened corners are the press and the paper; straightening them would change the figure.
Agrippa’s figures were recopied from edition to edition, and the later copies take liberties — Francis Barrett’s of 1801 redraws them with a free hand. Nothing here is taken from a redrawing.
Agrippa’s own figures do not always follow the method exactly. Where the plate and the method disagree, what is shown is the plate.