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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description: The ranked hosts of heaven and the bound spirits of the grimoires — two
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hierarchies facing each other across the same abyss.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Angels & Demons
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> *The ranked hosts of heaven and the bound spirits of the grimoires — two hierarchies facing each other across the same abyss.*
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Western esotericism inherited two great catalogues of spirit: the **celestial hierarchy** of the angels, ordered into nine choirs by Pseudo-Dionysius in the sixth century, and the **infernal hierarchy** of the demons, ranked and numbered in the medieval and Renaissance grimoires. They are studied here as comparative religion and depth psychology — maps of the imagined cosmos and, read through Jung, maps of the psyche's own heights and depths. Both draw their names, ranks, and correspondences from the same well as the [Kabbalah](/knowledge/spirituality/kabbalah) and the [Tree of Life](/knowledge/tree-of-life).
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## The Celestial Hierarchy
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The nine choirs of angels, in three spheres from the throne of God outward:
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**First sphere** — [Seraphim](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/seraphim) · [Cherubim](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/cherubim) · [Thrones](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/thrones)
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**Second sphere** — [Dominions](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/dominions) · [Virtues](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/virtues) · [Powers](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/powers)
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**Third sphere** — [Principalities](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/principalities) · [Archangels](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/archangels) · [Angels](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels)
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### The Archangels
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The chief messengers, each tied to a planet and a sphere of the Tree of Life: [Metatron](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/metatron-archangel) (the Crown, [Kether](/knowledge/tree-of-life/kether)), [Michael](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/michael) (Sun), [Gabriel](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/gabriel) (Moon), [Raphael](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/raphael) (Mercury), [Uriel](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/uriel) (Earth), [Haniel](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/haniel) (Venus), [Khamael](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/khamael) (Mars), [Tzadkiel](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/tzadkiel) (Jupiter), [Tzaphkiel](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/tzaphkiel) (Saturn), and [Sandalphon](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/sandalphon) (the material world).
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Their scriptural sources are gathered in [Biblical Angels](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/biblical-angels).
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### The Shem ha-Mephorash
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**[Shem ha-Mephorash](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/shem-ha-mephorash)** — the seventy-two angels of the divine Name, each governing five degrees of the zodiac and standing as the benevolent counterpart to one of the seventy-two Goetic spirits. The light half of the same wheel.
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## The Infernal Hierarchy
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**[Ars Goetia](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/ars-goetia)** — the seventy-two spirits of the *Lesser Key of Solomon*, each with its rank, its legions, and its office. The demonic counterpart to the angelic host.
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Seen whole, the domain divides into two facing hierarchies whose seventy-two named spirits mirror one another across the wheel of the heavens:
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```mermaid
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flowchart TD
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R["Angels and Demons"]
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R --> C["Celestial Hierarchy — nine choirs in three spheres"]
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R --> I["Infernal Hierarchy"]
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C --> SH["Shem ha-Mephorash — 72 angels of the Name"]
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I --> G["Ars Goetia — 72 spirits of the Lesser Key"]
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SH <-->|"light and dark of one wheel"| G
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```
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---
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## Related
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- [Biblical Angels](/knowledge/angels-and-demons/angels/biblical-angels)
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- [Kabbalah](/knowledge/spirituality/kabbalah) — the source of the names and hierarchies
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- [Tree of Life](/knowledge/tree-of-life) — the spheres the archangels govern
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- [Mythology](/knowledge/mythology) — the older gods behind many of these names
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- [Knowledge Hub](/knowledge)
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