Thuismis is an obscure demonic name drawn from the late antique Jewish magical tradition known as the Sword of Moses. The name likely derives from a conflation of Hebrew roots: תְּהוֹם (tehom, “the deep” or “abyss”) and perhaps מוֹס (mos, “foundation” or “rope” in Aramaic), yielding a sense of “foundation of the deep” or “abyss of binding.” It belongs to the class of chthonic, binding spirits invoked in practical Kabbalistic and theurgic operations.

Position on the Tree of Life

Thuismis is assigned to Path 18, which connects Chokmah (Wisdom) to Tiphareth (Beauty) via the Hebrew letter Cheth (ח). This is the path of the zodiacal sign Cancer, the Crab, and its Tarot card is The Chariot (Atu VII). Thuismis thus sits at a threshold of ordered will overcoming the primal waters — fitting for a name tied to the abyssal depths.

Astrological and planetary correspondence

As a “Cadent” name under column CXLIVIII (a column of general demonic and angelic names arranged by position rather than planet), Thuismis carries no fixed planetary attribution in the 777 schema. However, its position on Path 18 links it to the energies of Cancer (Moon, water, tides, and the hidden subconscious). In this context, Thuismis is a spirit of the deep — a keeper of submerged foundations.

Historical context

The name Thuismis appears in the Sword of Moses (Hebrew: חרב משה), a Jewish magical text dated to the Geonic period (7th–10th centuries CE), first published in critical form by Moses Gaster in 1896. In that grimoire, it is one of many “names of power” inscribed on the blade of the sword — a list of angels, demons, and divine epithets meant to be invoked for binding, destruction, or the revelation of secrets. Gaster’s manuscript (MS Gaster 78, now at the John Rylands Library) gives the name in Hebrew characters as תומיס or תוחמיס, indicating a spirit employed in aggressive adjurations: “I adjure you, Thuismis, by the great seal of Solomon, that you bind the adversary.”

The name appears alongside other collar-names like Tepistosoa, Phuonidie, and Aphut, forming a chain of spirits under the “Cadent” class — a term taken from astrological houses (cadent houses are those from which planets act weakly or secretly) but here applied to a hierarchy of spirits that stand at the edges of the divine throne.

In the Sword of Moses cosmology, such names were not mere labels but phonetically potent sigils, each syllable a key to a specific power. Thuismis, with its guttural and sibilant sounds, was thought to resonate with the subterranean waters — tehom — that support the foundations of the world.

In Liber 777

In Crowley’s Liber 777, Thuismis appears in Table CLXXII (column CXLVIII) under the heading “As Col. CXLVIII (Cadent)” at step 18. It occupies the same row as other Path-working names such as Asentacer (Path 15), Aharph (Path 16), and Tepistosoa (Path 17). No further Tarot, planetary, or color correspondences are given for it in this column; its function is purely as a name to be vibrated or meditated upon when working the Cadent force on Path 18 — a whisper from the deeps that underlies the Chariot’s wheel.