Hagith

Hagith is the Olympic planetary spirit traditionally assigned to the sphere of the Sun—its name likely a Renaissance Latinization of a Hebrew or Arabic root, sometimes interpreted as “the one who rejoices” or “the shining one.” In the grimoire tradition of the Arbatel de Magia Veterum (1575), from which the Olympic spirits derive, Hagith is the spirit who rules the “diurnal” hours of the Sun and whose office includes granting gold, precious stones, vitality, and the love of great persons.

Position on the Tree of Life

Within the schema of Liber 777, Hagith is placed on Path 14, the Sephirah of Tiphereth (Beauty) on the Tree of Life. Tiphereth is the solar center of the Tree, harmonizing the upper and lower Sephiroth; Path 14 connects Binah (Understanding) to Tiphereth, a bridge of structured mercy. Hagith’s solar nature thus aligns with the radiant, harmonizing character of this Sephirah—giving it a direct link to the sphere of the Sun in both macrocosmic and ritual contexts.

Astrological and Planetary Correspondence

Hagith is ascribed to the Sun in all standard grimoire lists and in Liber 777. As the solar Olympic spirit, Hagith governs sulfury, golden, and expansive forces: authority, resurrection, healing, and material abundance. In the planetary hierarchy of the Olympic spirits, each spirit rules a visible planet in a rotating 24‑hour cycle; Hagith’s day is Sunday, and its metal is gold. It is also given the power to bestow “the love of the great ones of the earth” and the ability to turn any substance into precious metal (a claim that must be understood as alchemical allegory more than literal transmutation).

Historical Context

The Olympic spirits appear first in the Arbatel of Magic, an anonymous mid‑16th‑century Latin grimoire that divided the invisible governors of the cosmos into seven “Olympic” realms, each governed by a named spirit with a specific jurisdiction and a seal. Hagith is the third spirit listed (after Aratron for Saturn and Bethor for Jupiter). The Arbatel describes Hagith as ruling over “all things that are under the Sun” — that is, all solar influences on Earth — and gives a seven‑hour ritual for evoking its presence. Later occultists, including Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (through the Arbatel’s influence), Robert Turner (English translation, 1655), and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, adopted this scheme. The Golden Dawn re‑mapped the Olympic spirits to the planetary spheres on the Tree of Life, placing Hagith on Path 14 of Tiphereth. Eliphas Lévi and others also mention these spirits in their writings on ceremonial magic, maintaining the Sun‑Hagith correspondence as a fixed point.

In Liber 777

In Crowley’s Liber 777, Hagith appears in the column for Olympic Planetary Spirits at scale step 14. Its sibling cells in the same column are Ophiel (Mercury, Path 12), Phul (Moon, Path 13), Bethor (Jupiter, Path 21), Phaleg (Mars, Path 27), Och (Venus, Path 30), and Aratron (Saturn, Path 32). As such, Hagith stands as the solar representative in a sequence that maps the seven classical planets onto the Tree of Life—a compact but potent table of correspondences for ritualists working with planetary force.