Ieratel i Seeya (transliterated Ierathel and Seeia or Seeya) are a pair of ruling angels of the Wands in the Solomonic tradition. The names appear together in the 9th (Yesod) position of the scale and function as a dyadic current: Ieratel (Ierathel) typically carries the sense of “God’s vision” or “God sees” (from Hebrew ra’ah, to see, with the divine suffix -el), while Seeya (Seeia) may derive from a form of shah or sa’ah (to gaze, to watch), reinforcing the paired idea of divine seeing and active beholding. As a double name, they represent the active and passive aspects of the same celestial intelligence—the one who looks and the one who is seen, the watcher and the witnessed, united in the wands’ creative and authority-bearing function.

Position on the Tree of Life

Ierathel and Seeia occupy the 9th step of the scale, which corresponds to Yesod—the Foundation, the sphere of the Moon, and the astral plane. In the Wands hierarchy, they rule over the lunar aspect of authority and magic: not the raw fire of Tiphereth, but the formative, receptive power that receives and transmits the creative current into manifestation. Their pairing echoes the polarization necessary for generation, a key theme in Yesod, where the active and passive principles become distinct for the first time.

Astrological and planetary correspondence

Although the column heading (Pairs of Angels ruling Wands) primarily derives from the Solomonic list, the position in Yesod gives the pair a lunar and astrological character. In many systems, both names are linked to the moon’s phases and to the operation of the aleph–mem–shin currents. Ierathel often corresponds to the waxing light (force), Seeia to the waning light (form), together governing the ebb and flow of magical power within the wands’ sphere.

Historical context

The source for these paired angel names is the Solomonic corpus of angelic conjurations, particularly the manuscripts of the Clavicula Salomonis and the Lemegeton (Goetia). In these grimoires, certain angels or intelligences are listed in pairs, each ruling a particular type of operation (e.g., wands for authority, cups for love, swords for combat). The list from which Ierathel and Seeia derive appears to be a medieval Latin translation of an earlier Hebrew or Aramaic angelological schema, which was then absorbed into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn’s correspondences. The Golden Dawn, in turn, organized the list in the table of Liber 777 according to the ten sephiroth. The name Ieratel (Ierathel) is sometimes found in abbreviated form as Ierath or Jerathel in earlier MSS, and Seeya (Seeia) as Seehiah or Seheiah—the variant suggests a root meaning “the God who speaks” or “the God who secretes power.” In later Hermetic sources (notably Mathers’s and Crowley’s commentaries), the pair is interpreted as embodying the specific Vibratory formula for wands in the lunar sphere: “the force that sees and the force that is seen, twin pillars of one authority.”

In the table of 777

In Liber 777, the pair Ieratel i Seeya appears in the column for Pairs of Angels ruling Wands at the 9th scale step (Yesod). Their neighboring pairs in the same column are Niftayya i Khaayya (8, Hod) above and Reyiel i Omael (10, Malkuth) below. The pairing—uneven in Hebrew spelling and gender nuance—mirrors the fundamental Yesodic division of the one wand into two complementary currents.