Hadar of Pau is the eighth and penultimate named king in the list of the Kings of Edom, as recorded in Genesis 36:39 and 1 Chronicles 1:50-51. His name, derived from the Hebrew root הדר (HDR), signifies 'splendor,' 'majesty,' or 'ornament,' while his city, Pau (or Pai), is a location of uncertain etymology, possibly meaning 'bleating' (as of a flock) or 'a cleft' in the rock. In the Qabalistic tradition, particularly as systematized by Aleister Crowley in Liber 777, Hadar of Pau is the specific manifestation of the Kings of Edom on the Sephirah Malkuth, the tenth and final sphere on the Tree of Life.

Position on the Tree of Life

Hadar of Pau corresponds to the tenth Sephirah, Malkuth (The Kingdom). This is the sphere of the material world, the physical plane, and the culmination of the divine emanations. In the sequence of the Kings of Edom, each king represents a 'world' or 'universe' that perished due to a lack of balance (the 'Kings of Edom' are the 'worlds of unbalanced force' from the Kabbalistic cosmology of Isaac Luria). Placing Hadar at Malkuth signifies the final, most dense, and most unstable state of this unbalanced creation—a kingdom of pure, unrectified matter that cannot sustain itself.

Astrological and Planetary Correspondence

In the standard Liber 777 schema, Malkuth is associated with the planet Earth (in its material aspect) and the element of Earth. However, the Kings of Edom are not typically given direct planetary rulerships in the same way as the Sephiroth themselves. Instead, the correspondence is structural: Hadar of Pau is the 'King' who rules the 'world' of Malkuth, representing the outermost shell of the Qliphoth (the 'husks' or 'shells' of impurity) that are the 'death' of the Sephiroth. His 'splendor' is a hollow, material glory that lacks the divine light of the higher spheres.

Historical Context

The list of the Kings of Edom is found in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 36:31-39), where it is presented as a genealogy of the Edomite monarchy 'before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.' The list is: Bela, Jobab, Husham, Hadad, Samlah, Shaul, Baal-Hanan, and Hadar. In the Kabbalistic tradition, these kings are interpreted allegorically. The Zohar and later Lurianic Kabbalah describe them as the 'worlds of Tohu' (Chaos) that could not contain the divine light and shattered, creating the Qliphoth. Each king represents a specific Sephirah in a state of imbalance. Hadar of Pau, as the eighth king, corresponds to the Sephirah of Malkuth in this shattered state. His reign is followed by a final, unnamed king (often identified with the Qliphothic entity 'Hadar II' or the 'King of the Qliphoth' itself), who is the ultimate symbol of the unredeemed material world. In Liber 777, this sequence is mapped directly onto the Tree of Life, with Hadar of Pau occupying the position of Malkuth, the 'Kingdom' of the unbalanced forces.

Hadar of Pau appears in Liber 777 at the tenth step (Malkuth) of the column titled 'The Kings of Edom.' He is the specific, named embodiment of the unbalanced material world, the 'splendor' of a kingdom built on chaos and destined for dissolution.