Netzach

Victory, Endurance, Eternity

The Seventh Path is called the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendour of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.
The 7th Path, the Occult Intelligence: The 32 Paths of Wisdom, trans. Westcott

Correspondences

Number: 7 of the ten
Meaning: Victory, Endurance, Eternity
Pillar: Pillar of Mercy
Triad: Astral Triad
World: Yetzirah
Divine name (Atziluth): YHVH Tzabaoth יהוה צבאות
the Lord of Hosts
Archangel (Briah): Haniel האניאל
the Grace or Glory of God
Angelic choir (Yetzirah): Elohim אלהים
the Gods
Mundane chakra (Assiah): Nogah נוגה
Venus, the Shining One
Colours: King: Amber · Queen: Emerald · Prince: Bright yellowish green · Princess: Olive, flecked gold
Magical image: A beautiful naked woman
Spiritual experience: The Vision of Beauty Triumphant
Virtue: Unselfishness
Vice: Unchastity; lust
Titles: Firmness; Victory; the Occult Intelligence
Symbols: The lamp and girdle; the rose
Tarot: The four Sevens
In the body: The loins, hips and legs (777: left hip)
Part of the soul: Ruach
Grade: Philosophus 4°=7□
Qliphoth: A’arab Zaraq, the ravens of dispersion; arch-demon(s): Baal
Gods (777): Egyptian: Hathor · Greek: Aphrodite, Nike · Roman: Venus · Hindu: Bhavani and other goddesses of beauty
Precious stone: Emerald
Plant: Rose
Animal: Lynx
Perfume: Benzoin; rose; red sandalwood
Magical weapon: The lamp and girdle

In Jewish Kabbalah

Netzach, eternity or victory, is the right leg or hip of the divine body and is identified with Moses. With Hod it forms the pair that the Zohar calls the “two pillars”, the testicles or the kidneys that counsel, the source of prophecy: all prophets except Moses saw through these two sephiroth, “as through a glass”, while Moses saw through the clear lens of Tiferet.

In the Golden Dawn and Thelema

The Philosophus grade of the Golden Dawn belongs to Netzach and the element Fire; the candidate passes the 29th, 28th and 27th paths to reach it. Netzach is the sphere of Venus, of the group-souls and of the emotions and arts; the Golden Dawn taught that the gods and goddesses of the pantheons are forms built in Netzach and given shape in Hod. Crowley’s Sevens (Valour, Debauch, Futility, Failure) are the weakest cards of each suit: each is unbalanced, off the Middle Pillar, and liable to degenerate.

Dion Fortune

Fortune treats Netzach as the sphere of the instincts and the emotions, of nature-forces and of the arts. It is where the One becomes many, in image and feeling. Netzach and Hod work as a pair: Netzach supplies force and Hod gives it form, so the poet and the magician, the artist and the scholar, need each other. The magical image of the naked woman is beauty without disguise; its vice is lust, beauty without love.

In the Tarot

Each sephirah rules the four small cards of its number. From two to ten, each card is also one of the 36 decans of the zodiac, ruled by a planet in a sign, following the Golden Dawn’s Book T.

Card	Thoth title	Book T title	Decan
7 of Wands	Valour	Lord of Valour	Mars in Leo
7 of Cups	Debauch	Lord of Illusionary Success	Venus in Scorpio
7 of Swords	Futility	Lord of Unstable Effort	Moon in Aquarius
7 of Disks	Failure	Lord of Success Unfulfilled	Saturn in Taurus

Paths from Netzach

Read further

Netzach on Wikipediaoverview of the Jewish and Hermetic sources
Sepher Yetzirah and the 32 Paths of WisdomW. Wynn Westcott, trans., 1887
The Kabbalah UnveiledS. L. MacGregor Mathers, from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Kabbala Denudata, 1887
Liber 777 RevisedAleister Crowley, 1909/1955
The Book of ThothAleister Crowley, 1944
The Golden DawnIsrael Regardie, ed., 1937–40
A Garden of PomegranatesIsrael Regardie, 1932
The Mystical QabalahDion Fortune, 1935
The Pictorial Key to the TarotA. E. Waite, 1910
The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the AgesPaul Foster Case, 1947
A Practical Guide to Qabalistic SymbolismGareth Knight, 1965

Also in the background throughout: Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah (1974) and Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), for the Jewish tradition as historians understand it; Aryeh Kaplan, Sefer Yetzirah (1990); Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden (1977), for the Qliphoth; Robert Wang, The Qabalistic Tarot (1983).