Sephiroth of Solomon
Decoded from the Torah of Solomon by some Cabbalists in Cordoba.
[Among many cabalistic tidbits of dubious game worth is a sephiroth outlining the theories of genieology. ]
Keter. Praises be to him who is lord of the genies, and us, and all.
Chokmah. Genies are beings of pure spirit, created ex nihilo. Their so-called Pre-Adamite kings—Raad, Daki, and Gian Ben Gian—once ruled the earth, in the time before man, so their creation must have been a very early one, long before even the self-aggrandizing stylings of those cursed desert wanderers.
Binah. It appears that they were all but destroyed, probably for their sins, although, being of pure spirit, they perdured in one way or another, in a state of madness.
Chesed. I [Solomon] managed a kind of pseudodivine secondary creation, as I dragged them back from oblivion, by binding them to elements [a tedious enumeration of what genies match what elements here], and it is I they serve.
Gevurah. Although mighty in strength and wisdom, they are in many regards an unstable race, unable to articulate a pre-Edenic state they dimly remember and have failed to understand. They are half mad, easily led, and tend to fall apart quite literally in a flash of elemental energy.
Tipheret. As we worship our maker, so do genies worship a genie god they call Arnais, who, they say, lives in a tilism in Chahal Sutoon, in Qaf.
Netzach. I sailed the seven enchanted seas (magnets, clay, mercury, blood, fire, vertigo, and annihilation) of Qaf, but could never find him, or it.
Hod. Those most fanatic in his service I have exiled to the Zandan at the end of Forty Wonders.
Yesod. Perhaps he recalls more of the past than the others do, but although
Malkuth. Qaf is a dangerous place, situated near the bound and howling giant. It is much larger than the mountains that contain it, and already its inhabitants have begun the construction of twenty cities therein, who a year ago could not even be said to properly exist, let alone swing a zangala. Their time is not our time, their ways are not our ways. Although they serve me most faithfully, I suspect sometimes that they are wholly other, that they can never be fully trusted, as though they were of a wholly other creation. Without my seal and my aqrab, what would I do with them?
