Seeking Primary Sources: Metatron/Sandalphon Seals in Manuscripts or Grimoires

Hakon · Friday at 2:01 PM

Hi everyone,

I’m researching traditional (grimoire-based) seals/sigils for Archangel Metatron and Archangel Sandalphon, and I’d like to ask for help from anyone who has solid references.

I often see modern “Metatron” symbols online (especially the so-called Metatron’s Cube), but I’m specifically looking for older / more traditional material — ideally seals that appear in historical grimoires, manuscripts, or established magical systems (e.g., Solomonic traditions, Heptameron/Trithimius/Agrippa-related material, Jewish magical manuscripts, etc.).

My questions:

Are there any recognized traditional seals explicitly attributed to Metatron and/or Sandalphon in older sources?
If so, which text/manuscript contains them (title + edition/manuscript reference if possible)?
Are there cases where their “seals” are actually names, divine name permutations, letter squares, or angelic signatures rather than a single fixed sigil?
If you have images/scans, I’d appreciate them — or at least a clear citation so I can verify.

I’m not looking for modern channeled designs; I’m trying to find something that is as textually grounded and historically traceable as possible.

Thanks in advance for any leads, references, or guidance.

Lurker · Friday at 3:08 PM

You can find a seal (and DSIC-style invocation) for Metatron in Keys to the Gateway of Magic by Skinner and Rankine. The primary source is Sloane MS 3825, so it's a text from the Renaissance era.

We have it HERE in the library.

HoldAll · Friday at 5:33 PM

Lurker said:
You can find a seal (and DSIC-style invocation) for Metatron in Keys to the Gateway of Magic by Skinner and Rankine. The primary source is Sloane MS 3825, so it's a text from the Renaissance era.

We have it HERE in the library.

Dead Library link but you can easily find it on welib.org

Ziran · Friday at 7:48 PM

Hakon said:
Are there any recognized traditional seals explicitly attributed to Metatron and/or Sandalphon in older sources?

Maybe this will help? In my community, what you're looking for is called Zier Anpin. Original source: the Zohar, parsha Pinchas: [

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"וְאִית מֶרְכָּבָה לְתַתָּא מִזְּעֵיר אַנְפִּין, דְּאִיהוּ מְטַ"טְרוֹן"

"... and it's the chariot of the lower, emerging from Zier Anpin, which is Metatron."

Hakon · Monday at 2:03 PM

Lurker said:
You can find a seal (and DSIC-style invocation) for Metatron in Keys to the Gateway of Magic by Skinner and Rankine. The primary source is Sloane MS 3825, so it's a text from the Renaissance era.

We have it HERE in the library.

Perfect! Thnk you!!

boymatmat · Tuesday at 3:09 PM

there are no widely attested, standardized graphic “seals” for Metatron or Sandalphon in the core Solomonic grimoire corpus (e.g., Heptameron, Clavicula Salomonis, Lemegeton). Unlike Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, or even Anael and Sachiel, their names do not appear attached to fixed sigillary forms in these Renaissance Works.

Metatron’s primary textual locus is the Hekhalot and Merkabah corpus, particularly 3 Enoch (Sefer Hekhalot). However, these are visionary ascent texts rather than operative grimoires. They describe hierarchies, throne mysticism, and angelology, but do not provide seals in the later Solomonic sense.

The more plausible area to investigate would be practical Kabbalah manuscripts.

In Jewish magical and amuletic traditions — especially materials preserved in the Cairo Geniza — angelic authority is often expressed through:
• Divine Name expansions (milui)
• Permutation matrices
• Letter squares
• Acrostic constructions
• Angelic names embedded within adjuration formulae

In these contexts, what functions as a “seal” is frequently a structured configuration of divine names or permuted Hebrew letters rather than a geometric sigil.

For primary-source direction, you may want to consult:
• Gideon Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic
• Joseph Dan’s work on early Jewish mysticism
• Editions of Geniza amulets published by Shlomo Shaked and Peter Schäfer
• Studies of practical Kabbalah in Ashkenazi manuscript traditions (17th–18th century amuletic material)

Regarding Sandalphon: his attestation in operative magical sources is significantly thinner. While he appears in rabbinic and mystical literature (often associated with prayer ascension and sometimes described as a counterpart to Metatron), there does not appear to be a standardized Renaissance grimoire seal attributed to him.

Many circulating “Metatron seals” — including the popularized cube diagram — appear to stem from later esoteric reinterpretations rather than medieval manuscript evidence

Ziran · Tuesday at 3:44 PM

boymatmat said:
Many circulating “Metatron seals” — including the popularized cube diagram — appear to stem from later esoteric reinterpretations rather than medieval manuscript evidence

The cube is a merkavah; metatron is a mercavah; that's the connection.

Hakon · Tuesday at 3:50 PM

boymatmat said:
there are no widely attested, standardized graphic “seals” for Metatron or Sandalphon in the core Solomonic grimoire corpus (e.g., Heptameron, Clavicula Salomonis, Lemegeton). Unlike Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, or even Anael and Sachiel, their names do not appear attached to fixed sigillary forms in these Renaissance Works.

Metatron’s primary textual locus is the Hekhalot and Merkabah corpus, particularly 3 Enoch (Sefer Hekhalot). However, these are visionary ascent texts rather than operative grimoires. They describe hierarchies, throne mysticism, and angelology, but do not provide seals in the later Solomonic sense.

The more plausible area to investigate would be practical Kabbalah manuscripts.

In Jewish magical and amuletic traditions — especially materials preserved in the Cairo Geniza — angelic authority is often expressed through:
• Divine Name expansions (milui)
• Permutation matrices
• Letter squares
• Acrostic constructions
• Angelic names embedded within adjuration formulae

In these contexts, what functions as a “seal” is frequently a structured configuration of divine names or permuted Hebrew letters rather than a geometric sigil.

For primary-source direction, you may want to consult:
• Gideon Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic
• Joseph Dan’s work on early Jewish mysticism
• Editions of Geniza amulets published by Shlomo Shaked and Peter Schäfer
• Studies of practical Kabbalah in Ashkenazi manuscript traditions (17th–18th century amuletic material)

Regarding Sandalphon: his attestation in operative magical sources is significantly thinner. While he appears in rabbinic and mystical literature (often associated with prayer ascension and sometimes described as a counterpart to Metatron), there does not appear to be a standardized Renaissance grimoire seal attributed to him.

Many circulating “Metatron seals” — including the popularized cube diagram — appear to stem from later esoteric reinterpretations rather than medieval manuscript evidence

Ziran said:
The cube is a merkavah; metatron is a mercavah; that's the connection.

What most people call “Metatron’s Cube” belongs to a modern sacred-geometry vocabulary. Even the widely used label “Flower of Life” (often treated as the diagram’s “source”) is explicitly described as a modern/New Age term, not a classical technical term from antiquity.

In terms of recent sources that popularized this package, a major modern vector is Drunvalo Melchizedek’s The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life (late 1990s / 2000s editions), which helped mainstream these associations in contemporary esoteric culture.

Ziran · Tuesday at 4:15 PM

Hakon said:
What most people call “Metatron’s Cube” belongs to a modern sacred-geometry vocabulary. Even the widely used label “Flower of Life” (often treated as the diagram’s “source”) is explicitly described as a modern/New Age term, not a classical technical term from antiquity.

In terms of recent sources that popularized this package, a major modern vector is Drunvalo Melchizedek’s The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life (late 1990s / 2000s editions), which helped mainstream these associations in contemporary esoteric culture.

thank you

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