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	In the [[Hierarchy of Hell]], according to author [[Francis Barrett]], the Primum Mobile is associated with the False Gods.		In the [[Hierarchy of Hell]], according to author [[Francis Barrett]], the Primum Mobile is associated with the False Gods.

	It corresponds to the [[sefirot]] of [[Keter]] on the [[Kabbalah\|Kabbalistic]] [[Tree of Life]].		It corresponds to the [[sefirot]] of [[Keter]] on the [[Kabbalah\|Kabbalistic]] [[Tree of Life]] and also to its opposing [[qlippoth]], [[Thaumiel]] on the [[Tree of Death]].

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	In the [[Hierarchy of Hell]], according to author [[Francis Barrett]], the Primum Mobile is associated with the False Gods.		In the [[Hierarchy of Hell]], according to author [[Francis Barrett]], the Primum Mobile is associated with the False Gods.

			It corresponds to the [[sefirot]] of [[Keter]] on the [[Kabbalah\|Kabbalistic]] [[Tree of Life]].

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In classical, medieval, and Renaissance astronomy, the '''''Primum Mobile''''' (''Latin'': "first movable") was the outermost moving sphere in the geocentric model of the universe.

The concept was introduced by Ptolemy to account for the apparent daily motion of the heavens around the [[Earth]], producing the east-to-west rising and setting of the [[sun]] and stars, and reached Western Europe via the [[Islam|Islamic]] philosopher Ibn Sina (commonly known as "Avicenna").

==Appearance and rotation==
The Ptolemaic system presented a view of the universe in which apparent motion was taken for real. Rotation of the Earth on its polar axis was not widely accepted until after [[Nicolaus Copernicus]], leading earlier astronomers the believe was the movement of all the heavenly bodies around the Earth every 24 hours.

Astronomers believed that the seven naked-eye planets (including the [[Moon]] and the [[Sun]]) were carried around the spherical Earth on invisible orbs, while an eighth sphere contained the fixed stars. Motion was provided to the whole system by the Primum Mobile, itself set within the Empyrean, and the fastest moving of all the spheres.

==Spherical variations==
The total number of celestial spheres was not fixed. In a 16th-century illustration, the firmament (sphere of fixed stars) is eighth, a "crystalline" sphere (posited to account for the reference to "waters ... above the firmament" in Genesis 1:7) is ninth, and the Primum Mobile is tenth. Outside all is the Empyrean, the "habitation of [[Yahweh|God]] and all the elect."

==Copernicus and after==
[[Nicolaus Copernicus]] accepted existence of the sphere of the fixed stars, and (more ambiguously) that of the Primum Mobile, as too (initially) did [[Galileo Galilei]], although he would later challenge its necessity in a heliocentric system.

Francis Bacon was as sceptical of the Primum Mobile as he was of the rotation of the earth. Once Kepler had made the sun, not the Primum Mobile, the cause of planetary motion, however, the Primum Mobile gradually declined into the realm of metaphor or literary allusion.

==Occult significance==
In the [[Hierarchy of angels]], the Primum Mobile is the highest sphere and is ruled over by the Archangel [[Metatron]]. It is associated with the [[Seraphim]] choir and has the divine name "Ehieh."

In the [[Hierarchy of Hell]], according to author [[Francis Barrett]], the Primum Mobile is associated with the False Gods.

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