Shem HaMephorash: "the explicit name”

Athanasius Kircher, a scholar influenced by Reuchlin's cosmology, contributed to the study of Shem HaMephorash

Kircher's work on the name of 72 times, connected each angel to the word of God in different languages,

“To overcome the problems posed by the doctrine of God's transcendence, the early Jewish mystics developed an emanation theory in which the alphabet played an important part. They taught that the universe was divided into ten angelic spheres each one governed by an intermediary or emanation of the divine. There were seventy-two inferior angels through whom the intermediaries could be approached. Contact with this celestial world was achieved by manipulating the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. [...] This invocatory technique may be traced through the works of Joseph Gikatilla to the famous thirteenth-century Kabbalist Abraham Abulafia.”

• G. Lloyd Jones

Reuchlin's angels of the Shem HaMephorash