Angels
Messengers, intelligences and names of power.
4 traditions8 curated texts
Angels govern planets and hours in the Heptameron, reveal a language to John Dee, are invoked by name in Jewish magical manuals such as Sefer Raziel, and are described as inhabitants of the spiritual world by nineteenth-century visionaries.
The sources treat angels very differently: as ritual partners, as cosmological orders, or as spirit communicators. Read them for what each tradition assumed.
Key Texts (8)
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
S.L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.)
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
S.L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.)
English · Grimoires
Three books of occult philosophy or magic
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Traditions Connected
The same idea appears in each of these traditions. Open one to browse its full shelf.