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.

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