Home›Elemental Archangels›Belongs To TraditionBrowse ByBelongs To TraditionThis page groups archangels by the religious tradition that names them. Wikipedia notes that "the word is usually associated with the Abrahamic religions and many offshoots with which they are historically associated." Browsing by belongs-to-tradition lets a visitor find every archangel named within the same tradition.FactsLearn MoreBelongs To TraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedSourced to the subject's own accountThe four archangels assigned to the classical elements and to the quarters of the ritual circle: Raphael in the east for Air, Michael in the south for Fire, Gabriel in the west for Water, Uriel in the north for Earth. It is a ritual scheme of Western ceremonial magic; no scripture assigns an archangel to an element. 2Size of the Traditional SetWell-attestedSourced to the subject's own accountFour: one archangel to each of the four classical elements and quarters. 2OriginsOrigin PeriodWell-attestedLate nineteenth century, in the rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1888. 3Whose Classification This IsWell-attestedThe arrangement is the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's, fixed in its ritual and carried into most later Western ritual magic. The order assembled it from earlier printed sources rather than receiving it from a tradition. 4DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedArchangels 1Learn MoreThe Elemental Archangels This group gathers the elemental archangels, the four archangels assigned to the classical elements of earth, water, air and fire and to the four directions, most familiar from the ritual of ceremonial magic, where they are called to guard the quarters. The four great archangels of Abrahamic tradition are commonly set in this elemental scheme. The browser will find the archangels linked to the elements. The entries describe each figure and its element, noting the ceremonial and esoteric tradition from which the arrangement comes.Belongs To TraditionFilter Results3 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll14,800,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll14,800,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (2)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Era of Decline End YearAll600 (1)Era of Decline Start YearAll300 (1)Era of Modern Revival End YearAll1471 (1)Era of Modern Revival Start YearAll1463 (1)Establishment StatusAllDeclared Not Established (1)Varies by Province (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (1)2011-12-19 (1)2013-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (2)Origin Period End YearAll400 BCE (1)50 (1)300 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll586 BCE (1)1 (1)30 (1)Position on SexualityAllThe body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (2)Position on UsuryAllInterest is permitted but bound by ethical constraints against exploiting the poor (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (2)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTen percent. (1)Status TodayAllHistorical; not practised continuously (1)Living tradition, practised today (2)Revived or reconstructed in the modern era (1)TheologyAllEmanationist: reality proceeds from an ineffable One (1)Monistic: one ultimate reality behind all appearance (1)Monotheistic: one God (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareChristianityBelongs To Tradition1 entryHermeticismBelongs To Tradition4 entriesJudaismBelongs To Tradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 6th editiontier 3Israel Regardie, Llewellyn, 1989the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the PentagramView the Source3. The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923tier 1Ellic Howe, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972On the Sprengel correspondence and the founding of Isis-UraniaView the Source4. Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Traditiontier 1Alison Butler, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011On the printed sources behind the order's ritualsDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearChoose a year to see this entry's facts and connections as the atlas records them at that moment: what it held then, what it held instead, and what it had not yet adopted. Choose Present for the current record.YearPresent1888Show This Year