Home›Planetary 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)FactsOriginsOrigin PeriodWell-attestedThe grimoire tradition of early modern Europe. The scheme reached English readers in Robert Turner's translation of 1655, printed with the pseudo-Agrippan Fourth Book. 2Whose Classification This IsWell-attestedSourced to the subject's own accountIt is not Agrippa's own list. The Three Books of Occult Philosophy give the seven planetary angels as Zaphkiel for Saturn, Zadkiel for Jupiter, Camael for Mars, Raphael for the Sun, Haniel for Venus, Michael for Mercury and Gabriel for the Moon. 3Whose Classification This IsWell-attestedThe set is that of the Heptameron attributed to Peter of Abano and of the Key of Solomon manuscript tradition, which pair each angel with a planet and with its day of the week. It is not scriptural. 2OverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe seven archangels assigned one to each of the classical planets and to the day of the week it rules: Michael to the Sun, Gabriel to the Moon, Raphael to Mercury, Anael to Venus, Samael to Mars, Sachiel to Jupiter and Cassiel to Saturn. It is a scheme of the grimoire tradition, not of scripture. 2Size of the Traditional SetWell-attestedSeven: one archangel to each of the classical planets and to its day of the week. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedArchangels 1Learn MoreThe planetary archangels This group holds the planetary archangels, the archangels assigned to the seven classical planets, a scheme central to astrological and ceremonial magic, in which each planet has its governing angel invoked in works of that planetary nature. The browser will find the archangels linked to the planets. The entries describe each figure and its planet, noting the astrological and magical tradition from which the correspondences derive.Belongs To TraditionFilter Results4 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll14,800,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll14,800,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (3)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (2)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 (2)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Customary Norm (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (2)2011-01-27 (1)2011-12-19 (1)2013-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (3)Origin Period End YearAll400 BCE (1)50 (1)300 (1)632 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll586 BCE (1)1 (1)30 (1)610 (1)Position on MarriageAllMarriage may licitly be polygynous (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (1)The 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)Interest of any kind on a loan is forbidden (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (2)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (2)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTen percent. (1)Two and a half percent. (1)Status TodayAllHistorical; not practised continuously (1)Living tradition, practised today (3)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 (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareChristianityBelongs To Tradition3 entriesHermeticismBelongs To Tradition7 entriesIslamBelongs To Tradition2 entriesJudaismBelongs To Tradition4 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Grimoires: A History of Magic Bookstier 1Owen Davies, Oxford University Press, 2009On the Heptameron and the Fourth Book corpusView the Source3. Three Books of Occult Philosophytier 3Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Llewellyn, 1533Book II, ch. 10, the scale of the number sevenView the SourceDivinity 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.YearPresent1500Show This Year