This page groups archangels by the planet each one is traditionally said to govern. Wikipedia notes that "archangels constitute the second-lowest rank of angel in the hierarchy of angels, based on and put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite," a rank later systems overlaid with planetary rulerships. Browsing by ruling-planet lets a visitor find every archangel governing the same planet.
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Origins
Origin PeriodThe 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. 2 Whose Classification This IsSourced 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. 3 Whose Classification This IsThe 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. 2 Overview
What Defines This GroupingThe 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. 2 Size of the Traditional SetSeven: one archangel to each of the classical planets and to its day of the week. 2 Learn More
The 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.
Mars
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
Owen Davies, Oxford University Press, 2009On the Heptameron and the Fourth Book corpusView the Source 3. Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Llewellyn, 1533Book II, ch. 10, the scale of the number sevenView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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