The Angels of the Days

The Heptameron is a handbook of the days and the hours. For each day of the week it names the angel who governs it and sets down his sigil, his planet, the sign that planet rules and the heaven he belongs to: Michael on Sunday, Gabriel on Monday, Samael on Tuesday, Raphael on Wednesday, Sachiel on Thursday, Anael on Friday and Cassiel on Saturday.

The sigils are traced from the English printing of 1655, which stands beside Agrippa’s Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, and checked line for line against the Wellcome Library’s copy of the same edition.

7 sigils, free to browse and free to keep

Where these come from

The book is usually titled “of Peter de Abano”, after the thirteenth-century physician. That attribution is traditional rather than established.

Heptameron, or Magical Elements. English translation 1655. The text and the sigils are in the public domain.

The other collections

The Ars Goetia — The seventy-two spirits of the Lesser Key of Solomon, each with the seal set down beside it. 72 seals.

The Olympic Spirits — The seven governors of the Arbatel, who divide the world between them and each rule it in turn for 490 years. 7 characters.

The Pentacles of Solomon — Forty-four pentacles from the Key of Solomon, seven to a planet, each with the use the book puts it to — many of them protective. 44 pentacles.

The Elder Futhark — The twenty-four runes of the oldest runic alphabet, each with the stanza the Old English Rune Poem gives it. 24 runes.

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