Raphael

The Angel of Wednesday

The sigil of Raphael
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In orderNo. 4 of 7
DayWednesday
PlanetMercury
SignGemini and Virgo
Heaventhe second heaven, Raquie
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As the 1655 Heptameron has it
The Angels of Wednesday: Raphael, Miel, Seraphiel. The Angels of the Air ruling on Wednesday: Mediat, or Modiat, Rex. Ministers: Suquinos, Sallales. The winde to which the said Angels of the Air are subject: the Southwest-winde. The Fumigation of Wednesday: Mastick. The Spirits of the Air of Wednesday are subject to the Southwest-winde: their nature is to give all Metals; to reveal all earthly things past, present and to come; to pacifie judges, to give victories in war, to re-edifie, and teach experiments and all decayed Sciences, and to change bodies mixt of Elements conditionally out of one into another; to give infirmities or health; to raise the poor, and cast down the high ones; to binde or lose Spirits; to open locks or bolts.
Where this comes from

The Heptameron is a handbook of the days and the hours. It sets out, for each day of the week, the angel who governs it, his sigil, his planet, the sign that planet rules and the heaven he belongs to. It was printed in English in 1655 beside Agrippa's Fourth Book. The attribution to Peter de Abano, the thirteenth-century physician, is traditional rather than established.

Heptameron, or Magical Elements of Peter de Abano, in Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (London, 1655). The text and the sigils are in the public domain.

The sigil is traced from the 1655 printing, and checked line for line against the Wellcome Library's copy of the same edition.

Wednesday is the one day the book calls it a Fumigation rather than a Perfume.

Two copies of the 1655 edition were compared: the Wellcome Library's, which is the original sheet, and a clean facsimile of it. The figures are identical in both; the facsimile was traced because the original page has the reverse showing through it.

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