Sachiel

The Angel of Thursday

The sigil of Sachiel
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In orderNo. 5 of 7
DayThursday
PlanetJupiter
SignSagittarius and Pisces
Heaventhe sixth heaven, Zebul
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As the 1655 Heptameron has it
The Angels of Thursday: Sachiel, Castiel, Asasiel. The Angels of the Air governing Thursday: Suth, Rex. Ministers: Maguth, Gutrix. The winde which the said Angels of the Air are under: the South-winde. The Perfume of Thursday: Saffron. The Spirits of the Air of Thursday are subject to the South-winde; their nature is to procure the love of women; to cause men to be merry and joyful; to pacifie strife and contentions; to appease enemies; to heal the diseased, and to disease the whole; and procureth losses, or taketh them away. Their manner of appearing is spoken of already.
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.

At this point the book stops to say that there are no Angels of the Air to be found above the fifth heaven, and so it gives Thursday no angels of the four quarters. Saturday is later sent back to Thursday for the same reason.

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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