Samael

The Angel of Tuesday

The sigil of Samael
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In orderNo. 3 of 7
DayTuesday
PlanetMars
SignAries and Scorpio
Heaventhe fifth heaven, Machon
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As the 1655 Heptameron has it
The Angels of Tuesday: Samael, Satael, Amabiel. The Angels of the Air ruling on Tuesday: Samax, King. His Ministers: Carmax, Ismoli, Paffran. The Perfume of Tuesday: Pepper. The Spirits of the Air of Tuesday are under the East-winde: their nature is to cause wars, mortality, death and combustions; and to give two thousand Souldiers at a time; to bring death, infirmities or health. The manner of their appearing you may see in the former book.
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.

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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