 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Sachiel" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(July 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Inkabbalistic andChristianangelology,Sachiel (Ge'ez ሳቁኤል) is anarchangel of the order ofcherubim. The name 'Sachiel' originally occurs in the late 1500sgrimoire calledThe Heptameron.
In the early mentions of that angel, its name is spelled in various ways:
Two mid-12th centurybirch bark manuscripts were found apparently containing the archangel's name, spelled as 'сихаїлъ' or 'сихаилъ' (Sikhael/Sixael), repeated thrice to serve as talismans against disease.[1][2]
In the late-1200s grimoireThe Oathbound Book of Honorius, its name is spelled 'Satquiel'. That spelling was taken from the early-1200s Jewish occult bookSefer Raziel HaMalakh ("book of Raziel the angel"). The Sefer Raziel is highly inconsistent in its spelling of the angel's name, which is therein spelled twice as 'Satquel', three times as 'Satquiel', twice as 'Saquiel', and once as 'Sachquiel'. It is that last spelling from which derives the later spelling 'Sachiel' from The Heptameron. The wide variation of spellings of the name in the Sefer Raziel is in large part the result of the fact that the author created the angel by conflating together two different angels from the 400s CE Jewish book3 Enoch. The Sefer Raziel spellings 'Satquel' and 'Satquiel' are derived from the 3 Enoch angelZadkiel, which is also spelled 'Shatqiel' and 'Shataqiel'. The Sefer Raziel spelling 'Sachquiel' is derived from the 3 Enoch angelSahaquiel, which is also spelled 'Shachaqiel' and 'Shahaqiel'. Those 2 angels were first discussed in 3 Enoch.
Sachiel is associated with the weekday Thursday, wealth, and charity. While in most sources Sachiel presides over Thursday, others do assign him to Monday or Friday.[3] All associate him with the planetJupiter; as such, inNew Age angel lore he can be invoked for matters involving money, finance, law, politics, and religion.[4] Hissigil appears inFrancis Barrett'sThe Magus, an early nineteenth century compendium ofoccult lore. It also appears in the 16th century treatise,The Complete Book of Magic Science.
In theJapaneseanime franchiseNeon Genesis Evangelion, a monster belonging to the race known as the angels named Sachiel appears in the first two episodes of the anime series.
 | ThisEastern Orthodox Christianity–related article is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
