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Mahasiah
«God the savior»
- Choir
- Seraphim
- Archangel
- Metatrón
- Dates
- 10–14 abr
Three letters of the seventy-two-letter name and the suffix -IAH, bound to mercy, compose a name rendered "God the saviour." In Lenain's arrangement it belongs to the Seraphim, the choir that burns before the throne and does not administer but adores, with Metatron as archangel, from 10 to 14 April. It is invoked for inward peace and for the repair of errors already committed. Rudd's Goetia sets it against Marbas, the president who both causes and cures disease: affliction inflicted against serene restoration.
One of the emptiest in the series
With Mahasiah it is worth saying what is not there. Beyond the table entry — choir, archangel, five days of April and two lines of domain — there is no material. No story, no episode, no attested image. That is not an oversight of this record: it is what exists.
And it is worth saying because the internet is full of the opposite. Most pages that describe this angel in detail are filling a gap. Seventy-two angels manufactured out of a counting procedure could not have seventy-two biographies, and they do not.
The little that is attested
The name is three letters — mem, he, shin — plus the suffix -IAH, which the tradition ties to mercy rather than to power. It reads «God the saviour».
Lenain, in 1823, assigns him living at peace with everyone, learning easily whatever one sets out to learn, and an agreeable character fond of honest pleasures. He allots him Psalm 34: «I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears».
There is a term that is his and nobody else's in the series: rectification. In Lenain's vocabulary it means correcting what came out crooked, and astrology inherited it from there — it calls rectification the adjustment of a birth hour that was written down wrong.
Which layer is old and which is not
The three letters are the only old thing. They come out of the procedure that extracts seventy-two triplets from the three verses of Exodus 14, and at that stage they are not an angel: they are part of a name of God.
The angel called Mahasiah appears in 1517, when Johann Reuchlin adds the endings that make the triplets pronounceable. The dates, the choir and the domain are from 1823. The pairing with Marbas, the demon who heals and sickens, is from Thomas Rudd, in the seventeenth century.
Sources
- Éxodo 14:19-21
- Johann Reuchlin, De arte cabalistica, 1517
- Lazare Lenain, La science cabalistique, Amiens, 1823 — dominio y salmo 34
- Robert Ambelain, La Kabbale pratique, 1951
- Thomas Rudd, Harley MS 6483, British Library; ed. Skinner y Rankine, 2007
Other angels of the Seraphim choir
The hyperrealistic reconstruction of Mahasiah and those of the other 143 entities are published on Instagram as they are completed. See Mahasiah on Instagram →
WarningHistorical and artistic content. We do not recommend performing any ritual, invocation or practice involving these entities. This is outreach about texts from the 15th to the 20th century, not an operative guide.