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Yeialel
«God who hears in secret»
- Choir
- Archangels
- Archangel
- Mikael
- Dates
- 6–10 ene
Three letters of the 72-letter name and the ending -EL, mark of power, compose Yeialel, "God who hears in secret". He is counted among the Archangels, the rank that in the Dionysian hierarchy bears grave announcements from above to below, with Michael as archangel, from 6 to 10 January. He is invoked against sadness, for the health of the eyes and for firmness of understanding. Amy, of the same number, teaches astrology and reveals guarded treasures: fire that instructs against an ear that consoles.
The eyes and the iron
Nearly every domain in the series is generic: peace, prosperity, protection. Yeialel's is not. Lenain assigns him the healing of the sick and, in particular, afflictions of the eyes; and he gives him influence over iron and over those who trade in it.
Eyes and iron. That is his whole specialty, and it is concrete enough to jump off the list. No source explains why those two things fell to this angel together.
The name helps a little. It is read as the God who hears complaints, and the Hebrew root behind it means to wail or to howl. The psalm assigned to him runs the same way: «My soul is sore vexed; but thou, O Lord, how long?»
Where the record comes from
Three letters — yod, yod, lamed — drawn from the procedure that extracts seventy-two triplets from Exodus 14, and the suffix -EL, which the tradition puts on the side of power. That is the old part.
The named angel appears in 1517, with Johann Reuchlin. The choir of Archangels, the ruling archangel, the five days of January and the domain are Lenain's, 1823. And here is something worth knowing: the ruling archangel of each choir is the least firm layer of them all. Some tables put Michael over this choir and others Raphael. No original settles the argument, because that column was assembled in the twentieth century.
Whom he binds
Thomas Rudd, in the seventeenth century, paired each angel by number with a spirit of the Goetia. Yeialel, the fifty-eighth, draws Amy, also called Avnas, who appears as a flame and teaches astrology and the liberal arts.
The manuscript that preserves that system is Harley 6483 in the British Library, and it stayed unpublished until 2007.
Sources
- Éxodo 14:19-21 · Johann Reuchlin, De arte cabalistica, 1517
- Lazare Lenain, La science cabalistique, Amiens, 1823 — ojos, hierro y salmo 6
- Robert Ambelain, La Kabbale pratique, 1951
- Thomas Rudd, Harley MS 6483, British Library; ed. Skinner y Rankine, The Goetia of Dr Rudd, 2007
Other angels of the Archangels choir
The hyperrealistic reconstruction of Yeialel and those of the other 143 entities are published on Instagram as they are completed. See Yeialel 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.