Archangels – Occult-Study

Archangel Michael slaying the Dragon.
Artist: Martin Schongauer
between 1480 and 1485

Archangel Michael weighing souls
Artist: Hans Memling
between 1467 and 1471

Archangel Michael
From a 14th century Constantinople workshop. Exhibited in the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.

Archangel Gabriel

Archangel Raphael and Tobit- note the similarity to images of the Guardian Angel.
Painted by Titian cca. 1542

Archangel Raphael teaches Adam and Eve.
From Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

Archangel Raphael

Archangel Raziel, Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 16th century

Archangel Uriel

Archangel Zadkiel
Plate from a set of nine plates representing the Archangels in full-length;
Zadkiel sitting on a rock in his left hand holding a sword; in the background “Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac” is depicted
Engraving with etching
by Crispijn de Passe the Elder
cca. 1590-1637 (c.)

Archangel Zadkiel by Fernando Sayan Polo

Archangel Anael
Pictures of Anael are hard to come by – though we can find an analog in images of Venus or Aphrodite.

Archangel Anael
Anael is often depicted by various angels of music, love, inspiration, peace, etc. Muses also fit here.

Archangel Samael

Samael as haSahtan.
Samael was sometimes identified with haSatan, the adversary in Judaism. Illustration by Gustave Dore

Archangel Samael.
Some people believe that Samael is the angel who fought Jacob. According to Jewishencyclopedia.com, this idea is met in the rabbinical literature.
Title: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
Artist: Gustave Doré
Date: 1885

Archangel Samael, angel of Death
Some people believe that Samael is the angel killed the firstborn.
Artist: William A. Foster
Date: 1891

Archangel Samael, angel of Death and Passover
The angel is going through King Pharaoh’s land. He is going through it in the night. The angel will go into King Pharaoh’s house and make his son to die. He will go into all the people’s houses and make their sons to die because they have been so cruel to the Israelites. But the angel will not go into the houses where the Israelites live, to make their sons die. God told the Israelites that the angel was coming, and he told them to kill a lamb, and take its blood and sprinkle it over the doors of the houses. And when the angel saw the blood, God said, he would not come into the house to hurt them. In the picture we see the blood sprinkled over the door and at each side of it. The angel sees the blood. He will pass over this house and not harm any one in it. We can see the family inside. They are eating the Feast of the Passover.”
Illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us: Containing 400 Illustrations from the Old and New Testaments: With brief descriptions by Charles Foster

Azrael or Cassiel
Azrael and Cassiel are other two angels thought to be Angels of Death.
This was painted in 188

Cassiel, as depicted in Francis Barrett’s “The Magus” in 1801