Angel Of The Day

Note:The angel postings for this section will be coming from the book A Dictionary Of Angels Including The Fallen Angels by Gustav Davidson.

Angel Name:Abbaton.

A name of God or of a holy angel employed in Solomonic conjurations to command demons. [Rf. Mathers, The Greater Key of Solomon.]

The word has the menaing of death and, in this sense, Abbaton is Death and a guardian spirit in Hell. [Rf. the Coptic Book of the Resurrection of Christ by Bartholomew the Apostle, setments of which are quoted by M. R. James in The Apocryphal New Testament.]

Note:The angel postings for this section will be coming from the book A Dictionary Of Angels Including The Fallen Angels by Gustav Davidson.

Angel Name:Abdals ("the substitutes").

In Islamic lore, the name given to 70 mysterious spirits whose identites are known to God alone, and through whose operations the world continues to exist. When one of these divine entities dies (the Abdals are not, apparently, immortal), another is secretly appointed by God to replace him. Of the 70, two score reside in Syria. (Cf. "The Just" in Jewish folklore and the Lamas of India.)