The one Archangel who is arguably the closest to God than the rest of the angels is the Archangel Michael. He who subdued and cast Satan down into the pit of hell under God's decree. He is the Angel one calls upon for strength against evil. He is the Champion of light. I'm sure you may have heard of him.
In the Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism), Michael / Mikhael / Mikhail can be translated to mean both, "He who is Like unto God" or "The Perfect of God". He is the angelic power of the 8th Sephira or Sphere on the Kabbalistic tree of life. His full designation is "Michael Hodael" which translates to "Michael of HOD" and "Michael Beniel" which translates to " Michael, leader of the BENI ELOHIM. Michael is one of the ruling Archangels on the tree of life within the sphere of "Splendor and Glory", which is called "Hod". The Angelic Order under his command is called the"BENI ELOHIM" Translated as the "Son's of Gods" or the "Children of Gods". His duty other than the utter subjugation and castigation of spiritual evil and Satan himself is as follows:
The inspiration of writing, language, communication, science and magic.
The keeper of all words and names of power.
Awakener of the individual mind to their own personal relationship with The Divine (God).
Teacher in the development of the higher self and the tempering the lower self. Assisting in the development of our Divine self by teaching us how to transmute our animal, base, lower self. (Which is essentially the process of Spiritual Alchemy!)
Teacher of the "God-awareness" the awakening of the part of us deep inside our being, that is part of God.
Inspiring our search for God. It was he who Inspired paths to God such as mysticism and spiritual disciplines and religion. (NOTE: The Inspiration of religion and paths to God does NOT mean the inspiration of killing millions of people or terrorizing others in the name of a religion or God. This was a perversion of Michael's mission by greedy men who desired to be Gods on earth by subjugating others to their will , greed and self-aggrandizement.This is not,was not and has never been, the way of this Archangel! )The search for, the understanding of and communion with God, is sacred, deep, personal and subjective.
The dissemination of "God and Goddess forms" or Archetypes using them as a tool to facilitate communication and communion between God and humanity.
Assisting humanity by awakening our own divinity and guiding / protecting our evolution from spiritual interference.
Teaching the sacredness of both the masculine and feminine polarity within humanity and the Universe.
That is but s few things this most special Angel does and has been doing for us, since we sprang from the primordial ooze thousands over thousands of years ago.
Here we must elucidate the differences between spiritual evil and mundane evil. When we think of the word "evil", It tends to conjure images of horrible human acts, all manner of crime and behaviors which are averse to accepted morality and human law.
For example; In some parts of the world it is considered not only moral but perfectly within the confines of human law to stone a rape victim simply because her rapist claimed that the sex was concentual. Using your own moral compass, ask yourself, is that evil? Or,is that good, being that, that course of action was legal within the confines of that part of the world's moral code? In the not to distant past, it was perfectly legal and moral to enslave people, to own them, to sell and whip them. To deprive them of the right to honor GOD in there own way. It was considered moral and good to deprive them the right to learn effectively keeping them ignorant of their right to freedom. Was this evil? Unfortunately, even today, this is secretly and in some dark secret places in the world, it is still debated. Evil like good, is subjective. Mundane evil, is the evil of man and cannot be meddled with by God or his Angels. This is because,the evil of man just like the good of man, is subject yo change as we evolve as a species. Slavery was abolished. Rape is considered by most civilized countries, a horrific crime. We are in a constant state evolution.
As we evolve so to does our morality and laws. If Angels interfered in our evolution, they could cause considerable damage to our future as a species. That would be counterproductive, as they serve GOD and we, all of us, are a very special piece of God. Thus, the evil of man is outside of their jurisdiction and seen as temporal in nature, as it will eventually evolve into good in the future.
However, there is another form of evil that is often overlooked and insidiously camouflaged by incredulity and the fear of being branded by society, with the unwanted stigma of primitive superstition. This form of evil is called spiritual evil. This energy is intent on opposing GOD with the endgame mission of supplanting him. All things created, loved, protected and that come from God are part of God and so, fair game.
Spiritual evil suffers no moral or ethical qualms regarding the interference of our evolution. It's chief goal is to posses the soul of humanity. The only way it can, is by damning a soul. What is damnation? A most severe punishment for a soul which is deprivation of the light, God and our return to a more complete existence with other souls that create a unified whole being, that is GOD. In damning a soul, spiritual evil subjugates the soul and once enslaved, is indoctrinated and assimilated to become part of it. They will interfere by inspiring the darkest natural tendencies we, as humans, posses. It will cater to our more animalistic qualities and facilitate the mundane evil we so readily perpetuate. This is the evil that inspired Cain to kill Able. The evil that inspired Judas to betray Christ. The evil that is behind all the atrocities man commits against man is spiritual evil. Where mundane evil is running rampant, so to is spiritual evil allowed to roam free within the hearts of men. The more mundane evil done, the more spiritual evil can infest others.
It is spiritual evil, that the Archangel Michael Beniel and the legions under him, do battle with. He can, has and will always protect against spiritual evil do long d we ourselves do not give it entrance, invite it in or invoke it. He can only empower and inspire humanity to battle mundane evil within ourselves and the mundane world. At times he can even empower us to battle spiritual evil or inspire and teach us to battle it. We, As humans, do not and in truth, have never made his job easy. But still, he holds true and ever faithful to God, the light and to us.
THE OTHER ARCHANGEL MICHAEL
In Kabbalah, their exists another another Angel by the same name. This Angel rules the direction of the North, the element of fire and the power and spiritual principal of the sun. The Archangel named Michael Shemeshel. "Shemeshel" translated from "Shamash" a Sumerian solar deity and the "EL" which is one of the names of God as well as a Hebrew suffix meaning "of God". Michael Shemeshel is one of the angels summoned when performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual Of The Pentagram (LBRP), a powerful Angelic Invocation ritual that banished dark forces and banished spiritual evil.
In my experience with this Angel, I have found that he is the principal element that animates all God / Goddess forms or Archetypes of the Sun. He has much to teach us in terms of our understanding of light from the physical to the spiritual and beyond. Me manifests light unto the world much like the Sun and teachers us to do the same.Michael Shemeshel in conjunction with the other Angels invoked in the LBRP ritual, open a portal and facilitate working with God and the Angels. (See my Grimoire for my Stylized Lesser Banishing Ritual Of The Pentagram.)
Michael Shemeshel is the light of the Sun and engenders all the gifts of every solar deity in human history as well as the history of light as it relates to humanity. The spiritual light is sustenance for the Universe and heals our souls just as it repels spiritual evil.It empowers us to repel evil within ourselves and mundane evil on all levels.
I admittedly call upon Michael Shemeshel much more frequently than Michael Beniel. However, when I am working with a multitude of pantheons it is, in actuality, Michael Beniel I am connecting with in lieu of the angelic orders The Gods and The Children Of God's being the progenitor of all God / Goddess archetypes.
I hope this Information finds you well.
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