“That which holds all things upright asks only to be trusted.”
The Angel
Manakel is glossed as God who supports and maintains all things, its root carrying the sense of sustaining, upholding, and providing, joined to the divine element -el. It is the angel of the invisible support beneath existence — the hand under the small of the back, the sustaining pressure that keeps the world from collapse. Its particular province is the borderland of good and evil, for to maintain all things is to hold together even what strains against itself; Manakel presides over the reconciliation of opposites and the calming of what has become inflamed.
The virtue it bestows is the gift of measured feeling. Manakel soothes anger, tempers the violent passions, and grants the ruler of one's own inner weather the ability to keep a steady hand; it is invoked to know good from evil, and to bear both without being torn apart by them. The tradition also gives Manakel dominion over sleep and dreams — over the aquatic creatures of the deep and the aquatic contents of the mind alike — as though the same sustaining power that holds the waking world together descends by night to hold the dreamer. Following Damabiah's fountain, Manakel is the vessel that keeps the water from spilling, the quiet maintenance that lets everything else go on being.
Attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Number | 66 |
| Name meaning | “God who supports and maintains all things” |
| Zodiac | 25–30° Aquarius |
| Virtue / Domain | Sustenance, sleep and dreams, calming of anger |
| Paired Goetic spirit | Cimejes |