“The door of return stands open to the returning heart.”
The Angel
Rehael is rendered “God who receives sinners” or “the God swift to pardon,” its root touching mercy and the acceptance of those who turn back, sealed with the suffix -el, “God.” It is the angel of healing and of restored affection, and its office joins the mending of the body to the mending of the bond between parent and child.
Governing the third pentad of Libra, from ten to fifteen degrees, Rehael presides over health, filial love, and the recovery of the sick. Its classical office is to heal illnesses of body and mind, to restore paternal and filial affection where it has grown cold, and to receive back the repentant without reproach. The virtue it bestows is compassionate mercy joined to the power of physical and emotional restoration: the gift of forgiving and being forgiven, of tending the wounded without judgement, and of loving one's parents and children with a love that survives injury. Under its influence the sick are strengthened, estranged generations are reconciled, and the guilty conscience finds that the way of return has not been barred. It is invoked by physicians and healers, by those seeking recovery from long illness, and by any who long to be restored to a parent or a child from whom they have been divided. In the comparative scheme Rehael answers the Goetic president Malphas, a builder of houses and towers who can throw down the works of enemies; where Malphas raises and casts down outward structures, Rehael restores the inward structure of the body and the family, healing what has been broken.
Attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Number | 39 |
| Name meaning | “God who receives sinners” |
| Zodiac | 10–15° Libra |
| Virtue / Domain | Healing, filial love, mercy and restoration |
| Paired Goetic spirit | Malphas |