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When the Greek scholars incorporated the Egyptian system into their own, they grouped the decanal gods with the spirits of the air. Later Christian scholars interpreted these in two different ways: either as angels or ''daimons'' (incorrectly conflating the Greek term for a minor god as a [[demon]]). Eventually, by the Medieval Period, the textual mistranslations and conflations were forgotten and the entire system was interpreted with a [[Christianity|Christian]] worldview by European [[occultist]]s attempting to reconcile Kabbalistic mystic texts with [[astrology]] and [[alchemy]]. | When the Greek scholars incorporated the Egyptian system into their own, they grouped the decanal gods with the spirits of the air. Later Christian scholars interpreted these in two different ways: either as angels or ''daimons'' (incorrectly conflating the Greek term for a minor god as a [[demon]]). Eventually, by the Medieval Period, the textual mistranslations and conflations were forgotten and the entire system was interpreted with a [[Christianity|Christian]] worldview by European [[occultist]]s attempting to reconcile Kabbalistic mystic texts with [[astrology]] and [[alchemy]]. | ||
This explains why, in the older texts showing the astrological correspondences of the Kabbalistic angels, there are five days missing from the calendar | This explains why, in the older texts showing the astrological correspondences of the Kabbalistic angels, there are five days missing from the calendar. | ||
Author [[A.E. Waite]] stated in ''[[The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts]]'': | ===Modern misconceptions of angel astrology=== | ||
Modern authors, ignorant of the ancient history of these entities, and not knowing that their astrological connections pre-date the [[Gregorian calendar]], often adjust the dates that the angels rule over to cover the entire 365-day year. The proliferation of these incorrect dates has become especially problematic in the digital era, when incorrect information is simply cut-and-pasted from one website to another. Further compounding this discrepancy in dates is the otherwise correct information provided by many authorities on the subject of angel invocation. | |||
Author [[A.E. Waite]] stated in ''[[The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts]]'' (1898): | |||
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"It should be understood that people who are born between the days March 14 - March 20, or on the 29th of February during a leap year, will have the three Angels belonging to their birth hour as guardians of the three parts of their personality." | "It should be understood that people who are born between the days March 14 - March 20, or on the 29th of February during a leap year, will have the three Angels belonging to their birth hour as guardians of the three parts of their personality." | ||