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destruction. [RJ The Legends o the Jews 111.1
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In
Clement, Angels in Art, Chamuel is the angel
who wrestled with Jacob; also the angel (usually
identified as Gabriel) who appeared to Jesus
during his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane
to strengthen Him.
Camael (Carniel, Camiul, Chamuel, Kemuel,
Khamael, Camniel, Cancel-"he who sees God")
--chief of the order of powers and one of the
sefiroth.
In
occult lore, Camael is of the nether
regions and ranks as a Count Palatine. When
invoked, he appears
in
the guise of a leopard
crouched on a rock.
In
the cabala, Camael
(Khamael, Kemuel) is one of the 10 (actually 9)
archangels of the Briatic world. "It is a name,"
says Eliphas Levi in The History o Magic, "which
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personifies divine justice."
In
a footnote to Levi's
book, Waite, the editor, in chapter 10, notes that,
in Druid mythology, Camael was the god of war.
This bears out the frequent citation of Camael in
occultism as the ruler of the planet Mars and as
among the governing angels of the 7 planets.
[Rf. Complete Book o Fortune, p. 514, for picturiza-
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tion of "the Talisman of the Angels," where the
name Camael occurs.] In The Magus, Camael
is one of "seven angels which stand in the presence
of God." For the legend that Moses destroyed
this great angel for trying to prevent the Lawgiver
from receiving the Torah at the hand of God, see
Kemuel. Another legend speaks of Camael
(Kemuel) being
in
charge
of
12,000
angels
of

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