Rashi on Daniel 10:7 'Our Sages of blessed memory said that although a person does not see something of which he is terrified, his guardian angel, who is in heaven, does see it therefore, he becomes terrified.' In rabbinic literature, the rabbis expressed the notion that there are indeed guardian angels appointed by God to watch over people. The same verse mentions ' Michael, one of the chief princes'. In this latter case, the 'prince of the kingdom of Persia' contends with Gabriel. The belief that angels can be guides and intercessors for men can be found in Job 33:23-26, and in Daniel 10:13 angels seem to be assigned to certain countries. Psalm 91:11 reads: 'For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways' (Cf. In Genesis 18–19, angels not only acted as the executors of God's wrath against the cities of the plain, but they delivered Lot from danger in Exodus 32:34, God said to Moses: 'my angel shall go before thee.' The story of Tobias concerns the angel Archangel Raphael guiding and aiding its primary character. These books described God's angels as his ministers who carried out his behests, and who were at times given special commissions, regarding men and mundane affairs. The guardian angel concept is present in the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and its development is well marked. 1 In the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

Following the teachings of the Golden Dawn, Crowley refined their rituals which were intended to facilitate the ability to establish contact with one's guardian angel. In 1897, this book was translated into English by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), a co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, who styled the guardian angel as the Holy Guardian Angel.Īleister Crowley (1875–1947), the founder of the esoteric religion Thelema, considered the Holy Guardian Angel to be representative of one's truest divine nature and the equivalent of the ' Genius' of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Augoeides of Iamblichus, the Atman of Hinduism, and the Daimon of the ancient Greeks. The idea of a guardian angel is central to the 15th-century book The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage by Abraham of Worms, a German Cabalist. The belief is that guardian angels serve to protect whichever person God assigns them to. The theology of angels and tutelary spirits has undergone many changes since the 5th century. In Christianity, the hierarchy of angels was extensively developed in the 5th century by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The idea of angels that guard over people played a major role in Ancient Judaism. Belief in tutelary beings can be traced throughout all antiquity. Guardian Angel by Pietro da Cortona, 1656Ī guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation.

Guardian angel angel wing drawing