Guardian angel
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A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation. Belief in tutelary beings can be traced throughout all antiquity. The idea of angels tha
Schutzengel ("Guardian angel") by Bernhard Plockhorst depicts a guardian angel watching over two children.
Guardian Angel by Pietro da Cortona, 1656
Schutzengel-Mosaik (1907) am Hauptportal der Antonskirche, Antonsplatz, Wien-Favoriten/guardian angel mosaic (1907) at the main portal of St. Anthony's Church, Antonsplatz, Vienna-Favoriten
A guardian angel in a 19th-century print by Fridolin Leiber
The Book of Abramelin
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The Book of Abramelin tells the story of an Egyptian mage named Abraham, or Abra-Melin, who taught a system of magic to Abraham of Worms, a Jew from Worms, Germany, presumed to have lived from c. 1362
Guardian angel
…assigns them to. The Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels is celebrated on 2 October. 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. In 1897, this book was translated into English by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), a co-founder…
Dover edition (1975)
The 1725 Hammer edition, first printed version