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The ancient Rabbis allways connected the seven '''Archangels''' with the seven then-so-called Planets : the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter, and the [[Church Fathers]] have allways thaught and taught that God rules this Universe through his Celestial Armies. (See [[Angels]]). There are three (irreducible) lists of these seven '''Archangels''' : one from the [[Book of Enoch]], (which is accepted as [[canonical]] by the Ethiopian [[Orthodox Church]], who, in its turn, is representative of the Oriental [[Orthodox Church]]es, which are all of semitic origins : Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Syrian); the second from the [[tradition ]] of the Eastern [[Orthodox Church]], (which, interestingly enough, coincides with that of the Gnostics -- who were an Eastern [[Christian]] sect, to begin with); and a third from such Great [[Church Fathers]] as St. [[Dionysius the Areopagite]] and St. [[Gregory the Dialogist]]. All of these three different lists, however, agree on the names of the first four '''Archangels''' : [[Archangel Michael]], [[Archangel Gabriel]], Raphael, Uriel. The remaining three are given as follows :  '''(1).''' From the [[Book of Enoch]] (Jewish, as well as Oriental Orthodox [[tradition]]) : Raguel; Sarakail or Saraqael; (Je)Remiel;  '''(2).''' From the Eastern Orthodox [[tradition]] : Barachiel; Salathiel; (Je)Gudiel;  '''(3).''' From the Western [[tradition]] : Anael or Haniel; Jophiel or Cassiel; Zadkiel or Zedekiel.  The explanation and translation of all of these names can be seen below.
== Michael ==
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