Post by Alea Dracoslovic on Apr 2, 2013 8:26:27 GMT -8
Angels
An Angel is a supernatural being identified in various religions and mythologies. They are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between Heaven and Earth. The term "Angel" has also been expanded to various notions of spirits found in many other religious traditions. Roles of Angels (of the Light) vary with a wide breadth but generally include protecting and guiding human beings, and carrying out God's tasks.
Created First by God. It was when the Lord created humans and placed a higher value upon them than he did the Angels that Lucifer refused to accept this hierarchy and was cast from Heaven for defying God’s word by Michaels hand during the first war in Heaven. More or less...
God has been 'absent' from Heaven for a long period of time for reasons unknown following the Flood, and in his absence the Angels that were left in Heaven have been running both it and the other spirits there.
The given physical forms of the Angels vary and can be drastically different than one another from many heads and wings. Some are pleasing to the eye to behold, and some are not in their various manifestations anything comprehensible, and are typically as terrible as they are beautiful to behold in manifestations if not utterly destructive to mortal eyes. Yet they all are often seen to other races in their true manifestations on the Earthly plane, with horrible consequence for most, as often nothing more than blinding white light and their true piercing true voices unrestrained which on both fronts can be deadly to weaker entities. The more powerful the Angel is, their intense light if not restrained can have the effect of seeming vaporizing, dissolving slowing in most cases, most matter that it touches. An Angel’s true voice is often heard as an ear piercing, high-pitched sound which can shatter glass. Some humans, however, can understand the true voices, but even in those cases it is overwhelming and painful if not deadly and can also lead to insanity. Toned down or otherwise manipulated, the 'voice' of an Angel has indescribable properties. When possessing a vessel, Angels can manipulate the vessels vocal chords to put forth a tone of much the same qualities as a vampire’s empathetic voice manipulation but to greater effect.
The vessels of the Angel are necessary in order to take corporeal form on Earth. The person they possess must consent to the inhabitation. Consent can be straightforward or the product of coercion and deceit, but the host vessel MUST consent. It seems while occupied, the vessels blood is altered by the Angels presence, meaning the blood of the vessel, for that time, is no longer human blood. The possessed vessel becomes the Earthly physical manifestation of the Angel inside, in the truest sense, and takes on many qualities so long as the Angel remains within that vessel.
Angels are extremely powerful beings with a wide range of abilities. Abilities vary and depend upon the Choir of the Angel and their placement in the hierarchy. Some are powerful in ways that defy description. Some angelic powers are innate, and some can be curtailed or enhanced by the hierarchy of The Host of Heaven.
Angels consider themselves family to one another, referring to each other as brothers and sisters. The Angels also refer to God as their parent. Even though God is their creator, no Angels except for the Seraphim/Archangels and the Chief of Thrones have ever actually seen God or God’s true face.
The Choirs
First Choir
Seraphim: The highest order of the first choir of the angelic hierarchy. The first created and the first creations. They are the caretakers of God's throne among other things, and his Archangels. Literally "burning ones", the word seraph is normally a synonym for serpents when used in the Hebrew Bible. A seminal passage in the Book of Isaiah (6.1-8) used the term to describe fiery six-winged beings that fly around God's throne singing "holy, holy, holy", with its triple invocation of holiness (a formula that came to be known as the Trisagion).
Seraphim are winged celestial beings created by God. God created them before any other Angel. As the highest-ranking angels, the Seraphim possess the powers and abilities that are inherent in all Angels, but at a higher level, with increased strengths and powers commensurate with their rank. Imbued with immense and unimaginable power by God, the Seraphim are eight of the most powerful beings in all of creation. They are held in high esteem and or rightful trepidation by Angels, and most wise beings, being looked upon as "fierce" and "absolute" among yet the Holy ones and Fallen alike. All Seraphim have tremendous power over other supernatural beings.
The first Seraphim created were Lucifer, then Belial, Gabriel, Michael, Avaira, Raphael, Lilith, and finally Metatron. The eight of them are the only ones to have seen the face of God, other than the Chief of Thrones Sammael (Satan).
Lucifer was God's most beautiful and beloved Angel, Belial his wrath, Michael his mightiest warrior, Metatron his Heavenly scribe, Avaira his weaver or prophetic gospel, Gabriel his greatest messenger, Lilith his oblational herald of cosmic fertility and creation, and it is unknown what Raphael was.
They’re known in Heaven as absolute, precise and wrathful creatures. Like all Angels, their true forms are very intense, and have proven not only harmful but also fatal to humans. Their presence on Earth outside a vessel is often visualized as a blinding, at times utterly destructive, pure white light and their arrival can cause minor tremors in the very Earth. Their true voice like as with all Angels, in its purest form is an un-natural piercing sound, which has proven to be excruciatingly painful and even deadly to Humans. Their arrival can be heralded by a variety of freakish natural and non-natural occurrences.
Lucifer fell first. Lucifer, Belial, Avaira, and Lilith are Fallen Seraphim. They form the utmost authority in Hell, where Lucifer in Chief does rule, there must always be one in Hell.
Only Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Metatron remain of their Choir’s order which yet serves Heaven.
Seraphim view themselves as the highest authority over all of creation since God's departure from Heaven after the Flood (Presumed Hiatus). As leaders in Heaven, the remaining Seraphim after the Wars in Heaven, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael command the Host of Heaven while Metatron serves as the ‘voice’ of God, issuing orders to the "Senior Management" that were responsible for deploying Angels to Earth and elsewhere.
Cherubim: Cherubim guard the way to the tree of life in the Garden of Eden, and the path to the higher plane wherein is the throne of God, and other locations as ordained. Fearsome warriors and guardians, subservient to the Seraphim.
Thrones or Ophanim: They serve as symbols of God's justice and authority, and have as one of their symbols the throne. They are closely connected with the Cherubim, but are regarded as the highest level ‘upper management’ which act as the buffer and go-between for the Seraphim and the lower Choirs. Most humans confuse Lucifer falsely as Sammael, known as Satan, whom IS the Chief of Thrones and whom serves as the Venomous Tongue of God. While Sammael’s duties often lend to the misconception that Sammael is wicked or of some measure iniquity, Sammael serves Heaven actively as the Angel of Death. Sammael remains one of Heaven’s most important servants, even though this Angel is misjudged by those who do not fully comprehend its true purpose as appearing to want humanity to do Evil. Sammael resides in the seventh Heaven, however declared as the Chief Angel of the Fifth Heaven served by many Angels.
Second Choir
Angels of the Second Choir work as heavenly governors, middle management. Commanded by the First Choir.
Dominions: The "Dominions" also known as the Hashmallim, regulate the duties of lower angels. It is only with extreme rarity that the Angelic lords make themselves physically known to humans. They are also the angels who preside over nations. They may be distinguished from other groups by wielding orbs of light fastened to the heads of their scepters or on the pommel of their swords.
Virtues: The "Virtues" or "Strongholds" lie beyond the Dominions, their primary duty is to supervise the movements of the heavenly bodies in order to ensure that the cosmos remains in order. The name of the holy Virtues signifies a certain powerful and unshakable virility welling forth into all their Godlike energies; not being weak and feeble for any reception of the divine Illuminations granted to it; mounting upwards in fullness of power to an assimilation with God; never falling away from the Divine Life through its own weakness, but ascending unwaveringly to the super essential Virtue which is the Source of virtue: fashioning itself, as far as it may, in virtue; perfectly turned towards the Source of virtue, and flowing forth providentially to those below it, abundantly filling them with virtue.
Powers or Authorities: The "Powers" or "Authorities" appear to collaborate, in power and authority, with the Principalities (Rulers) of the Third Choir below them, and serve to pass down delegation to the Third Choir as their connection to middle management. The Powers are also the bearers of conscience and the keepers of history. Their duty is to oversee the distribution of power among humankind, hence their name.
Third Choir
Angels who function as heavenly messengers and troops.
Principalities or Rulers: The "Principalities" appear to collaborate, in power and authority with the Powers (Authorities). Their duty also is said to be to carry out the orders given to them by the Dominions and bequeath blessings to the material world. Their task is to oversee groups of people. They are the educators and guardians of the realm of earth. Like beings related to the world of the germinal ideas, they are said to inspire living things to many things such as art or science and function as muses among other things.
Messengers: The lowest order of the Angels, and the most ‘recognized’. They are the ones most concerned with the affairs of living things. Within the category of the Angels, there are many different kinds, with different functions. The Angels are sent as messengers to mankind, heralds of its punishment, its guardians, and its low-level Watchers. They descend and bear the brunt of most of Heaven’s requisite tasking.
Fallen Angels
A Fallen Angel is a wicked or rebellious Angel.
Angels of every Choir who either were banished from Heaven, or who voluntarily left, and in chief are only different than their Holy brethren in that they are disconnected from God’s ‘sight’, and have evolved for worse into the twisted anti-thesis of what they were created to be in the worst ways possible for the most part.
"Now war arose in Heaven, Michael and his Angels fighting against the Dragon. And the Dragon and its Angels fought back, but it was defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the Great Dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent that is called The Devil and The Morning Star, the deceiver of the whole world – was thrown down to the Earth, and its Angels were thrown down with it."
Most of the Fallen Choirs of Angel’s were cast out as a direct consequence of the War in Heaven, and the latter ‘temptation’ of the Watchers leading to the planetary enema prior to God’s yet-maintained Hiatus known as the Deluge. When the war in Heaven was ‘concluded’, a little over one third of the Host of Heaven had fallen with Lucifer. It was, and still is, the single greatest conflict to have ever occurred in Heaven. The events leading to the fall of the first assigned watchers being a major incident, less a conflict, but these two incidents are responsible in chief for the numbers of the infernal Fallen Angels that form the upper ‘Choirs’ of Hell, where Higher-Demons and Lesser-Demons comprise the Third mirrored ‘Choir’.
Heaven - Heaven was created by God. It serves as a dwelling place and a base of operations for angels, and is a final resting place of worthy deceased souls. God resided in Heaven with his angels until his departure sometime in the distant past. In God's absence, the Seraphim-Archangel Michael leads the angelic Host and directs the affairs of Heaven. Raphael is an authority, as are Gabriel and Metatron. The appearance of Angels in Heaven is not necessarily human, even though they may be perceived in that manner by deceased souls. Those who fall and are "cut-off" from Heaven are not allowed to return on their own, even if in some instances they are capable of travel to that plane; their re-entry would immediately be met with force. It is still possible, in some instances, for the banished to communicate with Heaven. Heaven also serves as a destination for deserving human souls after death. They occupy the happy memories they experienced on Earth, reliving them in their personal Heavens. It is unknown how a human soul is allowed salvation in Heaven. Different souls in Heaven see it as different things, just as in to a lesser degree... Hell. In Heaven, humans occupy their happy memories, reliving them in their own, separate worlds and at the center of all of them is Heaven's 'Garden'. Angels have access to people's personal Heavens. Angels can choose to spend time in the personal Heavens for their own reasons.
Hell - is the realm for punishment and pain of the afterlife. Human souls who are sent to Hell are tormented until their humanity is stripped away and they become demons. Hell is said to be so terrible that even most demons themselves hate it. It could be assumed that Hell, much like Heaven, is also a varying landscape, presumably depending on what tortures a soul the most. Angels are capable of forcing their way into Hell, but this is a daunting task even for Seraphim, and conversely Fallen Angels are capable of forcing their way into Heaven… though it is ‘questionable’ either way if such invaders would survive or make it ‘out’ intact. Demons, regardless of their location on Earth, are forced directly back into Hell once exorcised. Hell's hierarchy exists, but is not as rigid and controlled as Heaven's in some ways, though in others is even more unforgiving. Demons can be summoned from Hell via a summoning ritual performed by a powerful witch or a foolish novice with access to the right materials and a relevant grimoire. A specific demon can be summoned with the proper rites, or if mistakes are made any random demon may arise among many other complications and generally undesirable outcomes. Demons that are exorcised from their hosts appear to leave the immediate vicinity and are presumably drawn back down to Hell. Generally Demons are not of the power and authority to be 'free range'; meaning they cannot of their own accord, in most cases, freely travel between realms and must either be summoned, have the authority as per their specific 'status' or functions, or be dispatched 'topside' by those of the proper status and authority as a general rule.
General Angelic (ALL) Attributes:
Angelic Possession - Similar to demons, Angels require a vessel while on Earth. However, unlike demons, they must have the vessel's permission before they can take control whether freely given or coerced. Thems the rules. Unlike all other Angels, Seraphim/Archangels are highly particular about their vessels and the ‘particulars’ of the vessel must be ‘just right’ or else a lesser taken host vessel will burn up and deteriorate over time as it is unable to ‘contain’ the Seraphim/Archangels light. Ordinarily an Angel of any Choir is able to sustain their host vessel an heal it indefinitely, though if a Seraphim/Archangel takes any old host for its vessel without minding certain ‘particulars’ it will at best only be able to slow the destructive deterioration of that vessel but not stop it entirely.
Astral Projection - Angels can project their wings onto surfaces at will. If one is killed by an Angelic weapon, its wings are burned onto the surface on which they died.
Chronokinesis - Angels can travel through time, in either direction. They can also take others with them, and just send others without going themselves. However, this is a very difficult ability to master with or without Heaven's assistance. (Please talk to a Moderator, must be Moderator approved)
Dream Walking - Entering and controlling the dreams of targeted lesser beings. Angels can appear in people's dreams, they usually use this to communicate; when they can't find the person they're looking for, or want to talk privately. EX - Lucifer was able to talk to, manifest to, and 'interact' with future vessels in their dreams.
Eidetic Memory - Angels have the faces of every prophet who has existed or will exist etched into their memories. This ability also makes them aware of reality warping and timeline changes.
Electronic Manipulation - Angels can 'manipulate' electrical appliances.
Immortality - Angels don't age and cannot be killed by diseases or Earthly weapons.
Invulnerability - There are some weaknesses and they are listed below.
Regeneration - If an Angel's vessel is damaged, it will repair itself nearly instantly.
Sedation - Angels are able to render humans unconscious with a touch.
Supernatural Strength - Physically, the Third Choir of Angels are more than a match for humans, lower-level and mid-level demons, and most Supernatural-Preternatural and Paranormal entities. The higher tiered Choirs both Holy and not can obliterate most entities save for each other without the use of divine heritage weapons (Their blades).
Seraphim/Archangels can overpower and kill any demon, creature, monster or pagan god. They can also kill most all other Angels with ease in close combat with divine blades unless drastically outnumbered and overpowered.
Supernatural Perception - Angels are able to see all supernatural activity around them. They can also sense any location, being, or object not protected by Enochian Symbols.
Telekinesis - Angels are able to telekinetically move beings and objects with their mind.
{Angels – Choir 3 Telekinetic} Up to a ton. Line of sight.
{Angels – Choir 2 Telekinetic} Up to five tons. Known distances.
{Angels – Choir 1 Telekinetic} Up to 20, 000 tons. Unknown.
{Seraphim/Archangels - Telekinetic} Unknown, Unknown
Telepathy - Angels can read the minds of others not protected with the proper Enochian symbols (Tattooing or branding, Etc) and can communicate in this fashion on a ‘bandwidth’ generally as a rule impervious to listening in by any but other Angel’s. Seraphim/Archangels can read each other’s minds and engage in private communications to which only their order of Choir is privy at will.
Teleportation - Angels are able to travel from one place to another, instantly, without occupying the space in between. Heaven will be a 'hostile' environment for Fallen, as Hell will be for those of the Holy flock, and teleportation to either plane for the 'opposing forces' is generally and uniquely a problematic task that in the absence of certain variable that most would not survive or return from under ordinary circumstances short of full scale invasions, though with certain variable it is possible. They can also summon or send other beings, and 'escort' other beings within the limits of their duty and or authority outside of per-ordained orders.
Voice Mimicry - Angels can perfectly mimic the voice of mortals.
Protective Charm - An angel can protect an individual (commonly their future vessels) from most forms of physical damage. This degree of protection is linked to an angel's power.
Flight - All angels are able to fly, though it's only been shown when not in a vessel. It may be linked to their teleportation due to the sound wings flapping when they teleport.
Healing - Angels can cause the wounds, diseases, and toxins of another being to heal instantaneously. Seraphim/Archangels can cure any disease, wound and injury.
Killing Touch - Angels are able to destroy lower-level demons with a simple touch; however the demon has to be in a host body to apply such. They can also use it to kill monsters and humans.
Resurrection - Angels can bring the dead back to life. However, they must know where all the pieces of the original body are, and they must have the soul of the subject. However they will generally only do this when commanded. (Angels of Light by Heaven, Fallen by Hell.)
Basic Pyrokinesis – Create fire as if out of nothing and control it, smokeless, which moves like liquid and is lethal to most things including lesser Choirs and or Orders of Angels.
Mid-Level (Second Choir and Above)
Invisibility - Can become invisible to humans.
Enhanced Chronokinesis – “Dominions” and above. Per their duties they are imbued with enhanced command and control of.
Advanced Pyrokinesis - “Powers” and above can generate and manipulate fire, which appears either as a liquid fire or the same intermingled with their Holy Light which can be lethal to most things including lesser Choirs and or Orders of Angels, but has the added effect of dissolving most matter it touches other than immolating it.
Vessel Locking Advanced - “Powers” and above can hold a demon in its smoke form or vessel-less form as if it was tangible and force the demon to return to its vessel.
Memory Manipulation – “Powers” and above are able to erase, restore, alter, and fabricate memories in the minds of humans.
Soul Reading – “Virtues” and above are able to read the souls of beings which have them; however it is a painful experience for the being which is ‘read’. They can also use the soul as a source of energy, but the pain is even greater for the being which is ‘read’, and there is the risk of destroying the soul which is ‘read’ if the Angel is not careful.
Reality Warping - “Dominions” and above, can bend reality to their will. Lower orders of the Second Choir of Angels can only do much easier things, such as breaking and repair objects by pointing, or assembling a game by shaking the box.
Power Removal – Angels of the Second Choir and above are capable of removing, for instance, psychic powers from human beings. However, the process is very painful and can leave the person mentally-damaged.
High-Level (First Choir and or Seraphim/Archangel Only)
Seraphim/Archangels are astronomically strong, being physically stronger than pagan gods, other Angels, demons, obviously humans and monsters.
Advanced Telekinesis – Seraphim/Archangels are mentally influential on beings and objects. Being refined in this power, archangels have greater power and range with this than other beings. They can impart kinetic energy on matter with their mind. They are extremely proficient, being able to rip pagan deities, and lesser Angels of most Choir’s other than their own completely apart.
Advanced Teleportation – Seraphim/Archangels are masters at teleportation; be in and out of any place instantly, they have great speed and agility. They can transverse across the entire universe.
Enhanced Chronokinesis – “Dominions” and above. Per their duties they are imbued with enhanced command and control of.
Biokinesis & Molecular Combustion– By snapping, or clicking their fingers, can spontaneously destroy Angels, and therefore monsters, and creatures alike by speeding up their molecules to the point where it causes them to explode. They can Not do this to other Angels of the First Choir with lethal effect. Manipulate the biology of other, lesser, beings in a more specific targeted system or series of organs less than whole body explosion. For example; causing them to hemorrhage and bleed out through every orifice, applicable organs such as eyes, lungs, Etc., and bleed out or even causing total organ failure via biokinesis at variable speed. Can be used for torture, inflicting a slow painful death, or an instantly lethal option.
Cosmic Awareness - All Angels of the First Choir have a superhuman knowledge of the universe, though the Seraphim have the most as the first things in of creation. Akin to Nigh-Omnipotence, the Seraphim/Archangels have an immense awareness.
Divine White Light – All First Choir Generate, focus, and direct massive amounts of destructive energy in the form of celestial ‘Majesty’ mirrored of the visage of their unrestrained true forms. The effect of this light can be as tame as a controlled projection that can blind the eyes, sizzle flesh, combust flammable materials on contact with will; on up to dissolving all physical matter it illuminates at variable speed, and can even obliterate large areas (Seraphim/Archangels and the Chief of Thrones) which lends to the stories of smote cities such as Sodom and Gomorrah wherein the common interpretation of having turned to ‘salt’ is taken literal but the language actually means vapor (IE To Vaporize.) Seraphim/Archangels, and to a slightly lesser extent most “Thrones”) are able to use that power can kill or injure almost everything except each other which they can only ‘Hurt’. They can also control the intensity of this power. This power can be controlled as well in terms of who or what is affected by it; it is discriminate when it is required.
Cosmic Pyrokinesis - Seraphim/Archangels are proficient enough to kill even other Angels, lesser than their own order and Choir, by setting them ablaze as if from within which causes them to explode in destructive pulses of fiery white light. Interestingly, this didn't simply destroy the vessel; it also kills the Angel, suggesting the ability has a cosmic element to it.
Cryokinesis – Seraphim/Archangels can manipulate and generate ice. Lucifer's presence could cause a massive drop in temperature, and could cause ice to freeze onto a window just by breathing on it.
Advanced Electrokinesis – Seraphim/Archangels can manipulate, control and generate electricity, to such an intensity of causing coastal blackouts.
Shapeshifting – Seraphim/Archangels, and the Chief of Thrones (Sammael) can do this. Lucifer was able to take multiple forms in manifestations while not in a vessel, and while in vessel, Gabriel could also do this. Once in a vessel, archangels can reshape/morph into anyone or anything they want. Outside a vessel they can appear either in their true forms, or as any manifestation that they wish.
Weather Manipulation – Practically every Seraphim/Archangel changes the weather on first emergence. The sheer power of their presence can/and likely will drastically alter the Earth's weather and surroundings, capable of causing profuse, raging rainstorms and generating air-currents.
Terrakinesis - Seraphim/Archangels can cause full-fledged earthquakes, regardless of whether in a vessel or not.
Thermokinesis - Usually goes hand in hand with Pyrokinesis, the conveying of heat upon an object to cause it to become as hot as desired or to the point of combusting, melting, Etc.
Precognition –Seraphim/Archangels can see into the future, however not always the full picture.
Enhanced Memory Manipulation- Seraphim/Archangels can erase, fabricate and restore memories of beings like no other Angel can and with absolution over other Angels.
Resurrection – Seraphim/Archangels can revive the deceased (including dead Angels and humans), at a touch or thought, without strain.
Power Granting – Seraphim/Archangels can grant protection or powers to other beings.
Power Negation – Seraphim/Archangels can strip protection or powers from other beings, that they themselves have granted or that lesser Angel's or entities capable under their dominion have granted.
Nigh-Omnipotence – Seraphim/Archangels have a vast supply of power and can change reality, being able to do and create things out of thin air such as illusions, fantasy, portals, beings etc. Having great power and dexterity, archangels can easily overpower basically anything; humans, angels, pagan gods, demons, monsters, etc. In terms of each other, they are all comparable but the eldest is strongest.
Weaknesses:
Angels are difficult to kill. The methods that are used to hurt or kill Demons and humans will not affect them at all.
Angels, like Demons, can be summoned with the right rituals and bound to the practitioning summoners will and service if the conducted rituals are done correctly.
Holy Fire - Encased in flames created from Holy Oil, the angel is trapped. The trapped angel still can use their powers, possibly aiding them to escape. Touching the flame will kill the vessel and the angel. However, it cannot kill Seraphim/Archangels, fallen and not, and can only to banish them to their residing plane however that it will destroy their occupied vessel.
Enochian Sigils - When the proper Enochian sigils are placed on human rib cages, branded into or tattooed upon flesh, they prevent ANY Angel from detecting and finding them. They can also be used to prevent ANY Angels from entering a building by painting them on the building's walls and windows in blood or paint mixed with sanctified oil.
Enochian Blood Seal - If a person places his or her hand upon this blood seal that is placed upon something then all Angels in the immediate area will be banished away. An Angel can activate this seal as well. If an Angel activates the seal then the Angel who activates the seal will not be banished along with the other Angels in the area. The blood seal can also be place upon a person's body. If an Angel activates the seal this way (carved into its own vessel's chest), he or she will be banished along with the other Angels.
Hex Bags - Hex bags can used to throw most Angels off the ‘scent’ of an individual or object if the magic used is strong enough but is nowhere near as effective as the right Enochian Sigils. (These cannot hide someone from Seraphim/Archangels in vessels.)
Higher Demons - The highest level Demons are able to fight, overpower, harm, and even banish Angels of the Third Choir, and some even the Powers and Virtues of the Second Choir. Knights of Hell can fight, harm, and even banish most Angels of the First Choir with frightening efficiency except Seraphim/Archangels, and the Chief of Thrones which would require the presence of ALL Four Knights of Hell to have a shot of overpowering one of those. A cohort of reasonable size of Cherubim could dissuade the advance of a single Knight of Hell.
Exorcism Chant - There is an exorcism chant to expel Angels from their human vessels and send them back to Heaven, or Hell respectively, however the Chief of Thrones and ALL Seraphim/Archangels are immune to this ritual chant.
Angelic Blades – The ‘heritage’ weapon, of Divine creation, possessed by most Angels of any but the most pacifist of purpose. Their appearance and crafting varies Angel by Angel and is always divine, but they can be used to kill most Angels among ALL known entities to include Demons except Seraphim /Archangels which have even more powerful yet similar blades (That can Kill Seraphim /Archangels of the First Choir’s First Order and Below). Tied, able to be called instantly to the hand of, to the Angel it was created for they turn to molecular dust upon the demise of that Angel.
Seraphim/Archangel Blade – Seraphim/Archangels seem to have their own Angelic blades that are more powerful than normal Angelic blades, which are capable of killing other Seraphim/Archangels. It seems that a Seraphim/Archangel blade is capable of killing both normal Angels and other Seraphim/Archangels.
When an Angel is killed by these weapons, their host vessel exudes an intense white light and their wings are burned like ash onto the ground where their body lies.
Enochian Magic and Summoning: Angels are powerful intelligences that may be summoned and controlled in rituals. Certain Grimoires and other obscure text give detailed instructions for conjuring and controlling demons. Angels can be dangerous; hence the summoner must be careful.
Evocation is the act of calling or summoning an entity.
An Angel is a supernatural being identified in various religions and mythologies. They are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between Heaven and Earth. The term "Angel" has also been expanded to various notions of spirits found in many other religious traditions. Roles of Angels (of the Light) vary with a wide breadth but generally include protecting and guiding human beings, and carrying out God's tasks.
Created First by God. It was when the Lord created humans and placed a higher value upon them than he did the Angels that Lucifer refused to accept this hierarchy and was cast from Heaven for defying God’s word by Michaels hand during the first war in Heaven. More or less...
God has been 'absent' from Heaven for a long period of time for reasons unknown following the Flood, and in his absence the Angels that were left in Heaven have been running both it and the other spirits there.
The given physical forms of the Angels vary and can be drastically different than one another from many heads and wings. Some are pleasing to the eye to behold, and some are not in their various manifestations anything comprehensible, and are typically as terrible as they are beautiful to behold in manifestations if not utterly destructive to mortal eyes. Yet they all are often seen to other races in their true manifestations on the Earthly plane, with horrible consequence for most, as often nothing more than blinding white light and their true piercing true voices unrestrained which on both fronts can be deadly to weaker entities. The more powerful the Angel is, their intense light if not restrained can have the effect of seeming vaporizing, dissolving slowing in most cases, most matter that it touches. An Angel’s true voice is often heard as an ear piercing, high-pitched sound which can shatter glass. Some humans, however, can understand the true voices, but even in those cases it is overwhelming and painful if not deadly and can also lead to insanity. Toned down or otherwise manipulated, the 'voice' of an Angel has indescribable properties. When possessing a vessel, Angels can manipulate the vessels vocal chords to put forth a tone of much the same qualities as a vampire’s empathetic voice manipulation but to greater effect.
The vessels of the Angel are necessary in order to take corporeal form on Earth. The person they possess must consent to the inhabitation. Consent can be straightforward or the product of coercion and deceit, but the host vessel MUST consent. It seems while occupied, the vessels blood is altered by the Angels presence, meaning the blood of the vessel, for that time, is no longer human blood. The possessed vessel becomes the Earthly physical manifestation of the Angel inside, in the truest sense, and takes on many qualities so long as the Angel remains within that vessel.
Angels are extremely powerful beings with a wide range of abilities. Abilities vary and depend upon the Choir of the Angel and their placement in the hierarchy. Some are powerful in ways that defy description. Some angelic powers are innate, and some can be curtailed or enhanced by the hierarchy of The Host of Heaven.
Angels consider themselves family to one another, referring to each other as brothers and sisters. The Angels also refer to God as their parent. Even though God is their creator, no Angels except for the Seraphim/Archangels and the Chief of Thrones have ever actually seen God or God’s true face.
The Choirs
First Choir
Seraphim: The highest order of the first choir of the angelic hierarchy. The first created and the first creations. They are the caretakers of God's throne among other things, and his Archangels. Literally "burning ones", the word seraph is normally a synonym for serpents when used in the Hebrew Bible. A seminal passage in the Book of Isaiah (6.1-8) used the term to describe fiery six-winged beings that fly around God's throne singing "holy, holy, holy", with its triple invocation of holiness (a formula that came to be known as the Trisagion).
Seraphim are winged celestial beings created by God. God created them before any other Angel. As the highest-ranking angels, the Seraphim possess the powers and abilities that are inherent in all Angels, but at a higher level, with increased strengths and powers commensurate with their rank. Imbued with immense and unimaginable power by God, the Seraphim are eight of the most powerful beings in all of creation. They are held in high esteem and or rightful trepidation by Angels, and most wise beings, being looked upon as "fierce" and "absolute" among yet the Holy ones and Fallen alike. All Seraphim have tremendous power over other supernatural beings.
The first Seraphim created were Lucifer, then Belial, Gabriel, Michael, Avaira, Raphael, Lilith, and finally Metatron. The eight of them are the only ones to have seen the face of God, other than the Chief of Thrones Sammael (Satan).
Lucifer was God's most beautiful and beloved Angel, Belial his wrath, Michael his mightiest warrior, Metatron his Heavenly scribe, Avaira his weaver or prophetic gospel, Gabriel his greatest messenger, Lilith his oblational herald of cosmic fertility and creation, and it is unknown what Raphael was.
They’re known in Heaven as absolute, precise and wrathful creatures. Like all Angels, their true forms are very intense, and have proven not only harmful but also fatal to humans. Their presence on Earth outside a vessel is often visualized as a blinding, at times utterly destructive, pure white light and their arrival can cause minor tremors in the very Earth. Their true voice like as with all Angels, in its purest form is an un-natural piercing sound, which has proven to be excruciatingly painful and even deadly to Humans. Their arrival can be heralded by a variety of freakish natural and non-natural occurrences.
Lucifer fell first. Lucifer, Belial, Avaira, and Lilith are Fallen Seraphim. They form the utmost authority in Hell, where Lucifer in Chief does rule, there must always be one in Hell.
Only Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Metatron remain of their Choir’s order which yet serves Heaven.
Seraphim view themselves as the highest authority over all of creation since God's departure from Heaven after the Flood (Presumed Hiatus). As leaders in Heaven, the remaining Seraphim after the Wars in Heaven, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael command the Host of Heaven while Metatron serves as the ‘voice’ of God, issuing orders to the "Senior Management" that were responsible for deploying Angels to Earth and elsewhere.
Cherubim: Cherubim guard the way to the tree of life in the Garden of Eden, and the path to the higher plane wherein is the throne of God, and other locations as ordained. Fearsome warriors and guardians, subservient to the Seraphim.
Thrones or Ophanim: They serve as symbols of God's justice and authority, and have as one of their symbols the throne. They are closely connected with the Cherubim, but are regarded as the highest level ‘upper management’ which act as the buffer and go-between for the Seraphim and the lower Choirs. Most humans confuse Lucifer falsely as Sammael, known as Satan, whom IS the Chief of Thrones and whom serves as the Venomous Tongue of God. While Sammael’s duties often lend to the misconception that Sammael is wicked or of some measure iniquity, Sammael serves Heaven actively as the Angel of Death. Sammael remains one of Heaven’s most important servants, even though this Angel is misjudged by those who do not fully comprehend its true purpose as appearing to want humanity to do Evil. Sammael resides in the seventh Heaven, however declared as the Chief Angel of the Fifth Heaven served by many Angels.
Second Choir
Angels of the Second Choir work as heavenly governors, middle management. Commanded by the First Choir.
Dominions: The "Dominions" also known as the Hashmallim, regulate the duties of lower angels. It is only with extreme rarity that the Angelic lords make themselves physically known to humans. They are also the angels who preside over nations. They may be distinguished from other groups by wielding orbs of light fastened to the heads of their scepters or on the pommel of their swords.
Virtues: The "Virtues" or "Strongholds" lie beyond the Dominions, their primary duty is to supervise the movements of the heavenly bodies in order to ensure that the cosmos remains in order. The name of the holy Virtues signifies a certain powerful and unshakable virility welling forth into all their Godlike energies; not being weak and feeble for any reception of the divine Illuminations granted to it; mounting upwards in fullness of power to an assimilation with God; never falling away from the Divine Life through its own weakness, but ascending unwaveringly to the super essential Virtue which is the Source of virtue: fashioning itself, as far as it may, in virtue; perfectly turned towards the Source of virtue, and flowing forth providentially to those below it, abundantly filling them with virtue.
Powers or Authorities: The "Powers" or "Authorities" appear to collaborate, in power and authority, with the Principalities (Rulers) of the Third Choir below them, and serve to pass down delegation to the Third Choir as their connection to middle management. The Powers are also the bearers of conscience and the keepers of history. Their duty is to oversee the distribution of power among humankind, hence their name.
Third Choir
Angels who function as heavenly messengers and troops.
Principalities or Rulers: The "Principalities" appear to collaborate, in power and authority with the Powers (Authorities). Their duty also is said to be to carry out the orders given to them by the Dominions and bequeath blessings to the material world. Their task is to oversee groups of people. They are the educators and guardians of the realm of earth. Like beings related to the world of the germinal ideas, they are said to inspire living things to many things such as art or science and function as muses among other things.
Messengers: The lowest order of the Angels, and the most ‘recognized’. They are the ones most concerned with the affairs of living things. Within the category of the Angels, there are many different kinds, with different functions. The Angels are sent as messengers to mankind, heralds of its punishment, its guardians, and its low-level Watchers. They descend and bear the brunt of most of Heaven’s requisite tasking.
Fallen Angels
A Fallen Angel is a wicked or rebellious Angel.
Angels of every Choir who either were banished from Heaven, or who voluntarily left, and in chief are only different than their Holy brethren in that they are disconnected from God’s ‘sight’, and have evolved for worse into the twisted anti-thesis of what they were created to be in the worst ways possible for the most part.
"Now war arose in Heaven, Michael and his Angels fighting against the Dragon. And the Dragon and its Angels fought back, but it was defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the Great Dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent that is called The Devil and The Morning Star, the deceiver of the whole world – was thrown down to the Earth, and its Angels were thrown down with it."
Most of the Fallen Choirs of Angel’s were cast out as a direct consequence of the War in Heaven, and the latter ‘temptation’ of the Watchers leading to the planetary enema prior to God’s yet-maintained Hiatus known as the Deluge. When the war in Heaven was ‘concluded’, a little over one third of the Host of Heaven had fallen with Lucifer. It was, and still is, the single greatest conflict to have ever occurred in Heaven. The events leading to the fall of the first assigned watchers being a major incident, less a conflict, but these two incidents are responsible in chief for the numbers of the infernal Fallen Angels that form the upper ‘Choirs’ of Hell, where Higher-Demons and Lesser-Demons comprise the Third mirrored ‘Choir’.
Heaven - Heaven was created by God. It serves as a dwelling place and a base of operations for angels, and is a final resting place of worthy deceased souls. God resided in Heaven with his angels until his departure sometime in the distant past. In God's absence, the Seraphim-Archangel Michael leads the angelic Host and directs the affairs of Heaven. Raphael is an authority, as are Gabriel and Metatron. The appearance of Angels in Heaven is not necessarily human, even though they may be perceived in that manner by deceased souls. Those who fall and are "cut-off" from Heaven are not allowed to return on their own, even if in some instances they are capable of travel to that plane; their re-entry would immediately be met with force. It is still possible, in some instances, for the banished to communicate with Heaven. Heaven also serves as a destination for deserving human souls after death. They occupy the happy memories they experienced on Earth, reliving them in their personal Heavens. It is unknown how a human soul is allowed salvation in Heaven. Different souls in Heaven see it as different things, just as in to a lesser degree... Hell. In Heaven, humans occupy their happy memories, reliving them in their own, separate worlds and at the center of all of them is Heaven's 'Garden'. Angels have access to people's personal Heavens. Angels can choose to spend time in the personal Heavens for their own reasons.
Hell - is the realm for punishment and pain of the afterlife. Human souls who are sent to Hell are tormented until their humanity is stripped away and they become demons. Hell is said to be so terrible that even most demons themselves hate it. It could be assumed that Hell, much like Heaven, is also a varying landscape, presumably depending on what tortures a soul the most. Angels are capable of forcing their way into Hell, but this is a daunting task even for Seraphim, and conversely Fallen Angels are capable of forcing their way into Heaven… though it is ‘questionable’ either way if such invaders would survive or make it ‘out’ intact. Demons, regardless of their location on Earth, are forced directly back into Hell once exorcised. Hell's hierarchy exists, but is not as rigid and controlled as Heaven's in some ways, though in others is even more unforgiving. Demons can be summoned from Hell via a summoning ritual performed by a powerful witch or a foolish novice with access to the right materials and a relevant grimoire. A specific demon can be summoned with the proper rites, or if mistakes are made any random demon may arise among many other complications and generally undesirable outcomes. Demons that are exorcised from their hosts appear to leave the immediate vicinity and are presumably drawn back down to Hell. Generally Demons are not of the power and authority to be 'free range'; meaning they cannot of their own accord, in most cases, freely travel between realms and must either be summoned, have the authority as per their specific 'status' or functions, or be dispatched 'topside' by those of the proper status and authority as a general rule.
General Angelic (ALL) Attributes:
Angelic Possession - Similar to demons, Angels require a vessel while on Earth. However, unlike demons, they must have the vessel's permission before they can take control whether freely given or coerced. Thems the rules. Unlike all other Angels, Seraphim/Archangels are highly particular about their vessels and the ‘particulars’ of the vessel must be ‘just right’ or else a lesser taken host vessel will burn up and deteriorate over time as it is unable to ‘contain’ the Seraphim/Archangels light. Ordinarily an Angel of any Choir is able to sustain their host vessel an heal it indefinitely, though if a Seraphim/Archangel takes any old host for its vessel without minding certain ‘particulars’ it will at best only be able to slow the destructive deterioration of that vessel but not stop it entirely.
Astral Projection - Angels can project their wings onto surfaces at will. If one is killed by an Angelic weapon, its wings are burned onto the surface on which they died.
Chronokinesis - Angels can travel through time, in either direction. They can also take others with them, and just send others without going themselves. However, this is a very difficult ability to master with or without Heaven's assistance. (Please talk to a Moderator, must be Moderator approved)
Dream Walking - Entering and controlling the dreams of targeted lesser beings. Angels can appear in people's dreams, they usually use this to communicate; when they can't find the person they're looking for, or want to talk privately. EX - Lucifer was able to talk to, manifest to, and 'interact' with future vessels in their dreams.
Eidetic Memory - Angels have the faces of every prophet who has existed or will exist etched into their memories. This ability also makes them aware of reality warping and timeline changes.
Electronic Manipulation - Angels can 'manipulate' electrical appliances.
Immortality - Angels don't age and cannot be killed by diseases or Earthly weapons.
Invulnerability - There are some weaknesses and they are listed below.
Regeneration - If an Angel's vessel is damaged, it will repair itself nearly instantly.
Sedation - Angels are able to render humans unconscious with a touch.
Supernatural Strength - Physically, the Third Choir of Angels are more than a match for humans, lower-level and mid-level demons, and most Supernatural-Preternatural and Paranormal entities. The higher tiered Choirs both Holy and not can obliterate most entities save for each other without the use of divine heritage weapons (Their blades).
Seraphim/Archangels can overpower and kill any demon, creature, monster or pagan god. They can also kill most all other Angels with ease in close combat with divine blades unless drastically outnumbered and overpowered.
Supernatural Perception - Angels are able to see all supernatural activity around them. They can also sense any location, being, or object not protected by Enochian Symbols.
Telekinesis - Angels are able to telekinetically move beings and objects with their mind.
{Angels – Choir 3 Telekinetic} Up to a ton. Line of sight.
{Angels – Choir 2 Telekinetic} Up to five tons. Known distances.
{Angels – Choir 1 Telekinetic} Up to 20, 000 tons. Unknown.
{Seraphim/Archangels - Telekinetic} Unknown, Unknown
Telepathy - Angels can read the minds of others not protected with the proper Enochian symbols (Tattooing or branding, Etc) and can communicate in this fashion on a ‘bandwidth’ generally as a rule impervious to listening in by any but other Angel’s. Seraphim/Archangels can read each other’s minds and engage in private communications to which only their order of Choir is privy at will.
Teleportation - Angels are able to travel from one place to another, instantly, without occupying the space in between. Heaven will be a 'hostile' environment for Fallen, as Hell will be for those of the Holy flock, and teleportation to either plane for the 'opposing forces' is generally and uniquely a problematic task that in the absence of certain variable that most would not survive or return from under ordinary circumstances short of full scale invasions, though with certain variable it is possible. They can also summon or send other beings, and 'escort' other beings within the limits of their duty and or authority outside of per-ordained orders.
Voice Mimicry - Angels can perfectly mimic the voice of mortals.
Protective Charm - An angel can protect an individual (commonly their future vessels) from most forms of physical damage. This degree of protection is linked to an angel's power.
Flight - All angels are able to fly, though it's only been shown when not in a vessel. It may be linked to their teleportation due to the sound wings flapping when they teleport.
Healing - Angels can cause the wounds, diseases, and toxins of another being to heal instantaneously. Seraphim/Archangels can cure any disease, wound and injury.
Killing Touch - Angels are able to destroy lower-level demons with a simple touch; however the demon has to be in a host body to apply such. They can also use it to kill monsters and humans.
Resurrection - Angels can bring the dead back to life. However, they must know where all the pieces of the original body are, and they must have the soul of the subject. However they will generally only do this when commanded. (Angels of Light by Heaven, Fallen by Hell.)
Basic Pyrokinesis – Create fire as if out of nothing and control it, smokeless, which moves like liquid and is lethal to most things including lesser Choirs and or Orders of Angels.
Mid-Level (Second Choir and Above)
Invisibility - Can become invisible to humans.
Enhanced Chronokinesis – “Dominions” and above. Per their duties they are imbued with enhanced command and control of.
Advanced Pyrokinesis - “Powers” and above can generate and manipulate fire, which appears either as a liquid fire or the same intermingled with their Holy Light which can be lethal to most things including lesser Choirs and or Orders of Angels, but has the added effect of dissolving most matter it touches other than immolating it.
Vessel Locking Advanced - “Powers” and above can hold a demon in its smoke form or vessel-less form as if it was tangible and force the demon to return to its vessel.
Memory Manipulation – “Powers” and above are able to erase, restore, alter, and fabricate memories in the minds of humans.
Soul Reading – “Virtues” and above are able to read the souls of beings which have them; however it is a painful experience for the being which is ‘read’. They can also use the soul as a source of energy, but the pain is even greater for the being which is ‘read’, and there is the risk of destroying the soul which is ‘read’ if the Angel is not careful.
Reality Warping - “Dominions” and above, can bend reality to their will. Lower orders of the Second Choir of Angels can only do much easier things, such as breaking and repair objects by pointing, or assembling a game by shaking the box.
Power Removal – Angels of the Second Choir and above are capable of removing, for instance, psychic powers from human beings. However, the process is very painful and can leave the person mentally-damaged.
High-Level (First Choir and or Seraphim/Archangel Only)
Seraphim/Archangels are astronomically strong, being physically stronger than pagan gods, other Angels, demons, obviously humans and monsters.
Advanced Telekinesis – Seraphim/Archangels are mentally influential on beings and objects. Being refined in this power, archangels have greater power and range with this than other beings. They can impart kinetic energy on matter with their mind. They are extremely proficient, being able to rip pagan deities, and lesser Angels of most Choir’s other than their own completely apart.
Advanced Teleportation – Seraphim/Archangels are masters at teleportation; be in and out of any place instantly, they have great speed and agility. They can transverse across the entire universe.
Enhanced Chronokinesis – “Dominions” and above. Per their duties they are imbued with enhanced command and control of.
Biokinesis & Molecular Combustion– By snapping, or clicking their fingers, can spontaneously destroy Angels, and therefore monsters, and creatures alike by speeding up their molecules to the point where it causes them to explode. They can Not do this to other Angels of the First Choir with lethal effect. Manipulate the biology of other, lesser, beings in a more specific targeted system or series of organs less than whole body explosion. For example; causing them to hemorrhage and bleed out through every orifice, applicable organs such as eyes, lungs, Etc., and bleed out or even causing total organ failure via biokinesis at variable speed. Can be used for torture, inflicting a slow painful death, or an instantly lethal option.
Cosmic Awareness - All Angels of the First Choir have a superhuman knowledge of the universe, though the Seraphim have the most as the first things in of creation. Akin to Nigh-Omnipotence, the Seraphim/Archangels have an immense awareness.
Divine White Light – All First Choir Generate, focus, and direct massive amounts of destructive energy in the form of celestial ‘Majesty’ mirrored of the visage of their unrestrained true forms. The effect of this light can be as tame as a controlled projection that can blind the eyes, sizzle flesh, combust flammable materials on contact with will; on up to dissolving all physical matter it illuminates at variable speed, and can even obliterate large areas (Seraphim/Archangels and the Chief of Thrones) which lends to the stories of smote cities such as Sodom and Gomorrah wherein the common interpretation of having turned to ‘salt’ is taken literal but the language actually means vapor (IE To Vaporize.) Seraphim/Archangels, and to a slightly lesser extent most “Thrones”) are able to use that power can kill or injure almost everything except each other which they can only ‘Hurt’. They can also control the intensity of this power. This power can be controlled as well in terms of who or what is affected by it; it is discriminate when it is required.
Cosmic Pyrokinesis - Seraphim/Archangels are proficient enough to kill even other Angels, lesser than their own order and Choir, by setting them ablaze as if from within which causes them to explode in destructive pulses of fiery white light. Interestingly, this didn't simply destroy the vessel; it also kills the Angel, suggesting the ability has a cosmic element to it.
Cryokinesis – Seraphim/Archangels can manipulate and generate ice. Lucifer's presence could cause a massive drop in temperature, and could cause ice to freeze onto a window just by breathing on it.
Advanced Electrokinesis – Seraphim/Archangels can manipulate, control and generate electricity, to such an intensity of causing coastal blackouts.
Shapeshifting – Seraphim/Archangels, and the Chief of Thrones (Sammael) can do this. Lucifer was able to take multiple forms in manifestations while not in a vessel, and while in vessel, Gabriel could also do this. Once in a vessel, archangels can reshape/morph into anyone or anything they want. Outside a vessel they can appear either in their true forms, or as any manifestation that they wish.
Weather Manipulation – Practically every Seraphim/Archangel changes the weather on first emergence. The sheer power of their presence can/and likely will drastically alter the Earth's weather and surroundings, capable of causing profuse, raging rainstorms and generating air-currents.
Terrakinesis - Seraphim/Archangels can cause full-fledged earthquakes, regardless of whether in a vessel or not.
Thermokinesis - Usually goes hand in hand with Pyrokinesis, the conveying of heat upon an object to cause it to become as hot as desired or to the point of combusting, melting, Etc.
Precognition –Seraphim/Archangels can see into the future, however not always the full picture.
Enhanced Memory Manipulation- Seraphim/Archangels can erase, fabricate and restore memories of beings like no other Angel can and with absolution over other Angels.
Resurrection – Seraphim/Archangels can revive the deceased (including dead Angels and humans), at a touch or thought, without strain.
Power Granting – Seraphim/Archangels can grant protection or powers to other beings.
Power Negation – Seraphim/Archangels can strip protection or powers from other beings, that they themselves have granted or that lesser Angel's or entities capable under their dominion have granted.
Nigh-Omnipotence – Seraphim/Archangels have a vast supply of power and can change reality, being able to do and create things out of thin air such as illusions, fantasy, portals, beings etc. Having great power and dexterity, archangels can easily overpower basically anything; humans, angels, pagan gods, demons, monsters, etc. In terms of each other, they are all comparable but the eldest is strongest.
Weaknesses:
Angels are difficult to kill. The methods that are used to hurt or kill Demons and humans will not affect them at all.
Angels, like Demons, can be summoned with the right rituals and bound to the practitioning summoners will and service if the conducted rituals are done correctly.
Holy Fire - Encased in flames created from Holy Oil, the angel is trapped. The trapped angel still can use their powers, possibly aiding them to escape. Touching the flame will kill the vessel and the angel. However, it cannot kill Seraphim/Archangels, fallen and not, and can only to banish them to their residing plane however that it will destroy their occupied vessel.
Enochian Sigils - When the proper Enochian sigils are placed on human rib cages, branded into or tattooed upon flesh, they prevent ANY Angel from detecting and finding them. They can also be used to prevent ANY Angels from entering a building by painting them on the building's walls and windows in blood or paint mixed with sanctified oil.
Enochian Blood Seal - If a person places his or her hand upon this blood seal that is placed upon something then all Angels in the immediate area will be banished away. An Angel can activate this seal as well. If an Angel activates the seal then the Angel who activates the seal will not be banished along with the other Angels in the area. The blood seal can also be place upon a person's body. If an Angel activates the seal this way (carved into its own vessel's chest), he or she will be banished along with the other Angels.
Hex Bags - Hex bags can used to throw most Angels off the ‘scent’ of an individual or object if the magic used is strong enough but is nowhere near as effective as the right Enochian Sigils. (These cannot hide someone from Seraphim/Archangels in vessels.)
Higher Demons - The highest level Demons are able to fight, overpower, harm, and even banish Angels of the Third Choir, and some even the Powers and Virtues of the Second Choir. Knights of Hell can fight, harm, and even banish most Angels of the First Choir with frightening efficiency except Seraphim/Archangels, and the Chief of Thrones which would require the presence of ALL Four Knights of Hell to have a shot of overpowering one of those. A cohort of reasonable size of Cherubim could dissuade the advance of a single Knight of Hell.
Exorcism Chant - There is an exorcism chant to expel Angels from their human vessels and send them back to Heaven, or Hell respectively, however the Chief of Thrones and ALL Seraphim/Archangels are immune to this ritual chant.
Angelic Blades – The ‘heritage’ weapon, of Divine creation, possessed by most Angels of any but the most pacifist of purpose. Their appearance and crafting varies Angel by Angel and is always divine, but they can be used to kill most Angels among ALL known entities to include Demons except Seraphim /Archangels which have even more powerful yet similar blades (That can Kill Seraphim /Archangels of the First Choir’s First Order and Below). Tied, able to be called instantly to the hand of, to the Angel it was created for they turn to molecular dust upon the demise of that Angel.
Seraphim/Archangel Blade – Seraphim/Archangels seem to have their own Angelic blades that are more powerful than normal Angelic blades, which are capable of killing other Seraphim/Archangels. It seems that a Seraphim/Archangel blade is capable of killing both normal Angels and other Seraphim/Archangels.
When an Angel is killed by these weapons, their host vessel exudes an intense white light and their wings are burned like ash onto the ground where their body lies.
Enochian Magic and Summoning: Angels are powerful intelligences that may be summoned and controlled in rituals. Certain Grimoires and other obscure text give detailed instructions for conjuring and controlling demons. Angels can be dangerous; hence the summoner must be careful.
Evocation is the act of calling or summoning an entity.