Is Chamuel the same as Camael?

Reference books often merge them, and Davidson lists Chamuel as a spelling of Camael. The material differs: Camael carries Geburah, Mars, and severity from Kabbalistic and occult tables, while Chamuel's love role comes from the Summit Lighthouse.

What color is Archangel Chamuel?

Pink, in the Summit Lighthouse teaching that puts Chamuel on the third ray of divine love. The older lists give him no color; Clement's 1898 handbook gives him a cup and staff instead.

What is Chamuel prayed to for?

Mostly for love, reconciliation, and patience in strained relationships. Prayers modeled on the Summit Lighthouse teaching ask for love to grow in the person praying, which leaves the other person's feelings with that person.

Is Chamuel mentioned in the Bible?

No. Later writers identified him with the unnamed angel who strengthens Jesus in Luke 22:43 and with the figure who wrestles Jacob in Genesis 32, but neither passage gives a name.

Who Is Archangel Chamuel, the Angel of Love and Peace?

Q: Who is Archangel Chamuel?

Chamuel is one of seven archangels in Christian angel lists such as Thomas Heywood's of 1635, and in Summit Lighthouse teaching he is the archangel of the third ray, the ray of divine love. No scripture mentions an angel called Chamuel.

Archangel Chamuel is the angel of love in modern angel devotion, and the spelling Chamuel comes from Christian lists of seven archangels such as Thomas Heywood's of 1635, not from scripture. The love role, the pink light, and his pairing with a feminine counterpart called Charity all come from the Summit Lighthouse, an ascended-master movement founded in 1958.

Along the way the name picked up material from other angels. Reference books file Chamuel with Camael, the angel of severity on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and with Kemuel, a gatekeeper Moses destroys in Jewish legend. Each strand has its own source, and most confusion about Chamuel comes from reading one strand as if it were another.

Quick Facts

Name meaning: "He who seeks God" in Davidson's A Dictionary of Angels (1967); "one who sees God" in Clement's Angels in Art (1898)
Where the name appears: Christian lists of seven archangels, such as Heywood's The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635); not in any Bible
Modern role: Archangel of the third ray, the ray of divine love, in Summit Lighthouse teaching, paired with Archeia Charity
Church status: Not in scripture; Catholic guidance discourages angel names other than Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael
Symbols: Pink flame in Summit Lighthouse teaching; a cup and staff in Clement's list of artistic attributes
Often merged with: Camael (Geburah and Mars), Kemuel (the Moses legend), and Haniel and Simiel (alternate names in Davidson)

Who Is Archangel Chamuel, and How Old Is the Tradition?

Chamuel is one of the seven archangels in a group of Christian angel lists, and the modern angel of love grew out of that name. One dated example is Thomas Heywood's long poem The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635), whose seven are Raphael, Gabriel, Chamuel, Michael, Adabiel, Haniel, and Zaphiel, according to the appendix of archangel lists in Gustav Davidson's A Dictionary of Angels.

A second seven, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Chamuel, Jophiel, and Zadkiel, appears in Clara Erskine Clement's handbook Angels in Art (1898), and Davidson prints the same seven under the heading Pseudo-Dionysius. That attribution does not hold. The Celestial Hierarchy, written around 500 under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, sets out the nine choirs of angels but names only Michael and Gabriel.

Davidson's own entry calls Chamuel one of the seven archangels and chief of the order of dominations, and elsewhere a chief of the powers. Dominions and powers are both ranks in the middle tier of the Dionysian scheme, yet the treatise gives neither rank a named head, so these offices come from later compilers.

The Chamuel of current popular devotion is younger still. The Summit Lighthouse, which Mark L. Prophet founded in 1958 and which drew on Theosophy and the I AM movement, teaches that Chamuel and his divine complement, Archeia Charity, serve on "the third ray of divine love" with "legions of pink-flame angels." Current popular pages describe him as the angel of peaceful relationships, which reads like that love ray applied to romance and family quarrels.

Does Chamuel Mean "One Who Seeks God"?

That is the most common gloss, and its main printed source is Davidson's dictionary, which heads the entry "Chamuel ('he who seeks God')" without giving a Hebrew derivation. The Summit Lighthouse repeats the same wording. Nearly seventy years before Davidson, Clement glossed the name as "one who sees God," which is the meaning Davidson gives for Camael.

The ending -el is the ordinary Hebrew word for God, as in Michael and Gabriel, so the disagreement is over the first half of the name. Davidson glosses Kemuel, a spelling he files beside both names, as "helper" or "assembly of God," which makes a third reading. The meaning a writer prints therefore depends on which spelling, and which reference book, the writer started from.

Kemuel is also a biblical name, but only for men: Genesis 22:21 lists Kemuel, "the father of Aram," among the sons of Abraham's brother Nahor. The angel called Kemuel belongs to Jewish legend, where he guards the gates of the firmament with twelve thousand angels of destruction and is destroyed by Moses on the way to receive the Torah, as Louis Ginzberg retells it in The Legends of the Jews.

None of this name material makes Chamuel an angel of romance. The Summit Lighthouse describes the work of Chamuel and Charity as expanding "the flame of adoration and divine love within the hearts of men and elementals." Adoration in that teaching is directed to God, so the love ray begins with love toward God, and the step from there to a particular romantic partner is one the source text does not take.

Is Chamuel in the Bible?

No. No Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox Bible names Chamuel. The Ethiopian Orthodox canon, which includes 1 Enoch, does not name him either: the list of holy angels in 1 Enoch 20 runs Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Saraqael, Gabriel, and Remiel.

Later writers attached Chamuel to two angels the Bible leaves unnamed. Luke 22:43 says that in Gethsemane "there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him," and Genesis 32:24 has Jacob wrestle "a man" until daybreak. Clement reports that "some" identify Chamuel with both figures and that others give the Gethsemane angel to Gabriel instead. Davidson cites R. L. Gales's essay "The Christian Lore of Angels" in the National Review of September 1910 for the Gethsemane identification. Neither identification comes from the passages themselves.

Church practice follows the silence of the canon. The Vatican's Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy (2001) says the practice of assigning names to angels "should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture." An older precedent is the church council held at Rome in 745, which rejected Uriel, Raguel, and several other angel names; one of them was Simiel, which Davidson lists as another form of Chamuel.

The Orthodox Church in America's feast of 8 November, the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers, names Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, and Jeremiel beside Michael, and Chamuel is not among them. Devotion to Chamuel therefore lives in private and esoteric practice, outside the liturgy of the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

Why Are Camael and Chamuel Confused on Angel Rosters?

Standard reference books file them together. Davidson's Camael entry lists Chamuel among its spellings, beside Camiel, Kemuel, and Khamael, while his separate Chamuel entry gives Kamuel, Haniel, and Simiel as alternatives. One dictionary thus places the name in two families of spellings, and each family arrives with its own material.

The Camael family is the stern one. Kabbalistic and Golden Dawn tables seat Camael at Geburah, the sphere of severity on the Tree of Life, and Agrippa's tables of planetary angels give him Mars. Davidson adds that in occult lore Camael appears as a leopard crouched on a rock, an image with nothing of the pink-flame angel in it.

Names filed with Chamuel and the source behind each
Name	Where it appears	What that source gives the figure
Chamuel	Heywood's list (1635); Clement's Angels in Art (1898); the Summit Lighthouse	One of seven archangels; a cup and staff in art; the third ray of divine love
Camael / Khamael	Agrippa's planetary tables; Golden Dawn Tree of Life	The planet Mars; Geburah, the sphere of severity
Kemuel	Genesis 22:21; Jewish legend of Moses's ascent	A son of Nahor; a gatekeeper Moses destroys
Haniel	Davidson's Chamuel entry; Agrippa's table of seven planetary angels (1533)	An alternate name for Chamuel; the angel of Venus
Simiel	Davidson's Chamuel and Simiel entries; the Roman council of 745	An alternate name for Chamuel; a name the council rejected

Those borrowings can be traced claim by claim. A Chamuel profile that assigns Mars or a seat at Geburah has taken it from Camael, one in which Moses strikes the angel down has taken it from Kemuel, and pink flame and divine love come from the Summit Lighthouse.

Why Is Chamuel Linked with Pink Light and Love?

Pink comes from the seven rays. In Summit Lighthouse teaching each of seven archangels serves a numbered, colored ray together with a feminine counterpart, and Chamuel and Charity hold the third, the ray of divine love. Their retreat, the "Temple of the Crystal-Pink Flame," is described as an etheric temple above St. Louis, Missouri, rather than a building anyone can visit.

None of the older lists that name Chamuel gives him a color. Clement's 1898 handbook, which records the attributes painters gave each archangel, says only that "Chamuel bears a cup and staff."

The love the teaching describes is demanding. In a dictation the Summit Lighthouse attributes to Chamuel, "the maintenance of love, day by day, involves a striving," and perfect love is "not only selflessness" but a fire strong enough "to consume all unlike love." Read in its source, the pink flame asks the person praying to change. Nothing in it presents pink light as a sign that someone else's affection is on its way.

Hearts and roses in modern Chamuel imagery carry the pink of the third ray into familiar love symbols. They have no older source of their own, so their meaning depends on the ray teaching behind them.

Rose coloured light thrown through a fragment of old stained glass onto a plain plaster wall — Rose-colored light from a piece of stained glass on a plaster wall. Clement's 1898 list gives Chamuel a cup and staff and no color; the pink came with the seven-ray teaching.

How Do You Pray for a Strained Bond Without Trying to Control It?

A Chamuel prayer that follows its source asks for something in the one praying. Summit Lighthouse calls address "Archangel Chamuel and Charity" together, and the evening call on its Chamuel page asks that the soul be taken to their retreat to be escorted, instructed, and guided during sleep. A prayer shaped the same way asks for patience before a difficult conversation, honesty about one's own share of a quarrel, or the steadiness to wait for an answer.

A short example in that spirit, for a reader estranged from a sibling: "Archangel Chamuel, help me speak honestly with my brother tomorrow, listen without planning my reply, and accept whatever he decides." The last clause matters, because it leaves the brother's answer with the brother.

No control over another person. Chamuel devotion is not a way to force affection, contact, or reunion.
No romance guarantee. A prayer for peace can prepare the one praying for reconciliation, but it cannot promise a relationship outcome.
No bypassing apology. Prayer for harmony does not replace repair, accountability, or changed behavior.
No sentimental flattening. Compassion does not require avoiding a hard truth.

Each limit has a concrete reason. When the other person has asked for distance, a prayer for their return works against their stated wish, and when the harm was the praying person's own, a prayer for harmony that skips the apology leaves the harm in place.

Catholic readers meet a different constraint. Because the Directory on Popular Piety discourages angel names outside scripture, a Catholic prayer for a strained relationship goes to God or takes the form of a guardian angel prayer, and among named angels only Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael are open to it.

Two teacups on a bare wooden table with the chairs pushed back at different angles, one cup left untouched — Two teacups on a bare wooden table, one of them untouched, with the chairs pushed back.

How Does Chamuel Compare to Jophiel, Uriel, Zadkiel, and Raphael?

All four belong to the same seven as Chamuel. The archangels of the Summit Lighthouse rays, Michael, Jophiel, Chamuel, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, and Zadkiel, are exactly the seven Clement listed in 1898, so the modern system gave new duties to an existing roster.

Inside that system, peace is not Chamuel's own ray. The Summit Lighthouse gives the sixth ray, "ministration, service and peace," to Uriel. Forgiveness belongs to Zadkiel on the violet seventh ray. A modern profile that calls Chamuel the angel of love, peace, and forgiveness has folded three rays into one.

Chamuel and his neighbors in the seven-ray teaching
Archangel	Ray in Summit Lighthouse teaching	Older source that names him
Chamuel	Third: divine love, pink flame	Heywood's list (1635); Clement gives him a cup and staff
Jophiel	Second: wisdom and illumination	Clement: guardian of the Tree of Knowledge, with a flaming sword
Raphael	Fifth: truth, wholeness, healing	Tobit 12:15; 1 Enoch 20
Uriel	Sixth: ministration, service and peace	1 Enoch 20
Zadkiel	Seventh, violet: freedom, transmutation, forgiveness	Clement: said by some to have stayed Abraham's hand, with a sacrificial knife

Chamuel is the only one of the five whose ray is love itself, and he also has the thinnest older record. Raphael and Uriel appear in ancient texts, while every older mention of Chamuel comes from lists and art handbooks. Jophiel and Zadkiel are closer to his case, since Clement's legends for them name angels that Genesis leaves unnamed: the angel who drives Adam and Eve from Eden and the angel who stops Abraham's knife.

Haniel stands outside the rays. Davidson lists Haniel as another name for Chamuel, and Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533) sets Haniel against Venus in its table of seven planetary angels, so the two names reach a love association by separate routes: Venus in Agrippa's tables and the third ray in the Summit Lighthouse.