Is “angel of patience” an old title for Asmodel?

Not in Asmodel’s witnesses: Lansdowne MS 1203 gives the Taurus row hearing, Agrippa gives it the neck, and the modern month guide calls Asmodel “the spirit of rebirth.” That guide gives the patience title to Barchiel, its February angel, and the profile pages that give it to Asmodel cite no text.

Is Asmodel, the April Angel, the Same as the Demon Asmodeus?

Asmodel and Asmodeus come from different books. Asmodel stands in the Taurus and April row of Lansdowne MS 1203 and of Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, while Asmodeus is the “wicked demon” of the Book of Tobit, driven off by smoke and bound by the angel Raphael.

None of the witnesses for Asmodel mentions Tobit or a demon, and each spells the name Asmodel or Asmodël. The April name can be read without the demon story, though a table entry still does not tell anyone who their own guardian is.

Quick Facts

April’s sign angel: Asmodel, Taurus row of Lansdowne MS 1203 (page 52) and Agrippa, Book II, chapter 14
Attributes in the Taurus row: Hearing in Lansdowne MS 1203; the neck in Agrippa’s scale
Asmodeus: The demon of Tobit 3:8, bound by Raphael in Egypt in Tobit 8:3
Link between the names: None stated in Tobit or in Asmodel’s witnesses; the names share letters, not a role
Born 1 to 20 April: Aries dates in tropical astrology; that row’s angel is Malchidiel

Where does Asmodel appear as the angel of Taurus and April?

Asmodel holds the second row of the table on page 52 of Joseph Peterson’s edition of Lansdowne MS 1203: Taurus, the month of April, the angel Asmodël and the capacity of hearing. A later list of the characters of the sign angels in the same manuscript, on pages 59-60, writes Asmodel, and Peterson’s English leaves that spelling as it stands.

Agrippa’s scale of the number twelve, in Book II, chapter 14, names Asmodel second among the “Twelve Angels ruling over the signs.” In the parallel rows below the name stand Taurus, April and the neck, the body part the scale assigns to that sign.

Peterson’s edition reports one more witness in a note to the pentacle of Venus and Taurus. Referring to the fourth seal of Taurus in The Magical Calendar, the note says “Asmodel is there named as the angel of the sign of Taurus”; the entry rests on Peterson’s report.

Every consulted witness for the April name
Witness	Spelling	Row or setting	Attribute given
Lansdowne MS 1203, page 52	Asmodël	Taurus; April	Hearing
Lansdowne MS 1203, pages 59-60	Asmodel	List of the sign angels’ characters	None
Agrippa, Book II, chapter 14	Asmodel	Taurus; April	The neck, as principal member
The Magical Calendar, as reported by Peterson	Asmodel	Fourth seal of Taurus	Angel of the sign of Taurus
Angels of the Months (modern)	Asmodel	April; no sign given	“The spirit of rebirth”

The modern Angels of the Months guide at Archangels and Angels calls Asmodel “the spirit of rebirth” and links April with new ventures and delight in “each sign of awakening.”

The April row also covers less of April than its label suggests. Taurus begins around 21 April in tropical astrology, so someone born between about 1 and 20 April belongs to the Aries row, whose angel in both historical tables is Malchidiel.

Is Asmodel the same as the demon Asmodeus?

No text examined here treats them as one figure. Asmodeus is the “wicked demon” who kills each of Sarah’s seven husbands in the Book of Tobit (3:8), and in 8:3 he flees to the remotest parts of Egypt, where Raphael binds him.

Asmodel’s witnesses are a different kind of text. Each is a table or list of the angels over the twelve signs, and none of their entries for Asmodel mentions Tobit, Sarah, Raphael or a demon.

Asmodel and Asmodeus in their own texts
Question	Asmodel	Asmodeus
Where the name appears	Sign tables: Lansdowne MS 1203, Agrippa, The Magical Calendar (per Peterson), a modern month guide	The Book of Tobit
Role in that text	Angel over the sign Taurus, paired with April	The “wicked demon” who afflicts Sarah
Passages	Lansdowne MS 1203, pages 52 and 59-60; Agrippa, Book II, chapter 14	Tobit 3:8 and 8:3
Story told about him	None; the tables list the name without a narrative	Kills Sarah’s seven husbands, is driven off by smoke and is bound by Raphael in Egypt

The two names do begin with the same five letters. None of these texts derives one name from the other or places the two in the same story.

A profile page that calls Asmodel a demon is therefore making a claim none of these witnesses makes. You can keep the April table name without inheriting the Tobit story, or set the name aside for reasons of your own, and the tables do not decide that choice for you.

Who calls Asmodel a demon of punishment?

The claim comes from modern profile pages. One says Asmodel was once among the chiefs of the Cherubim and that some cultures now count him a demon of punishment, without naming a text.

The page does not say which cultures it means. Neither the Cherubim rank nor the demon status appears in Lansdowne MS 1203, Agrippa’s scale, Peterson’s note on The Magical Calendar or the modern month guide.

That leaves the claim unsourced, though not disproved. It may come from some other text, and until that text is named, the claim belongs to the profile pages that repeat it.

Can a Christian use the name Asmodel?

In Catholic guidance the demon question does not decide it. Paragraph 217 of the Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy discourages assigning names to angels beyond its scriptural exceptions, and Asmodel is not among them, however it is spelled.

Paragraph 216 of the same document discusses devotion to guardian angels, and the caution about names follows directly after it.

This is Catholic guidance, and other churches and esoteric practitioners hold their own positions. The sign tables themselves come from magical literature, so using or declining the name is a separate decision from Christian prayer to a guardian angel.