"The God who stirs all men" — angel of motivation, who rouses dormant will into action.
Sealiyah belongs to a system of Kabbalistic name-craft rather than a single grimoire or author, which shapes how — and how confidently — anything about the angel can be said.
The Shem HaMephorash, the "explicated name," is a set of seventy-two three-letter root names drawn from three consecutive verses of Exodus (14:19–21). Each verse in the Hebrew text runs to seventy-two letters; read in sequence — one forward, one reversed, one forward again — and stacked column by column, they yield seventy-two triads. Suffixed with -יה (-iah, "of God") or -אל (-el, "God"), each triad becomes the name of an angel understood to govern one five-day span of the solar year.
Sealiyah is the forty-fifth of these names, drawn from the root ס-א-ל and closed with the -יה suffix. Its governing span falls in early November, one of seventy-two narrow windows into which later Kabbalistic and angel-magic writers mapped the whole wheel of the year.
The name surfaces under several spellings across the literature that has grown up around the Shem HaMephorash — Sealiah, Sehaliah, Sealel, and Sealiyah among them — all reducible to the same three-letter root and the same reading of "the God who stirs" or "who motivates." This page uses Sealiyah, the spelling tied to this domain, while treating the variants as the same figure.
Most sources place Sealiyah in the choir of Virtues, under the archangel Michael. A minority thread — more common in devotional rather than Kabbalistic sources — instead assigns the name to the Malachim in a Jewish framing and to the Powers under Raphael in a Christian one. Both threads are noted here rather than silently resolved; see Sources & honest notes.
Sealiyah's core association across every source is the reviving of stalled will — not supplying new ambition, but restoring access to willpower and focus a person already has.
Uniquely among the seventy-two, Sealiyah is described as patron of fire, air, water, and earth together, rather than a single element or planetary sphere.
Traditional descriptions credit Sealiyah with confounding the arrogant and the wicked while raising up the humbled and the fallen — a moral inversion alongside the motivational one.
One Kabbalistic source ties Sealiyah to the governance of vegetation and growth — a reading in some tension with the angel's autumn calendar dates, which sit opposite the spring growing season.
| Hebrew | סאליה |
| Meaning | "The God who stirs all men" |
| Position | 45th of the 72 Angels of the Shem HaMephorash |
| Choir | VirtuesAlt. traditions: Malachim (Jewish) / Powers (Christian) |
| Ruling archangel | MichaelAlt. traditions: Raphael |
| Governing dates | November 3 – November 7 |
| Governing hours | 2:40 PM – 3:00 PMSources vary; treat as approximate |
| Element | Fire, Air, Water, Earth |
| Tarot | Six of Cups (Sun in Scorpio) |
| Stone | Black tourmaline |
| Colors | Magenta, Violet |
| Psalm | 94:18 |
| Shadow / opposing spirit | Vine (Goetic) |
The wheel above is built from the Golden Dawn's Rose Cross lamen: a way of arranging all twenty-two Hebrew letters by elemental and astrological rank so that any Hebrew name can be traced as a single line.
This is a working method rather than a fixed image: the same wheel produces a different sigil for every name run through it, which is the whole point of the device.