Anael is known as one of the "seven phantoms of flame," or as one of the seven demons "of the ignited sphares" in ancient Chaldean demonology. He is considered to be very powerful, able to cause earthquakes and to affect the economy. He and his cohorts are at war with the seven gods of the plants who govern the universe. More modern scholars have described him as both a retrograde spirit and as one of the seven Planetary Princes of Hell who lives deep within the bowels of the earth.
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