Nanael

The 53rd of the 72 genii, of the choir of Principalities. Its attribute: “God who brings down the proud”.

Genius of the body	5 December – 9 December — for those born within these five days
Genius of the morals	11 May, 22 July, 2 October, 13 December, 23 February — for those born on one of these five days
Genius of the soul	17:20 – 17:40 — for those born within these twenty minutes; this is also the hour of invocation
People and divine name	the Maltese : Obra
Verse to be spoken	Cognovi Domine, quia aequitas judicia tua: et in veritate tua humiliasti me. (Psalm 118, verse 75, Vulgate numbering)
It is invoked	The manuscript does not say.
It rules	the high sciences; clergy, professors, magistrates.
The person born under this influence	… will be of melancholy humour; will love private life, rest and meditation.
The contrary genius	… rules ignorance and every bad quality of body and soul.

What Lenain prescribes

To address a genius, Lenain asks that its name, its attributes and its verse be spoken during the twenty minutes of its reign. He adds silence about what is asked, a favourable moment and a talisman: see what the genii are for, and how they are invoked. We report the prescription as written in 1823; we promise no effect.

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Lazare Lenain, La Science cabalistique, Amiens, 1823, chapters IV and VI. Read in the manuscript copy of the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé, Paris (ms 5365), digitised on archive.org. Abridged; our translation.