Cassiel

Meaning of Cassiel

In Judaic and Christian mystical tradition, the name Cassiel—traced to the Hebrew Qafsīʾēl and conveyed into Latin—derives from the elements quṣṣi (“speed”) and El (“divine”), thus etymologically signifying “the speed of God”; within the technical discourse of angelology, Cassiel is classified as an archangel governing the planet Saturn and associated with the motifs of solitude, tears, and contemplative introspection, roles extensively documented in apocryphal and esoteric texts. Although its theological gravitas has not resulted in broad adoption in contemporary Anglo-American registries—where Cassiel typically resides beyond the nine-hundredth rank—it endures as an appellation of measured distinctiveness and cross-linguistic adaptability, pronounced in English as /kɑˈsi.əl/ and in Spanish as /kaˈsjel/.