it makes sense that an archangel would be associated with a terrible radiance that shines through the human body, disfiguring and dooming all those it touches.
in Jewish mysticism, Michael's associated sephira in the Tree of Life is Hod (literal meaning: "majesty," "splendor," or "glory").
Hod is said to be the sphere in which the magician mostly works. An example is given by occultist and author Dion Fortune in The Mystical Qabalah:Imagine primitive man is meditating in the wilderness, and comes in contact with, and begins to understand, some energy that surrounds him. So that he can grasp it better, he creates some form, perhaps the form of a god or a symbol, so he has something he can relate to. He then uses that statue or that symbol in future ceremonies to contact that intangible energy once again. This is the role that Hod plays in magic.
