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Uriel ('''אוּרִיאֵל''' "Flame of God ", Auriel/Oriel (light of god) Standard Hebrew '''Uriʾel''', Tiberian Hebrew '''ʾÛrîʾēl''') is one of the Archangel s of post-Exilic Rabbinic tradition, and also of certain Christian traditions. His name may have analogies with '' Uriah ''. In apocryphal, kabbalistic and occult works Uriel has been equated or confused with Nuriel , Uryan, Jeremiel, Vretil, Sariel, Suriel, Puruel, Phanuel, Jehoel, Jacob, Ezrail/ Azrael and Israfil/ Raphael . __TOC__ The angels mentioned in the older books of the Hebrew Bible are without names. Indeed, rabbi Simeon Ben Lakish Of Tiberias (AD 230–270), asserted that all the specific names for the angels were brought back by the Jews from Babylon, and some modern commentators would tend to agree. Of seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, only three, Gabriel , Michael and Raphael , are mentioned by name in the scriptures that gradually became accepted as Canon ical. Where a fourth archangel is added to the named three, to represent the four cardinal points, Uriel is generally the fourth (''Jewish Encyclopedia''). Uriel is listed as the fourth angel in Christian Gnostics (under the name Phanuel ), by Gregory The Great , and in the angelology of Pseudo-Dionysius . Uriel is the third angel listed in the '' Testament Of Solomon '', the fourth being Sabrael. Uriel also appears in the '' Second Book Of Esdras '', an Apocrypha l addition in the tradition of Apocalyptic Literature made to '' Esdras '', in which the prophet Ezra asks God a series of questions, and Uriel is sent by God to instruct him. According to the Revelation of Esdras, the angels that will rule at the end of the world are Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, Gabuthelon, Beburos, Zebuleon, Aker, Arphugitonos. The last five listed only appear in this book and nowhere else in apocryphal or apocalyptic works. Uriel is often identified as a Cherub and angel of repentance Book Of Adam And Eve . He "stands at the Gate of Eden with a fiery sword," Abbot Anscar Vonier, 1964. 'The Teaching of the Catholic Church' or as the angel who "watches over thunder and terror."1 Enoch? In the '' Apocalypse Of Peter '' he appears as the Angel of Repentance, who is graphically represented as being as pitiless as any demon. In the '' Life Of Adam And Eve '', Uriel is regarded as the spirit (i.e., one of the cherubs) of the third chapter of Genesis. He is also identified as one of the angels who helped bury Adam and Abel in Paradise. Stemming from medieval Jewish mystical traditions, Uriel has also become the Angel of Sunday (''Jewish Encyclopedia''), the Angel of Poetry, and one of the Holy Sephiroth . It was Uriel who wrestled Jacob at Peniel and Uriel is depicted as the destroyer of the hosts of Sennacherib. The prayer of Jospeth in the ''Legends of the Jews'' reads "Jacob - ”When I was coming from Mesopotamia of Syria, Uriel, the angel of God, came forth and spoke: ‘I have come down to earth to make my dwelling among men, and I am called Jacob by name.’”" He checked the doors of Egypt for lamb's blood during the plague. He also holds the key to The Pit during the End Times and led Abraham to the West. In modern and only marginally Christian Angelology , Uriel is identified variously as a Seraph , Cherub , regent of the sun, flame of God, angel of the Divine Presence, presider over Tartarus (hell), archangel of salvation, and, in later scriptures, identified with Phanuel "face of God." He is often depicted carrying a book or a papyrus scroll representing wisdom. Uriel is a patron of the Arts. In and then to Adam. At the Council of Rome of 745, Pope St. Zachary , intending to clarify the Church's teaching on the subject of angels and curb a tendency toward angel worship, condemned obsession with angelic intervention and angelolatry, but reaffirmed the approval of the practice of the reverence of angels. This synod struck many angels' names from the list of those eligible for veneration in the Church of Rome, including Uriel. Only the reverence of the archangels mentioned in the recognized Catholic canon of scriptures, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, remained licit. In the first half of the 11th century Bulgarian followers of the dualist heresy called Bogomilism who lived in the dukedom of Ahtum in present day Banat invoked Uriel in rituals. This is witnessed by St. Gerard , Roman Catholic bishop of the area after 1028. {Link without Title} In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's translation of '' The Golden Legend '', Uriel is one of the angels of the seven planets. Uriel is the angel of Mars. He is also listed as such in Benjamin Camfield 's ''A Theological Discourse of Angels'' (1678)Canfield, ''A Theological Discourse of Angels, Wherein Their Existence, Nature, Number, Order and Offices, are modestly treated of...''. Possibly Uriel's highest position is that of an Angel of Presence, Prince of Presence, Angel of the Face, Angel of Sanctification, Angel of Glory. A Prince of the Presence is an angel who is allowed to enter the presence of God. Uriel along with Suriel , Jehol , Zagagel , Akatriel , Metatron, Yefefiah , Satanel , Michael , Gabriel , Raphael , and Nathanel ( Zathael ) holds this position. The Angel of His Presence title is often taken to mean Shekinah but it and the other terms mentioned are also often used as alternate names for the angel Metatron . R. H. Charles comments in his translation of ''The Book Of Enoch'' that in later Judaism "we find Uriel instead of Phanuel" as one of the four angels of the presence. A scriptural reference to an angel of presence is found in Isaiah 63:9 — ''In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.'' In the Sibylline Oracles , Uriel, along with Samiel, Aziel, and Araquiel (a fallen angel in 1 Enoch ), leads men's souls to judgment. The Book of Ceremonial Magic discusses Ablati, Josta, Agla and Caila as the four words spoken by God to Moses. Grimoire These words are used in a magical rite to conjure Uriel. This information also appears in the book the Greater Key Of Solomon ; the Book of Ceremonial Magic uses the Greater Key of Solomon as a foundation which would explain this. URIEL IN 1 ENOCH See Also: Book of Enoch The Book of Enoch, which is said to be written by Enoch, Ancestor Of Noah , mentions Uriel in many of the component books. In Chapter IX which is part of "The Book of the Watchers" ( 2nd Century BC ) only four Angels are mentioned by name these are Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel . However the later Chapter XX lists the name and function of seven archangels these are "Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus ", Raphael, Raguel , Michael, Saraqâêl, Gabriel, and Remiel . The Book of the Watchers as a whole tells us that Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel were present before God to testify on behalf of Humankind . They wish to ask for divine intervention during the reign of the Fallen Gregori (Fallen Watchers). These fallen take human wives and produced half-angel, half-human offspring called the Nephilim . Uriel is responsible for contacting Noah about the upcoming Great Flood . :''Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him: " After judgment has been brought on the Nephilim and the fallen ones including the two main leaders Samyaza and Azazel Uriel discusses their fates. :"And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons 'as gods', (here shall they stand,) till 'the day of' the great judgment in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.' And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen." Uriel then acts as a guide for Enoch for the rest of the Book of Watchers. He fulfills this capacity in many of the other books that make up 1 Enoch. URIEL IN LITERATURE In Milton's '' Paradise Lost '' Book III, Uriel, in charge of the Orb of the Sun, serves as the eyes of God, but unwittingly steers Satan towards the newly-created earth. He also fills the role of fourth cardinal point (see above). Milton describes him as the "sharpest sighted spirit in all of Heaven.". He is also responsible along with Raphael for defeating Adramelech . In Ralph Waldo Emerson 's poem " Uriel ", regarded as a poetic summary of many strains of thought in Emerson's early philosophy, Uriel is a young god in Paradise , who upsets the world of gods by proclaiming Relativism and the Eternal Return . In George Eliot 's '' Middlemarch '', ch. XLI, to Uriel, "watching the progress of planetary history from the sun, the one result would be just as much of a coincidence as the other". In Madeleine L'Engle 's book, Many Waters , Uriel is one of the Seraphim who help the protagonists, Sandy and Dennys, return to their own time after being transported to the time of Noah's Ark . In Madeleine L'Engle 's book, A Wrinkle In Time , Uriel is a fictional planet of the galaxy Messier 101 with mountains and beautiful flowers. In Dean Koontz 's book '' Hideaway '', Uriel speaks and acts through Hatch, one of the book's protagonists, to battle the demon Vassago , who "hitched a ride" with Jeremy Nyeborn after he was reanimated. URIEL IN THE OCCULT Modern occultists sometimes associate Uriel with the color Green or Brown or Black , the direction North, the element Earth, and the Suit of Coins (or Pentacles) of the Tarot in traditions. URIEL IN POPULAR CULTURE
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