 Archangel Uriel Uriel (אוּרִיאֵל "Flame of God", Auriel/Oriel (light of god)
Uriel is often referred to as the Great Archangel of the Earth. One contemporary
account describes the archangel thus: "He (or she) is the keeper of the
mysteries which are deep within the planet, underground and in the hidden depths
of the living world."
Some accounts place the Archangel Uriel at the head of the third order or
company of angels. Others identify Uriel as one of the Seven Spirits before the
Throne. Qabalists assign Uriel to the middle pillar of the Tree of Life, and
specifically to the sephirah Malkuth, the Kingdom. Malkuth is often associated
with the Shekinah, the Glory of God and the divine presence in the world.
Malkuth represents the lowest point of descent of the divine force, from which
it ascends again to complete the cycle of manifestation and pralaya.
The Archangel Uriel has been called "the Lord of powerful action. Uriel personifies the Divine Fire that comes down from the Third Aspect of Deity--Universal Mind--penetrating each plane until It reaches the physical. There, the Fire ignites the fusion in the center of the Sun, the fission at the center of the Earth, and the kundalini at the base of the spine. It creates worlds, universes, and life--which then await the quickening impulse of the Second Aspect to evolve and grow.
The Book of Enoch describes Uriel as "one of the holy angels, who is over the
world... the leader of them all." Later we read in the same book: "Uriel showed
to me, whom the Lord of glory hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the
heaven... the sun, moon, and stars, all the ministering creatures which make
their revolution in all the chariots of the heaven."
Colin Wilson describes encounters between Uriel and the 16th century scholar,
Dr. John Dee. Dee's scrying assistant, Edward Kelley, saw a cherub in a crystal
ball. Dee identified the cherub from his Kabbalistic knowledge as "Uriel, the
angel of light." Later, in 1582, Dee had a vision of a child angel floating
outside the window, holding a crystal egg. Again he identified this with Uriel.
Wilson claims that the crystal egg is preserved in the British Museum. [Colin
Wilson. The Occult: A History. Random House, 1971, pp. 273-4]. Whether Uriel
appears as a child, a powerful man, or a woman of regal bearing (as the artistic
depictions show below), the archangel continues to command the imagination,
reverence, and devotion of people around the world.
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