Uriel, the fire of God, the angel of luck and of chance, the angel of the south and of the
south wind. The angel of destiny, the bringer of Salvation, the ruler of the element of earth.
He is the angel whom the muslims call Israfael, the angel of poetry, of music and of the muses,
he is one of the 70 amulet angels invoked during childbirth.The Golden legend calls
him the ruler of the planet Mars, he is one of the chiefs of the order of virtues
and the Cherubim, the governor of the Zodiac sign
Libra or the scales, the ruling prince of the month of September and of the day of Saturday,
The gender of Uriel is greatly disputed, she is either depicted as a female, or as an effeminate,
a male with the qualities and attributes of a female. The fact that the name is genderless and
can be used by both genders, further amplifies the truth. Thus, we shall be using both he and she,
side by side. Barett's Magus says that it was Uriel who gave the Kabbalah to mankind,
that Alchemy is of divine origin, and it was Uriel who brought it down to earth.
In the Paradise lost 3, Uriel is said to be the sharpest and farsighted of
all the angels of heaven. She is one of the angels of destruction,
vengeance and judgement, and is charged with keeping the realm of Tartarus and Hades in order,
working hand in hand with Raphael, another keeper of the netherworld.
A number of apocryphal texts made us know there are both holy and fallen angels of destruction
and destruction, both holy and fallen angels of the netherworld and of hell, those in service
of the lord and those in service of Satan of Lucifer. In chapter 20 of the first book of
Enoch, and in the apocalypse of Paul, Uriel is one of those holy angels presiding over hell.
He is the prince of Tartarus and chief of the Tartaruchi, the keepers of Tartarus. They say
there are only a few thousand to tens of thousand angels of death and destruction
in the service of God, assisting and performing under the command of a few select chiefs. Uriel
is one of those chiefs in the service of the lord, alongside fellow chiefs Metatron, Gabriel
and Raphael. On the other hand, in hell alone, and in the service of Lucifer or Satan,
there are over hundreds of thousands to millions of angels of destruction working
under the command and reign of 72 infernal kings, according to the lesser key of Solomon.
When the holy angels of destruction execute punishment on the sinful souls of the world,
they are given the sword of God as an instrument of punishment, so says the 3rd book of Enoch.
As souls cross over after death, they are judged by Metatron and Gabriel on the bridge of the
afterlife, which leads to hell on one side and to Paradise on the other side. Metatron passes the
souls found unclean to Gabriel, who has them cast into the netherworld, to where Raphael reigns as
prince. There in the netherworld, Raphael consults the will of the lord upon these guilty souls.
If found eligible for a second chance, they're reborn and given a chance to attain salvation.
If deemed lost and beyond salvation, they are sent to Tartarus, to where Uriel reigns as ruler,
where they would suffer for the rest of their days, damned to eternal destruction.
There in tartarus, Uriel makes one final appeal to the lord
for mercy on behalf of these damned souls, and if not granted, she hands the souls over to the angel
demons of the fires of hell, who would then ravage and destroy them for eternity.
To give a glimpse of what these damned souls are doomed to suffer for eternity, the legends of the
jews tell us that when Moses visited hell and the netherworld, which are situated in the 3rd heaven,
he beheld a region where these damned souls were bound, standing up in mud which reached navel,
and flogged with fiery chains by the angel demons of destruction, and their teeths broken with fiery
stones from morning till evening. This is similar to the tortures described in Dante's inferno.
The claim of Uriel being in charge of Tartarus is equally agreed by the 2nd book of the
Sibylline Oracles, which says that on the day of judgement, Uriel shall break of the monstrous
unyielding brazen gates of hades, and shall bring forth to judgement, the souls of the damned,
and of the ghosts of the ancient Titans and of the giants, and all those whom the flood overtook .
She shall bring them to the judgement seat and set them before the throne of the lord. Uriel is
sometimes said to be the angel of lightning, and in the Testament of Solomon, the angel
of lightning alongside the angel Iax, are the only powers able to defeat the headless demon
Envy. She is also the parent of the angel demon Ornias, according to the testament of Solomon.