Raziel, the angel of proclamation, the chief of the Supreme Mysteries, the reputed author
of the famous Sepher Raziel, the book of angel Raziel.
The angel of wisdom, the guard of the last gate of heaven, the explainer of the Torah's
divine wisdom.
He is one of the ruling princes of the 2nd heaven and of the Arelim, the order of thrones,
he is one of the10 angels of the Briatic world, the Kabbalistic Sefira calls him the Cochma
of the sefira, the wisdom of the sephiroth.
The name Raziel means secrets of God, thus, his angelic duty is as the transmitter of
secrets.
Raziel is said to be the pseudographical author of the mystical book of angel Raziel.
In the legends of how the book came to be, they say raziel had originally inscribed
the book on a sapphire stone.
A copy was given to the seraph, and then to the first man Adam.
But the angels, angry that a book of magic containing the secrets and formulas on how
to constrain and compel them, would fall into the hands of a man, a lesser being, the angels
descended from the heavens and stole their book back from Adam.
But since they didn't need it, as they had absorbed all the knowledge of the book, they
threw it into the deep sea, and ensured it rested at the bottom, where no man could find
it.
Some say God sent Raphael to retrieve it, some say it was the angel Rehab who retrieved
it, and some say it was the sea demon kunospaston who brought it up to the surface.
In the testament of Solomon, Kunospaston is a demon of the deep seas.
The book was then given to Enoch, and it became one of the sources for his book, the book
of Enoch.
From Enoch, the book was passed down to Noah to protect him from the flood, for from
the book did Noah gain knowledge of how to build the ark, which saved him and his family
from the flood.
Long after the time of Noah, the book would come in the possession of King Solomon, as
a gift from a Babylonian prince.
Going forward, the book would be translated in a number of versions, especially by Rabbi
Eleazar Worms., and to some extent, Cornelius Agrippa.
Raziel knows the names of the seasons and the names of the angels ruling every season,
every month, and every day.
He knows every spirit or angel ministering over every sign of the Zodiac and of the planets.
He knows the secret names and letters of the lord, and all these, he gives in his book.
As an angel of proclamation, Raziel is said to have been the angel who proclaimed the
birth of Christ, when he led a choir of angels in singing the famous song, Hark, the herald
angel sings.
Thus, with his right hand raised in benediction, and his wings outstretched, he is the symbol
of the Nativity of christ..