Perhaps,
if we take a look at Auriel’s nature and look at some of the sparsely available
accounts of individual experiences with him, we can grow to understand this
little known, but oft called upon, archangel better. A Treatise on the Archangel Auriel.
Auriel is known as the Archangel utilized as the guardian and representative
of the earth. Unlike the other three, who have all been canonized as saints
by the Roman Catholic Church, there is little printed information on Auriel
and just exactly what aspects of the earth that he represents. Standard workings
in the Golden Dawn Grade of 1=10 begin with "communing" with him and
learning from personal experiences thereafter. Indeed most documented work with
Auriel (also known as Uriel) appears to be of a personal nature. While the other
three, Micheal, Gabriel, and Raphael are purported in various canonized writings
to have done many things on a grand scale, often affecting many people, the
only fleeting reference to Auriel is in the book of Genesis where he wrestles
on the ground with Jacob. Most other available sources of experience with Auriel
appear to be either channeled by individuals or some form of close personal
experience. This may lead us to believe that Auriel is such a Personal experience
for the individual that perhaps there was little need or desire to propagate
much written opinion of him as a being. Often people do not wish to relate personal
miracles to others. Perhaps Auriel has affected humanity, as a whole, just like
the other three but in a different way; one person, intimately, at a time.
Perhaps,
if we take a look at Auriel’s nature and look at some of the sparsely available
accounts of individual experiences with him, we can grow to understand this
little known, but oft called upon, archangel better.
The meaning of the name Auriel or Uriel is "The Light or Fire of God."
He is said to be related to Haniel and Phanael, both of these archangels are
considered to be in the Briatic aspect of the sephira of Netzach which relates
them to Venus. Haniel means "The Grace of God," Phanael means "The
Face (appearance) of God." Depending on the situation, Auriel can express
himself in our lives in either one of these aspects. The energies represented
in these names can be summed up in the quotation "The Lord makes his Face
shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee." The Light of God gives the
ability to perceive, and give life to, his images. As The Face of God, his images
are there to be perceived by the Light. As both The Light of God and The Face
of God, he is constant creation and recreation, he is truly the living aspect
of earth. The face of God can be seen in the stones beneath our feet, in the
trees that grow and in all else that is manifested in the earth, and the Light
of God gives it life.
Within ourselves, we imitate Auriel in our attempt to understand God and the world in which we live. We are capable of reflecting both the Light and Face of God within ourselves. In this way, we create the images of the world as we each know it and breathe life into those images with the Light of God within us.
"As The Archangel of the Face (appearance) of God, Auriel is responsible for our perceptions of divinity in even the most ordinary ways. It is all very well for isolated Mystics to have blinding visions of spiritual heights unreachable by common mortals, but Divinity should be closer to us than that." Through the devotion of his Venus aspect, Auriel brings divinity to us.