Uriel: Communicating with the Archangel for Transformation & Tranquility

About the Author

Richard Webster (New Zealand) travels around the world lecturing and conducting workshops on psychic subjects. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Palm Reading for Beginners, Feng Shui for Beginners, Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians, and most recently, Candle Magic for Beginners.

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Contents

Introduction

One: Who Is Uriel?

Two: How to Contact Uriel

Three: How to Request Assistance

Four: Archangel of the Earth, Part One

Five: Archangel of the Earth, Part Two

Six: Uriel and the Chakras

Seven: Scrying for Uriel

Eight: How to Introduce Uriel to Others

Nine: The Other Archangels

Ten: Conclusion

Notes

Suggested Reading

Introduction

The word angel is derived from the Greek word angelos, which itself comes from the Hebrew word mal’akh, meaning messenger. This shows that since ancient times the angels’ most important role is to act as messengers between God and mankind.

I find it interesting to ask people what they imagine angels to be like. Naturally, many people visualize them as cute cherubs with wings, but others see them as giant-like, powerful, even slightly intimidating beings. When I was a child, an elderly friend of my mother told me that angels were like shadows with auras around them. She also said that magicians and witches were able to draw energy from these shadows to do their work.

Not long ago, one lady surprised me. She told me that she saw angels as everyday people, but with special qualities that were usually not apparent until after they had left. This made me recall the haunting words from Hebrews 13:2: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. She also said that in her experience, angels usually appeared when the person desperately needed help or encouragement. The American poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92) must have agreed with her when he wrote:1

With silence only as their benediction God’s angels come, Where, in the shadow of a great affliction, the soul sits dumb.

People visualize angels in different ways. This is not surprising, as angels have the ability to appear in any shape or form they wish, depending upon the circumstances. It makes no difference how you see them. In fact, you may even see them in a variety of forms at different times.

Communicating with angels has the potential to transform your life. All you have to do is invite them in. Once you do this, the angelic kingdom will nurture and encourage you at every stage of life. Angels are endlessly forgiving, caring, and supportive. They provide strength, healing, light, energy, and healing.

The history of angels is a fascinating one that in the Christian tradition goes back to the first day of creation. In the book of Jubilees, one of the apocryphal religious texts that was excluded from the Bible, angels are said to have been created on the first day, after the heavens and earth, but before the firmament. This meant that angels were able to help God with his creation.

Intriguingly, the book of Genesis makes no mention of this. The first mention of an angel in the Bible is when the angel of the Lord appeared to Hagar, a young, pregnant serving girl, who was fleeing from Abram’s wife, Sarai. (Genesis 16:7). The angel of the Lord appears frequently in the Old Testament. This angel engaged Hagar in conversation, and said: Return to thy mistress and submit thyself under her hands. (Genesis 16:9) The angel of the Lord also told her that she would give birth to a son named Ishmael.

The first biblical reference to the creation of angels is in the book of Job (38:4–7). In this reference, angels are called sons of God:

Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

The next mention of the creation of angels is in Psalm 148, verses 1–5:

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.

Saint Paul refers to God’s creation of angels in his Epistle to the Colossians (1:16):

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.

Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers are all groupings of angels. There are different arrangements of these, known as hierarchies. The one that is generally accepted was devised by Pseudo-Dionysius, a fifth- or sixth-century writer and philosopher. According to him, there are nine groups of angels. At the top are the Seraphim, the angels closest to God. These are followed in descending order by the Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels.2

Angels have also figured in every other major religious tradition. Carved stone cylinder seals, dating from about 4000 BCE, have been found in Ur, the capital city of the ancient Sumerians. The cylinders show a man and a god. Next to the man is another figure who appears to be leading him to the god. This person is probably an angel, even though he does not have wings.

Arguably, the first picture of an angel is an engraved stone panel from Sumeria. The engraving depicts a king catching drops of the water of life that is being spilled from a container held by a winged figure, presumably an angel.

In ancient Egypt, angels were called the Shining Ones. They painted and sculpted angels in tombs and temples. The inscrutable Sphinx of Giza is a huge example, and is a monument to their great angel Hu.3

Followers of the Iranian prophet Zoroaster (c. 628–551 BCE) believed in amesha spentas, who appeared to be angels of Ahura Mazda, the Wise Lord. If not true angels, they were certainly intermediary beings who functioned in both heaven and earth. Zoroaster had a life-changing experience at the age of thirty when he experienced a vision of the Archangel of Right Thinking, who was about nine times the size of a human being. Zoroaster was so moved by this experience that he stepped out of his physical body and came immediately into the presence of God, who he called Lord of Light. God taught Zoroaster everything he needed to know to start his religion. For several years, Zoroaster was also assisted and taught by the Immortal Holy Ones, who were six archangels. He was introduced to many other angels, and discovered that there was a Lord of Light, as well as a Lord of Darkness, who had an army of demons to help him. These concepts were later adopted by many other religions, especially Judaism and Christianity.

In Islam, the Archangel Gabriel revealed the Koran to Muhammad. In Islam there are three types of spiritual beings: angels, demons, and jinn, or genies. According to legend, the jinn were created two thousand years before Adam, and can work either negatively or positively, according to the situation they find themselves in. They are inclined to be mischievous and frequently make life difficult for the people they torment and tease. Fortunately, it is possible to outwit them using superior thought, cunning, or magic.

In Judaism, angelology became more developed during their time of exile (fifth and sixth centuries BCE), when they made contact with followers of Zoroastrianism. The army of hosts that developed during this time actively fight the forces of evil, and perform other tasks, such as revealing the word of God to mankind. Jewish Kabbalists also related angels to the four elements, and arranged them into a hierarchy.

The four leading archangels became well-known during this period. Michael is the warrior leader of the heavenly hosts, while Gabriel performs the role of heavenly messenger. Both of them are mentioned by name in the canonical Old Testament. Raphael, God’s healer, is mentioned in the book of Tobit, and Uriel, the Fire of God, is recognized in 2 Esdras. A Jewish evening prayer also includes all four archangels:

May Michael, the protector of God, stand at my right hand; and Gabriel, the power of God, stand at my left; before me, Uriel, the light of God; and behind me, Raphael, the healing of God. And above my head, may there be the abiding presence of God, the Shekinah.

The book of Genesis (28:12–16) describes Jacob’s dream. He dreamed of a ladder leading from earth to heaven, with angels walking up and down it. This dream describes the cosmic link between heaven and earth, and has also been used to explain how angels were able to travel between the different sephiroth, the areas of divine attributes, in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.

Over the last two thousand years, the Christian church has endlessly debated the nature and attributes of angels. The chubby, benign cherubic figures that are the popular ideal of angels are the creation of the Church, and have little in common with the powerful angels that appear in the Bible and other holy books.

The first Ecumenical Council in 325 CE acknowledged the existence of angels. The council went so far as to state that Christians could ask angels to help them get to heaven. However, the second council, less than twenty years later, contradicted this because it felt that adoration of angels would confuse people and take them