Archangel Uriel
The name Uriel (Hebrew: Auriel, aleph, vau, resh, yod, aleph,
lamed) literally means "Fire of God," "Flame of God," "Light of
God," or even "Sun of God." Uriel can be identified with Agni,
Devic Lord of the mental plane--the plane of fire. [Alice A.
Bailey. Treatise on Cosmic Fire. Lucis Trust, p. 605-6].
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. Kabbalistic writings assign Uriel
to the middle pillar of the Tree of Life, and specifically to the
sephirah Malkuth, the Kingdom.
The Archangel Uriel personifies the Divine Fire that comes down
from the 3rd 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 2nd Aspect to evolve and grow.
The Book of Enoch describes Uriel as "one of the holy angels, who
is over the world and over Tartarus... 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."
