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How I found the strength

light432 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:58:48 GMT

The name Uriel means God is my Light; or God is Light; or Radiation of God; or God is the radiating principle of Light; or Fire of God. Uriel is one of the Archangels of rabbinical angelology. He was sent by God to answer the questions of Esdras (II Esdras iv). He is mentioned in I Enoch and IV Ezra, where he "watches over thunder and terror." In the Midrash 1, Uriel is said to be one of the four guardians of God's throne. In The Book of Adam and Eve he presides over repentance. Uriel appears in Milton's Paradise Lost where he is the 'Regent of the Sun' and 'sharpest-sighted spirit of all in heaven.' Uriel is of the leading angels in noncanonical lore, and ranked variously as a Seraph, Cherub, Regent of the Sun, Flame of God, and Angel of the Presence. As one of the most faithful and dedicated members of the host, Uriel was also placed in charge of Tartarus (another name for Hades). Uriel has been identified as one of the angels who helped bury Adam and Abel in Paradise. He is known as the dark angel who wrestled with Jacob at Peniel; as the destroyer of the hosts of Sennacherib ; as the messenger sent by God to Noah to warn him of the impending deluge, (although Raphael is credited with teaching the building of the ark), all of which feats or missions have been credited to other angels. In the view of Louis Ginzberg, the "prince of lights" in The Manual of Discipline, refers to Uriel. In addition, Uriel is said to have disclosed the mysteries of the heavenly arcana to Ezra; interpreted prophecies, and led Abraham out of Ur. In later Judaism we find Uriel instead of Phanuel" as one of the 4 angels of the presence. The Magus claims that alchemy "which is of divine origin" was brought down to earth by Uriel, and that it was Uriel who gave the cabala to man, although this "key to the mystical interpretation of Scripture" is also said to have been the gift of Metatron. Legend tells us that Uriel stands at the gate of the Lost Eden with a fiery sword. The Lost Eden is a term describing forgetting to Love God. The fiery sword shows that negative matter (selfish and unpure desires) are destroyed when one truly focuses their love on God. In this legend Uriel reminds humanity to Love God by using the "fire of God" (by using the fiery sword). Uriel teaches the path of the heart, the fire of pure Love. Without this pure Love and devotion to Spirit, all spiritual study remains an intellectual pursuit, fairy gold. This understanding of true spiritual study is further supported by the tradition that Uriel brought to Earth: Alchemy, the heavenly arcana and was the giver of the Cabala to man. It is through Noah's devotion and Love of God that Uriel is able to warn him of the flood. Noah's pure love and devotion was the telephone number of Uriel. If Noah had been unable to express divine love and devotion to God, he would have been unable to hear Uriel's warning via the cosmic phone. This is how another attribute associated with Uriel has arisen, the attribute of Divine Vengeance and Judgement. Only if the heart is ignited in devotion to God can one hear Yahweh's call. If one does not hear Yahweh's call, one will perish (get caught in the flood). Without Yahweh's guides and messages, one cannot find the Eternal Light. Uriel is said to have been the interpreter of Ezra's visions which also explains why Uriel means "God is the radiating principle of Light." Uriel's symbol of an open hand holding a flame depicts a great gift to humanity. It is the flame of Love to ignite the heart in service to God. Uriel holds out the flame of Love towards all souls. The soul by filling with the flame of Love becomes devoted to serving Yahweh's plan. Uriel's flame of Love, the fire of God, the Light of God, purifies emotional and mental understanding transmuting the lower vibrations into frequencies that can assimilate Spiritual Understanding. Accepted as an archangel by the Church for many centuries, he was finally removed from the records in 745 CE as the Church became increasingly concerned with the prominence the public was placing upon angels.

Wiccan ABC's

light432 — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:17:18 GMT

Accept others as they are, we are all individuals. Belief in yourself is a necessity. Concentration is important in any endeavor, both magickal and in life. Do what you will, so long as it harms none. Empathy is an important life skill...learn it, practice it. Find strength in yourself, your friends, your world and your actions. Goddess/God's are multifaceted - The Lord and Lady take many names and faces. Help others every change you get. Intelligence is something that cannot be judged on the surface. Judge not - what you send out comes back to you! Karma loves to slap you in the face, watch out for it. Learning is something that should never stop happening!!! Magick is a wonderful gift, but it is not everything! Nature is precious, appreciate it and protect it. Over the course of time, your soul learns many lessons. Make this life count!!! Pray Quietness both physically and mentally restores the soul, meditate often. Remember to take time for yourself as well as others. Spells can help you, but you must also help yourself. Tools can only do so much, they are not the foundation of all. You are the most important tool to use!!! Unless you enjoy worrying, keep a postive attitude. Visualise the success of your goals before you set out to achieve them. Wisdom can often be found in the least unexpected places. Xenophia (a hatred of those different from you) is a path to misery. You are a beautiful person who is capable of anything!!! Zapping away all of your troubles is not going to happen.

Unicorns

light432 — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:30:51 GMT

These light filled creatures are my gaurdians. Angelic and magical, balancing both light and dark. My love William gave me a beautiful Unicorn for our Alter today. But within me the unicorn still remains, a formless shadow in the spaces of my mind." -- Josephine Bradley, In Pursuit of the Unicorn "But dreams are real, too ... [and] this reality is the unicorn's terrain." -- Josephine Bradley, In Pursuit of the Unicorn "The unicorn stands alone, still as frost. It keeps watch down corridors of time. The past and the future meet in the presence of the unicorn: the darkness and light become one. Patient as a candle flame, inviolate, here is our guardian, keeper of the silent unknown." -- Josephine Bradley, In Pursuit of the Unicorn "You are the phanton on the sleepless nights... The mane of a unicorn glimpsed for a heartbeat through the forest... you are the dream." -- Source Unknown "Dreams are the playground of unicorns." -- Unknown "There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water." -- Tanith Lee; Black Unicorn "If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them." -- Odell Shepard "Like a lion, without fear of the howling pack; Like a gust of wind, ne'er rapped in a snare; Like a lotus blossom, ne'er sprinkled by water; Like me, like a unicorn, in solitude roam." -- Hymn of Buddha "...and from the heart of the blossom there appeared a unicorn..." -- James Endicott "Of all the legendary animals of art, folklore and literature, the Unicorn is the one with the greatest hold on our imaginations. Other fabulous beasts are clearly inventions, existing only in a mythical landscape of our own collective creation. But the Unicorn strikes us as more than imaginary. It seems possible, even probable - a creature so likely that it ought to exist." -- Nancy Hathaway; The Unicorn "The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for." -- Odell Shepard; The Lore of the Unicorn "To regard teh unicorn as wholly fabulous and a product of fancy is an absurd and arbitrary position, and we do well to remember that if the elephant and giraffe and camel should once die out they too, on account of their strange forms, would be thought as fabulous." -- Joseph Russegger "There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn -- noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful -- is the clearest exception of all. The unicorn was not conceived in fear. Our early sense of Nature's majestry and mysetery is revealed in him." -- Odell Shepard; The Lore of the Unicorn "God himself must needs be tranduced, if there is no unicorn in the world." -- Edward Topsell "The trees hold gentle branches around it; the forest pool guards it secret....Among the silent spaces of the trees it grows protected, nurtured by sunlight; wateched over by the winds and softfooted shadows." -- Josephine Bradley "Now I will believe that there are unicorns . . . " William Shakespeare, The Tempest "Their bodies are white, their heads dark red, and their eyes dark blue. They have a horn on the forehead which is about a foot and a half in length." --Ctesias; Indica, 416B.C. "Like a lion, without fear of the howling pack; Like a gust of wind, ne'er trapped in a snare; Like a lotus blossom, ne'er sprinkled by water; Like me, like a unicorn, in solitude roam." --Hymn of Buddha "To this day, it is said, malicious animals poison this water after sundown, so that none can thereupon drink it. But early in the morning, as soon as the sun rises, a unicorn comes out of the ocean, dips his horn into the water to expel the venom from it so that the other animals may drink thereof during the day. This as I describe it. I saw it with my own eyes." --Johannes van Hesse of Utrecht; 1389 "Toward noon we spotted an animal gazing down at us from a sterile mountain peak of red and black rocks... Our guide stated that the animal must certainly be a unicorn, and he pointed out to us the single horn which jutted from its forehead. With great caution we gazed back at this most noble creature, regretting it was no closer for us to examine still more minutely." --Friar Faber; 1438 "Now I will believe that there are unicorns..." --William Shakespeare; The Tempest "'Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' 'Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the unicorn, 'if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'" --Lewis Carroll; Through the Looking Glass