Enoch
does a service by listing the seven Archangels under the command
of the ‘Lord of Spirits’, and by making a short comment
on the functions which each one performed in the Garden in Eden.
The Lord of Spirits, however, is not commented upon – and
without the Sumerian record of Enlil, nothing would be known
of this vital personality. Enoch states:
[EN
XX: 1-4PP] These are the names of the Archangels who oversee
[the other Angels]:
URIEL
– who is in charge of the country about, and of Tartarus.
RAPHAEL
– who is responsible for the health of men.
RAGUEL
– who judges [perhaps monitors] the good behaviour of
the Angels.
[EN
XX:5 PP] MICHAEL – who is over each of the other Archangels,
and is appointed to command the brave soldiers and, consequently,
[is responsible for] the penal, volcanic areas.
[EN
XX;6-8 PP] SARIEL – who is responsible for the fate
of those angels who transgress [the laws].
GABRIEL
- who is in charge of Paradise and is over the Serpents and
the Cherubim.
REMIEL
– whom the Lord made responsible for spreading abroad
the instructions of the seven Archangels – the Council.
Paradise
was a synonym for the Garden in Eden. In the Koran, and
in the most leading religions, the term referred to an area
in the Spiritual Regions in which Souls could enjoy a sojourn
of peace and pleasure, before being returned to the round of
transmigration. Gabri-el was in charge of the Garden
of Eden; but this post was not in conflict with that of the
Lord of Spirits; Uriel was in charge of the country round about
the Garden, and of the Lowlands – and the Lord of Spirits
was over them both.
From
The Shining Ones by Christian and Barbara Joy O’Brien
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