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Have people called upon uriel the spirit of the lord of spirits?
Invocation of Uriel has a deep, documented history across Jewish mystical, Enochian, Hermetic, and grimoire traditions. The 'Lord of Spirits' framing places the question directly inside 1 Enoch's cosmology, where Uriel functions as a cosmic guardian and revealer. Ritual contact with Uriel is not merely theoretical — it is practiced, reported, and embedded in live esoteric traditions today. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church institutionalizes this relationship liturgically.
Evidence
- In 1 Enoch — the foundational apocalyptic text that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church includes in its biblical canon — Uriel is explicitly named as the angel who guides Enoch through the prison of the Watchers and explains the celestial mechanics of sun, moon, and stars.
- In the grimoire tradition, Uriel appears prominently in Enochian magic as transmitted through John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 1580s, where Uriel is recorded as one of the first angelic contacts made through the scrying sessions documented in Dee's diaries.
- The Ethiopian Church's monthly remembrance of Uriel on the 22nd, its teaching that Uriel 'gives the cup of life and wisdom,' and its tradition that Uriel guided Mary and Jesus to Ethiopia all point to a living liturgical invocation tradition, not merely a textual one.
- The title 'Lord of Spirits' is the Enochian designation for God throughout that text, making Uriel one of the named emissaries of that specific divine title.
- Mauro Biglino, in his literal re-reading of Old Testament source texts, has argued that angelic figures like Uriel represent distinct beings functioning under a hierarchical command structure, not metaphors.