Gabriel

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Gabriel

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel

In Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), Gabriel (/ˈɡeɪbriəl/ GAY-bree-əl) is an archangel with power to announce God's will to men. He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran. Many Christian traditions – including Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism — revere Gabriel as a saint.

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In the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his visions (Daniel 8:15–26, 9:21–27). The archangel also appears in the Book of Enoch and other ancient Jewish writings not preserved in Hebrew. Alongside the archangel Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian angel of Israel, defending its people against the angels of the other nations.

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In the New Testament, the Gospel of Luke relates the stories of the Annunciation, in which the angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah and the Virgin Mary, announcing to each the births of John the Baptist / Yahya and Jesus / Isa, respectively (Luke 1:11–38).

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Islam regards Gabriel as an archangel sent by God to various prophets, including Muhammad. The first five verses of the Al-Alaq, the 96th chapter of the Quran, is believed by Muslims to have been the first verses revealed by Gabriel to Muhammad.

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Gabriel and Vohu Manah

The Zoroastrian "holy immortal" (Amesha Spentas) Vohu Manah (or "good mind"), played a similar role to Gabriel in Zoroastrianism, appearing to Zarathustra and revealing the true nature of God and his covenant with man.

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Hebrew Bible

In the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his visions (Daniel 8:15–26, 9:21–27). Later the angel Michael also appears to him (Daniel 10:13, 21, Daniel 12,1). These are the first instances of a named angel in the Bible. Gabriel's main function in Daniel is that of revealer, responsible for interpreting Daniel's visions, a role he continues to have in later traditions.

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Rabbinic Judaism

Gabriel, (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, romanized: Gaḇrīʾēl) is interpreted by Talmudic rabbis to be the "man in linen" mentioned in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Ezekiel. Talmudic Judaism understands the angel in the Book of Ezekiel, who was sent to destroy Jerusalem, to be Gabriel. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Gabriel takes the form of a man, and stands at the left hand of God. Shimon ben Lakish (Syria Palaestina, 3rd century) concluded that the angelic names of Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel came out of the Babylonian exile (Gen. Rab. 48:9).

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Alongside archangel Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian angel of Israel, defending this people against the angels of the other nations.

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Mystical Judaism

In the Kabbalistic tradition, Gabriel is identified with the sephirah of Yesod. Gabriel also has a prominent role as one of God's archangels in the Kabbalah literature. There, Gabriel is portrayed as working in concert with Michael as part of God's court. Gabriel is not to be prayed to because only God can answer prayers and sends Gabriel as his agent.

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According to Jewish mythology, in the Garden of Eden there is a tree of life or the "tree of souls" that blossoms and produces new souls, which fall into the Guf, the Treasury of Souls. Gabriel reaches into the treasury and takes out the first soul that comes into his hand. Then Lailah, the Angel of Conception, watches over the embryo until it is born.

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Christianity

Gabriel's first appearance in the New Testament, concerns the annunciation of the birth of John the Baptist. John's father Zacharias, a priest of the course of Abia, (Luke 1:5–7) was childless because his wife Elisabeth was barren. An angel appears to Zacharias while he is ministering in the Temple, to announce the birth of his son. When Zacharias questions the angel, the angel gives his name as Gabriel:

19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Luke 1:19-20

After completing his required week of ministry, Zacharias returns to his home and his wife Elizabeth conceives. After she has completed five months of her pregnancy (Luke 1:21–25), Gabriel appears again, now to Mary, to announce the birth of Jesus:

26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luke 1:26-31

Gabriel only appears by name in those two passages in Luke. In the first passage the angel identified himself as Gabriel, but in the second it is Luke who identified him as Gabriel. The only other named angels in the New Testament are Michael the Archangel (in Jude 1:9) and Abaddon (in Revelation 9:11).

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Gnosticism

The heretical Christian movement of Gnosticism paid special attention to angels as beings belonging to a pantheon of spiritual forces involved in the creation of the world. According to one ancient Gnostic manuscript, the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, Gabriel is a divine being and inhabitant of the Pleroma who existed prior to the Demiurge.

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Gabriel's Horn

A familiar image of Gabriel has him blowing a trumpet blast to announce the resurrection of the dead at the end of time. However, though the Bible mentions a trumpet blast preceding the resurrection of the dead, it never specifies Gabriel as the trumpeter. Different passages state different things: the angels of the Son of Man (Matthew 24:31); the voice of the Son of God (John 5:25-29); God's trumpet (I Thessalonians 4:16); seven angels sounding a series of blasts (Revelation 8-11); or simply "a trumpet will sound" (I Corinthians 15:52).

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Likewise the early Christian Church Fathers do not mention Gabriel as a trumpeter; and in Jewish and Muslim traditions, Gabriel is again not identified as a trumpeter. The earliest known identification of Gabriel as a trumpeter comes from the Hymn of the Armenian Saint Nerses Shnorhali, "for Protection in the Night":

The sound of Gabriel's trumpet on the last night, make us worthy to hear, and to stand on your right hand among the sheep with lanterns of inextinguishable light; to be like the five wise virgins, so that with the bridegroom in the bride chamber we, his spiritual brides may enter into glory.

In 1455, in Armenian art, there is an illustration in an Armenian manuscript showing Gabriel sounding his trumpet as the dead climb out of their graves.

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Islam

Gabriel (Arabic: جِبْرِيل, romanized: Jibrīl; also Arabic: جبرائيل, romanized: Jibrāʾīl or Jabrāʾīl; derived from the Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, romanized: Gaḇrīʾēl) is venerated as one of the primary archangels and as the Angel of Revelation in Islam. He is primarily mentioned in the verses 2:97, 2:98, and 66:4 of the Quran, although the Quranic text doesn't explicitly refer to him as an angel. In the Quran, the archangel Gabriel appears named in 2:97 and 66:4, as well as in 2:98, where he is mentioned along with the archangel Michael (Mīkāʾīl).

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Exegetical Quranic literature narrates that Muhammad saw the archangel Gabriel in his full angelic splendor only twice, the first time being when he received his first revelation. As the Bible portrays Gabriel as a celestial messenger sent to Daniel, Mary, and Zechariah, Islamic tradition holds that Gabriel was sent to numerous pre-Islamic Biblical prophets with revelation and divine injunctions, including Adam, whom Muslims believe was consoled by Gabriel some time after the Fall, too. He is known by many names in Islam, such as "keeper of holiness". In Hadith traditions, Jibril is said to have six hundred wings.

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Muslims believe that Gabriel was mainly tasked with transmitting the scriptures from God to the prophets and messengers, as Asbab al-Nuzul or revelation of Al-Baqara, Ayah 124|Quran 3:124 (Translated by Shakir) when Muhammad was questioned which angel is revealing the holy scriptures revelation, and Muhammad told the Jews it is revealed by Gabriel who is tasked to it.

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Muslims also revere Gabriel for a number of events predating what they regard as the first revelation, narrated in the Quran. Muslims believe that Gabriel was the angel who informed Zachariah (Zakariyyā) of Yaḥyā's (John's) birth, as well as Mary (Maryam) of the future nativity of Jesus; and that Gabriel was one of three angels who had earlier informed Abraham (ʾIbrāhīm) of the birth of Isaac (ʾIsḥāq). Gabriel also makes a famous appearance in the Hadith of Gabriel, in which he questions Muhammad on the core tenets of Islam.

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Gabriel is also believed to have delivered punishment from God to the Sodomite by leveling the entire Sodom city with a tip of his wing. According to a Hadith narrated by Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, which is compiled by al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, Gabriel has an ability to regulate Feeling or Perception of human, particularly a feel of happiness or sadness.

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Gabriel is believed to have helped Muhammad overcome his adversaries significantly against a demon (ʻifrīt) during the Mi'raj. Gabriel is believed to have helped Muhammad overcome his adversaries during the Battle of Badr, where according to scholars and clerics of Islam, the various hadiths, both authentics and inauthentics, has mentioned that Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, and thousands of best angels from third level of heaven, all came to the battle of Badr by impersonating appearance of Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, a Companions of the Prophet and bodyguard of the prophet.

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Other Islamic texts and some Apocryphal literature also supported Gabriel's role as a celestial warrior.

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Yezidi Tradition

Yazidis consider Gabriel one of the Seven Mysteries, the heptad to which God entrusted the world, and sometimes identified with the archangel Melek Taus.

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Origins of the Gods - Sumerian Cuneiform Texts Deciphered

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In the Golden Age of Man, universal peace reigned.

Christian O’Brien was the one person who, before he died in 2001, mastered the translation skills required to understand the archaic Sumerian cuneiform writing. Deciphering Sumerian texts from the Nippur Temple Library, in his books The Genius of the Few and The Shining Ones, O’Brien presented secular insight into the Sumerian version of the Garden of Eden and the senior Anannage: An, Enlil, Enki and Ninkharsag.

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The Sumerians recorded their secular history for us, and attributed all their advanced knowledge, including astronomy, mathematics, standard units of measurement worldwide, domesticated crops and animals, and more to their Gods— identified as the Elohim, Shining Ones, Archangels, Angels and Watchers. They even identified the location of Eden, where Enlil had his home in 9500 BC, and where his wife Ninkharsag, (also known as the Angel Gabriel), was the guardian of the garden, with her seven archangels, at the settlement of the Anannage.

In the Book of the Zohar, the Four basic Elements are mentioned in the context of the creation of Adam – the first human, referring to the parallels between these elements and the Four Corners of the Earth, the Four ministering Angels (Raphael, Uriel, Michael and Gabriel) and more.

– The Four Elements in Kabbalah, TzFat-Kabbalah.org

Source: https://thefourelementsearthwaterairfire.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/the-elemental-star-of-david/

Isis Sangaré

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Behemoth - Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel

Lyrics

I saw the virgin's cunt spawning forth the snake

I witnessed tribes ov Judah reduced to ruin

I watched disciples twelve dissolved by flame

Looked down on son ov god snuffed in vain

Blow your trumpets Gabriel!

As I beheld the bewilderment ov Eden

Break the bread...and crumb by crumb into the Leviathan's den...

Nations fall prey

Hail my return

Hosanna Hosanna

Tribe ov Judah decimate

Hosanna Hosanna

Root ov David eradicate

Hosanna Hosanna

Let wine ov Sodom fill our mouths

Hosanna Hosanna

May Sin ov Gommorah grace our hearts

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Art of Li

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Gabriel announcing the incarnation to Mary, by Fra Angelico, c. 1440–1445 (Convent of San Marco, Florence)

Meditation Music. Archangel Gabriel's quality is gratitude, his power is to reflect our inner Light, inspiring us to manifest the divine principle in life. This inner power helps us to evolve spiritually and live in harmony with ourselves and the world.

Icon of Archangel Gabriel

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Archangel Gabriel

Source: https://www.occult.live/index.php/Archangel_Gabriel

"Gabriel" is a Hebrew name generally translated "strength of God," more accurately "my strength is in God," or "God is my strength." This connotes a "man of God." In the Hierarchy of angels, Gabriel rules over the choir of Angels. In angelic astrology, he is associated with Saturn and Mercury and the triplicities of Cancer, Pisces, and Scorpio. He may also rule over the sphere of the moon. Gabriel is connected to the element of water and the cardinal sign of north. He rules over the demon Azazel.

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Gabriel was mainly tasked with transmitting the scriptures from God to the prophets and messengers. He is also believed to have delivered punishment from God by leveling the entire Sodom city with a tip of his wing.

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In 1 Enoch 9:1–3, Gabriel, along with Michael, Archangel Uriel and Suriel, "saw much blood being shed upon the earth" (9:1) and heard the souls of men cry, "Bring our cause before the Most High" (9:3). In 1 Enoch 10:1, the reply came from "the Most High, the Holy and Great One" who sent forth agents, including Gabriel. Gabriel is the fifth of the five angels who keep watch: "Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim" (1 Enoch 20:7).

The Archangel Gabriel

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The angel Gabriel (pronounced Gav-ree-ayl in Hebrew) means the justice or righteousness of God. The root form of the word, g-v-r, is connected with courage and heroism, as well as a word meaning a man. Thus, Gabriel could be literally translated as a “man of God,” who courageously lives according to the universal laws. The root of Gabriel is also connected with the attribute of Gevorah on the left side of the Tree of Life.

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Whereas Michael is on God’s right hand, Gabriel is on God’s left hand. The left hand is the one that metes out punishment; the right hand overrules strict justice and is more merciful and thus more lenient. Gabriel is the angel that is sent to destroy the cities of sin, Sodom and Gemorrah, and some sources say that it was Gabriel, not Michael, that annihilated Sennacherib’s camp.

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This view is obviously more consistent with the general description of these two archangels, however, it is important to note that there are many opinions expressed by biblical commentaries that often are in opposition with one another, depending upon the point being made. Therefore, as the trans-rational realms of souls, angels and heavenly beings are, beyond definitive description, we must be careful not to assign any limited constructs.

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It is taught that Gabriel is in charge of souls and also in charge of the moon. The moon, in Kabbalah, is considered to be the dwelling place of souls that have not yet been bound to physical bodies. Gabriel is also viewed as one of the main assistants of the Angel of Death.

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The archangels Michael and Gabriel represent two poles on the Tree of Life, they are both viewed as princes—meaning they each represent clear archetypes—and there are distinct differences in the qualities of each. When we see, for example, a driver speeding recklessly and dangerously, but still surviving without being stopped by the police or causing an accident, we feel the presence of Michael.

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When we see someone getting a speeding ticket or worse, a terrible wreck on the side of the road, we experience the presence of Gabriel. We encounter dozens of events like this every day and the way we react reveals the angel-field of consciousness at that moment.

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The reader should note that various events in life evoke clear feelings within each of us. These feelings, however subtle, are always connected with the angelic realms—that is to say, we are never separate from our own sensations, our own emotions, our own thoughts, and our own inner urge that pulls us toward raising our consciousness (our “good” inclination), or in letting go into lower levels of consciousness (our “not-good” inclination).

Zuccarelli Francesco. STUDY OF ANGEL GABRIEL BLOWING A HORN

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Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-'i Nathani - The Archangel Gabriel - Walters

Archangel Gabriel

Gabriel is like the complex feeling of delivering bad news. It’s affecting you as much as you are affecting the people around you. There is a weight in there. It’s a dark weight, but it’s valuable.

There’s a message that needs to be said, and you need to be the one to say it. This Golden Herald embodies those transmissions which are most important. Words, sounds and pictures that carry huge impact. Sometimes the results are glorious and sometimes they are terrible.

Ravensire - Gabriel Lies Sleeping

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Gabriel lies sleeping

At the edge of the universe

His breath is mighty as the lightning bolt

I the end of time finally at hand as prophesied

And does he dream, the saint, of the time

When angels sinned in revolt

Gabriel lies sleeping

At the edge of the universe

One day his trumpet he will blow in rage

The prophets have revealed

The visions of the end of man's age

Cast down below

Man is lost

Behold the raging fire the wrath of the Sephiroth

Cast down below - man is lost

Uriel's sword of flame

Is men's bane from the hand of God

Creator that once sent down the flood

Apocalyptic fate decreed by the father of all

He who gave life, angered, condemns man of all

Behold the voice

That speaks and destroys

Behold the raging fire the wrath of the Sephiroth

Cast down below - man is lost.

God Dethroned - Gabriel

Lyrics

Steal a dark soul to serve our cause

This war is never ending,

But we'll win at all cost

You shall always obey

Always obey

Remember the first war

The way the sky burned

Faces of angels destroyed

And creation of hell

I stood with my brothers

And watched Lucifer fall

I rip souls from a womb

From now till kingdom come

I am Gabriel

Where would you hide

If you were a soul

I can smell a graveyard

I am Gabriel

Jealous angel Gabriel

I can lay you out and fill your mouth

With your mothers feces,

Or you can hear me out

You will obey

You shall always obey

I rip souls from a womb

From now till kingdom come

Where would you hide

If you were a soul

Gabriel

Steal a dark soul to serve our cause

This war is never ending,

But we'll win at all cost

You shall always obey

Always obey.

Archangel Gabriel spoke to Mary and told her of her new son Jesus.

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