Uriel, the Divine Light
The time of the celebration of Archangel Uriel is a time of festivities for the Light.
Uriel is the light of the Father, the light of the Angels. His feast is that of all virtues, of all that is beautiful and true. He is the conclusion, the accomplishment, the perfection.
Essene wisdom is tied to the tradition of the Light. The Essenes call themselves "the Children of the Light". There is the notion of being children born from a soul family, belonging to a tradition, to a lineage: that of the Sons of the Sun.
Jesus, Son of the Sun, said: "Father, hallowed be Your Name."[1] The Name of the Father is that of 4 letters: the Round of Archangels. The Essenes are born from this round: the 1st letter is the Father; the 2nd is the Mother; the 3rd is the birth of the Light that brings forth the Essenes, the 4th letter.
In the wisdom and teaching of the pharaohs of Egypt, the 1st letter was called "Osiris", the 2nd, "Isis", the 3rd, "Horus", and the 4th, "Pharaoh" or "the Son of the Sun", the manifestation of the living God, the Word made flesh. The Essenes surrounded Pharaoh and formed his body on earth, the body of Christ, the body of the triumphant light. Their lives were devoted to making the Light live on earth through the masters, the envoys of the Father. This is why they have been called "people of priests". Many peoples were born from the Essenes, such as Israel. In fact, ''Israel'' does not fundamentally designate a people, but rather Pharaoh, the Son of the Sun, Christ, and thus the priests and vestals who surround him and are at his service.
Is - Man
Ra - Sun
El - God
Today, in the Round of Archangels, the 1st letter is called "Michael", the 2nd, "Raphael", the 3rd, "Gabriel", and the 4th, "Uriel". Those who hallow the Name of the Father and who assemble around the luminous wisdom of the Round of Archangels are the Essenes, the people of the Children of the Light in all peoples.
The Essenes are not orphans; they know their Father and their Mother and want to live with Them, not in an abstraction, but in the reality of their everyday life. This is why they unite through the 4 great celebrations of the Archangels to support each other mutually, be stronger, organize themselves, make decisions, and act for the good and the victory of the angelic light of the Father on earth.
Many beings want to live with the Father of the Light, but they have not understood that for this, one must have a body capable of receiving the Light. This body is transmitted by Pharaoh. This is why Jesus says: "Whoever eats my body and drinks my blood has divine life."[2] Jesus is the pharaoh, the representative of the divine world who activates the body of Light in the Essene Nation.
The Essenes,
Guardians of the Flame of the Father
For the Essenes, the Light is a living spirit, a consciousness, an intelligence, an awareness, a body, a way of living. The Light is called "Uriel". It is a Divinity, an Archangel, an angelic presence, an embodiment through a lineage of Sons of the Sun. All pharaohs had themselves called "Son of the Sun".
The Sun is the source of light. There is the outer light, which illuminates the world of appearances, and there is the inner light, which makes appear the royalty of the eternal Father and of His Angels. Uriel is this inner light that balances the worlds. This light lives within consecrated men who have become temples of the flame of Michael.
The Essenes go towards the bearer of the flame to light their own fire from his. They then unite in the celebration of the 4 Archangels each year to finally arrive at the feast of Uriel and share the angelic light, which can then enter the world and live in it. It is up to men to unite to consciously decide about their futures, about their future bodies.
The Essenes want to live consciously and while honouring the angelic light of the Father.
The inner flame of Michael can light up only in the man who has united within himself the Father and the Mother, heaven and earth. Such a man is called "a son", and this is why the Essenes love the masters, not the dead masters who make up their tradition, but the living and incarnated masters. Dead masters and spiritual masters are extinguished flames.
Only the living and incarnated masters make the flame live. They are the victory and the resurrection of the Tradition, and therefore of all the flames lit by the Father and the Mother so as to illuminate the world and to bring the warmth of love and of goodness.
The one and only way to honour the memory of past masters is to honour the flame in the living master. Such are the Essenes: beings who light their flames at the source of the fire of life, and who unite in the Light to call the Angels, make their virtues live, and fecundate the world with the beautiful light of wisdom.
All the Essene wisdom and all the Essene art of living are founded on the knowingness and love of the Light that emanates from the flame of life of the Father.
The Essenes are the veritable guardians of the flame in the temple of the earth and of humanity. They have the merit of having safeguarded and preserved this science of the Light throughout the centuries. Through all eras of humanity, they have appeared under different forms and have taken on a multitude of names but always have placed themselves at the service of the flame of the Covenant and have spread its light.
Today, through the Round of Archangels, the Phoenix is reborn from its ashes, and the Essene wisdom appears in all its splendour. Through the teachings, the different meditative practices, the songs, the dances, the sacred rites and ceremonies, the initiations, the temples, the Villages, the enterprises . . ., it is the Light that is glorified and conveyed.
To live as an Essene is to glorify the living and angelic light and to give it a body of manifestation in the world of men.
Who Is Uriel?
"Uriel" means "Light", but not the abstract, distant, unconscious, mechanical, false light. No, "Uriel" means "the light that radiates from the man who has lit the flame of the Father within him and has been faithful to the commandments of the Father and the Mother". Then, from him radiate beneficial light and life. The man is veritably a man, an Essene; he can say: "Whoever sees me sees the Father".[3] Yes, whoever sees me sees the Father of goodness, of love, of justice, of wisdom . . . The man becomes the embodiment of a higher light.
Uriel is the light of the man who has lit within him the flame of the Father at the source of fire, not the fire of men, but the divine, sacred, eternal fire.
The Essenes consciously light this fire at the feast of Archangel Michael, at the autumn equinox. Then, all year long, they accompany it through the celebration of the Round of Archangels to arrive to the goal: the celebration of Uriel, the victory of the Light in man, which can then spread all over the earth.
Uriel is the Father of the true light, and the living soul that bathes, feeds and carries the Essene Nation.
Uriel and Lucifer, the 2 Faces of the Light
The Essenes are carried by a common soul, which is that of the angelic light of the Father. They are the servants and guardians of this soul, its bearers on earth. Men who are not initiated into Essene wisdom, culture and sensitivity have difficulty understanding such a subtlety. They think the Light is everywhere and offers itself to all without distinction. This is true for the light of the exterior sun, but not for that of the interior sun. Life is in man, but man can ignore it or make it grow in beauty. He can also drive it towards ugliness. Then his sun will encounter ugliness, for man will have dedicated the life that is inside him to glorify ugliness. He will not have done it on purpose, but through ignorance, by letting himself be carried by the soul and culture of his people and of his king.
The light of Uriel passes through the masters, for they have made the flame and the Light conscious and alive inside them. They have made the Sun rise, and its light illuminates and vivifies the world, not in ugliness, but in the splendour and beauty of the Father.
One who lives in ugliness cannot imagine that another way of living, that another world are possible. For man is like the Snail, which transports everywhere with it the world it lives in. It thinks it is leaving its mother house, whereas, in reality, it carries its house on its back. Pharaoh is called "the Great House" because he is the soul of a people, of a way of being in the world that reflects a divine, higher intelligence.
Men do not naturally go towards Archangel Uriel because they are not born into a tradition of the Light. The light and the soul that govern the world of man are those of Lucifer, the fallen archangel of the other light, that of misleading appearances, that of the thief of light.
To go towards the other light, that of the Father, one must quite often be disillusioned. Inner light requires an awakened consciousness and the will to surpass oneself.
If, since the origin of time, the Essenes have built temples, lodges, sacred places the mysteries of the Light could be celebrated and transmitted in, it is not by chance. They wanted to preserve the flame that mysteriously appeared inside man so that it would not go out. They understood it was the treasure, the precious, the source of all, but also that it was fragile, for it was coming from another world. For it to be able to appear on earth, it needed a place, a sanctuary, a protection. This sanctuary was man. For man to be able to reach this perfection, he had to meet several conditions. Thus was born the science of fire and of enlightenment.
Thus, the great Archangel Uriel, one of the eternal faces of the Father, was able to approach the consecrated men who became his body on earth. These men were called "the Essenes"; in Hebrew, they were called ischim, the ablaze ones of God, the initiates. The others gave a body to the light of Lucifer, who then made the glory of man appear, but not that of the Father.
Safeguarding the Light is not the only purpose of the Essenes; they also want to transmit it to those who have made themselves apt to receive it and to make it live. This is why we speak of an Essene tradition and of a path of immortality.
Uriel is the Archangel who enables the Essenes to acquire this body of Light and of immortality. He is the humanity of Light living around the incarnated king of the Light. In perfection, Archangel Uriel reveals himself, shows himself to the eyes of the pure, of the faithful through the emergence of a master like Jesus, or more recently, like Peter Deunov.
Christ in glory is the victory of Uriel in the reality of the world of men.
Christ is the mage, the Essene in his acting aspect of the Light that triumphs over obscurity.
The crucified Christ is the victory of Lucifer, the deceitful light that has hidden from man the true secret of beauty, and that makes him believe ugliness is great and right.
Yes, Uriel is very close to man, to his acts, to his everyday life. He is the almost concrete light that emanates from man, animates his life, and writes his destiny.
The Archangels Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel have a much subtler aspect in their relationships with the Essenes. Uriel, as for him, is very close. He likes the man who makes the Light live inside him down into his acts, into his daily life, into concrete works.
Uriel is the one who carries the thought, the word, and the act of Light through the organism of man, his life and the soul of the people he belongs to. If man is not connected to Uriel, then he does not belong to the true light. It is as simple as that.
Of course, there are nuances, for there is a path for everyone. But from another point of view, if you light the flame, you are in the light, and if you do not light it, you are in darkness. The rest is only philosophy, justification or psychology, even if "spiritual".
Someone says: "But I am in the Light because I see!" Yes, but you can live in falsehood all the while believing you are in the truth; such is the illusion of the spiritual world. What protects from this illusion are common sense and the physical body, the reality of its laws, the wisdom of living nature.
The spiritual world is illusion, and to traverse it, one needs a body capable of tuning in to the authentic light and putting it into action. Such are the secrets of Uriel and of the covenant of the Essenes with him.
How to Approach Uriel
Uriel likes what is concrete, and he asks man to awaken the veritable light and not blind belief in a deceitful spiritual world.
Uriel likes for man to have his feet on the ground, for him to master his thought according to the eternal teaching of Essene wisdom. Thought is the invisible in man. One who masters their thought while uniting it with the holy Scripture of the Teaching can enter the world of Archangel Michael, the Father of fire.
Uriel likes one who masters their breath of life, their moods, who know how to discern what is positive and what is negative, what belongs to them and what does not belong to them, what is useful and what is harmful, and who then know how to put each thing in its place so that order, harmony appear and reign.
Man must take what he needs and leave what he cannot use to the other. He must not burden himself with the useless nor deprive another of what enables them to go forwards and to serve the Father. One who acquires this mastery can approach the world of Raphael during the celebration of the Round of Archangels.
Uriel likes one who has opened his heart to God, the Father-Mother, and who is determined and capable of taking his life in hand to give birth to the Light on his path of destiny. This is the maternal side of the bride of God, of the Mother of God in the world of men. One who is truly capable of going to the end of what he believes to be true is like a mother who has received a seed, has made a body of it, and who fecundates the vast and great world with this body. The mother takes care of this body and feeds it so that it grows and lives in wisdom in a world. To take care of the seed of truth and give it a body so as to live with it as one feels like living is the mastery that enables one to approach Archangel Gabriel.
In general, these 3 worlds — thought, breath of soul, creative will — live in an unconscious and invisible way inside man. They are an extinguished light, for man is blinded by the light of the outer world, and he sees only it.
Uriel is the one who makes these 3 worlds appear through the conscious and acting act of man: either man is a being of Light, or he is not, for it is the fruit of his life, the mirror of his everyday life that says it.
Thus, to approach Uriel, one must have worked on the 3 other Archangels and have made a body for them inside themselves. Uriel is the closest to man, the one who knows man best and yet, he is the most distant, the most difficult to reach, for to approach him, one must be ready and have mastered the activity of all their subtle bodies.
One who approaches Uriel is an Essene, a priest, a mage, a Christ, a being who masters their thought, the breath of their life, and who is determined to take his life in hand.
Uriel will show you what you are in your entirety. If you are pure, he will open the door to you and allow you to beginworking on yourself. If you are not pure, then the door will remain closed, and you will stay in the world of man and in its illusions.
Uriel is the higher, eternal and divine principle of man. When he approaches man, he makes appear to man what he is.
I am happy to have been able to speak to the Essenes about the mysteries of our Father Uriel during our annual celebration of the summer solstice so that each one of us can approach him consciously and celebrate his presence and his feast with joy, purity and happiness.
[1] - A word from the Our Father prayer.
[2] - "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day." (Gospel according to John 6:54)
[3] - Gospel according to John 14:9.