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Although Archangel Raphael has been referred to as a Solar angel Chieftain of the Virtues, the Guardian of the Tree of Life, one of the seven angels of the Apocalypse, one of the ten holy Sepheroth, and one of the seven angels of the presence, he was primarily know an a Healing Angel. Depicted in many illustrated literary works and religious tomes like Paradise Lost by John Milton, and the Cologne Bible of 1478-1480 ACE, he was also portrayed by numerous painters with a pilgrims staff and a fish, and as a sociable winged spirit. Archangel Raphael was also mentioned in Enoch as one of the watchers, in the Zohar as a healer of the Earth and the diseases of humankind, in the Yoma as an angel who visited and ministered to Abraham after his adult circumcision, in the Legends of the Jews as healing Jacob's thigh after he wrestled with his dark adversary, and, in The Magus as a member of the seraphim, cherubim, dominions, and powers. He is universally charged to help to rejuvenate and restore the earth, as well as, to protect and oversee spiritual pathway travellers. Often associated with the renewal of springtime, the golden balm of healing, and the providential currents of winds, Archangel Raphael transmuted the negative entropy absorbed into the landscape from the evil actions of the fallen angels. According to The Testament of Solomon when Solomon prayed for help in building a sanctuary, Archangel Raphael appeared before him and gifted him with a magic ring. The ring was engraved with a Five Pointed Star which had the power to placate demons and to manage them while they constructed the building. In the Apocrypha Book of Tobit 5:4-12:22, which dates to around the third century BCE, Angel Raphael, disguised as a young man who knew all the roads, accompanied Tobias of Nineveh to Media. He was a merciful helper and good angelic protector to Tobias during his entire journey along the Tigris River. Along the way Archangel Raphael mentored Tobias and told him how to get rid of lecherous demons by fumigating them with smoke, and, how to remove white film over a person's eyes by anointing them. They stopped and stayed at the house of his kinwoman Sarah in Ecbatana. Sarah has lost seven husbands because the demon Asmodeus, desiring her for himself, killed them on her wedding night. Based on the guidance of Archangel Raphael, Tobias agreed to wed Sarah because she was one of his kindred. Tobias then drove the demon away on their wedding night by smoking their bedroom and offering a prayer of thanksgiving. Archangel Raphael then followed the fleeing demon to the wilds of Egypt where he bound him hand and foot. After Tobias returned with his wife to Nineveh, he cured his father Tobit's blindness by blowing into his eyes, daubing them with fish gall, and peeling off the shrunken white film. Rather then accept half of the possessions acquired during the journey for his help, Angel Raphael asked them to reveal the good works to others and to be humanely kind and do good themselves in turn. Archangel Raphael then affirmed that he was one of seven visionary angels who ascended into the glorious realms before he disappeared from view. As an Archangel Raphael brings joyous health, scientific knowing, and virtuous renewal to the Fifth Ray of Rainbow Healing.
He teaches and encourages searchers with cheerful providence, as they carry on,
step by step, from ancient devotional traditions to radiant restorative
modalities... Archangels
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