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{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Foxy}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Thank you so much, darlin!

Yanno... it never occurred to me that Canada could have a drought? I honestly thought only places farther south could be drought-stricken. I learned something today! Glad you got the moisture but I hope you get Spring, also!

I have no resources on Angels for you but I do have a story. Once Gryph and I got together, he started sending healing and Allies to my family, mostly gryphons... but yanno, my family is all deeply Christian, so I asked him if the Allies would please appear to my family as angels, because I honestly didn't think they would be able to be effective unless they appeared as something my family members would recognize and trust.

The Alies have grumbled a lot about the "disguises", but they're pretty good at what they do and there's been some remarkable healing taking place for everyone in the family ever since they started helping.

Then Gryph started coming under attack again last week--it happens when he's stretched too thin--and so I asked my mom to put him on her prayer line. "Oh!" she said, "we've got to get some angels over there for protection!!"

When he got home, I relayed the message... *tilts head, curious* and asked if the angels had to disguise themselves as gryphons for him. He laughed pretty hard.

For me, I usually ask angels for help but I haven't ever traveled with them; when I talk to them--usually Michael or Raphael--I need them to be on a human scale.
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I looked up Raziel. His name means "Secrets of God." The God in question is of course El, but hey, I'm being picky, lol... I suppose that I like knowing the angels predate the religion of the Hebrews. Anyway I mention this because what I found (in an admittedly cursory search) is that Raziel doesn't show up in the lists of angels until the Middle Ages, and he is consistently associated with magic.

The first part, "which contains little but strange conceits ascribed to the angel Raziel, and which describes the entire organization of heaven" (Zunz), was composed at the earliest in the eleventh century, as is shown by both content and language, and by the coined words and angel-names, which number several thousand (ib.).

Read more:

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=142&letter=R#ixzz0nbP4WVjV

The legend is that he wrote all the secrets of God's (El's) magic into a book and gave it to Adam and Eve, to help them find their way back home after they were expelled from Paradise; the book was passed down until it reached Noah and is the source for his ark-building instructions; it eventually ended up in Solomon's Temple.

Who Raziel is, I don't know, but if he's different from the other angels you've encountered, maybe it's because he's still being formed? The rest of the archangels would be several thousand years older and would have a solid core built from millennia of expectations and interactions with humans... but the Wikipedia page for Raziel held all kinds of references to current popular literature and RPGs. If people are role-playing as Raziel, maybe that affects the ways the energy appears and expresses itself on the Astral?

This is only a guess, so please feel free to tell me if I am way out in left field, k?

Oh, and this image http://www.legacyofkain.it/Raziel%20vampiro%20(2).jpg caught my eye immediately... to me, those are Dragon wings. Maybe Raziel is more than an angel?