Angels-ARIEL

Ariel, meaning “lion of God,” is referred to as an angel in the pseudepigraphal
Ezra, as well as in The Key of Solomon the King. He is represented
as lion-headed in various tracts on magic, and in Thomas Heywood’s
The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635), he is among the
seven princes who rule the waters and is called “Earth’s great Lord.”
According to Cornelius Agrippa, Ariel is also the name of a city,
called Ariopolis. In addition, for Jewish mystics, Ariel was a poetic
name for Jerusalem.
The Bible mentions Ariel as the name of a man, as another name
for Jerusalem (Isa. 29), and as the name of an altar, whereas other
sources refer to Ariel as an angel who assists Raphael in the cure of
disease. The Testament of Solomon says he controls demons. In some
occult writings, Ariel is the third archon (ruler) of the winds. He is
also a ruler of winds in Gnostic lore, which says Ariel is an older name
for Ialdabaoth (the Gnostic creator). According to the Coptic Pistis
Sophia, Ariel is in charge of punishment in the lower world, whereas
practical Cabala says he was originally of the order of virtues.
Ariel has also often been mentioned in popular works. Shakespeare
speaks of Ariel in The Tempest, casting him as a sprite (a fairy), and Milton
refers to him as a rebel angel, overcome by the seraph Abdiel in the
first day of fighting in heaven. The life of the poet Shelley, who referred
to himself as Ariel, is the subject of André Maurois’s Ariel.
Finally, according to Archibald Sayce (“Athenaeum,” October
1886), a connection can be made between Ariel and the arelim, or erelim,
mentioned in Isaiah (33:7) as an order of angels equated with the
order of thrones.