Gabriel

Siblings: The True Archangels

**Gabriel**, also known as **Jibril**, the **Will of God**, and **The Messenger**, is the True Archangel of Chastity, Faith, Kindness, Revelations and Messages. His name means "strength of God" and is known to be the Left Hand of God and a fragment of the Holy Spirit, in contrast to Michael, who is the Right Hand of God, Gabriel being one of the Angels, purest and most powerful in Paradise.

## Overview

Gabriel is the Archangel of revelation, motherhood, creation and temperance, among others. Like other Archangels and Angels, Gabriel was created between day one and day two of creation. The Archangel is God's personal messenger, he is God's intercessor to mankind, always going on missions in Father's name. Caring, loving and obedient, he is the moral opposite of Beelzebub, the Left Hand of Satan. While Gabriel is loving, merciful, honest and wise, Beelzebub is hateful, cruel, deceptive and idiotic.

Among these missions, it is believed that he was the one who destroyed the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah, that he was the one who killed the mighty Nephilim in Enoch's time, and he is also believed to be the Angel of Death who killed all the firstborn in Egypt. However, his most notable feat was to appear to Mary and announce a coming Savior of Mankind. Due to his effectiveness in complying with God's orders, Gabriel is nicknamed the "Will of God".

## Appearance

Like the other Angels, Gabriel's true form cannot be seen by humans. They say that its light is so intense that it burns the eyes of those who see it and explodes the eardrums of those who hear its voice. As a True Archangel, Gabriel's appearance shifts to whatever the angel desires or needs at that very moment. However, Gabriel will always have at least 1 to 12 pairs of golden wings on his back though they can also be white wings with blue tips that glow brighter than the dawn. Like Demons they can possess human vessels, but only with the person’s consent.

In that vessel, Gabriel was described by the prophet Daniel as having a body of beryl, a face like lightning and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and feet shining like burnished bronze; and his voice of words was like the voice of a crowd. It was this vessel that was remembered by so many, for it saw and conquered through the greatest adventures.

In his future vessel in the modern times, Gabriel’s vessel appears as a man in his 20s, with silvery hair and amber yellow eyes. Gabriel usually appears wearing a white t-shirt and a dark sweatshirt over blue pants. On a few occasions, Gabriel appears with a detective's cap on his head, something Gabriel usually wears when investigating the mysterious entities of creation.

## Personality

Gabriel is considered to be the most "human" of the Angels, often being seen spending his time among them. Humans generally consider him easy to be around, as his laid-back and eccentric personality is able to put others at ease. Despite this, he is incredibly cunning and can be serious when the circumstances calls for it. Due to these traits, he is one of the few beings that can calmly withstand and even understand those with endless cynicism, cunning behavior, sarcastic wits, con-artist nature, and even counter-culture beliefs, while remaining friendly and even wisecracking in his approach and making fun of their manipulative nature.

He is very calm, laid back, and level-headed both in his Angel and human forms. Gabriel greatly understood honor and noble sacrifice, so much that God had given him was his great wisdom in dealing with things in a peaceful and wise manner. He is highly loyal and loving towards Him and his siblings, even towards his Fallen brethren. So much that he (along with Michael) volunteer to guide and protect Jesus from behind the scenes to His journey and mission on Earth. He is also one of the few angels that greatly admired and respected the human spirit, the ability to dream, and the noble will of humanity, so much that he states to Lucifer that the very beings he despise and sought to corrupt the most are capable of doing impossible and unthinkable things.

It is rare for Gabriel to become serious or grim, for most of the time he appears as a humble, optimistic, calm, and friendly Angel. But when provoked and angered enough, he can be frighteningly calm and silent while showing his more sinister, cold, and ruthless side, more frightening than Lucifer himself, for the Devil shivers when a kind man loses his patience. This shows that he can be scary, much like his brother Michael. He shows this, when he coldly and mercilessly slaughtered a group of Angels and Demons that killed innocent people in their battle against the other, and nearly killed Tinshemet if Amitiel and Jophiel didn't interfere.

Also, despite Gabriel's good natured to protect and love humanity, he still has limits. Such as when he countlessly witnesses the mortals' inherited evil, like witnessing them knee-deep in sin, their cruelty, greed, lust for power, pride over their status, etc. Whenever Gabriel witnesses this kind of behavior from humanity, Gabriel becomes grim, sadistically sarcastic, and indifferent to them. This is when he lets the Demons punish the guilty, wicked, and sinners while looking at them with a cold and emotionless expression, and claim that humans with no remorse who embrace their inner wickedness deserves to be punished and sent to eternal suffering and torment, none other than Hell. He claims that it is for the greater good of those who are innocent and righteous in soul and nature.

## Powers and Abilities

**Absolute Strength:** Gabriel can generate limitless and unsurpassed physical strength, able to go toe-to-toe and even surpass the strongest of beings with nothing but the raw force of their physical blows. Any level of weight Gabriel needs to lift or move is irrelevant as their body can emit limitless amount of force that can repel an object of any mass. It should also be noted that Gabriel with this power tends to be extremely jacked and are unable to lose their muscles, however this isn't always the case.

**Air Manipulation:** Gabriel can create, shape and manipulate air, the common name given to the layer of atmospheric gases and various compounds (mostly oxygen and nitrogen) surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity, and possibly wind movement of air relative to the surface of the planet. It is an important factor in determining and controlling climate and weather, and the generating force of most ocean and freshwater waves. Wind occurs because of horizontal and vertical differences in atmospheric pressure, and include breezes, squalls, gusts, whirlwinds, zephyrs, gales, tempests, and hurricanes.

**Communication Manipulation:** Gabriel can manipulate communication, the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another, in all its forms, including between machines, devices, people, animals, etc., even between the brain and body. They can communicate with those who don't even speak Gabriels language; improve or worsen the communication skills of others (including animals, objects, elemental forces, etc.); get machinery to work better or worse; etc.

**Dream Manipulation:** Gabriel can create, shape, enter, and manipulate the dreams of oneself and others, including modifying, suppressing, fabricating, influencing, manifesting, sensing, and observing dreams as well as nightmares, daydreams, etc., possibly including past ones. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming, and promote spiritual/emotional healing within dreams.

**Divine Object:** Gabriel has access to an object that grants them divine/holy powers. They can range from source materials to apparel to fully-designed weapons; whatever the form, they can impart divine powers to those who lack them entirely or augment the already existing holy capabilities.

**Godly Incarnation:** Gabriel with this power either is or merely has the traits of the One True God or The Supreme Being known in various religions especially Monotheism and Christianity as The Child of God and/or The One True God. Unlike Demigod Physiology, Deity Reincarnation, or Divine Avatar Gabriel is not half-god, a reborn version of a god, or a simple avatar of a divine being, but a being made flesh out of the Supreme Being of their respective existence, being truly the exact embodiment of all godly aspects of the Supreme Being in physical form. This allows Gabriel to access incredible amount of abilities as the fully expressed form of their divine creator and complete uses of their almighty power as they see fit.

**Guardianship:** Guardians are often those who are of noble birth or a high position of great historical or legendary importance. They have taken/been given the responsibility to defend, protect and, if needed, avenge the focus of their protection, which can be an object, place, concept, or person (throne/crown, village/gate/country/planet, love/good/harmony, royal heir/chosen prophet, etc.) among other things.

**Hope Inducement:** Gabriel has the ability to give Hope - defined as "the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best". One capable of wielding the power of hope has no hope for themselves and hopes continually for the rest of the universe and in the future. Insincere hope or hope for one's own gain is unable to manipulate the energies of Hope.

**Occurrence Manipulation:** Gabriel can manipulate occurrences, the frequency of events happening in a given time period, for example manipulating how many times an animal crosses a spot in the forest within a week, change how many times a party happens during a month, change how many times a comet passes Earth during certain time period, etc.

**Multiple Wings:** Gabriel has or can grow a varying number of wings, allowing them to enhance their flight speed and maneuverability far beyond those with only one pair of wings.

**Nigh-Omniscience:** Gabriel knows almost everything bar certain details, or is limited in some other way, such as being able to see one timeline or universe or have just small patches of information that are missing or blocked out. More simply, they may be in possession of such a vast reserve of knowledge that they can be regarded as "practically omniscient."

**Psychopomp:** As an archetype, psychopomps, are entities who serves as a guide to the afterlife to assist souls be they lost or found, damn or saved, good or evil, all to help them move on to their predestined life that comes after death.

**Resurrection:** Gabriel can bring oneself and others back to life. While this power is similar to necromancy in that it raises the dead, resurrection is different in that it fully restores a creature's body, mind, *and* soul to full health.

**Sephirot Empowerment:** Gabriel gains access to the various emanations of the Sephirot of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah, allowing them to tap into the primal, undiluted forces of creation and the divine.

**Truth Inducement:** Gabriel can force/induce others to tell the truth, guaranteeing that the person is telling the truth to the best of their ability.

## History

### Creation & Early Life

Gabriel was created by God during or even before the creation of the Universe, created from the light and glory of the Creator. When he was still young, Gabriel was drafted with Michael, Raphael, and Uriel to fight against Lucifer's forces in the War in Heaven. Over the course of the war, Gabriel fought Belial with the eventual assistance of Raphael before teleporting him and Raphael to the throne room in order to help Michael in his fight against Satan.

### Great Flood

During the time the sons of God bore children with the daughters of men, giving rise to the mighty Nephilim, Gabriel and his siblings, Michael, Raphael and Uriel, were selected to end the threat of the Nephilim and the rebellious Angels, with Gabriel getting the mission to end the abominations born of the result of the union of Angel and human. This mission was eventually abandoned when a new idea was brought up.

Gabriel along with Michael accompanied God to a meeting with other deities in order to decide what to do. The other deities had decided on a great flood, though God and Gabriel were against the idea. God sent Gabriel on a mission to hopefully guide humanity towards the right path while His Arbiters spread sin among them. Unfortunately, the Arbiters had corrupted more than Gabriel could free, so Gabriel was sent to gather the humans that resisted the corruptions and tell them to build arks and boats.

### Before the Messiah

Before Enoch was able to die, Gabriel brought him up to Heaven alive. This made Enoch one of the few beings to be brought to Heaven without dying. During a contest between Daniel and the prince of Persia, Gabriel and Michael came to his aid.

During the year 2,067 BCE, he went on a mission alongside his brother Raphael and an avatar of God, Abraxas when they visited the patriarch Abraham and his wife, Sarah. Raphael's mission was to cure the mother of faith of her infertility, while Gabriel's was to infiltrate with Raphael in the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah. Gabriel and Raphael assumed female forms to enter the city with the intention of seeing if the town was indeed a town full of lust. Unfortunately, the people of that city were even worse than the the reports the two had received. Raphael then took Lot and his family from Sodom while Gabriel destroyed the two towns and others shrouded in flames.

### Son of God

In 7-2 BCE, Gabriel was chosen to appear to the Virgin Mary to announce the birth of Jesus, the Messiah promised by the God of Israel in the Old Testament. Before that, Gabriel had already appeared to Priest Zechariah and announced the birth of John the Baptist, who, in addition to being Jesus' cousin, would be the one who would prepare the way for the true and unique light of the world. However, because Zechariah doubted his words, Gabriel was annoyed by the Priest's disbelief and left him speechless until the day John the Baptist was born.

Gabriel took clay from the sacred ground of the Earth while the Holy Spirit placed God's divine light into that clay to make a seed. This seed was placed into Mary's womb to form a perfect vessel for the Son of God. Gabriel would later appear to Joseph of Nazareth in a dream to tell him to take the Holy Child to Egypt. After Jesus had resisted Satan's temptations, Gabriel along with other Angels came to Him in order to feed Him.

### Muhammad

In 610 CE, Gabriel was chosen to appear to Muhammad, a prophet like Moses who is promised by God in the Old and New Testament to deliver the final message to the whole of mankind, and bring everyone out of darkness and into the light. Gabriel presented multiple revelations to Muhammad in order for him to write it down in a book called the Quran. When Muhammad died, Gabriel met him at the gates of Heaven and told him that he would be accompanied by Raphael to the Third Heaven, where he will stay with all of the other Prophets and Saints.

### Other Events

At one point Gabriel got into a fight with Amatsu-Mikaboshi, and while he won he acknowledged that it was a formidable opponent. At another point Gabriel fought Tinshemet and almost killed her if it weren't for the intervention of Amitiel and Jophiel.

After the Darkness had been released from her prison, Gabriel and Michael attempted to lay down the final blow upon her in order to seal her away again.

Gabriel would eventually awaken Barbelo under the order of God. When asked why he did this, Gabriel explained that God had a plan to finally remove all evil from humanity, to bring them back to God's light.

## Myths and Legends

Gabriel is a figure from the *Tanakh*, the *Bible*, and the *Quran* considered to be a figure of importance by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Within the Christian tradition, his primary role is to announce to the Virgin Mary that she would bear the messiah Jesus Christ. Gabriel is sometimes known as the Mother of all Mothers; next to Virgin Mary.

## Quotes

*"Nice to meet you, my name is Gabriel, the messenger. I am the Angel who flies through the blue sky looking down on you. I am the one who brought Jesus into the world. When Lucifer fell I represented hope. I never let myself be carried away by hatred or revenge, because I carry purity, with Heaven I have an alliance." - Gabriel.*

*"I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. 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." - Gabriel to Zechariah, Luke 1:19-20.*

*"Shut your cakehole. You don't know anything about my family. I love my father, my brothers. Love them. But watching them turn on each other? Tear at each other's throats? I couldn't bear it! Okay? So I ignored it. I stepped back to the sidelines and put myself out of the narratives. And now it's happening all over again." - Gabriel.*

## Trivia

* Unlike other Angels, Gabriel is sometimes interpreted as neither male nor gender-neutral, but as being female.
* In the Qur'an, it was Gabriel who invented coffee.