Turiel
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Turiel
Turu'il • Turel • Turael • Tsur'il
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| Seventeenth Dekadarch | |
| Great Mountaineer | |
| Corruptions | Tumiel, Tumael, Jetrel |
| Name meaning | "Mountain god" (Turiel) "Rock god" (Tsur'il) |
| Associations | Mountains, strength, resilience, stubbornness, athletics, exploration |
| Teachings | Athletics, mountaineering, exploration of remote areas, reinforcement of spiritual resilience |
| Traits | Stubborn, steady, firm, brave |
| Symbols | Donkey, ox, hiking staff, mountain |
| Preferred offerings | Walnut oil, walnut shells, walnuts, hickory leaves, ironwood plant parts, moss phlox |
Turiel is the Watcher of mountains, strength, athletics, and exploration. He is the seventeenth Dekadarch.
In other religions
Occult traditions
The Secret Grimoire of Turiel
The Secret Grimoire of Turiel is a short grimoire consisting of methods to conjure spirits and contact Turiel. Some of its contents were supposedly revealed directly by Turiel. Its material is reminiscent of standard Renaissance-style Western occultism: it contains lists of planetary spirits, and it instructs the practitioner to invoke Yahweh to bring Turiel before him. It claims to have been written around the year 1518, possibly copied partly from even earlier sources, but this claim is heavily debated and generally considered to be false.
This grimoire was first published in 1960 by the Aquarian Press, with the author's name listed as Marius Malchus, a likely pseudonym. The original pubisher claims that Malchus bought an English translation of a lost Latin manuscript of the grimoire, dated to 1518, from a defrocked priest in the Canary Islands in 1927. Malchus supposedly copied the contents and then, inexplicably, discarded the original English translation he had bought. This tale is generally considered to have been invented as a cover story to falsely pass it off as an ancient grimoire. Modern research has demonstrated that various parts of the Grimoire of Turiel are plagiarized from several different magical texts written in the late 1800s. These sources include The Complete Book of Magic Science by a Rosicrucian Freemason named Frederick Hockley, Golden Dawn founder Samuel Liddell Mathers' introduction to The Key of Solomon the King, and a translation of Arbatel: De Magia Veterum by Arthur Edward Waite, a mystic and occultist best known as co-creator of the famous Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck.
In addition to its false dating, the grimoire has other issues. One of the largest is its strange characterization of Turiel. It makes no mention of his status as one of the 200 Watchers of Enochic lore, instead describing him as a "Messenger of the Spirits of Jupiter" and a subordinate of Sachiel, who is supposedly the presiding spirit or angel over the planetary spirits of Jupiter. He is one of three possible messengers of Sachiel, with the other two being Coniel and Babiel. He is presented as faithful to Yahweh, who is portrayed as the supreme creator in accordance with his own claims.
The Secret Grimoire of Turiel is heavily Yahwistic in nature, following the example of the Renaissance esotericism that inspired it and the texts it plagiarizes. The invocation requires calling upon the "Omnipotent and Eternal God," in the name "of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Blessed Trinity," and asking Yahweh to "send unto [the practitioner] Turiel, Coniel, or Babiel" to answer the practitioner's questions. The practitioner must also request protection so that "evil spirits" cannot "hurt, terrify, or affright" them, and this protection is asked for "through the virtue of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." When the spirit comes, the practitioner immediately asks him, "Comest thou in peace, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost?" and is only allowed to proceed if the answer is affirmative. At the end of the text, the author has Turiel swear a Yahwistic oath to come when called.
Due to this extreme divergence from the nature of the Watcher Turiel, the Grigorist Temple of Satanael determines it to be highly unlikely that the author actually contacted Turiel or knew any significant information about him. It is possible that the Turiel in the grimoire is not meant to be the Watcher Turiel, as the grimoire itself does not make any reference to the Watchers and describes a completely different sort of spirit.