The main feat of Esoteric Christianity is to learn the mysteries of God, ( see Raziel ), and rise to higher consciousness and theurgy is, in the esoteric tradition, using this knowledge to heighten one's own spiritual nature.

Willow finally returns Raziel to human form, and the sorceress is able to transform the soldiers back to people.

* Patricia Hayes as Fin Raziel: Aging sorceress who is turned into a possum due to a curse by Bavmorda.

Willow recites what he thinks is the appropriate spell, but turns the goat into an ostrich, a peacock, a tortoise, and finally a tiger, before returning Raziel to her human body.

* In the Legacy of Kain video game series, more specifically Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, and Defiance, the predestination is evident in the Soul Reaver as well as Raziel, whose soul is contained inside.

Defiance ends in Raziel being stabbed by the Reaver, allowing his soul to be transferred to it, however because of the purification his soul had gone through earlier the cycle is broken rather than beginning again.

He is also listed as an Angel of the four winds in the medieval Jewish Book of the Angel Raziel which lists him as Usiel ( Uzziel ); according to it, this book was inscribed on a sapphire stone and handed down from Seraph to Metatron and then to Adam.

When the game's protagonist, his lieutenant Raziel, surpasses Kain, Raziel is executed for his transgression.

It is revealed that Raziel is destined to be consumed by the Soul Reaver, thus becoming the soul-devouring entity trapped within the weapon.

With Raziel's help, Kain is able to defy history and prevent his own pre-ordained death, and, in return, he saves Raziel from being consumed by the Reaver at the story's climax.

Over the course of the game, Moebius manipulates Kain into believing he is a champion prophesied to fight against and destroy Raziel, culminating in a final battle between the two characters which Raziel wins.

Ramat Raziel, a moshav in the Judean Mountains is named after Raziel, as well as many streets in Israel bearing his name in commemoration.

Although technically a pentalogy, the series is effectively made up of two duologies telling the separate stories of Kain and Raziel, both culminating in Defiance.

* Kokabiel ( also Kakabel, Kochbiel, Kokbiel, Kabaiel, and Kochab ), In the Book of Raziel he is a high-ranking, holy angel.

An angel named Raziel ( previously in Moore's novel Lamb ) is sent to Earth to grant the wish of a child ; he decides to help a boy who has witnessed the death of a man dressed as Santa Claus.

Raziel is a central character in Eidos Interactive's Legacy of Kain series of video games, the protagonist of the Soul Reaver story arc.

Portrayed as both an anti-hero and tragic hero, Raziel is a soul-devouring vampire-turned-wraith, introduced in Soul Reaver as one of six lieutenants raised to serve series eponym and protagonist, Kain.

Upon evolving beyond Kain through growing wings, Raziel is executed for his transgression, but is revived by The Elder God as a reaver of souls, bent on avenging himself by slaying his brothers and former master.

Beyond the games, he also appeared in Top Cow's promotional comics for Soul Reaver and Defiance, and was included alongside Raziel as a playable character in downloadable content for 2010's Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.

Kain and Raziel also appear as downloadable characters in Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light where the two can replace Croft and her companion Toltec as playable characters with their own storyline.

Some are also listed in Book of Raziel ( Sefer Raziel HaMalakh ), the Zohar, and Jubilees.

In the Necropolis, Raziel finds and slaughters his brother Melchiah, then travels to the Pillars of Nosgoth where Kain's throne is seated, and is enraged when he discovers that Kain also destroyed his vampire clan.

That same year, IGN also listed Raziel and Kain among gaming's most notorious anti-heroes, calling them " complex characters with a great backstory, and truly awesome anti-heroes, be they fighting against each other to enslave or save the world, or teaming up against greater threats.

Players can also find magical glyphs that allow Raziel to expend magical energy to attack groups of enemies simultaneously.

She was cast in support roles for films including The Bargee ( 1964 ), The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), A Fish Called Wanda ( 1988 ) and featured as Fin Raziel in the Ron Howard film Willow ( also 1988 ).

* The bumbling Raziel from this novel later becomes the title character in Moore's The Stupidest Angel.

* Abdiel, a seraph in the Sepher Raziel and a character in Milton's Paradise Lost.

In this game, which built upon the Blood Omen ending in which he damns the world, Kain adopted the role of antagonist, with new character Raziel serving as the lead.

She emphasised, though, that she did not consider him a monster or mustache-twirling villain, remarking that " in many ways, he's a more complex and sympathetic character than Raziel himself ".

Hennig expressed that, by Soul Reaver 2, her personal perception of Kain's character had changed over the years, and that she now considered him a somewhat more attractive and interesting individual than Raziel due to his complexity.

In Soul Reaver 2, Kain acts as a non-player character encountered by Raziel in several cutscenes.

Some reviewers were less enthusiastic about aspects of the character, with IGN's Perry commenting that his Soul Reaver 2 dialogue was haughty and " overwritten ", and Ivan Sulic considering his Blood Omen 2 incarnation " nothing more than an arrogant jerk with little to latch on to and care about " while expressing preference for Raziel.

* Raziel ( Legacy of Kain ), a character in the Legacy of Kain series of video games

Praised for his visual appearance, character development and Bell's vocal performance, Raziel has been well-received by the gaming media and players alike.

Raziel was initially conceived as the nameless protagonist of Shifter, an unproduced, non-Legacy of Kain related game concept by Crystal Dynamics which preceded Soul Reaver, and the outline of his character concept and motivations was based on the former title.

Early visual artwork of Raziel was influenced by The Cabinet of Doctor Caligaris character of Cesare, and dozens of concept sketches were produced to shape his final incarnation.

She focused on the evolution of his personality in Soul Reaver 2, describing him as " kind of a self-righteous little twit " with a lot to learn, and pointed out her belief that Kain was, in some ways, a more interesting and complex character, with Raziel a more two-dimensional personality in the original game.

Raziel was praised by GameSpot's reviewer for Defiance, who wrote that " it's rare enough to find a truly memorable main character in a game, let alone two ", and closed deeming the title " one of those rare games whose characters and story to some extent supersede the problems in the gameplay.

Raziel is a central character in Eidos Interactive's Legacy of Kain series of video games, the protagonist of the Soul Reaver story arc.

Raziel is mentioned in The Mortal Instruments series of novels as having created the Shadowhunters, by mixing his blood with mortals and having them drink the mixture from a divine cup.

Amazingly enough, Kain is not surprised to see Raziel, apparently having even been expecting him, and implies that he has destroyed Raziel's vampire clan, which only enrages Raziel even further.