Ithuriel ("discovery of God") is one of the 3 deputy sarim (princes) of the holy sefiroth serving under the ethnarchy of the angel Sephuriron.
The name Ithuriel occurs in the 16th-century tracts of Isaac ha-Cohen of Soria, where the term is interpreted as denoting "a great golden crown"; and in Moses ben Jacob Cordovero's Pardes Rimmonim (Orchard of Pomegranates). Earlier sources may yet come to light. The name appears also in the grimoires, as in the 1st pentacle of the planet Mars, figured in Mathers', The Greater Key of Solomon, p. 63.
In Paradise Lost IV, 788, John Milton refers to Ithuriel as a cherub ("mistakenly," says Gershom Scholem) who, along with the Zephon, is dispatched by Gabriel to locate Satan. The "grieslie King" is discovered in the Garden of Eden "squat like a Toad close at the ear of Eve." By touching Satan with his spear, Ithuriel causes the Tempter to resume his proper likeness. This incident is illustrated in Hayley's edition of Milton's works (London, 1794). In John Dryden's, The State of Innocence, Ithuriel figures in the cast of characters of one of 4 angels.
Note : It is clear from the sources cited that Milton did not coin Ithuriel (or Abdiel or Zophiel, as certain Milton scholars claim) but found him ready at hand.[1]
Ithuriel is also mentioned in the poem The Hour of the Angel by Rudyard Kipling about final judgement. The poem refers to the hour of judgement, the 'final hour', as "Ithuriel's Hour".
Ithuriel is referenced in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native when Venn slaps Wildeve on the shoulder.
Ithuriel is also a fictional character, an angel, who had been summoned and tortured by Valentine in Book 3-City of Glass- of the Mortal Instruments Trilogy by Cassandra Clare.
John Adams makes reference to the spear of Ithuriel as a source of inspiration for political philosophy [2] in his Discourses on Davila.
The Spear is represented in Alan Moore's WATCHMEN by the Chrysler Building.
In the 2007 Australian movie Gabriel, Ithuriel is one of the seven Archangels sent to reclaim light from the Fallen Angels and return it to Purgatory.