Ithuriel 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

Soria

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, where the term is interpreted as denoting "a great golden crown"; and in Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

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'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

Mathers

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', The Greater Key of Solomon, p. 63.

In Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse...

IV, 788, John Milton

John Milton

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 refers to Ithuriel as a cherub

Cherub

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 ("mistakenly," says Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem

Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Palestine, changed his name to Gershom Scholem , was a German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, born and raised in Germany...

) who, along with the Zephon, is dispatched by Gabriel

Gabriel

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 to locate Satan

Satan

Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...

. The "grieslie King" is discovered in the Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden

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 "squat like a Toad close at the ear of Eve

Eve

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." By touching Satan

Satan

Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...

 with his spear, Ithuriel causes the Tempter to resume his proper likeness. This incident is illustrated in Hayley

Hayley

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's edition of Milton's works (London, 1794). In John Dryden

John Dryden

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's, The State of Innocence

The State of Innocence

The State of Innocence was intended to be performed as an opera, with the libretto written in 1674, by John Dryden. It is basically a musical stage adaptation of John Milton's epic poem Paradise lost, a tribute to Milton rather than a satire of the poem. That Dryden was an admirer of Milton's is...

, 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

Abdiel

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 or Zophiel, as certain Milton scholars claim) but found him ready at hand.