AtDTDA: (8) 221 Agencies of the Angelic 3.

robinlandseadel at comcast.net robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Mon May 7 19:03:38 CDT 2007


Mentioned in a previous post:
  
        "Yet mightn't they and others like them be considered 
        agencies of the angelic?" 221. 21/22

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/enoch/callench.htm

http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/enochian.php

Noting as well, the Enochian Cries of Rilke:

The First Elegy
 
        Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic
        Orders? And even if one were to suddenly
        take me to its heart, I would vanish into its
        stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but
        the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear,
        and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains
        to destroy us. Every Angel is terror. . . .

http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/German/Rilke.htm#_Toc509812215

        Lew, realistically speaking, figures them to be mere Anarchist 
        terrorists, but Nookshaft notes:

        "Tsk. They are shamans, Mr. Baslight. The closest we 
        in our fallen state may ever come to the uncivilized 
        purity of the world as it was and shall never be 
        again---not for the likes of us." 221. 25/27

Lew doesn't buy it, Nicholas says he must "
           
        "If you are who we are beginning to believe you 
         might be." 221. 29/30

Yashmeen Halfcourt is then introduced as a "Tzaddik":

        The word " tzaddik" literally means "righteous one." 
        The term refers to a completely righteous individual, 
        and generally indicates that the person has spiritual 
        or mystical power. A tzaddik is not necessarily a 
        rebbe or a rabbi, but the rebbe of a Chasidic 
        community is considered to be a tzaddik.

http://www.jewfaq.org/rabbi.htm

As well, she's a "seventeenth-degree Adept". I'm not sure
what that really means, but this came to mind:

http://taratarotweb.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/thesar.jpg



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