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fanzines · 2 years

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Pages from mini zines about Jewish folklore (the series includes zines on golems, dybbuk, malachim and sheydim) by illustrator / zinester, Ezra Rose. Buy them here and pay what you like.

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fuvkin-feral-kins · 1 year

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Utterly delusional, dreaming of a Heaven that doesn't even exist

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ouroboros8ontology · 8 months

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At the basis of Jewish magic is the belief in a vast, teeming “middle world,” a world neither of the flesh nor altogether and exclusively of the spirit. Demons and angels, to be counted only in myriads, populated that world; through their intermediacy the powers of magic were brought into operation. The most frequently employed terms for magic were hasha at malachim and hasha’ at shedim, invocation and conjuration of angels and demons. The peculiar rôle of the angels, heavenly counterparts of all earthly phenomena, as well as the direct servants and emissaries of God, closest to [Their] ear, rendered powerful indeed the man who possessed the secret of bending them to his will. The demons, on the other hand, invested with all the fearsome potencies that a still primitive, animistic folk-imagination could conjure up, were equally capable of making the fame and fortune of those who could exert a magic power over them.

Joshua Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion; The Powers of Evil: The Middle World

#jewish magic and superstition #joshua trachtenberg #the powers of evil: the middle world #jewish magic and superstition: a study in folk religion #malachim #sheydim

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diamond-order · 1 year

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Michael

Angel of Sun

Rules over the fourth heaven: Maon

Where the heavenly Jerusalem and it's temple and altar resides

Michael is an archangel or Malachim (messenger in Hebrew)

Chief of archangels and angels and defender of Israel. Is the most important angelic figure in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Considering that he is an archangel, his representation most be almost human. While have a human body, doesn't have a recognizable face. (Like the rest of angels with human like figures)

This archangel appears in Supernatural and Good Omens tv show. While in supernatural is pictured as the most important angel of the lore, in good omens he is a minor angel, below Gabriel.

Michael mean "who is as God?"

Part 5 of the serie "Tabula Astris", an artistic interpretation of angels (including the ones from the fiction)

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urlasage · 11 months

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#metatron #angel #מלאכים #never on sunday #מֶטָטְרוֹן #malachim

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bdkinz · 1 year

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Audio - Lessons in Tanya 70

Beginning of Chapter 39. This chapter offers an approach to the difference between Malachim (angels) and human beings. The goal of the Alter Rebbe is to show how the human being is on a higher level than Gd’s servants as the human has the opportunity to change and grow. This is done through the discussion of natural love and fear vs. intellectual love and fear. And even the natural love and fear…

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#Alter Rebbe #angels #animal soul #divine soul #Lessons in Tanya #Malachim #new beginnings #new beginnings spiritual coaching and consulting llc #podcast #podcasts #soul #spiritual growth #Spirituality #Tanya

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magnetothemagnificent · 9 months

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Hey i wanna ask does jezebel figure on the bible exist in judaism scripture too

Considering Izevel (Jezebel) comes from the Tanakh, which Christians translated in the Old Testament, absolutely. Izevel was the daughter of King Et-Baal of the Pheonicians, and the wife of King Achav, one of the Kings of Israel and Samaria. Izevel was the one to order the murder of the Jewish prophets [Kings I 18:4]. (Ovadiah was able to save 100 of them by hiding them), and continued to try and kill Eliyahu [Kings I 19:2]. She also orchestrated the murder of Navot so that Achav could steal his land [Kings I 21: 7-13]. She was eventually killed when three of her servants threw her out of a window [Kings II 9:32-33].

#jumblr #judaism #izevel bat et-baal #tanakh #malachim 1 #malachim 2

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unbidden-yidden · 6 months

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Please only vote if you're Jewish (or a convert-in-progress) and observe these traditional fasts.

[Edit: I left Yom Kippur off of here because it's the only fast that's a "happy" fast in some sense - yes, it's penitential but it's also because we are emulating the malachim. It's the whole "on Tisha b'Av we fast because we're so grieved that who can eat? But on Yom Kippur we fast because we are so happy to be forgiven that who can eat?" thing.]

Here's an explanatory link for those who are curious and don't know.

#jumblr #Jewish #fast days #frumblr

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fromchaostocosmos · 5 months

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I need someone to take the term 'biblically accurate angel' away from the goyim.

There is no such thing. There is the christian angel and there is there is what they keep using that term form which is actually Malachim.

Malachim (plural) Malach (singular) which translates to Messengers/Messenger is from Judaism. It has been wrongly translated as angel.

Malachim are were all those 'bibically accurate angel' stuff come from and it is driving me crazing.

They are not angels and they are from the bible, those are all christians terms and things and have nothing to with Judaism.

Stop imposing christianity and its terminology onto Judaism, onto our things, replacing our words, etc.

Just stop.

#bibically accurate angel #is bullshit #stop just stop #jewish erasure #judaism

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talonabraxas · 5 months

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The Invocation of Solomon “The wise Solomon left us a marvelous invocation that we can use to ask for help from the superior powers. With this invocation we receive help for our individual needs.” --Samael Aun Weor Powers of the kingdom, be ye under my left foot and in my right hand! Glory and eternity, take me by the two shoulders, and direct me in the paths of victory! Mercy and justice, be ye the equlilibrium and splendor of my life! Intelligence and wisdom, crown me! Spirits of Mallkuth, lead me betwist the two pillars upon which rests the whole edifice of the temple! Angels of Netzach and Hod, establish me upon the cubic stone of Yesod! Oh Gedulah-el! Oh Geburah-el! Oh Tiphereth! Binahel, be thou my love! Ruach Chokmah-el, be thou my light! Be that which thou art and thou shalt be, Oh Ketheriel! Ishim, assist me in the name of Shaddai! Cherubim, be my strength in the name of Adonai! Beni-Elohim, be my brethren in the name of the Son, and by the powers of Sabaoth! Elohim, do battle for me in the name of Tetragrammaton! Malachim, protect me in the name of Iod-Havah! Seraphim, cleanse my love in the name of Eloah! Hasmalim, enlighten me with the splendors of Elohim and Shechinah! Aralim, act! Ophanim, revolve and shine! Chaioth-Ha-Kadosh cry, speak, roar, bellow! Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh! Shaddai, Adonai, Iod-Havah, Eheieh asher Eheieh! Hallelu-Jah, Hallelu-Jah, Hallelu-Jah. Amen. Amen. Amen.

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alan-p-49 · 7 months

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Okay so there is a book two of the sigil magic guide by K. P. Theodore and girl. GIRL! The other book didn't have any bullshit in it, and if you would like my quick thoughts on it check out this post, but this one introduces some bullshit.

Okay so the first two parts about what kind of sigils are there and how to make them is just the repetition of book 1 minus the pictorial method. That is fine besides this ugly ass sigil. Like girl i know you can use Adobe Illustrator way better than that cmon!

But anyways, here comes the bullshit. What isn't bullshit is the idea of using other scripts and languages other than English to make sigils. That is fine and if anyone figured out how to make sigils with a logographic or syllabic languages good for you and you can go ahead and use that.

Also this magi alphabet is fine it's just uh it's an occult way of writing Hebrew so that's iffy and idk if Theodore is Jewish. If this is your culture you're fine using this but still 💅

Here comes the bullshit:

This is NOT the enochian alphabet. THIS is the enochian alphabet

Then what is that alphabet then? The theban alphabet. What is the theban alphabet then in the book?

THIS IS NOT THEBAN. THIS IS CELESTIAL! oh boy then what is celestial???

Do not let your eyes deceive you! This is not the celestial alphabet, this is the malachim alphabet. Both celestial and malachim are both a way of writing Hebrew for occult workings and I get it Theodore they look so similar! BUT YOURE AN OCCULT BOOK WRITER! YOU NEED TO GET THIS SHIT RIGHT! And by the way uh wanna know what the malachim alphabet is??? Before I start going insane???

Wh-WHAT IS THAT??? HUH??? WHERE ARE YOU GETTING YOUR SOURCES FROM THEODORE BECAUSE I CAN JUST FUCKING GOOGLE THIS SHIT TO FACT CHECK! I AM GOING TO BUY THAT OCCULT BOOK THAT YOURE APPARENTLY REFERENCING BUT FAILING TO EVEN REALLY READ IT!

Which is this

But it doesn't stop there. Oh no no no no! The bullshit hasn't stopped! It only begun! AND IVE RUN OUT OF HOW MANY PICTURES I CAN UPLOAD ON A POST VIA THE APP SO THIS IS GOING TO BE A THREAD!

please check the notes for the continuation of the bullisht

#witchblr #witchcraft #occult #sigils #sigil magic #book review

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santoschristos · 5 months

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The Invocation of Solomon “The wise Solomon left us a marvelous invocation that we can use to ask for help from the superior powers. With this invocation we receive help for our individual needs.” --Samael Aun Weor

Powers of the kingdom, be ye under my left foot and in my right hand! Glory and eternity, take me by the two shoulders, and direct me in the paths of victory! Mercy and justice, be ye the equlilibrium and splendor of my life! Intelligence and wisdom, crown me!

Spirits of Mallkuth, lead me betwist the two pillars upon which rests the whole edifice of the temple! Angels of Netzach and Hod, establish me upon the cubic stone of Yesod! Oh Gedulah-el! Oh Geburah-el! Oh Tiphereth! Binahel, be thou my love! Ruach Chokmah-el, be thou my light! Be that which thou art and thou shalt be, Oh Ketheriel!

Ishim, assist me in the name of Shaddai! Cherubim, be my strength in the name of Adonai! Beni-Elohim, be my brethren in the name of the Son, and by the powers of Sabaoth! Elohim, do battle for me in the name of Tetragrammaton! Malachim, protect me in the name of Iod-Havah! Seraphim, cleanse my love in the name of Eloah! Hasmalim, enlighten me with the splendors of Elohim and Shechinah! Aralim, act! Ophanim, revolve and shine! Chaioth-Ha-Kadosh cry, speak, roar, bellow!

Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh! Shaddai, Adonai, Iod-Havah, Eheieh asher Eheieh!

Hallelu-Jah, Hallelu-Jah, Hallelu-Jah. Amen. Amen. Amen.

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void-flesh · 1 year

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do you have any favorite zines?

Omgggggg. Ok. I'm bad at favorites bc I just love. A lot of things. Mcr and bandom are what im focused on intentionally collecting but theres so many cool ones oit there, so here are some I like a lot and would define recommend:

On music and Bandom

Sing It Like The Kids That Are Mean To You- fans of color in the emo scene. I just can't recommend this one enough.

Muchacha Fanzine- this is probably my favorite ongoing series

No Bystanders Zine- Creating safer spaces in artistic communities

Building: - A DIY guide to hosting events and building radical communities

I have a whole post on MCR zines here and many more I haven't photographed, so I'm going to leave most of them off but rest assured

My Pussy Demands Attention:- an info zine about the Used and Bert McCracken styled as a parody of a chic track which are like those little booklets that Christians give out and tell you you're going to hell. (Distro Twitter is linked bc their store is currently down)

One of the prizes of my physical collection (bc i keep scans and links as well if they are the only ones I can find) is this issue of Stars and Scars with the My Chemical Romance interview from 2004 Skate & Surf Festival. You can read the article on their archive, its a great one bc its from the era when Gerard wasn't used to being famous yet and would just say shit

Other topics

Here are a few of my other favorites! I also have a fairly large collection of political zines about prison abolition, mutual aid, sex work, and disability, and I like them a LOT and really value them as resources but they aren't my favorites bc a lot of them are really heavy. An also bc this post is already so long lol oh no. Ok so:

Coop: a zine of chicken poetry. I just really love chickens and how ppl talk about them i think they are very sweet. Also a lovely example of why people should self publish.

Eternal Nap: A zine about all the cemeteries and graveyards the author has visited (also distributed by Crapandemic Goth Distro, site currently down)

Tentacle: A mini zine on the history of tentacle porn.

Malachim: A pocket guide to Jewish Angels.

Anyway, those are some of my favorites but there' s so many other amazing ones! Categories I haven't even touched on. But as always if you have questions or ideas for zines you want to talk through or MCR titles to recommend plz say hi!

#zines #music zines #mcr zines

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ouroboros8ontology · 10 months

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There were, of course, deviations from the general rule [of Jewish practitioners relying only on celestial names]. Demons as well as angels were sometimes called upon to do the Jewish sorcerer’s will, both were ordered to do harm, and presumably obeyed, and many of the devices employed universally in magic were used by Jews along with the evocation of spirits.

Joshua Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion; The Truth Behind the Legend: Jewish Magic

#jewish magic and superstition #joshua trachtenberg #jewish magic and superstition: a study in folk religion #the truth behind the legend: jewish magic #jewish magic #malachim #sheydim #practical kabbalah

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evilasiangenius · 9 months

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The First Meeting

Dark copper hair gleamed in the sunlight as the angel looked out over the wall, down at the vast desert below, brilliant white wings tilted in counterbalance as the angel peered over the edge.

The angel didn’t initially notice that from behind him came the slithering and squirming of tentacles as a creature made it up and over the mighty wall, suckers propelling the great mass of the beast forward. But the angel did notice once it was upon the wall and the octopus’ skin flexed through a multitude of shimmering colors as it stood on a pair of legs, becoming an angel. A fallen angel, with striking pale hair in sharp contrast to the black feathered wings that unfurled behind him.

“Wait, aren’t you…?” Intimidated, the angel backed up as the Fallen strode forward in in his black robes lined with dark blue, the gleaming silver embroidery of the border reflecting all the colors of Creation. Upon his head he wore a twisted crown of black meteoric iron, in the shape of tangled tentacles.

The angel stared at the Fallen’s robe; it was the blue of the deep sea or perhaps the blue of the deep heavens, and something about that sent a shiver through the new corporeal form that the angel had been melded into.

“A Prince of Hell?” The Fallen looked amused. As he spoke his skin slowly pulsed through a multitude of colors; amber, obsidian, copper... “Yes, of course. Aziraphale, Seventh Prince of Hell. Lord of the Octopuses, Member of the Dark Council. A Lord of Hell. And you are?” With each word, Aziraphale slowly strode forward, his blue eyes fixed on the angel who retreated at the demon’s advance.

“Oh damn, a Prince of Hell. This wasn’t in the training.” The angel’s hands clapped over a rebellious mouth.

Aziraphale’s lips moved into a broad smile as he chuckled. “That’s what I am. Tell me, who are you?”

“Crowley. An angel. A Servant of the Lord God. Angel of the Ninth Choir of the Malachim. Third from the last row, five over from the end, you can’t miss me, I’m the tallest one in that row. Usually sing the middle voice so it’s really just the same note over and over most of the time-”

“You weren’t doing your job, were you? I hear there’s a big fuss going on about the humans getting kicked out of the Garden. Really, what a thing to do for a first offense, seems awfully unfair to me.”

“I, I don’t know? I wasn’t on duty then, I was just put on duty now and-”

“So where's that sword of yours? Didn’t they issue you a sword? I’ve seen them before, big flaming buggers, ready to smite?”

“I...I, well, uh, I was never issued a sword? I’m just a low-ranking angel, standing in for someone more important.” Crowley’s mouth moved into a nervous smile, and the angel slowly began to inch away from the Prince of Hell.

“Oh? No sword?” Aziraphale brightened.

“...no sword,” Crowley drooped.

“Excellent.”

As the angel backed away from the Prince of Hell, Aziraphale stretched out a black-feathered wing as Crowley nearly stepped off the end of the wall, gently nudging the angel back to safety.

Startled, Crowley nearly tipped over again, but once more Aziraphale righted him.

“Tricky thing, this gravity business,” Aziraphale said gently. “You’ll have to be more careful; you can hit terminal velocity rather quickly if your wings aren’t ready to fly.”

“Yes, tha-”

“No, no need to thank me. Best not. Even a Prince of Hell could get into a spot of trouble were one caught saving angels. Let’s just keep this between you and me,” Aziraphale winked.

Crowley felt hot and cold all of a sudden, both at once, realizing what had happened. Had a discorporation happened so soon, so quickly after being issued a corporeal form, it would have been a major disciplinary breach and the thought of what consequences would have come down in head office sent a shiver through the angel. But perhaps discorporation would have been preferred; everything was so much worse than the angel could have imagined now that Crowley was in a bind, doubly indebted to a Lord of Hell within minutes of being assigned to Earth.

“A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Crowley.”

“Sure thing,” Crowley said politely. “It’s nice to meet you too, Lord Azir- uh, or is it Prince, erm-”

“Let’s dispense with the formalities. Just as I’ll call you Crowley, you may call me Aziraphale.”

“All right.” A hint of a nervous smile touched Crowley’s lips.

“Oh how lovely,” Aziraphale smiled at Crowley.

“Gkh?” Crowley asked.

Aziraphale’s eyes lingered on the angel before turning to look up to the iron gray sky. “It’s starting to rain.”

As the Prince of Hell stretched out his arms to welcome the falling water, he stretched out a black-feathered wing to shelter the shivering angel from the coming storm.

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#angel crowley #demon aziraphale #good omens #aziraphale x crowley #aziracrow #reverse omens #good omens fanfiction #the seventh prince of hell #crowley is an ordinary angel without a flaming sword #aziraphale is a prince of hell and the lord of the octopuses

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gamergoo · 5 months

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The post was mostly a joke but I do think when discussing “biblically accurate angels” it’s important to recognize that the only category that can be concretely identified as angelic is the uses of the word Malach (מלאך) or Malachim which means Messenger, and is extremely context sensitive because it might just refer to a human messenger, or the Greek word Angelos(ἄγγελος) which is where we get the word Angel from, and also means Messenger.

The word Ophanim literally just means Wheels. Ezekiel never actually describes them as Angels because they’re not messengers, and it’s also unclear if they’re actually alive because they aren’t included in his “Living Creatures(חיות)” descriptor used for the 4 faced(man, lion, ox, eagle) beings next to them, which are themselves described not as Cherubim, but in Ezekiel 10:14 the ox face is replaced by a cherub face.

Likewise “Cherubim(כְּרוּבִים)” is ALSO not really an angelic being, because it just means “blessings” and is borrowed from the Akkadian “karabu(to bless, 𒅗𒊏𒁍)” or “karibu(one who blesses, 𒅗𒊑𒁍)” like I said previously, it’s unclear if the living creatures beneath the mobile throne are supposed to BE cherubs, or if they have the FACES of cherubs, but either way, like Ezekiel describes, they’re usually found near the throne of God(not using the name here because I’m unsure if they filled this role before the conflation of Adonai with El, which is a whole other post I could make about the divine council and pre-monotheistic Israelite belief).

As for Seraphim, I don’t have the Hebrew for it but it means “burning ones” and I think they could be argued to be angels, or at least close to angels, because they’re described in Isaiah 6:1-8 as flying around the throne of god, repeating “holy” over and over. Or rather, Seraph is the word Isaiah uses for those beings. I think the distinction there is important because you could render it in English as something along the lines of “immolant” or something like that, because the point Isaiah is making with the word is that they’re on fire. I personally wouldn’t consider them to be angels because they don’t deliver a message(otherwise they would be called Malachim)

Also worth noting that the reason we consider these things to be angels today is because of post-biblical traditions like Kabbalah which have their own angelologies and are very interesting, but when considering the idea of “biblically accurate angels” they’re almost exclusively just a normal looking humanoid figure, sometimes glowing, sometimes with wings. The idea that to be accurate to the texts they need to look scary is literally just derived from the use of the phrase “be not afraid” which is also something Jesus said a lot when doing some admittedly scary shit, but I don’t see anyone describing Paul’s “broad sword coming out of his mouth” description in revelation as “biblically accurate Jesus” or what have you.

You could argue that genesis 6:4 is using “the sons of Elohim” to refer to angels, which certainly seems to be the scholarly consensus, and the implication that the sons of Elohim taking the daughters of men as wives would seem to be that these sons of god are human-like. Of course, the intermingling of human and angelic blood leads to the creation of nephilim who become wicked men, so that’s actually the major sin the flood is supposed to eradicate from earth, but I digress, I don’t think they necessarily count as angels, or at the very least it’s dubious to consider them messengers. I think my main takeaway from early genesis is that it points to the pre-monotheistic beliefs to consider the sons of Elohim to have free will or even be capable of getting it on with human women.

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