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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged angelology.
An essay on the Shemhamphorash and the tradition of the seventy (or seventy-two) Names of God, read as a symbolic multiplication of divine mercy within Kabbalistic angelology.
Read essay →An essay on Psalm 91 within the tradition of the Tehillim, the protective angelology that dwells within it, and the ethical and spiritual limits of the magical use of prayer.
Read essay →An essay on the cherubim and the flaming sword of Genesis, exploring angelology, the sacred threshold, and the symbolic meaning of the guardianship of forbidden mysteries.
Read essay →An essay on Metatron, the enigmatic 'Prince of the Countenance' of Jewish mystical tradition, and on the limits that rabbinic angelology imposed upon his veneration.
Read essay →An essay on the Book of Enoch, the Watchers and the angelic fall, exploring how apocryphal literature conceived the origin of evil, with reverence toward the Judeo-Christian sources.
Read essay →An essay on Metatron and Sandalfon in Jewish and Kabbalistic angelology, reflecting on the guardians of the threshold between the human world and the celestial spheres.
Read essay →An essay on the mystical legend of Enoch and his transfiguration into Metatron, exploring the Merkabah, Jewish angelology, and the symbolic meaning of humanity's ascent to the sacred.
Read essay →An essay on the so-called Enochian magic of John Dee and Edward Kelley, its historical context and its symbolic meaning within the Western tradition of the grimoires.
Read essay →An essay on the Kabbalistic tradition of the Shemhamphorasch, the seventy-two divine names, their origin in Exodus, and their spiritual and philosophical significance.
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