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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged angels.
An essay on the Book of Tobias, apocryphal among the Hebrews and deuterocanonical among Catholics, and on the angel Raphael as master of a spiritual pharmacopoeia where poison becomes remedy.
Read essay →An essay on Jacob's vision at Bethel, the angels who ascend and descend, and how this biblical symbol dialogues with Jewish mystical Merkabah tradition and the human quest for communion with the divine.
Read essay →An essay on the collaboration between John Dee and Edward Kelley, and how the so-called Enochian language was born as an attempt at communication with the angelic world.
Read essay →An essay on Saint Michael the Archangel that traverses Catholic popular devotion and the angelic presence in the grimoires, reflecting on faith, symbol and spiritual discernment.
Read essay →An essay on the figure of the Destroying Angel in biblical and Talmudic traditions, exploring the balance between divine justice and mercy.
Read essay →An essay on angelic magic within the Solomonic tradition, exploring its symbolic origin, its ethics, and the place of angels as messengers between the human and the divine.
Read essay →An essay on how angels and demons, far from being mere figures of literal belief, function as a symbolic language for the luminous and shadowy forces dwelling within the human psyche.
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