Samael: The Left Hand of God (Angels & Demons Explained)

in Judaism and the Talmudic texts the entity known as Samael maintains a very interesting role as a member of the heavenly host otherwise known as the army of the angels whilst his membership with the heavenly host makes him a servant of God it doesn't necessarily make him a pleasant figure to come across you see Samael is often thought in jewish law to be the main angel of death and you only need to look at some of his nicknames to see this some of which include the venom of God the poison of God the blindness of God or the left hand of God others however see Samael as an equivalent of Satan though quite unlike Satan he does not appear to be evil given his functions directly serve God such as destroying sinners others may have this notion because Samael is often seen as a tempter of man a seducer and one who encourages and condones men to sin in a sense you might see Samael as a test employed by God in some Jewish law from the Second Temple period Samael has a significant role in the story of the Garden of Eden in that he engineers the fall of Adam and Eve by utilizing the serpent attempt Eve unlike traditional tales and ideas about Satan being the snake this telling explains that Samael rode the serpent as his mount and that the serpent doesn't appear to be an evil figure in disguise but more so an extension of Samuel or creature he had directly manipulated other ideas from this era Paine Samael as the true father of Cain implying at Samael was able to tempt Eve into a sexual encounter Samael appears to first crop up during the Second Temple period where he is incriminated as a major force of evil in the apocalypse of Barack or Barrack three a non canonical biblical book thought to be written by the scribe of Jeremiah Barrett Ben Neriah the book describes itself as a narrative by Barrack as he receives a revelation from God concerning ineffable things that have always been pondered on by man in this account Barrett praise to God daily asking why he has allowed Jerusalem to suffer capture and Dominion under the King Nebuchadnezzar but he does not receive a response instead God sends one of his angels to show Barack the mysteries of the heavens and that in doing so he hopes that Barrett will stop praying to him on this matter berrak agrees to this and is taken through the layers of heaven by the angel each of which Barrett describes in great detail by the time they reached the third layer berrak asks the angel to show him the tree had led Adam astray and the angel tells him it is the vine which the angel Samael planted where at the Lord was angry and he cursed him and his plant while also on this account he did not permit Adam to touch it and therefore the devil being envious deceived him through this vine from this we don't actually get to understand why God was angry with some way L as well as to what capacity Samuel was serving God what we do get though is a glimpse of the relationship between Samael and God but not whatever it was that Samael did must have been pretty bad because God not only curses his plant but also somehow himself we see the rebellious and spiteful side of Samuel - that instead of accepting God's punishment he turns against him and is shown to deceive Adam into touching the vine knowing full well that Adam would be punished in doing this Samuel is shown to not only be a cunning figure but a jealous one - he loses God's favor and seeks to take Adam down with him but in doing so he is also hurting God as he causes his favorite creation to defy him furthermore Samael in 4/9 of this passage is referred to as the devil showing us that he becomes the embodiment of evil after having been cursed by God samaya is again mentioned later on in 97 where the angel tells Barak at the transgression of the first man Adam it was near to Samael when he took the serpent as a garment by this barrack again confirmed the downfall of Adam to be an association of Samael but also that Samael took the serpent as a garment or that he took the form of the seven and through this was able to tempt Adam into disobeying God Samuel also appears in the pseudepigrapha Jewish Christian texts known as the Ascension of Isaiah which sees Isaiah warn the dying king of Judah Hezekiah that his son Manasseh will not follow the righteous path that has been set for him in chapter 1 8 Isaiah reveals to Hezekiah that he has foreseen Samael come to serve Manasseh and that the entity would come to execute all of Meneses evil desires hearing this Hezekiah breaks down into tears - which Messiah makes it clear in chapter 111 that the Council of Samael against Manasseh is consummated naught will avail thee and what he means by this is that there's nothing that can prevent Samael from turning my Nessa down a path of darkness as he will become corrupted by chapter 2 everything Isaiah has predicted comes to pass for when we see Hezekiah die Manasseh proceeds to fall onto an unrighteous path and seems to forget all of his father's teachings we are told in 2 1 and it came to pass after that Hezekiah died and Manasseh became king and he did not remember the commands of Hezekiah his father but forgot them and Samael abode in Manisa and clung fast to him we are also told that through this influence of Samael Manasseh begins to serve a demon known as be Leah or Belial otherwise described as the angel of lawlessness through the combination of samia's influence over Manasseh and his choosing to serve be Leah the land of Jerusalem in which he rules over became a state of chaos by - 13 we see eyes leave Jerusalem for Bethlehem for he's unable to stand the sight of that which he sees under Meneses rule but Isaiah is quite vocal of his denouncement of the King and people begin to listen which angers the demon be Leah 2:13 tells us that be Leah was in great wrath against Isaiah by a reason of the vision and because of the exposure wherewith he had exposed Samael it's unclear as to how the hierarchy worked between B Leah and Samael at this point but given that B Leah is angered that Samael had been exposed you might say that b leah is servants mal and that it would justify his loathing for Zeya in this passage because his master has been revealed for all to see fast potentially limiting his influence it's also fits him of the idea from the apocalypse of Barak at Samael does when he does out of revenge against God for having caused him out that he would ally himself with a demon like B Leah to corrupt hit another of God's creations by chapter 5 we get more of an idea that B Leah does serve Samael for he takes control of a false prophet named Mel Kira who accuses Isaiah of treason and we are told that Isaiah is to be sawn under by a wooden sole 5 15 through 16 tells us this B Leah did Isaiah do bill Kira and Manasseh for Samael was a very wrathful against Isaiah in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah on account of the things which he had seen regarding the beloved and unaccounted the destruction of Samael which he had seen through the Lord while Hezekiah his father was still King and he did according to the will of Satan these passages revealed to us the anger that Samael holds Visia that he sees him as a thorn and an obstacle in his quest to do evil Isaiah not only provides resistance against somebody else plan but he also foresee some miles destruction by God which makes him even more vengeful that man is able to perceive as eventual downfall some are out therefore appears to utilize be Lea to make use of Bill Kira who condemns Isaiah to the wooden soul while Samuel is perceived to be an unseen entity in this story there are those that believe that Samael is in fact present in their be leah is not a separate demon but instead the embodiment of Sam I ELLs wicked ways Isaiah though isn't the only biblical figure to encounter Samael according to the Ascension of Moses Moses is a company through the levels of heaven with the Archangel Metatron and then at the last level of heaven Moses encounters an angel there appears to be different from all the others he had seen one that put the fear of God in him he was described as being so tall that it would take 500 years to cover a distance equal to his height and that from head to toe he was marked with glaring eyes Metatron informs Moses that this was Samael that he takes the souls away from man when Samael begins to move off moses inquires as to where he's going to which Metatron tells him that Samael is going to claim the soul of joe of the pious immediately moses sinks into prayer and begs God not to allow creature like Samael to ever claim his soul for he is truly terrified by the creature samuel also appears across several jewish Midrash those importance appears to differ quite dramatically in various texts whilst he maintains the principal role of being a tempter of man to commit sin he's also seen to be an accuser of the heavenly Court and he who brings about the wrath to those who deserve it he's also commonly linked or referred to as Satan himself as we delve deeper into the Zohar and Jewish mythology and law we see that Sam Mayo is actually quite a busy character in that he said to mate with the angels of sacred prostitution though the nature of these encounters appeared to be shrouded in mystery these entities at Sam Mayo is thought to have mated with include a princess of evil a demon who seduced Adam and a demon who haunts the air itself the Kabbalah in Jewish law also sees Samael described as an archangel and that he eventually becomes the consort of the demon known as lilith also the supposed first wife of Adam according to early Jewish texts and ideas who rebelled against both Adam and God and fled from the Garden of Eden before the creation of Eve we understand that lilith would become to be known as something of a mother of demons and it is thought that these spawn come about through sexual encounters with Samael he's also seen as Lilith spouse in some cases and the pair are thought to be the evil parallel of Adam and Eve Gnostic traditions see Samael painted as one of the three names of the Demiurge which is a creator of the universe along with the names yelled away off and sockless in the Gnostic texts of the apocryphon of John meanwhile in on the origin of the world another Gnostic texts that details the conception of the world the entity yada by earth which appears to be miraculously conceived into the universe from the shadows claims sold ability for himself and begins to consider himself to be the God of all things an entity known as Sofia however who was in existence before yarda pay off and who had been instrumental in giving him life told him that he was ignorant of how things really worked and then if he was a God that he was a blind God or Samael as some translations suggest it would imply that Samael sees himself above everyone else including God similarly to how Lucifer did in Revelations but as ignorance or arrogance blinds him to the truth that ultimately costs him in the end interestingly this same event is also referenced in the Gnostic exegesis titled the hypostasis of the archons which reads their chief is blind because of his power and his ignorance and his arrogance he said with his power it is I who am God there is none apart from me when he said this he sinned against the entirety and this speech caught up to incorruptibility then there was a voice that came forth from the incorruptibility saying you are mistaken Samael which is god of the blind whilst the voice here is not dedicated to being that of the entity known as sofia it can be said that this voice belongs to God himself these Gnostic accounts also paint Samael as being the very first sinner and that he is the first being that appears to earth God by declaring himself as the ultimate being in the universe in these gnostic accounts Samael appears to take on the form of a serpent with the head of a lion Samael also appears in the testament of Solomon a text that describes how Solomon was able to build his temple and how he was able to command a league of demons by means of a magical ring supposedly given to him by the Archangel Michael in this text we see Solomon aimed to appease two Samael as he unloads a lengthy paragraph of praise upon the being as he seeks to conjure and invoke him another interesting take on Samael is an idea that he was involved in the brotherhood between jacob and esau then he served as isil's guardian angel Esau being the elder brother received the blessing of being the firstborn but this would cause strife between himself and Jacob had been born moments afterwards clutching onto the heel of Esau no less as if to pull him back into the womb so that he might be born first conspiring with his mother Jacob was able to trick his father Isaac into giving him these very blessings of being the first ball and act that sorely angered Esau Jacob was sent away for many years but upon his return Esau raised an army to meet him realizing the danger Jacob began to pray to God but instead was met by an angel who was described as wrestling against him even going on to hurt him enough to give him a limp French medieval rabbi known as Rashi believed this angel who fought against Jacob was isil's guardian angel and came to the conclusion that this was in fact Samael thus fitting in with the idea that Samael brings about God's justice on those who deserve it in Jewish mystical works this idea is furthermore reinforced as we are told that after he tempted Eve in his serpent form Samael was punished and that his punishment was to serve as isil's guardian angel by this you might say that his physical confrontation with Jacob isn't out of any real care for Esau but more so because he's been forced to fulfill this role and his hatred for man run so deep that he'll take any opportunity to fight one other Midrash tell us about how some al is the most unique of angels in that he possesses 12 wings where other angels possess six he's also detailed as commanding armies of demons most of which are his children with his spouse Lilith as well as being a commander of angels or fallen angels the Zohar also gives us a glimpse as to how mortal men may have perceived the power of Samael and in some cases may have chosen to worship Him it stems from an idea within the Zohar that Samael and Lilith were once angels whose popularity grew so intense that they began to be worshipped as deities themselves in the days before the flood however it's also understood that the people recognized their power and so only worship them so that they could do their bidding finding them to be more morally flexible than God today those who believe in Samael and see his nature as evil seek to keep him away by not pronouncing his name it is thought that by even mentioning him one is attracting him so I hope you are all grateful for my sacrifice as I proceeded to do battle with the Angels stroke demon who to be quite frank I intend to give a piece of my mind - for being so darned elusive and paradoxical that none of the accounts about him seemed to be entirely unanimous by in any case if you've enjoyed today's video then don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe find out next time if I survived my encounter with Samael next time on letters of history spoiler willa i 1c friday guys

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Published: Wed Jan 08 2020