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"In an Islamic variant of the Genesis account of Adam's creation, Allah sends Israfel, Gabriel, Michael, and Azrael -- the Angel of Death -- out on a mission to fetch the seven handfuls of dust needed to make humanity's progenitor. According to legend, only Azrael returned unsuccessful."
"Edgar Allan Poe, writer of mystery tales and verses, footnoted a
poem with a cryptic reference to 'the angel Israfel, whose heart
strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God's
creatures'. Elsewhere Israfel is described as a four-winged angel
who, 'while his feet are under the seventh Earth, his head reaches to
the pillars of the Divine throne'."
RAZIEL (Power): Secret of God!
"Raziel, which means -- "Secret of God," -- is believed to be an
'angel of the secret regions and Chief of the Supreme Mysteries'.
There is a legend that Raziel is the author of a great book, 'wherein
all celestial and Earthly knowledge is set down.' W hen the angel gave
his tome to Adam, some envious angels stole it away and threw it in
the ocean. After it had been recovered by the primordial angel/demon
of the deep, Rahab, the book passed first to Enoch, who apparently
claimed it as his own, then to Noah, who learned how to make his ark
from it. Solomon, too, was thought to have possessed the book, which
allowed him his unusual knowledge of magic and control over the
demons."
"The Zohar, the major work of Jewish mysticism, claims that set in the middle of Raziel's book there is secret writing 'explaining the fifteen hundred keys [to the mystery of the world], which were not revealed even to the angels.' Other Jewish mystics report that 'each day the angel Raziel, standing on the mount of Horeb, proclaims the secrets of men to all mankind'."
"What we didn't know when we began this book, but what Abigrael,
our recording angel, told us later, is that Raziel is its boss."
SANDALPHON
"The sonorously named angel prince Sandalphon, who some say,
Elijah became after his death."