I cleaned up my gallery; I deleted about 10 of my works and I'm slowly replacing my logos with versions with an updated presentation template. So on to a sense of higher quality in my gallery.

Also, I'm working on several commissions. There' quite a lot I haven't posted yet.

And I just put Scaenarium Unus - which I received a Daily Devation for - into my scraps. How cool am I to scrap a DD? But in all seriousness, I'm not proud of that font and the person who gave it a DD clearly has no taste. I mean, it's a great font to use if you want a blackletter that looks hand-written, but exactly for that reason it's not a beautiful font. So anyway, I didn't feel like it belonged in my gallery (anymore) because of the lack of quality. I would delete it, but I guess I will keep it online for some more people to enjoy it. At least, I hope the favorite additions still link to the deviation. If not, alas.

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The Celestial Hierarchy
The following article is a an excerpt from my book "The Occult Labyrinth":

In the monotheistic religions, we acknowledge a system adopted from two original texts: the “Heavenly Hierarchies” by Dionysius, and the “Summa Theologica” by Thomas of Aquino. According to this system, there are nine celestial orders, circling around a celestial core that is God. The nine celestial orders can be divided into three triads: the Highest Triad, containing Serafs [1], Cherubs [2] and Thrones [3], the Medium Triad, containing Dominions [4], Virtues [5], and Powers [6], and the lowest choirs of the Celestial Intelligences, the Lowest Triad, containing Principalities [7], Archangels [8] and Angels [9]. Those of the Highest Triad (Serafs, Cherubs and Thrones) dwell eternally in the presence of God, and cleave to Him. They are the most exalted of the Hierarchies and are immediately about God and nearest to Him above all others. Therefore they receive the First Light, which is the unfiltered Holy Light of the Godhead. The next triad (Dominions, Virtues and Powers) receive God’s Holy Light through the first triad and reflect the Holy Light unto the third triad (Principalities, Archangels and Angels), who reflect the Holy Light unto us, mortals.




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The downfall of the Devil
Legend I:
Initially, the devil was God’s dark side. Mal’ak represented God’s side that was focused on humanity. This deity in fact was God’s shadow, who was able to communicate with mortals, while the “side of the sun” was unable to do so due to its divinity. When the Hebrew religion developed, the “shadow” started operating individually more and more, which led to a separation of the two sides, creating a second deity, who became far more destructive. By the time the New Testament was compiled, the shadow “ha-satan” (neutral devil) went beyond its original nature, turning into Satan, the opponent of God. A century later, in the Book of Jubilees (commonly referred to as “lesser Genesis” ) God is replaced by the separated shadow in the form of Mastema, lord of evil spirits. Now he is the one taking credit for the phenomena of negative nature, that used to be phenomena performed by God. The separation is complete.

Legend II:
One of the most influential theologists of the early Greek church – Origines from Alexandria – believed that God created several celestial deities equivalent to himself. Because of free will, they decided to part ways with God, thus straying away from “the Source” (a celestial cosmic hierarchy where God is the center, and the celestial deities’ ranks are based on the distance between the deity and the system’s core: the Source). Some stayed in the ethereal regions around God, while those strayed away fell to a lower atmospheric level. All these ethereal beings are angels, but those who strayed away from the Source became human and lost their immortality and supreme celestial intelligence. Some however, continued their evil acts, changing them into demons with cold dark bodies. These deities ended up in regions where they were nothing, and served nothing. This is a cosmological system where those of less perfect nature manifests in the visible bodies of the world. The higher beings shine with the brightness of celestial bodies, serving as cloaks for God’s angels.

Legend III:
According to Henoch the scribe, two-hundred bene ha Elohim (guards or sons of God) that went down on mount Hermon twelve-thousand years ago were archangels, assisting in the creation of the paradise. At the same time, they taught humans their ways. The problem is that angels are likely to be tempted; Especially by Adam’s daughters; The daughters of Kaïn. Angels of fire turned into flesh as soon as contact with earth was made. These angels belonged to the tenth order of angels, known as the giant Grigori. While angels are of no gender and are not able to breed due to their ethereal nature, the Grigori were physically able to do so. This phenomenon is a sin, and as soon as this occurs, they will be manifested in flesh. So the sons of God share the bed with mortal beings, and also reveal the secrets of the celestial empire, like how to make iron weapons, or how to produce perfume and cosmetics, making the women even more desirable. It’s a bit humorous to look at it this way, but I suppose you could say our modern society of models, fashion, perfume, lust and more of this whoredom is pure blasphemy. Anyway…
Regardless of the Grigori’s good intentions, they put monsters in the world. The Lord banished the angels to the everlasting Hell. Somehow they managed to stray away from the desire of mortal flesh though.

Legend IV:
Henoch gives a rather contradicting alternative of the fall in his second chronicle. In the Book of Secrets he describes how a member of the order of angels who disrespected the orders underneath him got the impossible idea of placing his throne higher than the clouds above earth.
In the New Testament, Jesus sees how Satan, a son of God descends to Earth like a lighting bolt. Lucifer’s other title, “Morningstar” refers to the star that announces the sunrise. This story is derived from an even older legend of Sjaher. This Kanaänic deity is like Lucifer, and is also called the Morningstar. He tried to take over the throne of Light, but was banished from heaven. This story is part of a Kanaänic writing that was written seven-hundred years before Christ. Five centuries later, a Hebrew scribe copied it almost literally, but borrowed the words to lay in the prophet Jesaja’s mouth. There are several versions of this story, but they all have something in common: the fall caused by pride.

Legend V:
God created the angels and gave them free will, but he was afraid they would use this for potential sinful behaviour, and would practice this as soon as they could. So he created a second group, denied from his mercy, and allowed them to sin freely. The two groups eventually found themselves to be in a war with each other. Michaël, one of God’s most powerful angels was able to banish these sinful legions from heaven. It was a great battle in heaven. Satan’s hordes would still rather fight to try to reach an unachievable goal, than to contemplate the Light. This means they’re either dumb, proud, stubborn or brave to follow the misguiding light within them.

Legend VI:
The Devil and his multitudes have more love for themselves than for God, and the Devil nourishes obsessive hatred against humanity and tempted Chavvah, which he is cursed for by God. The real downfall of the dark powers occurs with the birth and suffering of the Lamb, though. Until then, God gave the Devil and his legions the power to seduce mankind, to test and eventually punish them. God manifests in flesh (Jesus Christ) to experience our suffering caused by the Devil. He gave himself to Lucifer, and as hateful as he was against Adam’s children, he accepted it. What Satan didn’t see when he accepted this prey though, is Christ’s divine and pious nature. Satan broke the rules and his contract with God, as he was only given the authority to punish those of sinful nature. Because of the failed seduction of Christ, the second Adam, Satan was confused and was uncertain whether or not Christ was divine. The Devil and his demons are portrayed here as a bunch of fools that can’t decide whether or not they should kill Christ. As soon as Satan wants to take Christ (a manifestation in flesh)’s soul, he encounters God.

Legend VII:
When Adam was introduced to the hierarchies by God, Satan - who at the time was the greatest seraph and ruler of the heavens - refused to bow down for this new creation. “How can a son of fire bow for a son of clay?” he said. The Creator didn’t appreciate this criticism on his work, and threw Satan in the abyss, and a third of the angels chose to follow Satan.
The Sufi-movement speaks of a different version of the story, and this is perhaps the most fascinating story as it portrays God as a deity without mercy and understanding. In this story, Satan is God’s favorite angel. God told his angels not to bow down for anyone but Himself. Later he created Adam, whom he raised above the angels. He commanded the angels to forget about his first command, and to bow down for Adam, the first human. Satan refused to bow down, because he was loyal to God’s original command, and he did not want to bow down for anyone but his beloved God. God did not understand Satan’s act and threw him out of heaven. The greatest burden for Satan was to live in the hell without the presence of his beloved God. All that remains is the echo of God’s last words of anger. Satan despises man, as he is jealous about the fact that man is God’s new object of attention, and he whom replaced Satan.




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