Satan-Samael (Baal-Beelzebub): The Demon King Of The East: Angels Of Jewish Lore (Part 12)

Have you heard about the dark lord Samuel? Few of you have, many of you haven't, and the few who have heard about him hardly know him well, if they know him at all. Samuel is a fallen angel, so you have heard, and although he is a demon, he sometimes works for the holy god, so you have also heard. But why is that? What would a demon have to do with the god of the angels? What work could he do for him that his holy angels couldn't? You must have wondered. So then, who exactly is Samuel? Indeed, he is a fallen angel, a demon, and is also known as Satanel. The name Samuel is his angelic name, and it means the wrath of god, or the venom of the lord. If Samuel is only his angelic identity, what then is his identity as a demon? And as all spirits, both good and evil, are known by different names among the children of men, what name or names does Samuel go under as a demon of darkness? The standard bible and scriptures of the Jews hardly explain their vast number of angels and demons, and due to their ambiguity and obscurity, one is sometimes left more confused than they were before. Thus, to uncover the demon identity of Samuel, we shall bring you answers from the mystical teachings of the Jews, from the Kabbalah, from ancient grimoires, and the legends of the cult. As a demon, Samuel is Baal, and Samuel is Beelzebub. And as Baal Beelzebub, he is the powerful demon popularly called Satan. But the word, Satan, is not really a name, it's a title, which means adversary. And all spirits who do not bear allegiance to the holy god are called Satans, presided over by the most powerful of them, called the chief Satans. Satan Samuel is one of these chief Satans, alongside Satan Azazel, Satan Astaroth, and Satan Lucifer, to name but a few. But it would be Samuel's demon personality as Beelzebub, whom the title, Satan, would popularly be ascribed unto. According to the Kabbalah, as there are four angel princes of the four directions and the four winds, so are there four demon princes of the four directions and the four winds, and they are called the principalities. Samuel is one of these four principalities, for he is the demon king of the east. When he assumes his role as the demon of the east, he is known as Baal, or Beelzebub, according to the Ars Goetia of the lesser key of Solomon. The Ars Goetia also calls him Goat, the principality of the east, while the Kabbalah calls him Adrammelech, the archdemon of the east. The book of Oberon calls him Aureans, the mighty chief of the east, and so does the astrologer of the nineteenth century. As Beelzebub, he is the lord of flies and dung, some say lord of the heavens, and he appears either in the form of a man, or as a triple-headed being, with the heads of a cat, a man, and a toad, according to the lesser key of Solomon. But under the name Aureans, he appears as a very beautiful king, with a feminine face, and a great crown upon his head, riding upon an elephant, and having before him all manner of minstrels, according to the book of Oberon and the astrologer of the nineteenth century. Sometimes, he also appears in the likeness of a horse, a horse with one hundred heads, so says the book of Oberon, as well as the astrologer of the nineteenth century. If Samael is a demon king of the realm of hell, why then is he sometimes said to work for the holy god of the angels, the same god who cast him away? What work does he perform so well, that the holy angels cannot? The Kabbalah answers this question too, perhaps more satisfactorily than any explanations we have come across so far. According to the Kabbalah, as there are ten holy angels of the Sephiroth, the tree of life, so are there also ten demons of the Sephiroth. Samael is one of these ten demons, and is the leader of the ones called the accusing angels, the spirits who accuse the children of men of their sins before the throne of the lord, and who, at the permission of the lord of the heavens, execute punishment upon these accused souls if deemed guilty. So, perhaps, being a fallen angel who bears no allegiance to the god who cast him away, Samael does not care much about doing work that pleases the lord. For when he and his hosts come before the throne of the lord, they come to accuse the children of men of their sins, and only when authorized to punish these accused souls will they willingly do the bidding of the heavenly lord. Samael was the devil who presented the case of King Job before the lord, asking to test the faith of King Job. And in another occasion, when the children of Israel became idolatrous and turned away from the lord, it was one of Samael's accusing friends called Dobiel who accused the Israelites of their sins before the throne of heaven, punishing the Israelites through the Babylonians with the heavenly lord's consent. In the book of Enoch, Samael was one of the chief watchers who taught mankind the arts and skills they know today, and was among the watchers who copulated with the daughters of men, spawning a race of giants and mighty hybrids called the Nephilim. This is the act which led to his fall from grace and in the eyes of the lord. Copulating with the mortal prostitute Nama, Samael fathered the great demon Asmodeus, a fierce spirit who took after his angelic father in both valor and prowess. As a fallen angel, Samael is the one whom the Hebrews call Abaddon, the angel of death and the netherworld, and it is he whom the Greeks call Apollyon. The Zohar says it was he who visited and tempted Eve in the form of a serpent in the garden of Eden. That it was he who fathered Cain, for Cain became the result of Eve's temptation by the fallen angel. And thus, the first man to commit evil, to commit a crime of murder, when he killed his brother Abel. The Muslims on the other hand, say that it was Azazel who tempted Eve. And according to Muslim law, Samael, Azazel, and Lucifer are the same being, the same being who came to be known after his fall as Iblis, or Satan, chief of the Satans. However, the Jews strongly disagree with this notion. The many texts of the Jews say Samael and Azazel are not the same being, but are two different fallen angels. And that Satan and Lucifer are not the same, but are two different personalities. To the Jews, the one popularly called Satan is Beelzebub, or Baal, the Canaanite lord of flies and principal demon of the east, whose angelic identity turns out to be the fallen angel, Samael, according to the Kabbalah and grimoires of the mystical arts. Then what about Azazel? What are his identities as a demon? And what about Lucifer? If the angels of the holy God all bear the suffix El to their names, who then called him Lucifer? And what was his angelic name? All these, we shall know soon enough.