the FALLEN project
LAST UPDATE 10.26.08

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- It is the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel Boorstin

THE TWENTY
(which is not always)

18 from the apocryphal book of GIANTS:
7:9 These are the names of their chiefs: Samyaza, who was their leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, Saraknyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Samsaveel, Ertael, Turel, Yomyael, Arazyal. These were the prefects of the two hundred angels, and the remainder were all with them.

19 from the apocryphal book of ENOCH:
6:7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqiel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.

CONDENSED FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES :

ARMAROS Taught men 'the resolving of enchantments,' which may mean the transformation or perfection of magic, or perhaps its dissolution.

AZAZEL Taught men to fashion swords and shields. Note that this description also applies to Gadreel, and some consider the two interchangeable. Azazel also taught how to devise ornaments and coloring tinctures for the beautifying of women, and the name became attached to the tradition of Jewish sacrifice; see more here.

BARAQIJAL / ARAQIEL Taught men astrology / the signs of the earth.

EZEQUEEL Taught men the knowledge of clouds.

DANEL The name means 'judge (of El).'

GADREEL Introduced weapons of war to mortals. (Assisted by Azazel.)

"And the fifth was named Kasdeja: this is he who showed the children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the womb..."

KOKABEL Taught men the science of the constellations.

PENEMUE In the Book of Enoch Penemue is listed as one of the 20 leaders in rebellion against 'God's will'. He's credited with teaching us writing and 'the sweet from the bitter' - traditionally interpreted to mean herbology. In the Book of Enoch, Penemue carries Enoch to heaven.

SARIEL Taught men the phases and course of the moon.

SHAMSHIEL Taught men the signs of the sun.

SHEMYAZA / SHEMHAZAI The leader. It is said he now hangs between heaven and earth, head down, and is either within Orion, or literally IS the constellation Orion.

ZAQIEL The name means 'hidden (of El).'

DRAGON'S LIST :

"Many of them have two or even three variations on their names. But here's a basic list:"

FROM Ashley-Star*Child, http://www.unexplainedmysteries.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t44306.html :

"So just how many books recount Enoch and the events/angels/Nephilim...

Old testament/Hebrew Scripture
Jubilees - speaks of Enoch, his book, his work, the fall of the angels with women, teachings of the angels, Nephillim, flood, etc
Genesis (taken from Jubilees) – in summary talks of the angels descent to Earth, marrying women, Nephilim, the Flood etc.
The Testament of Solomon (the full text) - speaks very specifically about the Nephillim demons and the fact that they are the result of mortal woman and angelic fathers
Yalquet Genesis - mentions the angels Azael (aka Azazel/A’siel) and Shemhazai upon their descent to Earth to marry women)
Bereshit Rabbati - also concerning Azael and Shemhazai
Leviticus - again speaks of Azazel, as the scapegoat, now also of man’s sins, where a goat was to be sent out to him in the wilderness. This is the basis for the practice still conducted today in Judaism as the ‘Day of Atonement’ or ‘Yom Kippur’….now minus the goat.
The Dead Sea Scrolls - contains the Enoch text plus the Book of Watchers/Giants which technically is a separate book
Apocalypse of Abraham - speaks of Azazel, one of the angels given full blame (he specifically was considered the worst of the lot) bound in the wilderness as depicted in Enoch as a scapegoat for the other angels, as an evil angel bound in hell, whose dwelling place was now Earth instead of Heaven by his choosing.

New Testament
Jude – The fall of the angels and actually quotes a portion of the Book of Enoch
Hebrews – Enoch’s ascent into Heaven

(The book of) Revelation also makes it would seem an aftermath mention of the account of the punishment and release of the angels bound."

Ashley-Star*Child, http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t44306.html

"SEE ALSO" :

al-Tabari, The History of Prophets and Kings (10th century.; translated by Rosenthal) 1.83
Before committing disobedience, Iblis was one of the angels. His name was Azazil

 

al-Hallaj, Tawasin (Ta’ Sin al-Azal) (10th century.; translated by Massignon/Mason) ch. VI
Azazil’s states of consciousness have been the subject of many theories. One says that he was entrusted to preach both in heaven and on earth. That in heaven, he preached to the angels by showing them good works; and that on earth, he preached to men by showing them bad actions (to test them)…

 

BerRabbati ad Gen 6:2
Shemhazai begat two children, whose names were Heyya and Aheyya

from Temple of the Black Light, Rite of the Fire Bearer Azazel :

"Azazel is the titanic fire-bearer and the goat headed blacksmith of the Nephilimic Witchcraft, who in accordance with the luciferic impulse brought forbidden gnosis to the slumbering humanity, and woke to life the inner black flames of the elect. Azazel and Shamyaza were, as told in the apocryphal book of Enoch, the leaders of the order of angels called The Watchers. These angels chose to break free from the stagnating causality and the bounds of the demiurge, and instead followed their own acausal essence and acted in accordance with the will of Lucifer."

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(M. Blavatsky : )

"May we not then be permitted to drag the deep rivers of the Past, and thus bring to the surface the root idea that led to the transformation of the Wisdom-God, who had first been regarded as the creator of everything that exists, into an Angel of Evil -- a ridiculous horned biped, half goat and half monkey, with hoofs and a tail? We need not go out of the way to compare the pagan demons of either Egypt, India, or Chaldea with the devil of Christianity, for no such comparison is possible. But we may stop to glance at the biography of the Christian Devil, a piratical reprint from the Chaldeo-Judaean mythology: --"

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(Rupert Sheldrake : )

"I think that Aquinas was trying to think as logically and as rationally as he could about what it would mean to be a being with no mass which could yet move and act. If you think in those terms, I suppose you come to rather similar conclusions as people like Einstein and other pioneers in the present century, when they were thinking about relativity and quantum theory. You're sort of driven to very similar conclusions. Einstein's photons of light have remarkable parallels to Aquinas's discussions of the movements of angels. And I think it's because they were starting from similar premises. And thinking in a similarly logical way about the consequences."

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Personal Commentary ~

I first began working seriously with the Watchers back in 2004. Prior to that I had to overcome my own prejudice against the very topic. It wasn't easy. Mother culture had taught me that angels are fluffy winged and haloed fantasy creatures.

Obviously, this is a misconception (and that's putting it nicely).

What they are remains to be seen by those who follow the bunnytrail left down the centuries and millenia. It seems the further we go, the more questions we have, and what answers we thought we had disappear rapidly as the rabbit hole approaches.

If successfully pondered by we mehums, the idea of 'immortality' bends and twists away from our conventional thinking. It also begs the question of what changes a Watcher might have gone through over such long spans of time. Whether seen as egregores -concepts held by many and hence holding a charge, making them effectively as real as you or I- or as creatures who came to Earth long ago and never quite left, change has occured and will occur again, to every thing that exists. Watchers are no exception to this single immutable law of the universe.

So I have put aside all arguments about the origins of references in ancient tomes, about where they came from, what they looked like, whether they could or should be considered aliens or remnants of long-passed antediluvian cultures or simply non- physical emanations of the thoughts of god. True to my nature, I am much more concerned with what the Watchers are today.

In my efforts I have found certain things to be helpful.
Study is certainly the foremost of activities when it comes to the occult. There is a wealth of material available to us in this modern age -- though it cannot pinpoint origins it can point the way toward a more personal sort of revelation. Utilizing what we have as tools - dreamwork, trancework, and meditation - coupled with an increasing knowledge base from the sources and commentaries thereon, has yielded my best results to date.

Each of the references above (book of Enoch, Book of Giants, Jubilees, Revelation of St. John, etc) is worthy of your attention if you haven't read them yet. There are others that are also worthwhile, that can open new avenues of thinking. Don't be afraid to explore the darker realms while you're at it, I have found some of the most articulate speculations there. Such is the subject matter that one could truthfully say one is reading about one's own most intimate inner psychology.

No-one I've spoken to who has engaged in this work believes that angels are the fluffy winged and haloed New Age creatures of popular depiction. In fact none of them believes they are anthropomorphic in any way. (Obviously, I don't hang with the Reptilians.) Once upon a time is dead - welcome to the living world, where the Watchers are encountered in subtle, trans-physical ways.

-EX, DEC 2007 AD

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(the Marriott Interview)

"So what do you think of the Watchers? Who are they? Or, what. And while we're at it, how'd you go about learning what you know?" (sh)

"What do I think of .... well, first of all there's no proof that anything of the kind existed. Just what we read, here and there. And that can be interpreted, right?

"So it all depends on your pov I guess.

"Some writers put it down to ET interference in human evolution, maybe jump-starting it, maybe contaminating it, maybe they're our creators, and that's why all the stories point to the Heavens, or outerspace, yanno. Others are sold on the idea that this was a pre-historic, pre-Ice Age civilization that was destroyed, except for a few and those few became the Gods of the new world after the Big Thaw... It seems to me that either approach has its advantages and until suppressed archeology and scientific findings are released and widely circulated, we're doomed to live on a flat planet, sort of. "Nothing came before, nothing worthy..." But you know, SOMEthing was here before. And the evidence says our current version of history is all fucked up. And the real story, still just a story mind you, well there are these tiny slivers of evidence, fairly logical (given the evidence, such as it is), and yet, none of it may be true. That's very very important to remember.

"There is value in the tale, plenty of it. It's out of skew with how the world thinks, it makes us question what we think we know... and it points to serious flaws in our beliefs and knowledge. We are lightyears from knowing anything, really, but we tell ourselves we know... because of where we're at, we have to rely on imperfection, and at some point cast that aside as well and go for Gnosis.

"So to speak about it, to explore it, first you have to suspend disbelief. And then, get past the usual stereotypes and demonizing of the priests. They don't like sharing power and these stories are all about power.

"Shemyaza the ringleader. Azazel who became our Xtian devil. They are one and the same depending on the source of the story...

"...Having said that, yes I have called on both of these ...things, using both names, independantly and together. And they come across as independant of eachother, not the same at all. By that I mean the energies are decidedly different, the vibrations of the names are completely different, like two different people. And per the stories ... they are listed separately, despite their descriptives being largely the same.

"Of course, evocation and invocation being what they are, I'm inclined to say it's pulling from two different parts of my psyche, and yet it's still one psyche. I leave it at that. (laughing) Not helpful really, except to put that back door in.

"Poignancy versus pathos- Azazel is all fire, fiery damnation, massive momentum. That is what I sense. Maybe the best way to explain it is in terms of egregores - Azazel has a LOT more energy behind it than Shemyaza, who is less known. And Shemyaza is the one who repents. Regrets.

"It's a moral tale of course, or became one in the hands of the priests, which is unfortunate. It means there's at least two or three layers of Patriarchy on top of that thinly disguised Matriarchal worldview of women being the recipients of the 'gifts' of the Fallen. Which means you gotta dig deep to get to the Root Consciousness of it. Most people can't be bothered. They want it all served up nice and pretty between the covers of a book. Well, that book has yet to be published, I think. I don't want to wait. I've never been one to take the hard road if the book's available, but if it ain't I sure as shit ain't waiting. I dive in and dig deep myself, thankyouverymuch.

"Which is my way of saying if you really want to understand the Watchers, the Fallen, angels demons Shemhazai and all the rest, you'd better be prepared to move directly away from what you think you know, your attachment to sanity and level-headedness, and be prepared to get your hands dirty."

-EX,2006 AD

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
~Thomas Carlyle

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