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A friend sent me this, and I don't know where he got it but obviously off the internet...I found it interesting enough to repeat here:
Metallurgy and Alchemy are two very much related subjects. The principles and practises of Metallurgy form the physical body of the Great Work, while pure Alchemy works on the spiritual level.
"The angel chora of Seraphim (Azazel is a Seraph) are sometimes called 'the Burning Ones'. The name derives from SRP, 'to burn'. They are properly, however, the 'Serpents of Fire', a title which may relate to their traditional function as communicators between heaven and earth to the image of lightnings." (They are also equated with dragons, which are 'serpents of fire'.) ('Entrance To The Magical Qabalah' by Melita Denning and Osbourne Phillips)
"What exactly is immortality (longevity)? It's the negation of time. How do we negate time? By getting close to, and perhaps matching, the speed of Light. If you ARE light, everything is instant." The Seraphim are the Lords of Light, the Sons of the Eternal Fire that sleeps within all as the Serpent Power, kundalini. In ancient magic practised by such as the patriarch Abraham, Moses and Solomon, a light-body (golem) was created that enabled one to travel into the aetheric and astral realms. See the future and the past the same as you see the present. This light-body was also called the 'rainbow body' or 'the peacock's tail'. Birds, such as ravens, swans, and peacocks serve as symbols of different stages of alchemical workings - both physical and spiritual. Describing Azazel as the Peacock Angel would imply that he was capable of these things and again, ties him to the alchemical mastery that also relates him to such figures as Thoth, Hermes, Melchizedik and Hermes-Trismegistus. Was he all of these people - a 'Master of Serpents', who'd managed to complete the Magnum Opus of Alchemy?
Metallurgy and Alchemy are two very much related subjects. The principles and practises of Metallurgy form the physical body of the Great Work, while pure Alchemy works on the spiritual level.
"The angel chora of Seraphim (Azazel is a Seraph) are sometimes called 'the Burning Ones'. The name derives from SRP, 'to burn'. They are properly, however, the 'Serpents of Fire', a title which may relate to their traditional function as communicators between heaven and earth to the image of lightnings." (They are also equated with dragons, which are 'serpents of fire'.) ('Entrance To The Magical Qabalah' by Melita Denning and Osbourne Phillips)
"What exactly is immortality (longevity)? It's the negation of time. How do we negate time? By getting close to, and perhaps matching, the speed of Light. If you ARE light, everything is instant." The Seraphim are the Lords of Light, the Sons of the Eternal Fire that sleeps within all as the Serpent Power, kundalini. In ancient magic practised by such as the patriarch Abraham, Moses and Solomon, a light-body (golem) was created that enabled one to travel into the aetheric and astral realms. See the future and the past the same as you see the present. This light-body was also called the 'rainbow body' or 'the peacock's tail'. Birds, such as ravens, swans, and peacocks serve as symbols of different stages of alchemical workings - both physical and spiritual. Describing Azazel as the Peacock Angel would imply that he was capable of these things and again, ties him to the alchemical mastery that also relates him to such figures as Thoth, Hermes, Melchizedik and Hermes-Trismegistus. Was he all of these people - a 'Master of Serpents', who'd managed to complete the Magnum Opus of Alchemy?
