Behold! Azrael-One of the Countenance's of the 3-Faced Angel

The 3-Faced Angel

Azrael

"The Daemon, as Shaitan, is literally 'the Adversary' - the Reverse

One. He is the Image of the First God, manifest in double-form, as

both the Black Man standing at the Crossroads of all Existence and

as Melek Ta'us - the Peacock Angel, Sovereign of the World's Djinn.

As the 'Black Man' he is the anthropomorphic 'Body' of

Darkness, the Lord of the Sabbat, the Overseer of the Primal Rite

of Magick. In this form he embodies Death as the Gateway to the

Other. In assuming the god-form of Al-Aswad - the Man-in-Black

- the Adept places himself upon the interstitial 'Point' of the crossroads

and thus within 'Death': the singular inbetweenness 'twixt

every Stasis of Being. He thus becomes the embodiment of the

Gate at the centre of the cross-roads, the Portal where-by Power

has ingress to the World of Manifestation and through which the

Seeker must pass in order to transcend the 'Form' of the Manifest.

The Daemon figured as the Peacock-Angel is 'Death' as

metamorphic process: the Force of change acting upon the Matrix

of the Existent. "

~Qutab~

Andrew Chumbley