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Description: The Fall of Mastema And His Angels ~ 7 Paragraphs

The Angel, Michael enlightened Raphael as to the greater part of the Watchers, the sons and daughters of God, who had taken for themselves the sons and daughters of Man as wives and husbands, who had birthed a multitude of mighty children to inherit the earth. Michael told of the pact that the corrupted Watchers had made on the mount of Haremel before disappearing into the valleys of Dudael and Urh, and He spoke especially of their numbers, for they were many. Michael revealed to Raphael the names of their numbers, who called themselves Mastema's Chiefs of Tens. They were the treacherous legions of the Angels of Semjaza, Ezequeel, Samael of the Sword, Lucifael of Light, Cerberus and Hydra of the Gates, Azazel of Fate, Prometheus of Fire, Hermes of the Word, Kisdeja, Machet, Atlas, Araqiel, and the thousand, thousands of Earthly Damons that served beneath them.

Raphael learned that the Watchers who had abandoned the Voice of God and claimed the earth for themselves, had since slain scores of Angels who opposed them. Raphael also learned of their many acts in the iniquitous seduction and subjugation of Man. In particular, He was told of how Semjaza, Samael, and Azazel cast lots for the daughters of Man, taking many wives from them, whilst Lucifael chose husbands from amongst the sons of Man. Raphael also learned that Man never swore allegiance to Mastema and the Chiefs of Tens or to their blasphemous pact; yet, Man could not defy the will of these Angels, who tempted Him and frightened Him with the threat of forever sealing Him beneath the mountains.

When Raphael witnessed all of which had happened upon the earth, and when He returned to Heaven with all that He had learned, the Lord commanded that the earth be cleansed of the presence of every evil that had corrupted its face. Directly, the wrath of the Throne fell upon the world in many confounding ways, and since the Lord had seen that the many rebellious Watchers had altered the Face of Creation, so did He alter the power, position, and authority of His uncorrupted and remaining Angels, such that they seemed completely apart, even though they were solidly bound as one, in The Spirit.

The Lord granted His steadfast Angels the Sword of Division and the Shield of Order, the former from Gabriel and the latter from Michael. He also granted them Azrael’s Wings of Passage and Saraqael’s Helmet, and thus rendering all of His dutiful Angels as war-ready as the next. For a time set aside by God, His honourable Sons and Daughters of God became as indistinguishable and unbroken soldiers. And of all these unbroken legions of Angels summoned before the Throne, the Lord named them Chaos and gave them Order as was His Own—collectively, their ranks became the Order of the Throne. Thusly, with the Throne of God behind them, the armed Angels assembled Themselves against their earthly Brothers and Sisters.

Alas, with record forever carved in stone—events eternally frozen in the most ancient tablets and tomes of Time—so commenced the terrible and divine saga, ringing in the beginnings of the Thousand Years War and the Great Angelic Schism. The earth suffered greatly, its perfect gardens raked clean and crushed beneath the rows of servitude and sin, of humility and pride, and unwavering loyalty to both God and Angel alike. In a passage of time that Man measured in creeping centuries of darkness, the Angels witnessed a brilliant and defining moment. All the songbirds of Eden fell silent, trodden into oblivion beneath the insufferable screams of waves of warring Angels.

In this rocky period of Creation, when the crust of the earth crumbled underfoot and nothing dared to grow or bear fruit, save the bitter weeds and seeds of Angelic destruction. Man abandoned His home and fled to the four corners of the world. He braved deserts, oceans, mountains, and every inhospitable climate, seeking the most remote and virgin regions of the earth to save Himself from those who bore any resemblance to an Angel. He hid himself against the very edge of the earth for a thousand years.

The Spirit of the Lord descended upon the earth as the Sword of Vengeance, and He again moved through the Angel Hermes. He summoned for a second witness who was neither Raphael, nor any other Angel in the heavens or upon the earth. Instead, He summoned a humble and faithful scribe to walk in His Spirit, and record all things revealed to him. Thus, through Hermes, He called upon a mere mortal, the young son of Methuselah; and the elders of the Tribes of Methuselah called this young scribe ‘Son of Methus-el-ah, who moved within spirits,’—and He named him Enoch...

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