#boolscanon

this one i like to call,

Cherub’s Tea Time

how can crowley know that god is not replying? obviously he can't, it's not like he's an angel.

HOWEVER, raziel is a cherub and we have no cherub who fell (since lucifer can be not counted as one. especially if we don't count gabriel, or raphael, famous cherubs, as part of them. friendly reminder that archangels are usually not only archangels, like michael, who is also a seraph, or sandalphon, who was a human)

so maybe, cherubs just don't see it that way. like, yes their colleague fell, but who cares? they still deserve to hear god's voice, which is literally the only thing they do and they are not a lot, in fact they are usually only four (they might be more, but why should they).

and yes technically the number three isn’t the worst idea and we are talking about abrahamic religions so three is actually an amazing idea, but still, you really don’t need to explain to me how angeology works.

also, cherubs are the guardians of eden, so hey. he would already know his way around.

so of course they know that raziel/crowley fell because now they just aren’t complete anymore, and so of course they miss him and so maybe they still talk to him sometimes. like yeah, archangels can do what they want and rule, but technically cherubs are above them in the hierarchy so.

even if we count the whole Neil’s New Hierarchy as the only one, seraphs are still those who are directly in contact with god, thing that can’t be said about the archangels we see in good omens.

The Book of Raziel (ספר רזיאל המלאך), in latin “liber razielis archangeli”, is a grimoire that’s been given from Raziel to Adam when the latter was thrown out of Eden. It contains angeolology, magick, the Names of God and the “Book of Secrets”.

Do you really think an angel like this wouldn’t ask so many questions that the Almighty had to make him Fall to have some peace?

In the Book of Raziel, God sends the “most important angel” (pride much?) to teach Adam the laws of living on the Earth, knowledge of the cosmos included.

Raziel teaches Adam how to speak the Human Tongue (the Babel bit comes from here), and I find it very fitting with the fact that Crowley uses the phrase “that went down like a lead balloon” when those words really didn’t mean anything yet.

There’s a part about the importance of the name, in the Book, which I connect with the whole Raziel/Crawly/Crowley, since he’s the only character we see going around and changing his name.

I honestly just want to add this and it’s probably not connected but, at some point the Book arrives to Abraham, and 80% Abraham wasn’t his real name, but a word coming from אָב (’aḇ, which means father) and ra'âmu ("to love") or rwm ("being above") and, once again, changing names to go down in history.

When Raziel gave Adam the book, some “envious angels” (demons) took it and threw it in the sea. Rahab (probably Raphael) was the one who got the Almighty’s order to fish it and give it to Abraham, which isn’t really important for the headcanon but it’s funny that the two angels we think might have been Crowley are so close together.

In this headcanon, Raphael might be simply a name Crowley uses when he has to do Good Deeds (for the Arrangement or for his own, we know how kind Crowley actually is), and the name “It is God who heals” is just a word pun because? God heals? Crowley knows the humans were created to help themselves;

or may be another angel, I am thinking maybe Raziel’s twin, the person who created the stars with them (“I helped build that one”, not “I built that one”), who may help Crowley with doing Good by letting him drop his name or doing things he can’t do anymore because he’s a demon, or maybe he’s around in the stars somewhere and just told his brother “have fun” and gave him his name to protect (maybe the talked when the demons took Crowley’s Book from Adam? Or when Crowley was following his Book and found it with Abraham?)

Raziel is a cherub, which means that he’s spent his life in Heaven maybe building some stars first and then 24/7 in the presence of the Almighty. I think an angel like this wouldn’t even think to ask the Metatron to speak for God, because they have been near Her. They’ve never needed some other angel to create the connection. So the whole “Okay, I know you're testing them, you said you were going to be testing them. You shouldn't test them to destruction. Not to the end of the world,” makes more sense. If he were to be one of the angels that have to stay with Her all the time, then he totally would speak to Her like She were right there in front of him.

so the idea of fallen angels is not technically “canon” in neither christian nor jewish scriptures, since the words “fallen angel” are never spoken out loud by nobody. the idea of fallen angels as we see them derives from the book of enoch (that gives me a lot of hcs i love it).

this book also gives us the whole watcher/nephilim thing so if you are into that stuff he's the one!!

back on track, the “fallen angels” might be from enoch OR from genesis 6:1, which gives us “sons of god”, term that was not used before and might be correlated to the angels themselves, since these verses talk about men, women and sons of god, all of which have had children.

¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, ² That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. ³ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. ⁴ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

— Genesis 6:1–4, KJV

(again, watchers and nephilims, i will talk about them one day, istg).

[ it's not the only theory, of course. some people say sons of god = the offspring of seth, who rebelled from god and had mingled with the daughters of cain. in ugaritic texts it's bn ilm, which would become phr bn ilm, the assembly of the sons of god or, as we would say now, the angel choirs ]

the first texts (late second temple period) name the “biblical giants” as offsprings of fallen angels (or earthbound ones) and mortal women, normal daughters of eve.

because of them, god sent the great deluge (also known as the flood) to destroy these creatures, but of course they aren’t this easy to destroy, being them half-angels & full angels. the souls of those who do not die in the flood become what we now know as “demons”.

however, rabbinic judaism and christian authorities do not accept enochian writings anymore, and with them the notion of an “impure” union between angels and women that created the giants. christian theology now indicates the sin committed by these “demons” occur before the beginning of human history, and by doing this it does not accept the existence of earthbound angels (“watchers”) or even giants (“nephilims”), identifying “fallen angels” as those who were led by satan in his rebellion against god, making them similar if not the same as “demons”, who were already (from greek mythology, where the name originates from) spirits that roam the realm of the dead.

so, who would be the heart of camelot? could be gwen, who's already with arthur at this point, could be the beloved servant or could even be the person who's had arthur's heart all along, his mother.