I am fully convinced that humans were not made in Godâs image, but rather Crowleyâs. Everything Azir loves about humanity is only possible because Crowley was the blueprint. Azir loves humanity more than anything else. He just hasnât realized that means he loved Crowley more than anything else. He knows his affection for Crowley runs deep, he just has not made the connection yet. But everyday, itâs a getting closer. Until it doesnât.
Of course it had to be Crowley who tempted in the Garden of Eden (side note, the fruit of knowledge is totally a fig. Not an apple. Contextually and regionally, it makes so much more sense. Anyways.) . Crowleyâs damnation, as well as humanityâs, is tied to their shared thirst for knowledge, for truth. Crowley was cast from the gates of Heaven because he asked too much, he challenged, he doubted.
And you know what? He preferred his lived reality of grey areas. He is so insistent that he was not, is not, Good. However, time and time again he has been proven to not be Bad. He just Is. He contains multitudes. He designed the cosmos and that multiplicity exists inside of him. He insists he is not Good, because to concede to being Good means that he lacks the very spark that makes humanity different than the Divine. If he is Good, he cannot Know. If Knowing is Bad, then he must not be Good. However, he never outright says he is Bad. He just denies his Goodness, as defined by the rigidity of the moral authorities of the divine.
Azir also thirsts for that Knowledge, he just has not realized that is what he has been doing for six thousand years. His collection of tomes, stories, novels, eclectics is him all but eating the Fruit of Knowledge. It is safer that way. He is having his Eccles cakes and eating them too. This is safer. He is letting humanity do the work, because they already have done it. He does not need to ask the Questions, to risk damnation, because the universe is at his fingertips. Why ask God when the people already have. His passive, secondhand learning has happened through humans and, as a result, through Crowley. His Knowledge is a loophole, but itâs incomplete. Because he has risked nothing to gain this knowledge, he has not gained the most critical part. And until he does, until he is the Supreme Archangel, he will not be thrust into the position where he has to confront his thirst for becoming more than an Angel. He had been able to exist in the grey, but not the Grey. Following in Gabrielâs footsteps and trying to make a difference is what is going to push him over the edge. His bookshop is gone, well not gone, but no longer his. His thirst is never going to be quenched in Heaven, and that is what he is going to learn. And when he learns that, he is going to finally Know. He is about to eat the Fruit, he is on the cusp. This move was necessary. And everyday, itâs a getting closer. He will realize his existence is parabolic. He has forever approaching Knowledge, and leaving earth, leaving humans, leaving Crowley, is going to be the only way he changes the course of his curve. Heâll finally intersect, and I feel that as a result, he will choose to leave the Heavens for the Humanity of it all, for the Crowley of it all. Everyday, itâs a getting closer.