Have you heard about the dark lord Samael? Few of you have, most of you haven't. And the few
who have heard about him hardly know him well, if they know him at all. Samael is a fallen angel,
so you have heard. And although he is a demon, he sometimes works for the holy God. So you have
also heard. But why would that be? What would a demon have to do with the Holy God, What work
could he do for him that his holy angels couldn't? You must have wondered. So, who exactly is Samael?
Indeed, he is a fallen angel, a demon, and is also known as Satanil. The name
Samael is his angelic name, and it means the Venom of the Lord, or the wrath of God. If
Samael is only his angelic identity, what then is his identity as a demon? And as all
spirits both good and evil are known by many different names among the children of men,
What name or names does Samael go under as a demon of darkness?
The standard Bible and Scriptures of the Jews hardly explain their myriad of angels and demons,
and due to their ambiguity and obscurity, one is sometimes left
more confused than they were before. Thus, to uncover the demon Identity of Samael,
we shall bring you answers from the mystical teachings of the Jews,
from the Kabbalah, from ancient Grimoires and the legends of the Occult. As a demon, Samael is Baal
and Samael is Beelzebub. And as Baal-Beelzebub, he is the powerful demon popularly called Satan.
But the word "Satan" is not really a name, it's a title which means "adversary",
and all spirits who do not bear allegiance to the holy God are called Satans, presided over
by the most powerful of them, called the chief Satans. Satan-Samael is one of these chief demons,
alongside Satan Azazel, and Satan Astaroth and Satan-Lucifer to name but a few. But it would
be Samael's demon personality, Baal-Beelzebub, who the title "Satan" would be popularly ascribed to.
According to the Kabbalah, as there are angel princes of the 4 directions and the four winds,
so are there demon princes of the 4 directions and the four winds,
and they are called the pricipalities . Samael is one of these 4 principalities, for he is the demon
prince of the East and of the East wind. When he assumes his role as the demon of the East,
he is known as Baal-Beelzebub according to the Ars Goetia of the Lesser key of Solomon.
The Ars Goetia also calls him Goap, the Principality of the East,
while the Kabbalah also calls him Adrammelech, the Arch-demon of the East. The Book of Oberon
calls him Oriens, the Mighty chief of the East, and so does The Astrologer of the 19th century.
As Baal-Beelzebub, he is the Lord of flies and dung, some say lord of the heavens,
appearing either in the form of a man, or as a triple headed being, with the heads of a cat,
a man and a toad, according to the Lesser key of Solomon. And under the name, Oriens, he appears
as a very Beautiful king, with a feminine face, and a great crown upon his head, riding upon an
elephant, and having before him, all manner of minstrels, according to the Book of Oberon and
the Astrologer of the 19th century. But sometimes, he also appears in the likeness of a horse,
a horse with 100 heads, So says the Book of Oberon as well as the Astrologer of the 19th century.
If Samael is a demon king of the realm of darkness and of hell,
why then is he said to work for the holy God of the angels? the same God who cast him away?
What work does he perform so well that the holy angels cannot perform? The Kabbalah answers that
question too, perhaps more satisfactorily than any explanations we have come across so far.
According to the Kabbalah, as there are 10 holy angels of the Sephiroth, the tree of life,
so are there 10 demons of the Sephiroth. Samael is one of these 10 demons, and is the leader of
the ones called the false accusers, the demons who accuse the children of men of their sins,
before the throne of God, and who, when given permission by the Lord of the havens,
execute punishment on these accused souls if deemed guilty.
So perhaps being a fallen angel who bears no allegiance to the God who cast him away, Samael
does not care much about doing work that pleases the God of the heavens, for when he and his hosts
come before the throne of the heavenly God, they come to accuse the children of men for their sins,
and only when authorized to punish these accused souls, will they willingly do the bidding of the
heavenly lord. Samael was the devil who presented the case of King Job before the heavenly Lord,
asking to test the faith of King Job. And in another occasion, when the children of
Israel became idolatrous and turned way from the Lord, it was one of Samael's accusing
friends called Dobbiel, who accused the Israelites of their sins before the throne of the heavens,
punishing the Israelites through the Babylonians, with the heavenly lord's consent.
In the Book of Enoch, Samael was one of the chief watchers who taught mankind the arts
and skills they know today, and was among the watchers who copulated with the daughters of men,
spawning a race of giants and mighty beings called the Nephilim. This led to his fall from grace,
and in the eyes of the God of the angels. Copulating with the mortal prostitute Naamah,
he fathered the great demon Asmodeus, a fierce demon who took after his angelic father in both
might and prowess. As a fallen angel, Samael is the one the Hebrews call Abaddon, the angel
of death and the Netherworld, and it is he whom the Greeks call Apollyon. The Zohar says it was
Samael who visited and tempted Eve in the form of a serpent, in the garden of Eden, that it was he
who fathered Cain, the first son of Eve, for Cain was the seed of his temptation of Eve, and thus,
the first man to commit evil, to commit a crime of murder, when he killed his brother Abel.
The Muslims say it was Azazel who tempted Eve, and according to Muslim lore, Sammael,
Azazel and Lucifer, are the same being, the same being who came to be known after his fall,
as Eblis, or Satan, chief of the Satans. But the Jews strongly disagree with this notion.
The many texts of the Jews say Samael and Azazel are not the same being, but are two different
fallen angels. And that Satan and Lucifer are not the same, but are two different personalities.
To the Jews, the one popularly called Satan is Baal-Beelzebub, the Cannanite Lord of flies and
principal king of the East, whose angelic Identity, turns out to be the fallen angel
Samael, according to the Kabbalah and Grimoires of the mystical arts.
Then what about Azazel? What are his identities as a demon?
And what about Lucifer? If the angels of the holy God all bear the suffix "EL" to their names,
who then called him Lucifer? And what was his angelic name? All these we shall know soon enough.