Azrael

From: Sheila Lord (theriver@riverblast.com)
Story type: Angel
Location: New England
Source: Form Submission

On September 8th, 1999 I dreamt of an angel. He told me many things, all of which became known to me as true. Some personal stuff and some serious stuff.

When I looked for information about this angel, I found sites that labelled him as th Jewish and Muslim angel of death.

When I confronted him about this, he denied it and asked me where it was written that he was an angel of death. I told him it was in the Jewish and Muslim writings. He asked me to read those records.

When I did, I did not find his name listed as an angel of death. Not in the Qur'an or in any of the Jewish doctrine. I found this disturbing, and continued my studies.

He asked me to try the name Ezra. I found that material. He said that this was his true story. I researched the names Ezra and Azra and found that the two names had the same meaning and were, in fact, spelled the same in Hebrew.

His name was praised by the Jews for restoring Jewish law, and Jerusalem, but his name was cursed by the families of the women and children who were, at his orders, abandoned by their Jewish husbands because they were not Jews and inter-marriage was against the laws of God.

To those people, he became known as the bringer of sorrow and loss (women were stoned to death for such things), and the wrath of God (because his judgement was made by the laws of God). Eventually, he was equated as the angel of death by them.

Its a weird situation to be in. He can't fall because of the Jews, and he can't ascend because of the Muslims. So he's stuck here.

Now my mom hated religions and so I'm at a loss on that stuff. I believed in angels as much as I believed in Santa Claus and the keebler elves.... but from what people were saying, I thought angels were supposed to help us, not the other way around.

But then again, it kind of makes you wonder.......

Sheila