Fresh Batch #23: The Angel of Death

By Dylan Saccoccio

Mahmut described the Angel of Death in a way that will be useful to see the thought encoded in archetypes, “I wonder why the Painters always describe Death in the Form of a naked Skeleton, a starv’d System of dry Bones. Whereas one would think, he ought to be pourtrayed as a Monster, a Miracle of Fatness; since he is the greatest Glutton in the World, hourly gormandizing on all Manner of Flesh, and is the very Original, Universal Cannibal of Nature, who from the Beginning of the World has feasted himself with human Bodies. But perhaps he has a bad Digestion, and none of all his raw and bloody Diet will afford Nutriment enough to form so much as a poor Skin to cover his Nakedness; and therefore ‘tis he is always drawn in his lean Figure.”

I’ll leave my free subscribers with some gravy from The Deaf Phoenicians (click the image): The Hades/Pluto/Kronos/Saturn/Sun symbolism corresponds to the transmutations of life, the caterpillar’s journey to becoming a butterfly, and the soul’s journey from God to man and back to God. This is the jewel of the lotus, the cradle of the sun. All of this is discovered by observing the journey of the Sol, or soul. The occulted symbolism of Saturn is that the Angel of Death is also the Angel of Life.

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