"Do I contradict myself; very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." I doodle in my own margins a lot - that's the only way to find out the "truth," eventually. :)
Actually, I'm still wondering how to take Madimi(el) at all -- I've checked into him (er, well) in my angelology texts, and although nothing I've found hints at where you've taken her (of course, double agents are rarely effective once well-known).
What I found compelling about her the way she comes through in True and Faithfull Relation... and John Dee's Five Books of Magic is how ambiguous she is. Demanding and capricious and much with the WTF? She doesn't actually come across as either angelic or demonic, really. Not as simple as either.
The hint of the connection between Madimi and Adam rests on the liminal quality they both have, and on Madimi's little revelation about "the illegitimate will be joined with the true son." I think that many of these spirits are not fixed in their forms, and she may will be a partial avatar of both of them. (After all, a little mischievous female energy in our scattered bits of Christ-consciousness won't go amiss, right?)
Oh, look, I'd forgotten about that -- "Annael ... is one of the luminaries concerned with human sexuality". No wonder she chuckled as she supressed those reports about Aziraphale and his demon!
Precisely! Nothing human is alien to her...even when it shows up in an angel. :D
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Actually, I'm still wondering how to take Madimi(el) at all -- I've checked into him (er, well) in my angelology texts, and although nothing I've found hints at where you've taken her (of course, double agents are rarely effective once well-known).
What I found compelling about her the way she comes through in True and Faithfull Relation... and John Dee's Five Books of Magic is how ambiguous she is. Demanding and capricious and much with the WTF? She doesn't actually come across as either angelic or demonic, really. Not as simple as either.
The hint of the connection between Madimi and Adam rests on the liminal quality they both have, and on Madimi's little revelation about "the illegitimate will be joined with the true son." I think that many of these spirits are not fixed in their forms, and she may will be a partial avatar of both of them. (After all, a little mischievous female energy in our scattered bits of Christ-consciousness won't go amiss, right?)
Oh, look, I'd forgotten about that -- "Annael ... is one of the luminaries concerned with human sexuality". No wonder she chuckled as she supressed those reports about Aziraphale and his demon!
Precisely! Nothing human is alien to her...even when it shows up in an angel. :D