On the Origin of Malakim

JCurwen3 · 01-22-2012, 01:18 AM

I think the visible appearance of the Malakim in their celestial form is at least part of the answer: they're chained, specifically one chain per oath. I can't help but feel that's significant.

When Lucifer initiated the events that led to the Fall, he created a new possibility, a new concept - that the Symphony itself (and its closest children, the celestials) could choose its path, its direction. Whereas corporeal creatures like humans had free will and could choose whatever before, the concept didn't seem even to exist in the Symphony before that the Symphony itself and Its angels could make choices to be what they themselves wanted to be, rather than what God (an external force) wanted them to be. After all, there's nothing to indicate that angels couldn't be dissonant before the Fall; I'm sure a Cherub saw an attuned charge die from time to time (old age, accidents, disease, etc.), or a Kyriotate possessing something ends up in an accident, or a Seraph begins to feel troubled when it first hears a human lie, and in the fullness of time almost every choir had its own opportunities to feel the sting of dissonance through no (or a nigh unavoidable) fault of their own. Yet no angel ever Fell - first, this is great ammo for a "no tripping" rule justification, but second, it needs to be explained. And the only real answer is that the first Fall Lucifer precipitated allowed such a thing henceforth.

The Malakim are all about choice, in a way, albeit choices that are often thrust upon them by social restraints (Superiors, the expectations of others, etc.). Each oath aside from the first two are chosen, after all.

The chains are barriers, leashes to Heaven, both self-imposed and other-imposed. Malakim are not demons, because they haven't Fallen; but neither are they entirely angels either because... they're in a state of being suspended by a set of spiritual bungee cords, namely, their oaths.

Uriel and then David and the others (especially Uriel), being so purely committed to Heaven and God, were the first to chain themselves, in defiance of the new choice that was available to them, and chose their oaths and servitude instead.

01-22-2012, 01:18 AM	#7
JCurwen3 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Brooklyn, NY	Re: On the Origin of Malakim I think the visible appearance of the Malakim in their celestial form is at least part of the answer: they're chained, specifically one chain per oath. I can't help but feel that's significant. When Lucifer initiated the events that led to the Fall, he created a new possibility, a new concept - that the Symphony itself (and its closest children, the celestials) could choose its path, its direction. Whereas corporeal creatures like humans had free will and could choose whatever before, the concept didn't seem even to exist in the Symphony before that the Symphony itself and Its angels could make choices to be what they themselves wanted to be, rather than what God (an external force) wanted them to be. After all, there's nothing to indicate that angels couldn't be dissonant before the Fall; I'm sure a Cherub saw an attuned charge die from time to time (old age, accidents, disease, etc.), or a Kyriotate possessing something ends up in an accident, or a Seraph begins to feel troubled when it first hears a human lie, and in the fullness of time almost every choir had its own opportunities to feel the sting of dissonance through no (or a nigh unavoidable) fault of their own. Yet no angel ever Fell - first, this is great ammo for a "no tripping" rule justification, but second, it needs to be explained. And the only real answer is that the first Fall Lucifer precipitated allowed such a thing henceforth. The Malakim are all about choice, in a way, albeit choices that are often thrust upon them by social restraints (Superiors, the expectations of others, etc.). Each oath aside from the first two are chosen, after all. The chains are barriers, leashes to Heaven, both self-imposed and other-imposed. Malakim are not demons, because they haven't Fallen; but neither are they entirely angels either because... they're in a state of being suspended by a set of spiritual bungee cords, namely, their oaths. Uriel and then David and the others (especially Uriel), being so purely committed to Heaven and God, were the first to chain themselves, in defiance of the new choice that was available to them, and chose their oaths and servitude instead. __________________ -JC