We understand very well that the Logos or the Archangel responsible for this root race in which we live now is Samael because Samael is the fifth of the seven. This is why the book of Revelation John the divine explains very well how Samael comes into the Earth.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. - Revelation 19: 11-16

To see the heaven open is to put into activity the chakra Sahasrara (at the top of the head) with the creative forces of Yesod. When you pronounce the mantra “Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,” it opens the pineal gland through initiation “and (you then) behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.”

Judgment is related to the sephirah Geburah. The tribe of Dan is judgment in Hebrew, and Samael-Mars in Greek and Roman mythology is the God of war. Likewise in the Jewish book The Zohar it is explained that Samael is the ruler of ‘Madim’ [מאדים] which is the Hebrew word for Mars.

Samael works in the animal kingdom through war, and through killing, because Geburah is related with blood. I.e. thanks to the forces of Samael the lion persecutes the deer in order to be fed, and to multiply thanks to the forces of Yesod-Samael-Scorpio in the animal kingdom.

Esau is also a hunter, but Jacob is different. Jacob defeats Esau; Jacob does not hunt animals like Esau. Jacob says “I have to fulfill the fifth commandment” which is related to Geburah, which says, “Thou shall not kill.” Jacob wants to be a human being. Jacob also fulfills the six commandment of God that says, “Thou shall not fornicate,” because any animal fornicates, meaning, reaches the orgasm, the spasm, in order to be multiplied, since it is an animal. But the human being (Jacob) says “I shall not fornicate, I shall not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,” and this is how he defeats Esau-Samael in the liver and advances in initiation.

This is why Revelation says that the Archangel Samael is faithful and true. It all depends upon the level in which you work with Samael. In the animal kingdom, Samael is faithful and true; he accomplishes with the forces of Binah, which in Kabbalah is Jehovah Elohim, translated as “the Lord God” in the Bible.

His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns.

On his head means - in the sign of Aries - were many crowns. Crown in Hebrew is Kether, meaning many Elders of days; because in heaven Samael is the head of the ray of power. He commands many angels, legions of angels. This is why in the heaven of Aries Samael has many crowns, many angels.

And he had a name written that no man knew but he himself.

“Samael Aun Weor” is Hebrew: סםאל און ואור. The spelling of Samael is the letters סםאל: Samech, Mem, Aleph, Lamed. Samech means support. Mem means water. Aleph means breath. Lamed means to teach. Therefore, Samael means “to hold up in the waters the teachings of the breath of God.” Aleph, the breath of God, becomes Aun (און Aleph, Vav, Nun) virility in the Nun (sperm) of Yesod and Light (ואור ve Aur: Weor) in the Vav, the spinal medulla.

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood...

Samael’s force in the physical body is in the blood. Samael controls the forces of Esau in the liver. Through the blood he blesses Jacob. Yes, through the blood, because Jacob is the heart and Esau is the liver. Both relate with the blood. So, the fiery energy, the forces of Samael in the physical body, work in the blood. So the vesture of Samael in our body is our blood. Through the blood, Samael works, whether down or up depends on how we utilize our sexual energy, as already explained when Jacob is fighting with him.

And his name is called the word of God (the Logos of the God-Mars). And the armies which where in Heaven follow him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

We already explained that Samael is the head of the ray of power. This is why Samael has many crowns, many angels in Heaven who follow him “upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.” This means chastity. This means that those monads or Spirits which are in heaven who Samael commands are individuals who are in chastity, who are chaste. They are not animals, because they do not fornicate. This is why it is stated that they ride like him on white horses. The white horse is a representation of matter, and the mind as well. It is white because they are controlling the forces of sex. If that horse is black, it is because we are slaves of the forces of sex. Light is white and black is darkness.

And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations.

A sharp sword goes out of his mouth, why? Because in the throat is Daath, knowledge, the doctrine, the knowledge of good and evil. Remember that the throat is Daath, and the doctrine of Samael is the doctrine of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. The sharp sword that protrudes out of his mouth is his tongue, the power of the word. The Kabbalistic meaning is the forces of the double sharp sword that hurt when we understand the knowledge.

The fifth chakra is Vishuddha; it relates to the ethereal force in the throat that gives us power to teach and power to understand the word of God. This is why his name was the Word of God. When you develop the chakra Vishuddha in your throat you then understand the Word of God. Remember that the true man is connected to God through the speech. The man is the speech. If you connect your mouth to your throat which is Daath, knowledge, through chastity, you then understand the word written in any book, the Word of God. This fifth chakra is in the power of Samael. Samael states in many of his books that the thyroid gland is controlled by two forces: Venus and Mars. Venus and Mars in Yesod, and also up here in Daath; Venus and Mars are also in the pituitary gland.

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron.

Iron symbolizes willpower and is related to Geburah.

And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

“Almighty God” is El Shaddai in Hebrew. El-Shaddai the almighty God is in Yesod. Samael treads the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of El Shaddai. This is the sexual power, because when we ate from the fruit through the sexual orgasm, the wrath, the karma of God fell on us. When we transmute that fierceness, that fire of the sexual energy, we then receive the blessings of the almighty God through Samael. Thus, when we fight, when we tread the royal path, the path of the self-realization, Samael will bless us, but if we eat of the forbidden fruit, Samael will kick us out of Eden. Now you understand why The Zohar mentions Samael many, many times. This is because whether for evil or for good Samael takes us to hell or to heaven. It depends on how we utilize the sexual energy. Samael’s power is in the animal kingdom and in the human kingdom.

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

In Hebrew, Malachim means “kings.” Malachim in Yetzirah correspond to Tiphereth, the heart. King of Kings, the Melek Malachim, is in the heart, and corresponds to Jacob, those ones who become triumphant, who become King of kings. So he is the King of those Malachim; in other words, the power of Samael, the blood, in the heart becomes that king, becomes the lamb, the force that blesses Jacob. Samael is a Malachim among Malachims because Samael is the head of many angels. In Hebrew when you name an angel you say Melek or Malachim, which relates to the world of Tiphereth.

The Malachim also relate to the three wise men or three kings, three Malachim that visit the Lord. There are no kings or Malachim here in this vulgar physical world, but only initiates who worship the Lord. Only the Malachim know about the Lord because they saw His star in the East. This is very symbolic.

“And Lord of Lords.” Lord in Hebrew is Adonai. Adonai is the name of God in Malkuth. So he is the Lord also of Lords. So when you achieve the level of Ishim, a true man in Kabbalah, then you become a Lord of Malkuth. Of course that Lord of Malkuth is our Innermost, but the one that is ruling over that Innermost is Adonai.

...and on his thigh a name written...

This points to the sexual force. Remember when Jacob was fighting with Samael:

...and when Samael saw that he prevailed not against Jacob, Samael touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with Samael.

This is why on Samael’s thigh is written “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” This is pointing to the sexual power. The blood of the heart goes into the sexual force. It is the same of Samael’s vesture, since “he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood.” The purple red is the blood is the life, the vesture of the kings, and in their sex is the Lord of Lords.

So, all of these verses of revelation are pointing to Samael.

When we state Kabbalistically that Samael is the Avatar of Aquarius, we are emphasizing what the book of Revelation states. The fifth angel is responsible for this Aryan Root Race. Samael is the one who is delivering the knowledge in this day and age, or the forces of the Lord the Christ.

There is another chapter in the book of Revelation that talks about Samael.

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

Samael is the fifth angel of the seven. Every angel of the seven is sounding a trumpet. To sound a trumpet means to deliver knowledge. The word of God when delivered to humanity is like the sound of a trumpet. Awaken! Here is the wisdom in this Aryan Root Race that is ruled by Samael. When he sounded his trumpet, he delivered his doctrine. So when he sounded, he uttered the fifth truth.

...and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the Earth.

That star is Samael descending from heaven to the Earth: from the brain (heaven) to Yesod in the physical body. This is how the seed of God descends into Yesod.

Excerpted from the lecture "The Advent of Samael"

In other lectures we explained that when Jacob (the Bodhisattva of the Archangel Israel) is returning with his four wives in order to meet Esau his brother, Jacob is afraid of Esau because Jacob stole from Esau the blessings of his father Isaac and he doesn’t know what Esau is going to do. Esau represents the animal forces that come from Geburah, from the Ox, into the liver. All the forces of Geburah from the liver are stored in the blood of the body and control the body.

And when Rebecca’s days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebecca loved Jacob. And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. - Genesis 25: 24-26

So when Jacob - who represents the forces of the heart - wants to meet Esau, he is afraid.

And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac… Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me. - Genesis 32: 9-11

Where do you think Jacob and Esau meet? They meet in Yesod, in the sexual force, because Jacob represents the heart (Tiphereth) which through the nose (smell) brings the spirit (the wind, Ruach) of the lungs which is God ‘El’, in order to purify Esau the blood from the liver; thereafter from the heart the blood goes again into the body as purified blood and into the sexual organs. Thus, Jacob is united with the Spirit of the lungs which is the breath of God. The breath of God (Aleph) enters through the nose when we breathe. Remember that the sense of smell is Tiphereth. So the sense of smell Tiphereth (the soul) breathes and takes the breath of God into the lungs and purifies the blood in the heart; the heart is also Tiphereth, which is Jacob. Thus, Jacob as purified blood descends from the heart into the sexual organs. But Esau the forces of the liver, which is impure blood, also go into the sexual organs; and the most powerful forces between Jacob and Esau are the animal forces of Esau.

Esau is the father of all this humanity because Esau represents the animal forces of the liver.

Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field...

Esau acts through the forces of Samael in the body of any animal. The forces of Samael, when coming down into the animal kingdom, gives forces of creation to the horses, bulls, lions, to all those animals that we find in the kingdom and unto us also, the intellectual animals. We receive the strength of Samael. That strength in the body is named Esau, from which the heart (Jacob) took the blessings of Isaac (who is Geburah in the Tree of Life) through the blood.

So Jacob is going to meet Esau, and Jacob is afraid and says, “I stole Esau’s blessings; maybe he will kill me.” So then Jacob sends gifts to Esau his brother.

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled an angel with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. 
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. - Genesis 32: 24 31

So, when he is left alone, an angel appears and fights with him. This is what is written in the book of Genesis.

Who is this angel that fights with him? This angel is Samael. Samael is the angel that gives strength to Esau in the body. Yet Jacob wants to serve God (Kether, the great wind) in the sexual act. He is left alone in the field - as is written in the Bible - this field is Yesod (sex), the sexual organ. In Yesod (Scorpio) he meets and finds the forces of Samael (which in the body are Esau) and he fights with him.

Jacob fighting with Esau is the same thing as fighting with Samael. In that fight, the liver-blood-forces of Samael through Esau want to reach the orgasm, the spasm of the animals, but the blood from the heart, Jacob as an initiate wants to steal the fire from the devil, which is Esau. Thus, during that fight the angel Samael through Esau feels himself defeated and thus he touches the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him; Jacob’s leg or “Jacob's thigh” points to his sexual organs. Thereafter, Jacob's thigh was out of joint, and he halted upon his thigh, in other words it is out of joint. After that Jacob is limping.

What did the angel Samael take from Jacob so that he limped? He took the power of Esau from him, because he was fighting with him. That power is the power of creation. In other words he took from him the creative animal power, thus Jacob was left only with the spiritual power of sex; that spiritual power is given when Samael blesses him.

And Jacob said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Samael through Esau (the blood from the liver) fought against Jacob (the blood from the heart).  That fight is in the very sexual act of the man and woman.

Esau is the animal power in the blood. This is what we call Behemoth, which is the problem that all the students and all people have when they enter into the Gnostic path; it is precisely the orgasm, that bestiality that we have within that expresses through the physical body, through the animal mind. Sometimes students before going to bed pray, and nonetheless they have nocturnal pollutions because the body (Esau) is very strong and does not care about God’s birthright.  Esau despises it, he wants to fulfill desire. Esau is a hunter that wants pleasure, the animal way. Jacob defeats him through the heart.

And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name.

In the Bible the name of the angel is not given, but The Zohar says that angel is Samael. Samael answers,

Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

To receive the blessing of Samael, which is the power of Geburah in the very sexual act, is the most wonderful thing that you can ever receive, because then the energy instead of going out from the body as in any animal, goes up through the spinal medulla. Samael in Yesod-Scorpio is Shaddai-El-Chai (the almighty power of the living God). Thus, when in Solomon’s invocation we say, “Shaddai Adonai Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei, Eheieh Asher Eheieh,” the energy goes from Yesod up to Kether through the spine. Then we have defeated Esau, the forces of the animal, and obtained the blessing of Samael. This is what we have to understand and comprehend in relation with this Biblical myth of Jacob and Esau.

This is why Jacob called the name of the place of the fight Peniel. Peniel relates to the pine tree, which grows straight and is related with Saturn, the forces of the Holy Spirit. In winter, the pine is always green. The pine is related with the mind, so when you have that Peniel, the forces of the pine in your hand, this means that you have control over Esau, your animal mind, and you tamed it. Peniel is also related with the pineal gland, which is in the middle of the brain; the forces of the Holy Spirit are in the pineal gland, in the Peniel. Thus, in the very moment when he was fighting, Jacob was taking the forces of sex, the sexual forces of Yesod, through the spinal medulla to the pineal gland (the crown chakra). This is called sexual transmutation or sexual transformation.

This is how you comprehend - physically speaking - what the advent of Samael is in anyone of us. Samael is a great archangel, a great Logos who rules the head in Aries and the sexual organs in Scorpio. This is why this archangel is very well known in Kabbalah, because any initiate who wants to enter into the path towards Chesed, towards Kether, the mercy of mercies, towards God, has to fight with Samael. If you do not defeat Samael in the sexual act, you cannot enter initiation. To enter initiation you have to receive his blessings. Now you understand why when we talk about Samael we talk about the forces of creation from God.

Excerpted from the lecture "The Advent of Samael"

Samael [סםאל] is a very potent name, very powerful name, and a very contentious one: but do not forget it ends with אל EL, meaning “of God.” In other words, we are talking about a messenger from God, whose name carries death and temptation as powers of God. This is very, very important.

This angel Samael is said to be related with the planet Mars, and he states that explicitly in the Zohar. Samael says:

“...my entire domination is based on killing. And if I accept the Torah, there will no longer be wars. My rule is over the planet Maadim (Mars) that indicates spilling of blood.” - ספר הזהר Zohar

Mars is related with the sephirah Geburah (which means “Severity”), and is the fifth sphere from the top down on the Tree of Life. Geburah is related with Mars and the Sun, and it is the domain of justice, security, punishment, but from God. In other words, when God needs to send his force to render judgement or punishment, it is the force of Samael, that angel, who does it. Scripture states:

There was another angel in the seventh heaven, different in appearance from all the others, and of frightful mien. His height was so great, it would have taken five hundred years to cover a distance equal to it, and from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet he was studded with glaring eyes, at the sight of which the beholder fell prostrate in awe. "This one," said Metatron, addressing Moses, "is Samael, who takes the soul away from man." "Whither goes he now?" asked Moses, and Metatron replied, "To fetch the soul of Job the pious." Thereupon Moses prayed to God in these words, "O may it be Thy will, my God and the God of my fathers, not to let me fall into the hands of this angel."

When we look into the Garden of Eden, we see that Samael rides on the serpent; that serpent is the first letter of his name, ס Samech, and that serpent is the Divine Mother Kundalini, the very energy of creation. In the Bible, the serpent comes to tempt the woman in relation with the Tree of Knowledge. This indicates a very deep relationship between divine knowledge, the knowledge of God, the Divine Mother, death, ם water, and the serpent. All of these things are deeply profound and the meaning is not easy to grasp. But what we can see is when we investigate the many traditions throughout the world, we find this tree and we always find it is related with the Goddess. In the Egyptian tradition, Nut is the goddess of the Tree of Life, and we see pictures of her pouring out a liquid [ם] to sustain the life of her followers; that liquid is the beverage of God, the medicine of Samael. It is the ambrosia, amrita, or soma in Sanskrit terms. Soma gives the power of creation, the power of immortality. Immortality is the thirteen Arcanum (ם Mem) and emerges from the waters of the Divine Mother.

When we acquire real knowledge, for example, just hearing about this teaching, it can taste bitter, it can taste intense, it can shock us. That knowledge is the essence of this angel, Samael. It is “a bitter beverage” to the ego, it is “poison” to the ego, but it is the “potion” or “perfume of God” that illuminates the soul. Thus when we encounter gnosis or Daath (Hebrew for knowledge) we enter into a great conflict, psychologically. I am talking about real knowledge, the esoteric knowledge, not just beliefs. When you experience this knowledge, and receive your own knowledge from that experience, you feel a great shock to the depth of our soul; most people run away because it is intense and a poison to the ego: it terrifies the ego, because that angel Samael is the angel of death to the ego. The angel Samael is Mars, Ares, the God of war against the ego.

Ares, Mars, Samael is the same force. He wages his war on behalf of God, not for selfish purposes, and not to punish indiscriminately, but to punish on behalf of God, with the permission of God, and for the good of all. Samael performs the will of God. The Zohar says:

Rabbi Shimon opened the discussion saying, "See now that I, even I am he, and there is no Elohim with me" (Devarim 32:39). He said: Friends, listen to ancient words that I wish to reveal after permission from above has been granted for them to be said. HE ASKED: Who is he who said, "See now that I, even I, am he?" HE REPLIED: The cause high above all causes, the one that is called the 'Cause of causes,' IS NOT HIGH ABOVE ALL THE SUPERNAL BEINGS, BUT INSTEAD is a Cause among all the rest of the causes. So every single one of these causes shall not do anything unless it receives permission from the cause above it...

The phrase: "And there is no Elohim with me" ALLUDES TO Samael and the Serpent; THAT IS, OTHER ELOHIM. THEN IT WOULD BE KNOWN THAT SAMAEL AND THE SERPENT NEVER CAME BETWEEN THE HOLY ONE, BLESSED BE HE, AND HIS SHECHINAH. "I kill, and I make alive" MEANS THAT THEN IT SHALL BE KNOWN THAT I kill with my Shechinah whoever is guilty and "I make alive" with her whoever is innocent. - ספר הזהר Zohar

This the power of Samael: to kill and to make alive. That power acts in accordance with the Most High, those causes which exist above the sephirah Geburah. Geburah (severity) is the sephirah of Mars from which the angel Samael departs in order to punish those who deserve it and to reward those who deserve it. This is simple cause and effect. This is in the the root of Judaism and Christianity, but everyone ignores it.

The Meaning of Samael in Hebrew

The last two letters (אל aleph-lamed) mean "God" and are at the end of the name of every angel: Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Zachariel, Anael, etc., because they are all "of God." Samael [סמאל] is the name of an angel.

The first two letters of Samael are samech [ס] and mem [מ]. These two letters contain the whole significance of his name. We will explain them in detail later in this article. But first, written as a word, sam (samech-mem) is:

Thus when translated literally, Samael can mean "the bitter beverage of God" or "the poison of God." This unique (albeit disquieting) name reveals the unique nature of this important angel in the hierarchies of the divine. Yet the name can equally be translated as "the perfume of God," or "the medicine of God." This dual nature is deeply meaningful and when fully investigated reveals many mysteries in the Judeo-Christian scriptures. Yet, one should not lose sight of the fact that, whichever way the name should be applied in context, it always carries within it "El" - OF GOD. This is not a force to be condemned, for it belongs to God.

Samael plays a critical role in the scriptures, but without doubt, it is a controversial one.

The Holy One [God], blessed be He, said to him [Samael], "Since it is so, give Me advice on what I should do, so that the children of Jacob would accept it, as you say."

Samael said to him, "Master of the world, there is a need to bribe them. Take light from the light of the legions in heaven and impart it to them. By this, they will accept her [the Torah] and here is some of my light [Aur], which I will give first." He removed from himself the light that enveloped him and gave it to the Holy One, blessed be He, to present it to Yisrael. - ספר הזהר Zohar 19.8.144

The name Samael Aun Weor is Hebrewסםאל און ואור] ], and is pronounced sam-ayel on vay-ohr. Aun is Hebrew for "sexual strength." Weor or ve-Aur [ואור] means "and light." Thus, his full name reads "The bitter beverage of God, sexual strength, and light."

The Heavenly Man

Samael and Samael Aun Weor are two parts of one being. They are distinct, but related. We should also keep distinct the various parts of the Being, as St. Paul indicated:

The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. - St. Paul, from 1 Corinthians 15:47

Samael Aun Weor explained this here:

The Innermost of every human being is a child of a sidereal genie (Logos) and there are as many Fathers (Innermosts) in heaven as there are human beings on earth.

In each human reincarnation, every human being is born under a different star so that the ego is “rounded off,” little by little. But there is a star that rules our Innermost, and that Star never changes: this is our Father Star. This Star is our Father who is in the heavens.

There have been “stellar moments” for mankind, in which the sidereal Father of a great genie (Monad) has been able to speak and express himself through him, in order to initiate new cycles of spiritual culture.

I, Samael Aun Weor, am only the child (Monad) and the instrument of “Samael-Mars,” and what I teach you is the Wisdom of my Stellar Father.

Each one of us (as Monads) has his spiritual and astral inheritance from his Stellar Father who is in heaven. - The Zodiacal Course

The inner Being of Samael Aun Weor is Samael, a great Archangel who has been assisting humanity for ages. He has been known by many names throughout our history, but he is perhaps best known as Ares, Mars, the God of War.

"My rule is over the planet Maadim (Mars)." - Samael in ספר הזהר Zohar 19.8.142

His war is always a spiritual one: the war against the corruption of the human mind. Knowing this helps the reader understand why the writings and teachings of Samael Aun Weor are so direct and so potent.

Samael (Ares) is the great cosmic intelligence who is responsible for the spiritual development of this current humanity, which has long been known as the “Aryan” (from Ares) race. (Unfortunately, this term “Aryan Race” has been corrupted by many ignorant people.) Therefore, he needed his terrestrial part to work here in the physical world on behalf of humanity.

His son, the bodhisattva Samael Aun Weor, fell into disgrace for many centuries, and committed many mistakes. Due to this, the esoterists of past ages knew him as a great demon. This explains why so many esoteric teachings condemn Samael and blame him for the suffering of humanity. However, the bodhisattva was brought to realize his mistakes, and he worked very hard to rectify them. Now, Samael, the inner Being, has his son standing upright once more, and he is able to deliver his teachings to humanity.

"I ended up transforming myself into a fallen angel. Many egos resurged within my mind and I became transformed into a true devil. Now, in this present existence, I comprehend the necessity of eliminating my egos, the necessity of performing the Great Work of the Father. Therefore, this is why today I am here speaking to you all, with my hand placed on my heart. Samael Aun Weor is my true name as a Bodhisattva. Samael is the name of my Monad!" - Samael Aun Weor, I Am Samael

Samael in Kabbalah

To understand how Kabbalists have depicted and explained Samael is not a simple task, for Kabbalah is a science of multidimensionality and change; what appears in one form in one place has quite another form elsewhere. This is evident in the Bible (a book of Kabbalah), for in the book of Job, Lucifer - who is generally condemned by the uneducated as "pure evil" - is clearly shown to be a servant of God, working on His behalf in the temptation and development of Job. The same occurs with Samael.

For the Talmudists admit themselves that SAMAEL is a god-name of one of the seven Elohim. - H.P. Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine vol. 1 (1888)

We can also see in the vision of Jacob that angels ascend and descend throughout the spheres of existence. Just as Lucifer fell from heaven, other angels rise from the pit back to the light. So it was with the human soul of Samael.

Regarding this dual nature, one author of the nineteenth century wrote:

The supreme chief of that world of darkness who bears the Scriptural name of "Satan," [Hebrew: "opposer"] is called in the Kabbalah "Samael" (‏סמאל‎), that is to say the angel of poison or of death; and the Zohar states positively that the angel of death, evil desire, satan and the serpent which seduced our first mother, are one and the same thing. Samael is also given a wife who is the personification of vice and sensuality, for she calls herself the chief prostitute or the mistress of debauches ‏אשת זנונים‎ [It is supposed that the wife of Samael is Lilith (a power of the night), which is often spoken of in the Talmud.] But ordinarily they are united into one single symbol called simply the beast (‏חיוא‎). If we wish to reduce this demonology and angelology to the simplest and most general form, we find that the Kabbalists recognized in each object of nature, and consequently in all nature, two very distinct elements; one, an inner incorruptible which reveals itself to the intelligence exclusively, and which is the spirit, the life or the form. The other, a purely external and material element that has been made the symbol of forfeiture, of curse and of death. - Adolphe Franck, The Kabbalah (1843)

Like Pluto or Hades, Samael forms a part of the celestial government. Kabbalah does not depict Samael as condemned to some pit in punishment (as many uneducated people imagine Lucifer to be); rather, Samael is always shown as a regent in Heaven:

The third celestial [Heavenly] sphere is pervaded and filled with fire and flames. In it the fiery river Nahar dinur takes its rise and flows into Gehenna, overwhelming and engulphing in its course those mortals whose lives on earth were given up and addicted to evil and wrongdoing. Over these are placed destroying and tormenting angels, also accusing angels who, however, have no power or influence over Israel when it repents and does what is just and right. The abode of their chief is on the left side of this sphere in which darkness prevails, as it is written, 'and darkness was upon the face of the waters.' It is also the abode of Samael, the angel of darkness, the great transgressor. - ספר הזהר Zohar, Genesis 8

In particular, the angel Samael rules the Kabbalistic sephiroth of Geburah (Hebrew: "power, severity"), the fifth sephiroth from the top of the Tree of Life.

'The God of glory thundereth' signifies the sephiroth Geburah (power) as expressed in the words, 'but the thunder of his power (Geburah), who can understand?' - ספר הזהר Zohar, Genesis 14

Herein we can understand the role that Samael plays in the drama of divine manifestation, for Geburah is the balancing factor for Chesed (mercy). For God is both severe and merciful.

Rabbi Simeon continuing his discourse spake and said: We must bring to a close the interpretation of the esoteric meaning of this most mysterious part of scripture. It is further added: "I kill and make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand" (Deuter. xxxii. 39). The words "I kill and make alive" have reference to the sephiroth found on the right hand of the sephirothic tree of life, viz., hochma (wisdom), chesed (grace), and netzach (victory); those on the left hand being binah, (understanding), geburah (justice), hod (glory). From the former proceed principles conducive to life, from the latter those that tend and converge to death. If these pairs of opposites had not been united by the mediating sephiroth, viz., tiphereth (beauty), yesod (foundation), and malkuth (kingdom), there could not have been any equilibrium of principles in the world, no balance of justice, inasmuch as every perfect tribunal consists of three judges who in their official capacity and jurisdiction are considered as one. When the three Logoi constitute themselves as a tribunal for the dispensation of right and justice, the right hand is extended to receive penitents and on the sephirothic tree this hand, termed the Schekina, the right hand of God, is associated with chesed (grace or mercy). The left hand is associated with the sephiroth geburah (justice). - ספר הזהר Zohar, Genesis 4

Samael and Serpents

The name Samael is Hebrew and begins with the letter Samech.

Samech is the cosmic womb, vulva, or volva (from Latin volvere “to turn, twist or roll”) where the continuous revolving Light of the Ain Soph is located. Christus-Lucifer originates infinite cosmic possibilities.

Samech is the letter that represents the Ouroboros, the eternal cyclical action of the Light-Life-Fire-Wisdom of the Ain Soph; these revolutions of the light of the Absolute manifests as innumerable cycles of death and rebirth at all levels in the universe. Samech, Ouroboros is shown as a half light half dark serpent, which illustrates the duality, Maya in the universe; these opposites are not in conflict within the consciousness of the Paramarthasatyas.

So, the circular form of the Samech is the Ouroboros, which symbolizes that the original fiery-wisdom-force (Iod) of the Ain Soph Aur is reflected on all levels in the endless creative circle of eternity that unites heaven and earth. Samech, the Serpent biting its own tail, (this is the Ouroboros that has its tail inside of its mouth), thus unites the Iod of the beginning (the Word) and the Iod of the end (the Sperm). Samech is the Alpha and the Omega in an eternal cycle. - Arcanum 15

Samech is the fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and is thus related to the Fifteenth Arcanum: Passion, the Devil.

Samael, when he descended on the earth plane, rode on a serpent. When he appeared under the serpentine form, he is called Satan. Whatever his name, he is the being known as the spirit of evil. It is said that when Samael descended from on high as just described, all the other animals fled away frightened and terrified. By his persuasive and guileful words, he deceived the woman and thus caused death to enter into the world (that is, the lower nature then ceased to be amenable to and obey the dictates and supremacy of the higher Self). He succeeded in doing this by means of the Sephira Hochma (wisdom), prostituting and using it for his evil purposes and thus caused the world to become accurst, and the tree which the Holy One had planted to become destroyed. What man lost Samael gained and enjoyed until the apparition of another sacred tree in the person of Jacob, who, by means of wisdom, acquired paternal blessings which neither Samael on high nor Esau below should be able to enjoy. He was therefore an after type of the first man; and here we see that as Samael deprived man of blessings proceeding from the first tree, so Jacob deprived Samael of blessings above and below proceeding from a tree having a human form. This is the mystic meaning of the words, 'And there wrestled a man with him' (Gen. xxxii. 24). 'The serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field.' These words refer to the Tempter, the angel that brought death into the world, and knowing this, we can understand the meaning of scripture, 'And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me' (Gen. vi. 13). The angel of death having destroyed the divine life in man, who now had become wholly physical, governed and controlled by his animal or lower nature, and therefore dead and impervious to the heavenly influence of the Higher Self. - ספר הזהר Zohar, Genesis 7

Many impurities exist in Israel and are as dangerous and noxious as snakes and serpents. There are those that originated at first from the tempter, also those of idolators who resemble the wild animals and savage beasts of the field. There is also the impurity arising from wrongdoing in daily life and still more, the impurity of the evil-minded. All these are found afflicting Israel, yet is there no greater impurity than that of Amalek or that personified evil called and known as "The God of this world." It is that "which poisons all within and hardens all the feeling." It causes the death of the soul and transforms it into an idolater, a worshipper of the world and its golden image of wealth. Its occult name is Samael, "The poison God." Though Samael was the name of the serpent that tempted and seduced Adam and Eve, yet are they one and the same and are both cursed alike. - ספר הזהר Zohar, Genesis 8

That serpent is dual, as depicted in the book of Numbers: when the Israelites were being harmed by "fiery serpents," Moses raised a "serpent of brass" upon a "staff" in order to heal them. [See this article for more information about the two serpents of Moses]. This is a work of alchemy, or magic, is of the domain of Samael:

The Zohar has the following explanation on the practice of magic which is called in Hebrew Nehhaschim, or the "Serpents' Works." It says (Part III. col. 302): -- "It is called nehhaschim, because the magicians (practical Kabalists) work surrounded by the light of the primordial serpent, which they perceive in heaven as a luminous zone composed of myriads of small stars... - H.P. Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine vol. 2 (1888)

So, although Samael takes the role punisher of sinners and tempter of souls, he is also an Elohim: an Archangel, and his knowledge is concerned specifically with the duality of the serpent force. In the writings of Samael Aun Weor these are referred to as:

1. Kundalini (the positive, uplifting power of the serpent)
2. Kundabuffer (the tempting and negative power of the serpent).

Both of these forces work through sex. Thus, the power of Samael is in sex. This is also represented in the second letter of his name: mem, which symbolizes water. We define ourselves and are known by God through the use of our sexual waters. This is why Jesus walked upon them, as a symbol of his mastery over sex. This is why the flood destroyed the impure ones, and why Noah was saved in the Arcanum of God. In each case, it is Samael who sees who is pure and who is not, for he is the accuser, the power of the serpent, who works through sex.

In Jewish lore, Samael is usually depicted as the pursuer or accuser of the nation of Israel (which itself is a Kabbalistic symbol); but he has also appeared as their defender, such as in this quote:

"When Samael saw that no sin was found amongst them [the Jews] on the Day of Atonement, he exclaimed before God, 'O Thou Sovereign of the Universe, Thou hast one nation on earth resembling the ministering angels in heaven. Just as the latter are bare-footed, so are the Israelites bare-footed on the Day of Atonement. Just as the angels neither eat nor drink, so do the Israelites not eat or drink on the Day of Atonement. Just as the angels do not skip about, so do the Israelites stand, unmoved, upon their feet the whole Day of Atonement. Just as peace reigns in the midst of the angels, so does peace reign in the midst of Israel on the Day of Atonement. Just as the angels are free from all sin, so are the Israelites free from sin on the Day of Atonement.' God hearkens to the advocacy of Israel from the mouth of their arch-accuser, and He grants His atonement for the altar, for the sanctuary, and for the priests and for all the people of the congregation." - Pirké-de-Rabbi-Eliezer (Midrash, Ninth century AD)

His duality or multiple functions are addresed here as well:

Metatron, the Angel of the second or Briatic World, means Messenger [greek char], Angel, called the great Teacher; and under him are the Angels of the third World, Jetzira, whose ten and seven classes are the Sephiroth,* of whom it is said that "they inhabit and vivify this world as Essential Entities and Intelligences, whose correlatives and contraries inhabit the third or Asiatic World." These "Contraries" are called "the Shells," [[daigam]], or demons,** who inhabit the seven habitations called Sheba Hachaloth, which are simply the seven zones of our globe. Their prince is called in the Kabala Samael, the Angel of Death, who is also the seducing serpent Satan; but that Satan is also Lucifer, the bright angel of Light, the Light and Life-bringer, the "Soul" alienated from the Holy Ones, the other angels, and for a period, anticipating the time when they would have descended on Earth to incarnate in their turn. - H.P. Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine vol. 2 (1888)

On this point, Manly P. Hall in his Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) states that SAMAEL is the name of the Archangel of Severity, related to Geburah in the world of Briah.

The Zohar explains that Samael (‏סמאל) was there when Eve was tempted, and it is because Samael is the fifth helper, the force of Geburah, Mars, that is directly related with the sexual energy. That is why Samael, Mars, controls the sign of Scorpio, which is directly related with the sexual organs. The strength of Samael is the one that gives the erection to the man. So obviously, Samael is the one that appears and gives the doctrine, and then you have to decide to go up or to go down. To go up, you use the force of Samael, the sexual strength, in the positive way, as we explain in Gnosis. To go down is by fornicating.

That is why it is written that when Jacob was lying down and putting his head on the rock of Yesod, that stone, he saw how the angels of God were going up and coming down, because that stone is the symbol of Yesod, the sexual force of Samael. When he awoke, he was fighting. He was fighting with an angel. The Zohar says that angel was Samael. That fight was not in one night or in one morning. That fight endures for many years, because this is precisely the struggle that every initiate has: to struggle with Samael, which is the strength. Samael is the Archangel of strength, but the sexual strength; that is why the name of the master is Samael AUN WEOR. Aun is the Hebrew word for "strength" - not the strength of muscles, but the sexual strength. - Arcanum Four, The Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah

Samael and Satan

The following section is excerpted verbatim from H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (1888).

The true esoteric view about "Satan," the opinion held on this subject by the whole philosophic antiquity, is admirably brought out in an appendix, entitled "The Secret of Satan," to the second edition of Dr. A. Kingsford's "Perfect Way." No better and clearer indication of the truth could be offered to the intelligent reader, and it is therefore quoted here at some length: --

"1. And on the seventh day (seventh creation of the Hindus),* there went forth from the presence of God a mighty Angel, full of wrath and consuming, and God gave him the dominion of the outermost sphere.**

2. "Eternity brought forth Time; the Boundless gave birth to Limit; Being descended into generation."***

4. "Among the Gods is none like unto him, into whose hands are committed the kingdoms, the power and the glory of the worlds:"

5. "Thrones and empires, the dynasties of kings,**** the fall of nations, the birth of churches, the triumph of Time."

For, as is said in Hermes, "Satan is the door-keeper of the Temple of the King; he standeth in Solomon's porch; he holdeth the key of the Sanctuary, that no man enter therein, save the Anointed having the arcanum of Hermes" (v. 20 and 21).

These suggestive and majestic verses had reference with the ancient Egyptians and other civilized peoples of antiquity to the creative and generative light of the Logos (Horus, Brahma, Ahura-Mazda, etc., etc., as primeval manifestations of the ever-unmanifested Principle, e.g., Ain-Soph, Parabrahm, or Zeruana Akerne-- Boundless Time -- Kala), but the meaning is now degraded in the Kabala. The "Anointed," who has the secrets and mysteries of Hermes (Buddha, Wisdom), and who alone is entrusted with the key to the "Sanctuary," the Womb of nature, in order to fructify it and call to active life and being the whole Kosmos, has become, with the Jews, Jehovah, the "God of generation" on the lunar mountain (Sinai, the mountain of the moon, "Sin"). The "Sanctuary" has become the "Holy of Holies," and the arcanum has been anthropomorphised and phallicised and dragged down into matter, indeed. Hence arose the necessity of making of the "Dragon of Wisdom," the Serpent of Genesis: of the conscious god who needed a body to clothe his too subjective divinity, Satan. But the "innumerable incarnations of Spirit," and "the ceaseless pulse and current of desire" refer, the first one, to our doctrine of Karmic and cyclic rebirths, the second -- to EROS, not the later god of material, physiological love, but to the divine desire in the gods, as well as in all nature, to create and give life to Beings. This, the Rays of the one "dark," because invisible and incomprehensible, FLAME could achieve only by themselves descending into matter. Therefore, as continued in the APPENDIX:

12. "Many names hath God given him (Satan), names of mystery, secret and terrible."

13. "The Adversary, because matter opposeth Spirit. Time accuseth even the Saints of the Lord."

28, 29, 31. "Stand in awe of him, and sin not; speak his name with trembling . . . . For Satan is the magistrate of the justice of God (Karma); he beareth the balance and the sword . . . . For to him are committed Weight and Measure and Number."

Compare the last sentence with what the Rabbi, who explains the Kabala to Prince Al-Chazari in the Book of that name, says; and it will be found that the Weight and Measure and Number are, in Sepher Jezirah, the attributes of the Sephiroth (the three Sephrim, or figures, ciphers) covering the whole collective number of 10; and that the Sephiroth are the collective Adam Kadmon, the "Heavenly Man" or the Logos. Thus Satan and the anointed were identified in ancient thought. Therefore,

33. "Satan is the minister of God, Lord of the seven mansions of Hades" . . . .

The seven or Saptaloka of the Earth with the Hindus; for Hades, or the Limbo of Illusion, of which theology makes a region bordering on Hell, is simply our globe, the Earth, and thus Satan is called --

33 ". . . . the angel of the manifest Worlds."

It is "Satan who is the god of our planet and the only god," and this without any allusive metaphor to its wickedness and depravity. For he is one with the Logos, "the first son, eldest of the gods," in the order of microcosmic (divine) evolution; Saturn (Satan), astronomically, "is the seventh and last in the order of macrocosmic emanation, being the circumference of the kingdom of which Phoebus (the light of wisdom, also the Sun) is the centre." The Gnostics were right, then, in calling the Jewish god "an angel of matter," or he who breathed (conscious) life into Adam, and he whose planet was Saturn.

34. "And God hath put a girdle about his loins (the rings of Saturn), and the name of the girdle is Death."

In anthropogony this "girdle" is the human body with its two lower principles, which three die, while the innermost man is immortal. And now we approach the "Secret of Satan."

37, 38, 39. " . . . Upon Satan only is the shame of generation. He hath lost his virginal estate (so hath the Kumara by incarnating): uncovering heavenly secrets, he hath entered into bondage. . . . He compasseth with bonds and limits all things. . . ."

42, 43, 44. "Twain are the armies of God: in heaven the hosts of Michael; in the abyss (the manifested world) the legions of Satan. These are the unmanifest and the manifest; the free and the bound (in matter): the virginal and the fallen. And both are the Ministers of the Father, fulfilling the word Divine. . . ." Therefore --

55. "Holy is the Sabbath of god: blessed and sanctified is the name of the Angel of Havas" -- SATAN.

For, "The glory of Satan is the shadow of the Lord": God in the manifested world; "the throne of Satan is the footstool of Adonai" -- that footstool being the whole Kosmos. (Vide Part II., "Is Pleroma Satan's Lair?")

When the Church, therefore, curses Satan, it curses the cosmic reflection of God; it anathematizes God made manifest in matter or in the objective; it maledicts God, or the ever-incomprehensible WISDOM, revealing itself as Light and Shadow, good and evil in nature, in the only manner comprehensible to the limited intellect of MAN.

This is the true philosophical and metaphysical interpretation of Samael, or Satan, the adversary in the Kabala; the same tenets and spirit being found in the allegorical interpretations of every other ancient religion. This philosophical view does not interfere, however, with the historical records connected with it. We say "historical," because allegory and a mythical ornamentation around the kernel of tradition, in no wise prevent that kernel being a record of real events. Thus, the Kabala, repeating the time-honoured revelations of the once universal history of our globe and the evolution of its races, has presented it under the legendary form of the various records which have formed the Bible. Its historical foundation is now offered, in however imperfect a form, on these pages from the Secret Doctrine of the East; and thus the allegorical and symbolical meaning of the Serpent of Genesis is found explained by the "Sons of Wisdom" (or angels from higher spheres, though all and each pertain to the kingdom of Satan, or Matter) revealing to men the mysteries of Heaven. Hence, also, all the so-called myths of the Hindu, Grecian, Chaldean, and Jewish Pantheons are found to be built on fact and truth.

Samael in Haggada

This is quoted from The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg [1909], a collation of the Haggada--the traditions which have grown up surrounding the Biblical narrative. These stories and bits of layered detail are scattered throughout the Talmud and the Midrash, and other sources, including oral.

Great wisdom was needed for building the ark, which was to have space for all beings on earth, even the spirits. Only the fishes did not have to be provided for. Noah acquired the necessary wisdom from the book given to Adam by the angel Raziel, in which all celestial and all earthly knowledge is recorded.

While the first human pair were still in Paradise, it once happened that Samael, accompanied by a lad, approached Eve and requested her to keep a watchful eye upon his little son until he should return. Eve gave him the promise. When Adam came back from a walk in Paradise, he found a howling, screaming child with Eve, who, in reply to his question, told him it was Samael's. Adam was annoyed, and his annoyance grew as the boy cried and screamed more and more violently. In his vexation he dealt the little one a blow that killed him. But the corpse did not cease to wail and weep, nor did it cease when Adam cut it up into bits. To rid himself of the plague, Adam cooked the remains, and he and Eve ate them. Scarcely had they finished, when Samael appeared and demanded his son. The two malefactors tried to deny everything; they pretended they had no knowledge of his son. But Samael said to them: "What! You dare tell lies, and God in times to come will give Israel the Torah in which it is said, 'Keep thee far from a false word'?"

While they were speaking thus, suddenly the voice of the slain lad was heard proceeding from the heart of Adam and Eve, and it addressed these words to Samael: "Go hence! I have penetrated to the heart of Adam and the heart of Eve, and never again shall I quit their hearts, nor the hearts of their children, or their children's children, unto the end of all generations."

Samael departed, but Adam was sore grieved, and he put on sackcloth and ashes, and he fasted many, many days, until God appeared unto him, and said: "My son, have no fear of Samael. I will give thee a remedy that will help thee against him, for it was at My instance that he went to thee." Adam asked, "And what is this remedy?" God: "The Torah." Adam: "And where is the Torah?" God then gave him the book of the angel Raziel, which he studied day and night. After some time had passed, the angels visited Adam, and, envious of the wisdom he had drawn from the book, they sought to destroy him cunningly by calling him a god and prostrating themselves before him, in spite of his remonstrance, "Do not prostrate yourselves before me, but magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His Name together." However, the envy of the angels was so great that they stole the book God had given Adam from him, and threw it in the sea. Adam searched for it everywhere in vain, and the loss distressed him sorely. Again he fasted many days, until God appeared unto him, and said: "Fear not! I will give the book back to thee," and He called Rahab, the Angel of the Sea, and ordered him to recover the book from the sea and restore it to Adam. And so he did.

Upon the death of Adam, the holy book disappeared, but later the cave in which it was hidden was revealed to Enoch in a dream. It was from this book that Enoch drew his knowledge of nature, of the earth and of the heavens, and he became so wise through it that his wisdom exceeded the wisdom of Adam. Once he had committed it to memory, Enoch hid the book again.

Now, when God resolved upon bringing the flood on the earth, He sent the archangel Raphael to Noah, as the bearer of the following message: "I give thee herewith the holy book, that all the secrets and mysteries written therein may be made manifest unto thee, and that thou mayest know how to fulfil its injunction in holiness, purity, modesty, and humbleness. Thou wilt learn from it how to build an ark of the wood of the gopher tree, wherein thou, and thy sons, and thy wife shall find protection."

Noah took the book, and when he studied it, the holy spirit came upon him, and he knew all things needful for the building of the ark and the gathering together of the animals. The book, which was made of sapphires, he took with him into the ark, having first enclosed it in a golden casket. All the time he spent in the ark it served him as a time-piece, to distinguish night from day. Before his death, he entrusted it to Shem, and he in turn to Abraham. From Abraham it descended through Jacob, Levi, Moses, and Joshua to Solomon, who learnt all his wisdom from it, and his skill in the healing art, and also his mastery over the demons.

Here is another quote from the same text; again we see Samael as tempter:

Wickedness came into the world with the first being born of woman, Cain, the oldest son of Adam. When God bestowed Paradise upon the first pair of mankind, He warned them particularly against carnal intercourse with each other. But after the fall of Eve, Satan, in the guise of the serpent, approached her, and the fruit of their union was Cain, the ancestor of all the impious generations that were rebellious toward God, and rose up against Him. Cain's descent from Satan, who is the angel Samael, was revealed in his seraphic appearance. At his birth, the exclamation was wrung from Eve, "I have gotten a man through an angel of the Lord."

Adam was not in the company of Eve during the time of her pregnancy with Cain. After she had succumbed a second time to the temptations of Satan, and permitted herself to be interrupted in her penance, she left her husband and journeyed westward, because she feared her presence might continue to bring him misery. Adam remained in the east. When the days of Eve to be delivered were fulfilled, and she began to feel the pangs of travailing, she prayed to God for help. But He hearkened not unto her supplications. "Who will carry the report to my lord Adam?" she asked herself. "Ye luminaries in the sky, I beg you, tell it to my master Adam when ye return to the east!" In that self same hour, Adam cried out: "The lamentation of Eve has pierced to my ear! Mayhap the serpent has again assaulted her," and he hastened to his wife. Finding her in grievous pain, he besought God in her behalf, and twelve angels appeared, together with two heavenly powers. All these took up their post to right of her and to left of her, while Michael, also standing on her right side, passed his hand over her, from her face downward to her breast, and said to her, "Be thou blessed, Eve, for the sake of Adam. Because of his solicitations and his prayers I was sent to grant thee our assistance. Make ready to give birth to thy child!" Immediately her son was born, a radiant figure. A little while and the babe stood upon his feet, ran off, and returned holding in his hands a stalk of straw, which he gave to his mother. For this reason he was named Cain, the Hebrew word for stalk of straw.

Now Adam took Eve and the boy to his home in the east. God sent him various kinds of seeds by the hand of the angel Michael, and he was taught how to cultivate the ground and make it yield produce and fruits, to sustain himself and his family and his posterity.

After a while, Eve bore her second son, whom she named Hebel [Abel], because, she said, he was born but to die.

Perhaps the most remarkable of these stories is this one about Moses:

In the last heaven Moses saw two angels, each five hundred parasangs in height, forged out of chains of black fire and red fire, the angels Af, "Anger," and Hemah, "Wrath," whom God created at the beginning of the world, to execute His will. Moses was disquieted when he looked upon them, but Metatron embraced him, and said, "Moses, Moses, thou favorite of God, fear not, and be not terrified," and Moses became calm. There was another angel in the seventh heaven, different in appearance from all the others, and of frightful mien. His height was so great, it would have taken five hundred years to cover a distance equal to it, and from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet he was studded with glaring eyes, at the sight of which the beholder fell prostrate in awe. "This one," said Metatron, addressing Moses, "is Samael, who takes the soul away from man." "Whither goes he now?" asked Moses, and Metatron replied, "To fetch the soul of Job the pious." Thereupon Moses prayed to God in these words, "O may it be Thy will, my God and the God of my fathers, not to let me fall into the hands of this angel."

Samael in the Book of Revelation

[This section is still in development]

"His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God.” - Revelation 19:12-13

"The name of my Real Being is hidden within the name “Word of God” because the Bible is highly symbolic. God is represented with the monosyllable “Aun” or “Aum.” Word or Verb is within “Weor,” which is pronounced Veor, so the W is the V sound. This W together with the remaining three letters (e-r-o) of Verb and Word form “Weor.” Thus, we have the name Aun Weor (Aum Weor, Aum Word, God Word) hidden within the phrase “Word of God.” - The Revolution of Beelzebub

"Samael Aun Weor is the authentic name of a flame of the great blaze, before whom I must prostrate myself. Samael Aun Weor means “Will of God...” - The Zodiacal Course

Samael in Occultism

Western occultism or magic finds its roots in Kabbalah and specifically the teachings of Solomon. Although Solomon fell to temptation and lost his way, before that time he delivered to humanity several vital tools. In the Conjuration of the Seven, a ritual prayer to invoke the aid of angels in order to send away demonic or harmful entities, we find this line:

By Samael Sabaoth, and in the name of Elohim Gibor, get thee hence, Andrameleck!

Also, in The Magus by Francis Barrett (1801), one of the source books of the Golden Dawn and later traditions, we find the following prayer:

I CONJURE and call upon you, ye strong and good angels, in the names Ya, Ya, Ya; He, He, He; Va, Hy, Hy, Ha, Ha, Ha; Va, Va, Va; An, An, An; Aia, Aia, Aia; El, Ay, Elibra, Elohim, Elohim; and by the names of the high God, who hath made the sea and dry land, and by his word hath made the earth, and produced trees, and hath set his seal upon the planets, with his precious, honoured, revered and holy name; and by the name of the angels governing in the fifth house, who are subservient to the great angel Acimoy, who is strong, powerful, and honoured, and by the name of his star which is called Mars, I call upon thee, Samael, by the names above mentioned, thou great angel! who presides over the day of Mars, and by the name Adonai, the living and true God, that you assist me in accomplishing my labours...

Samael in Other Traditions

As a Logoic intelligence with great responsibilities and influence over humanity, Samael is recognized and presented in every world tradition, but his name changes.

As Mars / Ares

"Now Mars was the lord of birth and of death, of generation and of destruction, of ploughing, of building, of sculpture or stone-cutting, of Architecture . . . . in fine, of all . . . . ARTS. He was the primeval principle, disintegrating into the modification of two opposites for production. Astronomically, too,* he held the birthplace of the day and year, the place of its increase of strength, Aries, and likewise the place of its death, Scorpio. He held the house of Venus, and that of the Scorpion. He, as birth, was good; as death, was Evil. As good, he was light; as bad, he was night. - "The Source of Measures" quoted by H.P. Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine vol. 2 (1888)

The AEolian name of Mars was [[Areus]], and the Greek Ares, [[Ares]], is a name over the etymological significance of which, philologists and Indianists, Greek and Sanskrit scholars have vainly worked to this day. Very strangely, Max Muller connects both the names Mars and Ares with the Sanskrit root mar, whence he traces their derivation, and from which, he says, the name of Maruts (the storm-gods) comes. - H.P. Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine vol. 2 (1888)

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In the name of the truth, I want to emphatically tell you that I do not want to receive visitors.

Unquestionably, I am nothing more than a postman, a courier, a man that delivers a message...

It would be the breaking point of silliness for you to come from your country to the capital city of Mexico with the only purpose of visiting a vulgar postman, an employee that delivered you a letter in the past... Why would you waste your money for that? Why would you visit a simple courier, a miserable postman? It is better for you to study the message, the written teachings delivered in the books...

99% of the people who visited me in the past are now declared enemies of the Gnostic doctrine: they became burned... What is the worst, and this is the most grave, is that those who are burned, go and burn others...Yes, those burned ones are those who dissolve groups, dismantle Lumisials, etc.

Yet, why do my visitors become burned? What is the intrinsic cause of it? What is the base or foundation of it? To answer all of these questions is urgent, unpostponable and necessary... We can find the concrete, clear and definitive answer within the multiple figurations of the mind.

It is indubitable that each student has made a model, a figure, of the Master in their intellect... Such an image has mistaken mental derivations, which are perhaps extracted from pseudo-occult literature... Obviously, deception or disenchantment arises when the merely imaginary figurine does not coincide with the factual man, with the messenger or courier. Thus, this is how my visitors are burned, and this is how the enemies of Gnosis multiply...

Multiple are the intellective images of my varied visitors: diverse are the forms of their mind...

Some, when they think about the messenger, imagine him as being an exotic hermit of foregone times, similar to Palemon the stylite, the successor of Antonio the ancient...

Others assume that he may be like a penitent old man carrying sackcloth of hair upon his flagellated body...

Others fancy him as a venerable sage striding at all hours through the streets of Mexico while wearing a shining turban and white tunic...

Others picture me as a saint endlessly living among ignited wax candles and perfumed flowers within an indescribable sanctuary...

However, the crude reality of the facts is that the messenger of the New Era is an average, common, and ordinary citizen, a nobody whose value is the lowest.

Unquestionably, for these and many other reasons, it is a triviality of very bad taste to travel from distant lands in order to visit someone who is not worth the trouble... So, go and visit the libraries, the archeological museums, the ruins of Egypt, etc., that is indeed better...

Rumors

Practically, we have been able to clearly verify that the visitor does not come in order to learn from the messenger, but to observe his private life, thus they find what everyone can see in the house of any neighbor: the chores of the house, the plate at the table, the towel to dry the hands, etc. All of this disturbs the visitors who come in search of wonders and prodigies... Since all of them have their consciousness asleep, they only perceive the monotony of my routine life, the stuff of my living room and the kitchen, the occurrences at my dinner table, etc. So, it is not possible for visitors to find perfections. Perhaps they think that I sleep in a bed made of roses?

Thus, the outcome of all this is gossip. The visitor becomes defrauded when he does not find prestidigitators or something of the sort in my house; then, he or she becomes a gossip. Thus, this is how those who could tread the Path of the Razor's Edge end by withdrawing from the real path...

Calumny

I am not more because they praise me, neither am I less because they defame me: I am always what I am. Therefore, the defamation that has been thrown against me does not hurt me. Frankly, I do not care about their criticisms, but unfortunately, when the weak listen to such slander, they withdraw from the path that leads to the final liberation.

Be aware that within the world of the Gnostic Church (the Church of Christ) there exist not two or three patriarchs, but only one, and he is the fifth of the seven, of whom I am solely an instrument-perhaps too imperfect, but I am his instrument.

Yes, my insignificant person is worthless, it does not have any value, it is worth nothing. Nevertheless, for the fortune of the few and for the misfortune of the many, inside of me is (AUN) somebody, who is the Lord of Power, and it is not possible for any organization to bloom without the aid of power. Therefore, although my insignificant person is not worth five cents (I personally will not give a nickel for my person), nevertheless, I repeat: for the fortune of the few and for the misfortune of the many, inside of me is the fifth of the seven, the Lord of Power.

Understand that Kalki Avatar is certainly the Avatar for the age of Kali Yuga in the era of Aquarius. The word avatar means "messenger." Unquestionably, let us understand that a messenger is one who gives a message, and since the labor of delivering a message has been granted unto me, this is why I am called a messenger, which in Sanskrit is "avatar."

A messenger or avatar, in the most complete sense of the word, is a courier, a man who delivers a message, a servant or maid of the Great Work. So, the word avatar must not fall into misinterpretations; it must be specified with complete clarity.

I am, therefore, a servant or crew member, or messenger who delivers a message. Some time ago I said that I am a cosmic mailman, since I am giving the content of a cosmic letter. Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, the word avatar must never lead us to arrogance, since it only means nothing more than an emissary, a servant, a crew member who gives a message, an epistle, and that is all.

In regard to Buddha Maitreya, we must analyze these two words a little in order not to fall into misinterpretations. The Innermost-Buddha in itself is the real Being, the Innermost of each one of us. Thus, when the Innermost or the real Being of somebody has attained its proper intimate Self-realization, then he is declared a Buddha. However, the term Maitreya is individual and collective; thus, from the individual point of view, it represents a teacher whose name is Maitreya, but from the collective point of view Buddha Maitreya must be understood-in the most complete sense of the word-as any initiate who has managed to Christify himself, and that is all.

I have said: in the day of the burning we will see the smoke! Remember that in the time of Jesus, there also appeared many prophets, and all of them called themselves avatars of Pisces, but only one prevailed; this was Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ. At the time of Atlantis, many prophets, many messiahs, appeared who considered themselves to be avatars, and they made themselves to be worshiped as such, but only one prevailed and left triumphant between the waters of the universal flood; that one, the only one, was the Manu Vaisvasvata who, amongst earthquakes and floods, took his people to the central plateau of Asia.

Likewise, my dear brethren, many in our times will declare themselves to be the avatar, but the facts will speak for themselves, and in the day of the great fire, the avatar will be known by itself, that is, the one who will be capable of removing his people between the smoke and the flames at the crucial and definitive moment at the end of the Aryan race: that will be the avatar. So, the facts will speak for themselves; I repeat: the facts will speak; the tree is known by its fruits; from such a tree comes such fruit. Anyhow, I am giving the message here; I am the avatar, although many will not believe it. Yet, let our great army be prepared. That is all!

Many people believe that Samael is just a pseudonym. No! Indeed, I am Samael!

You have read that in Kabbalah the name Samael is classified as the angel regent of Mars. In the Bible, Samael is classified as a demon. It does not matter! The fact is that I am Samael! And I say this with a lot of sincerity and honesty; this is the truth, and even if they place me against a wall to execute me by shooting, I would not change my mind. I do not have a pseudonym! I insist: I am Samael!

However, why do some say that I am an angel and others that I am a demon? Simply because I fell in the beginning of the Aryan Root Race, when I lived in Central Asia, in the Himalayas, in the very remote past; I committed the same mistake of Count Zanoni.

At that time, I had a Lemurian immortal body. Over more than ten thousand years I was an eyewitness to the sinking of the whole continent of Lemuria and I saw the birth of the continent of Atlantis. Thus, I knew all of Atlantis, where I lived with the same Lemurian body. Afterwards, I also saw Atlantis sinking into the ocean. I accompanied Manu Vaisvavata (Noah) in his exodus from that continent before its sinking. Nonetheless, unfortunately, I committed a great mistake.