Bottomless Pit (Revelation): Othello

[Abishai100]

The Book of Lamentations describes the emotional and spiritual forces that gauge a human being's instinct to cater to his/her need/desire for empathy and happiness. There are passages which describe the naturalness of self-pity, but there are also passages which describe the dangers of indulging in remorse.

One can suggest that the Book of Lamentations is as much a source for comfort/consolation as it is a gentle reminder of the wisdom of decisive action.

In the real world, we have so many religions and philosophical perspectives that it is difficult to understand what the common denominators for shared empathy are. For example, would an atheist Communist in North Korea necessarily feel comforted by the words of a pro-democracy Western Catholic capitalist in the USA?

The Book of Lamentations therefore implies a simple human need for just and wise governors who are willing, trained, and able to administer admonishments (i.e., punishments) and condolences (i.e., charities) in the right proportions.

American comic books are filled with characters that signify a modern age sensitivity towards the problems created by mismanaged governance. American comic book characters such as Daredevil (Marvel Comics) and The Punisher (Marvel Comics) exemplify a natural curiosity about the necessity of radical acts of self-determined governance (i.e., vigilantism) in times of extreme fascism.

The Book of Revelation describes a bottomless pit which is guarded by an angel/king named Apollyon/Abaddon. This angel/king seems able to sensitively gauge the spiritual yearnings of dissatisfied souls.

If the bottomless pit represents an anarchism labyrinth, then how are we to discuss spiritual education in terms of punishment?


Perhaps the Book of Lamentations and the Book of Revelation suggests that spiritualism requires an access to intellectual freedom.

Isn't this what "negotiated nationalism" is all about? There has to be a way to coordinate theology with identity.

This sort of thinking marks the intellectual balance-act in the board game Othello (a very useful analogy in this otherwise laborious discussion).






Apollyon/Abaddon

Othello (Game)

 

[eiskalt]

Oh, i imagined you were referring to Othello by Shakespeare.

 

[abbaton]

Discourse on Abbaton:

The last document in the volume is a discourse on the Angel of Death, who is here called Abbatôn, i.e. Abaddôn, the Hebrew name of Apollyôn (Rev. 9:11), the Angel or King of the Abyss. The author of the discourse is Timothy, Patriarch of Alexandria (died 385), who transcribes a legend which he found in an ancient volume in the library which was founded by the Holy Apostles, and supplied with histories of their lives and acts for the edification of believers. The disciples were unable to understand why Abbatôn had been made by God the king of all mankind, and they asked our Lord to explain this to them before He finally ascended into heaven. The legend states that God sent seven angels one after the other to the earth, to bring back to Him therefrom some virgin earth, out of which He might fashion Adam. When the first angel came to the earth, and reached out his hand to take some of it, the earth cried out and adjured him by God's Name not to do so, because it knew what sorrow would await it if it were made into a man. Terrified by the Great Name, the angel returned without the earth, as did all the other angels except one. The exception was Mouriêl, to whom God Himself afterwards gave the name of 'Abbatôn', who paid no heed to the protests of the earth, but obeyed God's command to him, and in return God made him the master of all mankind. At that time Abbatôn was a seven-headed monster, with projecting teeth and tusks nearly a foot long, with eyes and face like revolving wheels of fire, whose snortings were like the crackling of flames in a lake of boiling sulphur and bitumen, and whose breathings were like unto seven thunders. Whenever he appeared to men they died immediately of fright, for his hideousness, and cruelty, and mercilessness terrified every one.
When the angels saw what an awful monster Abbatôn was they told God that not only all men would die when they saw him, but that they, the angels, would 'perish through terror' at the sight of him. Then, in answer to an appeal from Abbatôn, God gave him the power to change his form, and to appear to those whose names were written in the Book of Life as a kind and gentle friend, who removed their souls from their body painlessly. To all those who remained in their natural state of sin, and who did not make offerings to Abbatôn on the day of his festival, God permitted him to appear on their death-beds in the form of a seven-headed monster, with a fiery face and blazing eyes, and furious snortings and a voice loud as sevenfold thunder. The sin of Adam and Eve caused Abbatôn to be set over all mankind. The Lord, having related to the Apostles the whole history of the rebellion of Satan, and of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, and the part which He would take in the Great Judgment, went up into heaven.

Apocalypse of Peter (ethiopic):

And the angel Tatirokos (Tartaruchus, keeper of hell: a word corresponding in formation to Temeluchus) shall come and chastise them with yet greater torment, and say unto them: Now do ye repent, when it is no longer the time for repentance, and nought of life remaineth. And they shall say: Righteous is the judgement of God, for we have heard and perceived that his judgement is good; for we are recompensed according to our deeds. ...... Ezrael the angel of God shall bring them forth out of this fire and establish a judgement of decision. This then is their judgement. A river of fire shall flow and all judgement (they that are judged) shall be drawn down into the middle of the river. And Uriel shall set them there.

Book of Enoch:

CHAPTER XX.
1. And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. 2. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus.

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hope this helps ! and god bless abaddon, who is said to appear to us here with the countenance of Michael, when he comes forth in this life. amen mark 15 34