Codex of Beings · Type of being

True Angels

Angels from the Fullness, held in the Kenoma, who hang by their spines from the stars.

Hung from the starsch. 10

“They hang by the spine from stars”: angels whose souls outreach the lights of the archons' stars, hanging spine-first from open neck wounds over ancients who dance in masks around fires at their stones. “Their stretch sits outside the heart of the reach above. They're trapped inside the fortress, by capture of delusional spirits.” Their sparks are quiet “like sleeping giants,” and many are “waiting their dignities to return, after however many eternities in the snake pit; praying.” The skies do not care for them, and the demons stoke human cackles below.

The restless onech. 10

“There is one who does not sit still.” A restless angel screams “a tenor of iron and will,” kicks off the demonic spirits holding his calves, and climbs the spine-rope up through the clouds and past the archons, who do not dare bind him. At the demiurge's gates he rips his own spine out as a spear. Satan names him: “Nothing ever was, Antony.” See Antony.

Messengersch. 4

The shoreline sermons speak of angels as messengers sent by the unseen: “Angels pour forth for the will of the unseen, but were a once-seen holy reality.” “You have angels amongst you. You are safe for now.” They will help guide the lost home “if you trust their mercy and love, but accepting this is humbling.” Some souls “deviated from those sent, messengers.”

Not the mimicked onesch. 10, 36

Chapter 10 asks, “Were these angels mimicked three hundred and sixty-five times? The heaven-sent kinds apart from the mimicked ones?” The demiurge's own angels, who appear in chapter 36, are called false angels; see False Angels.

Note: the angels hanging from the stars are true angels from the Fullness, held in the Kenoma.

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