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Behold
Azazel-The Extraterrestrial
By Dr. Stephen
Yulish, PH. D. |
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story behind this image is nothing short of
amazing. This horrifying specter became the
inspiration for the main character of Azazel
in both of my novels, The Great Harpazo
Deception and Invasion: Israel, but I have
never before explained how I obtained this
image of what I now believe to be an
extraterrestrial, fallen, demonic angel. Now
you can read the rest of the story for the
first time.
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Over twenty years ago in 1983, I
was the State Director of the Jewish National
Fund. Since leaving the University of Arizona the
year before, I had unexpectedly turned my career
path from being a Professor to being a fundraiser
for Israel. The common thread that ran through
both pursuits was my long time interest in Jewish
mysticism, Kabbalah. Several years earlier, I had
obtained a multivolume English translation of the
Zohar, The Book of Splendor, written by Moses
DeLeon in 1588 and the bible of Kabbalah. I had
read it through several times. As it had
advocated, I meditated, sought universal knowledge
(gnosis), studied astrology, reincarnation
(gilgul) and spirit guides. If many famous rabbis
of old had done it, what could be the harm?
In 1978, I had written a novel,
The Other World, which glorified Samael (Satan)
and his first mate Lilith. That novel had bounced
around publishers in New York for years but was
never published. I had even read a portion of it
to a group of people in a loft in Greenwich
Village. Suddenly one day in 1983 as I sat at my
desk at the JNF, I found myself doodling on a
piece of paper. Over the next few months I 'drew'
scores of drawings like the one attached above. I
have no artistic ability but these drawings were
elaborate. I went and showed them to my friends
Rabbi Plotkin and Rabbi Rebbibo and they both were
very impressed. They both encouraged me to publish
them. They both also loved Kabbalah and believed
that these drawings were from the yenne velt,
Yiddish for 'the other world'. I did get them
published in a University of California Journal,
DreamWorks, vol.4, no.3, 1984 pg. 180-181 as well
as in Kabbalistic journal. This article still
appears under my name at Amazon.com? It says out
of print but has an ASIN number and says Human
Sciences Press, 1984? But that is only part of
this ongoing story.
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