The
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.

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.
The article was as follows:
An Excursion into the Yenne Velt, by Stephen
Malcolm Yulish.
"There are many worlds
that intersect our own "reality normal
waking consciousness. We encounter these
worlds for brief moments while asleep or in
altered states of awareness, and then spend
a great deal of time denying either their
existence or their validity. Of course, they
do not need our acceptance to exist, and so
they are there no matter what we choose to
believe.
I have always paid a great
deal of attention to states of consciousness
other than normal waking reality. My dreams,
especially, have provided me with a
wellspring of creative imagery that connects
me with my inner self as well as with my
other self. Dreams are not only mirrors for
our psyche, but also looking glasses into
worlds that don't often see the light of
day, yet are part of us all.
The images that I have
transported to this reality by way of pen
and ink drawings were done so in a state of
waking dream. I was not asleep in the
ordinary usage of the term, but my body was
still and my mind was quiet. I have made use
of dream images in my poetry and other
writings, but I have never drawn anything
like the images you see here. One day last
year, I decided to pick up a pen and draw. I
had no idea what I was drawing until it was
completed.
These are images from the
other world - "the Yenne Velt".
After reading psychic Ruth
Montgomery's book, Aliens Among Us, in 1986,
I decided to send her my drawings. She liked
them so much that she put me in touch with a
fellow psychic in Phoenix, Anne Puryear, and
her husband Herb who ran Logos Center. They
were a spin off of Edgar Cayce's Association
for Research and Enlightenment. After Anne
did a life reading of me and my charkas and
auras, she became convinced that I was an
old soul, a highly evolved spiritual being,
an avatar. I began attending their meetings.
Dr.Herb Puryear was setting up a
Metaphysical University in Phoenix and
wanted me to teach Kabbalah. I also attended
a Kabbalah retreat in Los Angeles run by
Rabbi Berg, now famous for working with
Madonna and others. I was into Kabbalah
before it was fashionable to do so.
Then my life began to fall
apart. My marriage collapsed, I was
diagnosed with MS, my father died, and I
lost my job. I found myself working for a
Christian company where I was proselytized
relentlessly by the people there. I fought
them tooth and nail using all my education,
knowledge and experience. Finally, one year
later, I had an 'on the road to Damascus'
revelation experience and suddenly knew the
Truth which was contrary to everything that
I had based my life on previously. When I
accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior
in October of 1988, I broke off all contact
with the Puryears, Ruth Montgomery, my
astrologer and my kabbalistic interests. My
Jewish, family, friends, colleagues, as well
as my Rabbi friends simultaneously broke off
all contact with me.
In January of 1990, I was
talking one day to my friend and future wife
Paula about hell. While I knew that God was
real because of my revelation conversion
experience, I still was not convinced of the
absolute reality of Satan and His
dominions-probably because I had served them
for so long and was in denial.
Anyway, Paula told me to get rid of my
novel, The Other World as well as my
channeled drawings because they were
demonic. I had not wanted to do so because I
had given birth to them and they were
special to me. That night, however, I had a
dream where I was holding my novel. I had
said, 'if there are any demons in here let
them come out!' Well, I was bombarded by
demonic forces that pummeled me until I
honestly thought that I would die. I
summoned up my last ounce of strength and
yelled, 'I rebuke you in the name of Jesus!'
They all disappeared. The next day I
destroyed my novel and all of my drawings. I
was now convinced of the reality of Satan
and his minions.
Five years later, the Lord
encouraged me to write a story about UFOs
and the rapture. He laid on my heart that
the sudden disappearance of millions of
Christians would be explained to those left
behind as an abduction by extraterrestrials
in UFOs. He told me that these so called
aliens are really fallen angels who are
working with Satan to deceive the masses.
I wrote a spec treatment for
the then popular X-Files TV show entitled
"The Catching Away". I sent it off
to Producer Chris Carter on May 30, 1995. On
September 7, I received a letter from his
assistant Kitty Brophy that they had
reviewed it but they were unable to use it.
Kitty had then said "We appreciate the
opportunity to get acquainted with your
writing and wish you the best of luck in
your future efforts."
It was not surprising that
they did not want to use such a religious
theme but they did not return the
manuscript? Then, nearly a year later on
July 9, 1996, I received a letter from the
Senior Counsel at 20th Century Fox, Anatole
Klebanow, telling me that it was their
policy not to read any unsolicited
manuscripts and they were returning it to me
"unread". I thought Ms.Brophy had
said a year before that they enjoyed the
opportunity to get acquainted with my
writing. Oh well.
I then decided that I might
have something and so I began to write a
novel with new characters surrounding this
concept of the rapture (Gr.Harpazo) being
explained as an abduction by fallen angels
disguised as ETs in UFOs which became The
Great Harpazo Deception.
Around that time circa
1996-1997, I received the image above from a
member of my local community who had
followed my Letters to the Editor for years
and sadly had not been very impressed. He
sent me the article attached with the note,
"I thought that you were a
Christian?"
I used the demonic image
attached as the image for my character of
Azazel, the main fallen, demonic angel in my
novel. What I (Satan) had meant for evil,
God used for good. Not that Azazel was good
by any means, but my novels The Great
Harpazo Deception and Invasion: Israel both
reveal the evil nature of this fallen angel.
The novels shed light on the dark side, the
hidden shadows of evil. I took the name
Azazel from the pseudopigraphal work, The
Apocalypse of Abraham. It described Azazel
as a fallen angel that had scattered over
the earth the secrets of heaven and was one
who had rebelled against the Mighty One.
Azazel was also a 'watcher'
a heavenly being that has kept an eye on
humanity.
The Prophet Daniel spoke of
them as did Enoch. In my novel The Great
Harpazo Deception, Azazel is first
discovered by a remote viewer, who after
leaving the CIA's disbanded spying project,
joined the Lazant Institute and turned his
talents to scanning the heavens for
extraterrestrial life. He, along with a
psychic and a Harvard theologian, make a
startling discovery. An Israeli Colonel re
trained at West Point becomes the
counterpoint for them working with a cadre
of former U.S. army officers and
intelligence figures. Col. Judah Meire
attempts to stop this deceptive onslaught of
Azazel and his minions as the sudden
abduction (catching away) prepares to
unfold.
Behold Azazel-the
extraterrestrial, fallen angel, watcher.
Behold the face of unbridled evil who will
lead mankind smiling into the fires of hell.
It is not our friend but is instead our
worst enemy. As military aviation historian,
Trevor James Constable warned us, 'the
battle with UFOs is not for the planet of
man but for the soul of man'. Beware!
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