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Description
A scarce and increasingly sought-after study of the fallen angel mythos from one of the most respected voices in traditional witchcraft scholarship. In some ways a sequel — and in another sense a prequel — to The Pillars of Tubal Cain (co-authored with Nigel Jackson), The Book of Fallen Angels expands on the material and themes Howard specifically contributed to that earlier work, while standing entirely on its own as a concise, reader-friendly introduction to a subject often left obscure and sinister.
Howard challenges the orthodox Christian narrative that the fallen angels — the Ben Elohim — fell from grace to become demons, with their leader Azazel (or Shemyaza), identified with the rebel angel Lucifer, transformed into the Prince of Darkness. Instead, he traces their far older origins, the nature and meaning of angels themselves, and the layered mythological traditions that predate and complicate the familiar Christian framework.
