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Fallen Angels
The Fallen Ones had such large appetites that God rained manna upon them, of many different flavours, lest they might be tempted to eat flesh, a forbidden diet, and excuse the fault by pleading scarcity of corn and pot herbs.
Nevertheless, the Fallen Ones rejected God’s manna, slaughtered animals for food, and even dined on human flesh, thus fouling the air with sickly vapors. It was then that God decided to cleanse Earth. 1.
In those days only one virgin, Istahar by name, remained chaste. When the Sons of God made lecherous demands upon her, she cried: ‘First lend me your wings!’
They assented and she, flying up to Heaven, took sanctuary at the Throne of God, who transformed her into the constellation Virgo - or some say, the Pleiades.
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The Fallen Angels having lost their wings, were stranded on earth until, many generations later, they mounted Jacob’s ladder and thus went home again.
1. Enoch 6-8; 69; 106
2. Liqqute Midrashim 156 |
