Battle between Light and Darkness or Rivalry among Rebel Angels?

by Jose Rizal M. Reyes / poet-philosopher, Philippines / December 21, 2015

I’m off to see a movie — what else but the latest Star Wars? After that, I guess I will still have much time left to buy cat food.

The latest Star Wars movie is now showing. The next two movies will come out in 2017 and 2019.

I hope I can write a blog article about the esoteric significance of the Star Wars story — you know, there is this theory or assertion that the Star Wars movies are bits and pieces bubbling out from our collective memory about the intergalactic wars that raged and ravaged the material universe after the rebel angels lost the civil war in Heaven and were exiled to the four planes of Matter.

This eposter can serve as a basic introduction to Zoroastrianism. Incidentally, Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who allowed and helped the Jews return to Jerusalem, is said to be a Zoroastrian. And the three Magi who visited Jesus — whom tradition named Melchor, Gaspar and Balthazar — they are also said to be Zoroastrians.

Is the Star Wars story a battle between Light and Darkness, between Loyal Angels and Rebel Angels? Ahm, that is what I would normally think. After all, the battle between Light and Darkness is a recurring theme from various cultures of the world, especially among Zoroastrians. The Book of Enoch too is quite explicit about the battle between good and evil, between Light and Darkness, between the rebel angels and the angels loyal to God.

One of the many available books on the subject.

But I am beginning to suspect that much of the contest is and has always been between Rebel Angels and … Rebel Angels.

As I was looking for some Book of Enoch photos to use, I saw this poster and realized that the passage written there supports my theory about rivalries among rebel angels. “I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other.” Who are “they”? I submit that it refers to the “star” that fell — meaning the expelled Rebel Angels taken collectively as indicated by the use of the pronoun “them” in the phrase “and the children of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.

Yes, a rivalry or rivalries among Rebel Angels, among Rebel Leaders. Remember Gog and Magog? Is one good and the other evil? There are many possible causes for such rivalries. One is clashing ambitions and drive for power. Another is one faction would like to delve deeper and exploit further the dark side of the Force while another faction would like to hold on to the values and ideals they held prior to the celestial civil war as much as they can. A third possible cause for rivalry is disagreement over one issue or another.

This book gives an incisive and informative analysis of the Book of Enoch.

That’s all I guess. I am now going off to see the movie. Instead of posting this as a status post, I decided it’s long enough to post as a blog article. But the blog article I mentioned earlier was envisaged as something that would discuss the topic more deeply and more comprehensively, not this one that was only meant to be a short status post. Oh well.

The definition in this eposter is incomplete. “Economy of force” may also be defined as “the non-use of any forces whatsoever when the enemies can happily slit each other’s throats if left alone, more so if messing with them is such a messy thing to do. “

Before I forget, please take note that I merely said “much of the contest” is among Rebel Angels. I didn’t say that Loyal Angels are not involved in the fracas. I remember that in my series of sonnets about the Adventures of Kal, the Loyal Angels previously maintained many bases or bastions in the physical plane but later withdrew to the etheric plane, and limiting thenceforth their involvement in earthly affairs in mostly subtle ways. That is both an indication of the ferocity of the Rebel Angels … and the application of the principle of economy of force by the Loyal Angels.

White woman, black man. Which is Yin and which is Yang?

It’s now 5:02 PM. I really got to go. May the Force be with you!