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Samael

majorattested150 CE to 280 CE

The Poison of God, a Gnostic and Kabbalistic dark angel. In Gnostic cosmology, Samael is the blind god who mistakes himself for the highest and enslaves souls in matter.

Severity90
Darkness88
Wrath86
Power84
✦Signature powerPoison of GodThe angel of death and severe judgment.
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The same idol, across the ages

Scholars have long read Samael as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the same figure, across traditions.

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