Moonhead
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ORIGINAL: BenevolentM I recall a story concerning Metatron. quote:
In Rabbinic tradition, (Metatron) is the highest of the angels and serves as the celestial scribe. ... entered Paradise and saw Metatron sitting down (an action that is not done in the presence of God). Elishah ben Abuyah therefore looked to Metatron as a deity and said heretically: "There are indeed two powers in Heaven!" The rabbis explain that Metatron was allowed to sit because of his function as the Heavenly Scribe, writing down the deeds of Israel ... the Talmud states, it was proved to Elisha that Metatron could not be a second deity by the fact that Metatron received 60 'strokes with fiery rods' to demonstrate that Metatron was not a god, but an angel, and could be punished. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatron Who knew? I thought he was a toy robot who turns into a gun...
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I like to think he was eaten by rats, in the dark, during a fog. It's what he would have wanted... (Simon R Green on the late James Herbert)
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