Fan Video of the Week: Supernatural Reflections “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

In Supernatural canon the archangels are the four chief angelic creations of God: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael and Gabriel. There is a huge difference in who are regarded to be the archangels in christian lore. As you can see down below, there are some angel names that are familiar but they weren’t regarded as archangels on the show. Uriel is regarded as a higher angel that “cleans” cities from evil. Even our beloved Castiel makes the list yet on the show he is just another soldier for heaven. Also Lucifer is not regarded to be an archangel which he is in the show. He is just a fallen angel.

Lucifer

Later Christian tradition came to use the Latin word for “morning star”, lucifer, as a proper name for the devil; as he was before his fall. Lucifer was once the most beautiful angel in all of existence. God loved him best of all his brothers, even more than Michael. Lucifer was proud. When humanity was created, he was unwilling to accept its place in God’s favor. And when God commanded all of Heaven to love his new children more than himself, Lucifer refused. Lucifer pleaded: “Father, I can’t. These humans are flawed. Murderous!” After persistent disobedience, Lucifer was cast out of Heaven.

Lucifer: Why would I want to destroy this stunning thing? Beautiful in a trillion different ways. The last perfect handiwork of God. Ever hear the story of how I fell from grace? […] You know why God cast me down? Because I loved him more than anything. And then God created… you. The little hairless apes. And then he asked all of us to bow down before you: to love you more than him. And I said; “Father, I can’t.” I said, “These human beings are flawed. Murderous.” And for that, God had Michael cast me into Hell. Now tell me: does the punishment fit the crime? Especially when I was right. Look what six billion of you have done to this thing. And how many of you blamed me for it?

– 5.04 The End

Lucifer: The Horsemen’s rings? The magic keys to my Cage? Ring a bell? Come on, Sam. I’ve never lied to you. You could at least pay me the same respect. It’s okay. I’m not mad. A wrestling match inside your noggin… I like the idea. Just you and me, one round, no tricks. You win, you jump in the hole. I win… Well, then I win. What do you say, Sam? A fiddle of gold against your soul says I’m better than you.

– 5.22 Swan Song

Lucifer is truly the big bad in Supernatural. No matter which vessel he used, the menace and threat were always present, and how he acts adds just adds to the effect. He is one of the things Sam and Dean are both afraid of. Sam has felt his malice, presence and revenge first hand. Dean almost got killed and lost his brother to Lucifer, which Dean himself said he almost didn’t survive. Lucifer is not a threat taken lightly and we as audience have always felt it too.

Michael (“who is like God?”)

Michael sees himself as a good and loyal son to his father, and that matters most to him. He professes love for Lucifer, his younger brother, but insists that he is only serving his father by destroying his brother. He seems to think himself magnanimous when he promises to leave Dean whole, not catatonic, after serving as a vessel.

Michael: Lucifer defied our father, and he betrayed me, but still, I don’t want this any more than you would want to kill Sam. You know, my brother… I practically raised him. I took care of him in a way most people could never understand, and I still love him. But I am going to kill him, because it is right, and I have to.
Dean: What, because God says so?
Michael: Yes. From the beginning, he knew this was how it was going to end.
Dean: And you’re just going to do whatever God says?
Michael: Yes, because I am a good son.

– 5.13 The Song Remains the Same

We didn’t get to experience Michael that well but he had the same feeling around him as Lucifer, even though Michael was regarded as the “good guy”. To Winchesters and to humans he was not thought of as the good guy, though, because what he wanted would have killed a lot of people and taken away free will.

Gabriel (“God is my strength”)

Gabriel is an angel who typically serves as a messenger sent from God to certain people. As the Trickster (Loki), Gabriel behaved in a mischievous manner, enjoying his games. He embraced a hedonistic lifestyle, including the “sweet tooth” for which that type of demi-god was known. Even after revealing himself to be an angel, he still used misdirection to achieve his goals and to protect himself. He is often sarcastic. Gabriel’s manner is the most human of any of the angels, perhaps because of his long sojourn on earth, and he has an appreciation of what humans can achieve.

Gabriel: Shut your cake hole. You don’t know anything about my family. I love my Father, my brothers. Love them. But watching them turn on each other? Tear at each other’s throats? I couldn’t bear it! Okay? So I left. And now it’s happening all over again.

– 5.08 Changing Channels

Who wouldn’t love Gabriel? He is the only archangel and one of the few angels I see that is/was actually good in heart. He actually gives a crap even if he had weird way of showing it. I liked the twist that Trickster/Loki was actually Gabriel. It meant that he couldn’t be killed like Tricksters were usually killed. I still hope he is not dead and he pulled a fast one against his older brother.

Raphael (“It is God who heals”, “God Heals”, “God, Please Heal”)

Raphael is a serious, traditionally minded angel who has lost faith in God and is weary of his duties.

Father Reynolds: I call upon the archangel Raphael, master of the air, to make open the way. Let the fire of the Holy Spirit now descend, that this being might be awakened to the world beyond.

– 2.13 Houses of the Holy

Raphael: We’re tired. We just want it to be over. We just want… paradise.
Dean: So what, God dies and makes you the boss, and you think you can do whatever you want?
Raphael: Yes! And whatever we want, we get!

– 5.03 Free to Be You and Me

Raphael is the least remembered archangel of the four. He was threatening too and he did have a strong presence but maybe because he was very subtle in his actions and sometimes acted like a stuck up noble he wasn’t memorable for me. Raphael was the only one of the archangels that used a woman vessel so kudos for that.

Seven Archangels
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The earliest reference to a system of seven archangels as a group appears to be in Enoch I (the Book of Enoch) which is not part of the Jewish Canon but is prevalent in the Judaic tradition, where they are named as Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel, Remiel and Saraqael. While this book today is non-canonical in most Christian Churches, it was explicitly quoted in the New Testament (Letter of Jude 1:14-15) and by many of the early Church Fathers. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church to this day regards it to be canonical.

In the late 5th to early 6th century, Pseudo-Dionysius gives them as Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Chamuel, Jophiel, and Zadkiel.

The earliest Christian mention is by Pope Saint Gregory I who lists them as Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel (or Anael), Simiel, Oriphiel and Raguel. A later reference to seven archangels would appear in an 8th or 9th century talisman attributed to Auriolus, a “servant of God” in north-western Spain. He issues a prayer to “all you patriarchs Michael, Gabriel, Cecitiel, Oriel, Raphael, Ananiel, Marmoniel (“who hold the clouds in your hands”)

Archangels in current church traditions

The Catholic Church recognizes three archangels, the three mentioned in its canon of Scripture: Gabriel and Michael, mentioned in the New Testament, and Raphael, mentioned in the book of Tobit, where he is described as “one of the seven angels who stand ready and enter before the glory of the Lord”, a phrase recalled in Revelation 8:2-6.

“Synaxis of the Archangel Michael” An Eastern Orthodox Church icon of the “Seven Archangels”. From left to right: Jegudiel, Gabriel, Selaphiel, Michael, Uriel, Raphael, Barachiel, Castiel. Beneath the mandorla of Christ Emmanuel are representations of Cherubim (in blue) and Seraphim (in red).

Some strands of the Eastern Orthodox Church, exemplified in the Orthodox Slavonic Bible (Ostrog Bible, Elizabeth Bible, and later consequently Russian Synodal Bible), recognize as authoritative also 2 Esdras, which mentions Uriel. Yet the Eastern Orthodox Church accepts only Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel.

As well as Uriel, the Book of Enoch, not regarded as canonical by any of these Christian churches, mentions (chapter 21) Raguel, Sariel, and Jerahmeel, while other apocryphal sources give instead the names Izidkiel, Hanael, and Kepharel.

In the Coptic Orthodox tradition the seven archangels are named as Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Suriel, Zadakiel, Sarathiel, and Ananiel.

In Anglican and Episcopal tradition, there are three or four archangels in its calendar for September 29 feast for St. Michael and All Angels (also called Michaelmas: namely Gabriel, Michael and Raphael), and often, Uriel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjzcSATqgxk
castle of glass • lucifer & sam [FYICV] made by: svesh95

Castle Of Glass by Linkin Park

Take me down to the river bend
Take me down to the fighting end
Wash the poison from off my skin
Show me how to be whole again

Fly me up on a silver wing
Past the black where the sirens sing
Warm me up in a nova’s glow
And drop me down to the dream below

‘Cause I’m only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see
For you to see

Bring me home in a blinding dream,
Through the secrets that I have seen
Wash the sorrow from off my skin
And show me how to be whole again

‘Cause I’m only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see
For you to see

‘Cause I’m only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything else I need to be

‘Cause I’m only a crack in this castle of glass
Hardly anything there for you to see
For you to see
For you to see

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Here is a nice video about the archangels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZts-F5dvAo
Weapons of Heaven || Archangels made by: AnAngelsHuman’s channel

Weapon of Heaven by Sinister Souls & Loop Stepwalker

And tiny tribute video about Lucifer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1LqpVPQ7p4
~Ψ Lucifer Tribute Ψ~ made by: MurdererVampire

Dead Silence Theme Song by Charles Clouser / Charlie Clouser

Quotes:

Lucifer: Well, that leads me to my next question. Where’s the big burrito himself? Where’s God in all of this?
Sam: All current indications of his presence, are that there are no current indications of his presence.
Lucifer: What? Caught the fun bus out of town. Figures.

Dean: What was that?
Amara: The future. The inevitable result of our first meeting, what you’ve been feeling since that moment. What we both felt, that we’re bonded. You’re the one who set me free.
Dean: No, that was an accident.
Amara: It was destiny. You bore the Mark, I am the original Mark. You and I will be together.
Dean: No, no that’s not gonna happen.
Amara: It’s so simple Dean, we will become one. Why wouldn’t you want that?

Minutiae:

This is the first episode of season 11 where the Impala does not make an appearance..

References:

azlyrics.com
en.wikipedia.org
supernaturalwiki.com

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