The Lilu
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 3:27 pm
The Lilu
A Study
Doctor William Tarek
When YHVH created Man, he had originally created them as a pair; Adam (Man) and Lilith (Woman), each two extremes that represented YHVH's own facets. To understand Adam and Lilith was to understand, in part, their Creator; the El aspect, that of Order; and the Asherah aspect, that of Chaos. In effect YHVH is his own Yin and Yang; being two diametrically opposed forces intertwined and balanced as one. And by understanding the natures of YHVH's creations, one can also see how, seperate, they were doomed to be forever in conflict.
Adam, controlling, and Lilith, eager to be wild and free, were never to be a couple. From the moment of their first breaths, Adam demanded control and submission, while Lilith questioned his right. Adam could not even claim divine right, for it was Lilith's ear that YHVH whispered into, telling her the secret of his True Name.
Despite their differences Adam could not resist his beautiful equal, and together they had seven children; the first circle of humans, like Lilith herself, not mentioned in the Bible. But these differences inevitably turned violent, and Lilith invoked the True Name, fleeing the Garden of Eden.
Adam, incensed, demanded she return, and three angels were deployed to bring her back, against her will. For this refusal they proclaimed that Lilith's 100 descendents (they had multiplied several generations by this point) would be killed daily; misworded by the Alphabet of Ben Sirah to say that one hundred of her children would be killed daily, which is simply absurd. Such a rate would decimate even the vast jinn and angels in a few short centuries.
However, as Lilith's crime was much different than that of Adam and Eve, her and her progeny were spared the fate of mortality; Adam and Eve created the gravest crime of not only disobeying YHVH, but of also believing the word of a jinn over that of the Creator. And once Adam returned to the dust from which he was formed and Eden lost, the curse over Lilith's progeny was lifted. What was not lifted, however, was their immortality.
Lilith's children might well consider that a punishement of its own, especially those eldest Lilu, who watched their kind become demonized and hunted throughout history.
Lilith herself allowed her children to run their own affairs, being somewhat shameful of the fate of daily death she brought upon them, and consorted with another of YHVH's outcasts; the Angel of Light, Lucifer. Though she did not share in his cause to overthrow God, neither did she oppose it. Lilith may have been loyal to the end toward YHVH, far unlike her "replacement" in Eve, but had grown bitter toward the Creator for his punishment of her children over a simple, heartfelt desire to be free.
Ironically in Lucifer did Lilith do YHVH's work, the desire to create a likeness of His own aspects. Lucifer, like the brilliant El, and Lilith, like the fiece Asherah, formed a sort of "mirror" of YHVH; in occult circles this union is symbolized as the Baphomet, the androgynous goat-entity.
Lilith and her children, known as the lilu, remained spiteful of Adam and his mortal descendents and fought them at every turn. But as mortals multiplied exponentially, vastly outnumbering the lilu; it would be a losing battle. Though unkillable, lilu could not fight the all of the hosts the most primitive mortal tribes and kingdoms assembled.
Fear only drove the mortals to fight harder, and the lilu would be engraved upon the face of human memory forever. Even when the lilu began preying upon human victims, as opposed to fighting them on open ground, that memory was only further emblazoned, and parents terrified their children of wild, exaggerated tales of blood-drinking demons striking in the night.
Loss of the Elders
The lilu lingered on without their Mother, ruled by the Circle of Seven, struggling to exist in a world of humans and preternatural oddities. While the Lilu could not die, this in itself proved a bit of a liability, as they could be captured and tortured without end.
The lilu Elders continued Lilith's campaign of petty retribution against the humans, a war of bitter wrath eventually evolving into hunting for sport. This greatly influenced mortal myth over the centuries, as the penchant for lilu magi to capture mortal souls, combined with the frightening tendency of Lilu to consume the blood of their victims; both done to replenish the Lilu's own spiritual energy.
When the Nephilim were spawned by angelic meddling, the lilu had a powerful new competitor on the young earth; great wars were waged between the lilu and the Nephilim, ending with the Nephilim's inevitable defeat at the hands of the Seven Archangels. But this did not occur before the Nephilim were able to corner and capture the Circle, every one of them, and magically imprison them.
The lilu, led by their next eldest; Nizarah Arak and Damal Mur, searched desperately for their leaders while even fighting the fantastically powerful Nephilim and beating them back. They did not succeed before YHVH destroyed the world with the Flood, but being True Immortals did not die permenantly in the massive torrent. They were reborn after the waters resided, and were able to flee across the virgin land before Noah's descendents found them.
Damal and Nizarah became the new rulers of the Lilu, and declared that they would strive toward locating the true rulers when possible, and fighting their enemies when not. By order of the Rulers, the immortals dispersed throughout the world, scattering and living mundane lives. Some lived as paupers, some as princes, some as pirates. For the lilu, it was time to live their unending lives for living, while their distant rulers led the cause of finding their true rulers; or at least appeared to. But being who they are, preternatural concerns chased the lilu wherever they went.
Besides the typical meddling jinn and other creatures seeking to manipulate them, mortal sorcerers would seek out the secrets of the lilu, or attempt to magically control them. Further, organizations such as the Ordo Procella obviously saw such supernaturals as the lilu dangerous, and added them to their targets.
While some lilu have raised concern over Nizarah and Damal's inability to locate the seven Elders, others appear to have grown to support their leadership; it is the untold truth within the scattered global community of lilu that "finding" their true leaders has been put on an indefinite hold. But to understand why, one must know of the Elders themselves.
Many within the lilu, Nizarah and Damal foremost amongst them, blame the Elders for their kind's demonization amongst mortal kind, giving rise to the ancient blood-drinking demon legend and more modern vampire myths. The Elders were warlike, agressive, and had no respect for human life; rather than integrate, as the Lilu did under their current rulers, they fought mortals and even kept some tribes as slave-cattle.
While one would be loathe to call the decadant Nizarah and Damal "reformers", one must admit that their policies are more agreeable than those of the Elders.
A Study
Doctor William Tarek
When YHVH created Man, he had originally created them as a pair; Adam (Man) and Lilith (Woman), each two extremes that represented YHVH's own facets. To understand Adam and Lilith was to understand, in part, their Creator; the El aspect, that of Order; and the Asherah aspect, that of Chaos. In effect YHVH is his own Yin and Yang; being two diametrically opposed forces intertwined and balanced as one. And by understanding the natures of YHVH's creations, one can also see how, seperate, they were doomed to be forever in conflict.
Adam, controlling, and Lilith, eager to be wild and free, were never to be a couple. From the moment of their first breaths, Adam demanded control and submission, while Lilith questioned his right. Adam could not even claim divine right, for it was Lilith's ear that YHVH whispered into, telling her the secret of his True Name.
Despite their differences Adam could not resist his beautiful equal, and together they had seven children; the first circle of humans, like Lilith herself, not mentioned in the Bible. But these differences inevitably turned violent, and Lilith invoked the True Name, fleeing the Garden of Eden.
Adam, incensed, demanded she return, and three angels were deployed to bring her back, against her will. For this refusal they proclaimed that Lilith's 100 descendents (they had multiplied several generations by this point) would be killed daily; misworded by the Alphabet of Ben Sirah to say that one hundred of her children would be killed daily, which is simply absurd. Such a rate would decimate even the vast jinn and angels in a few short centuries.
However, as Lilith's crime was much different than that of Adam and Eve, her and her progeny were spared the fate of mortality; Adam and Eve created the gravest crime of not only disobeying YHVH, but of also believing the word of a jinn over that of the Creator. And once Adam returned to the dust from which he was formed and Eden lost, the curse over Lilith's progeny was lifted. What was not lifted, however, was their immortality.
Lilith's children might well consider that a punishement of its own, especially those eldest Lilu, who watched their kind become demonized and hunted throughout history.
Lilith herself allowed her children to run their own affairs, being somewhat shameful of the fate of daily death she brought upon them, and consorted with another of YHVH's outcasts; the Angel of Light, Lucifer. Though she did not share in his cause to overthrow God, neither did she oppose it. Lilith may have been loyal to the end toward YHVH, far unlike her "replacement" in Eve, but had grown bitter toward the Creator for his punishment of her children over a simple, heartfelt desire to be free.
Ironically in Lucifer did Lilith do YHVH's work, the desire to create a likeness of His own aspects. Lucifer, like the brilliant El, and Lilith, like the fiece Asherah, formed a sort of "mirror" of YHVH; in occult circles this union is symbolized as the Baphomet, the androgynous goat-entity.
Lilith and her children, known as the lilu, remained spiteful of Adam and his mortal descendents and fought them at every turn. But as mortals multiplied exponentially, vastly outnumbering the lilu; it would be a losing battle. Though unkillable, lilu could not fight the all of the hosts the most primitive mortal tribes and kingdoms assembled.
Fear only drove the mortals to fight harder, and the lilu would be engraved upon the face of human memory forever. Even when the lilu began preying upon human victims, as opposed to fighting them on open ground, that memory was only further emblazoned, and parents terrified their children of wild, exaggerated tales of blood-drinking demons striking in the night.
Loss of the Elders
The lilu lingered on without their Mother, ruled by the Circle of Seven, struggling to exist in a world of humans and preternatural oddities. While the Lilu could not die, this in itself proved a bit of a liability, as they could be captured and tortured without end.
The lilu Elders continued Lilith's campaign of petty retribution against the humans, a war of bitter wrath eventually evolving into hunting for sport. This greatly influenced mortal myth over the centuries, as the penchant for lilu magi to capture mortal souls, combined with the frightening tendency of Lilu to consume the blood of their victims; both done to replenish the Lilu's own spiritual energy.
When the Nephilim were spawned by angelic meddling, the lilu had a powerful new competitor on the young earth; great wars were waged between the lilu and the Nephilim, ending with the Nephilim's inevitable defeat at the hands of the Seven Archangels. But this did not occur before the Nephilim were able to corner and capture the Circle, every one of them, and magically imprison them.
The lilu, led by their next eldest; Nizarah Arak and Damal Mur, searched desperately for their leaders while even fighting the fantastically powerful Nephilim and beating them back. They did not succeed before YHVH destroyed the world with the Flood, but being True Immortals did not die permenantly in the massive torrent. They were reborn after the waters resided, and were able to flee across the virgin land before Noah's descendents found them.
Damal and Nizarah became the new rulers of the Lilu, and declared that they would strive toward locating the true rulers when possible, and fighting their enemies when not. By order of the Rulers, the immortals dispersed throughout the world, scattering and living mundane lives. Some lived as paupers, some as princes, some as pirates. For the lilu, it was time to live their unending lives for living, while their distant rulers led the cause of finding their true rulers; or at least appeared to. But being who they are, preternatural concerns chased the lilu wherever they went.
Besides the typical meddling jinn and other creatures seeking to manipulate them, mortal sorcerers would seek out the secrets of the lilu, or attempt to magically control them. Further, organizations such as the Ordo Procella obviously saw such supernaturals as the lilu dangerous, and added them to their targets.
While some lilu have raised concern over Nizarah and Damal's inability to locate the seven Elders, others appear to have grown to support their leadership; it is the untold truth within the scattered global community of lilu that "finding" their true leaders has been put on an indefinite hold. But to understand why, one must know of the Elders themselves.
Many within the lilu, Nizarah and Damal foremost amongst them, blame the Elders for their kind's demonization amongst mortal kind, giving rise to the ancient blood-drinking demon legend and more modern vampire myths. The Elders were warlike, agressive, and had no respect for human life; rather than integrate, as the Lilu did under their current rulers, they fought mortals and even kept some tribes as slave-cattle.
While one would be loathe to call the decadant Nizarah and Damal "reformers", one must admit that their policies are more agreeable than those of the Elders.