I will first present some knowledge from the Ethiopian text of The Investiture of Michael the Archangel, then I will give commentary.
The Text
In the Ethiopian text of The Investiture of Michael the Archangel, we learn that Lucifer was the first created Angel. The text does not say “Lucifer”, but says “ArchePlasma”. The translator says that this word never appeared in any other text he knew of, so he was loathe to just translate it as “Lucifer.” I think we can appreciate both terms, Lucifer and ArchePlasma [1]. After Lucifer, all the hosts of Angels were created. The word we translate as “Angel” is always a form of the noun/verb “messenger”, meaning a messenger between higher and lower levels in the ladder of creation. If you do not know that we live in a hierarchical Universe, then you cannot know what is an Angel.
Next, God-The-Absolute created ADAM. This term “ADAM” does not mean a male like me. Rather, God created “all possible humans that will ever be born.”
After all-possibilities-for-all-humans-who-will-ever-be-born was created, the heavenly hosts came to worship this creation. This truly astonishing creation was the IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD. But Lucifer, the ArchePlasma, would not worship the image and likeness of God-the-Absolute. Lucifer went to the place of the Universe farthest from God. [2]
Now that Lucifer was no longer leading the realm of Angels, another was needed to assume that role. Michael the Archangel took that role. I see a scene where Michael the Archangel jumps up and says “I will take that quest!”
Michael the Archangel has several times fallen on his knees before God-the-Absolute to beg forgiveness of humankind, saying “Do not destroy them.” God-the-Father will not refuse the supplications of Michael the Archangel, hence many times in our human history we have been saved because Michael the Archangel begged for us.
The text further says that our Sun shines because of Archangel Michael. As an astrophysicist, this sounds very specific. I perceive that the Sun is a divine intelligence: All life on Earth comes from the Sun. Or, to say it better, comes from the union of Sun+Earth. When I read that “our Sun shines because of Michael the Archangel”, I understand that the destination of the Sun could go in many directions, maybe the Sun is an engine which must be driven, and the driver is Michael.
Commentary
From the painting.
Michael the Archangel is connected to Lucifer at the groin, the heart, and the head. A struggle is certainly evident. Yet Michael is not angry, not judgmental. The older teachings knew that this struggle did not include judgment as we usually think. “Michael” is not GOOD, and “Lucifer” is not “BAD”. Those categories are useless for anyone who seeks to understand. When the ArchePlasma chose to not worship the IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD, a polarity was set up. The Word of God broadcasts from one end of creation, and the refusal to worship an image broadcasts from the other end. Who will provide the required failure for every success? Who will provide the required hopelessness for every hope?
To take it down to my level: who will provide the scope of failure & success for my actions? When I find a choice, a BIG choice, how has the height and depth been established? The conscience I feel knows how badly things could go. Where was this “badly” established, and by whom? Things do not exist whilly nilly. If some terrible outcome is possible, then this possibility must have been created. Maybe it must have been inhabited. Who inhabits all the outcomes we wish to avoid? This is in the direction of Lucifer. Do we curse or bless Lucifer because of this? What of all the achievements I wish for? Were they not created in some realm I could never reach them. Seems these wishes of mine must be guarded by someone, and that someone is Michael the Archangel.
All of us live within this cosmic bubble held for us by the efforts of Michael & Lucifer.
Shout Out
I am motivated by Sasha Latypova to include my own art in my posts.
Footnotes
[1] The Cherubim and Seraphim are in another realm and live very close to God-the-Absolute. I need to research this more. In some teachings, the Cherubim and Seraphim are already existent with God-the-Absolute before the creation of our Universe. Of course, terms like “before” and “after” are meaningless when we think on such topics. Notable, the Cherubim and Seraphim are described as singing the praises of God. I am certain they had many more responsibilities, and I enjoy that music praise was one of their activities.
[2] To not worship the image and likeness of God seems VERY reasonable to me. Every teacher-from-above that I follow has taught the same, seems to me. Do not worship strange gods before Me. How many times needs this be said?!?
Hi Michael, since I, too, share the the Archangel's name (and often feel as if I must be an extraterrestrial entity only just visiting this peculiar plane[t] of experience), not to mention I've been known to dabble in paint (mostly oil, but I have experimented with egg tempera) I've taken it upon myself to try and adjust the photograph of your painting so we can see it a bit better. It can be downloaded from my public DropBox, here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/aivg3n1rkk6yfau/Michael-and-Plasma.jpg?dl=0 It may look a bit over saturated against the black background, but I tried my best to get the light more evenly distributed over the surface and eliminate the blue sky spilling over the top edge. I hope it is satisfactory!
Michael, thank you for taking us on this journey. It makes sense that God created ADAM as all possible humans who will ever be born, and that we are all living out some of those infinite possibilities. And that Lucifer gave us polarity, or something to choose between in every moment. Always a pleasure to read your thoughts.