Satan is the most well known of the fallen angels and the leader of the fallen ones (later identified by some as Lucifer). Although I don’t like to dwell on the so-called ‘fallen angels’, they do appear in various texts and I feel they should not be left out completely if I am to share with you a complete view!
Revelation 12:4 says, ‘And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to earth.’ Satan was said to have deceived the whole world and was cast out, his angels with him:’ The great dragon was hurled down…called the devil or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth and his angels with him’ (Revelation 12:9).
Yet to call them ‘Angels’ goes against everything which is good, so many people still refuse to accept that there were (or are) fallen angels, recognizing them instead as negative energy or that which is without light. Some say that the name Satan does not refer to a specific ‘angel’ but is just representative of something negative, and that if you do not recognize this energy it does not exist. I think the debate will go on…
Many of these fallen angels once belonged to the choirs of angels and include such names as:
| ‘FALLEN’ ANGEL | MEANINGS OF NAME |
| Antichrist | Great Enemy of Humanity |
| Asmodeus | Demon of Lust and Anger |
| Azazel | The Standard Bearer of Hell |
| Balan | King of Hell |
| Beelzebub | Prince of Hell |
| Dagon | Phoenician Demon |
| Devil | The Evil One |
| Incubus | Woman Seducer |
| Leviathan | Sea Demon |
| Lucifer | The Fallen Light Bearer |
| Satan | The Greatest Fallen One |
| Succubus | Man Seducer |
| Zaebos | The Grand Count of Hell |
Many regard Hell as being a place of our own making – a place that exists only in our own minds. Another view of Hell is that it is the place in the other-side that we find ourselves if that is where we expect to end up, or feel we deserve to go. For those that follow and recognize the light, or the good, it is said that this place of Hell has no power.
Does the place of hell and damnation exist? Not for any normal souls, I wouldn’t think!
The Book of Enoch says that there were 200 fallen angels (and it names around 20, if you include those names which have various spellings). Other sources suggest that as many as one third of all the angels became fallen angels. In 1460, Alphonso de Spina suggested that this number might reach 133,306,668!
In some texts it is said that the angels fell because of man. Genesis 6:2 states that the angels ‘saw the daughters of men…and took them as their wives’, the start of the end for these angels!
St Augustine suggests the fall was due to pride and will. ‘Good and bad angels have arisen…from a difference in their wills and desires.’
The stories of ‘fallen angels’ were further introduced through the literary works of the writers John Milton, and Dante. Dante was a great writer and poet who lived at the end of the Middle Ages, and is famous in particular for his work The Divine Comedy, in which the author travels down through Hell and Purgatory, before reaching Heaven. John Milton’s Paradise Lost is his best-known work, and the work in which he writes most fully about the angels, including the fallen ‘Lucifer’.
According to Greek mythology, the word ‘daemon’ or ‘daimon’ was used to describe pretty well any spiritual being, as the literal translation is ‘divine being’. The word was used for either bad or good spirits. The word was often used to describe angels, and an evil angel was also called a ‘kakodaimon’.