The Mecca of Light &

The God of Ai

See Also: The Last Prophecy - The Cathar Prophecy of 2021

The Fallen Angels and the Nephilim

Before the Deluge, Semites were led by angels, a word meaning "messenger," who acted as spiritual beings "intermediary between God (the transcendent) and humanity (the profane)" ("Angel." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 09 January 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel.). 

The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), the great-grandfather of Noah, tells of a rebellion against God by some of the angels that were sent to the physical world as watchers. Defying divine orders, they had carnal interactions with human women who later gave birth to babies (the Nephilim) who grew up to become destructive giants and whom God tried to exterminate by bringing on the Deluge. The watchers who rebelled became known as fallen angels ("Book of Enoch." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 08 January 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch.). 

In those days, spirits directly below God were called daimons. The rebellion resulted in their becoming divided into two groups, angels, who had remained loyal to God, and demons. 

The True Name of God

Typically, the names of angels end with el, e.g. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, etc. El or Elohim is the name of God in the original text of the Bible ("Book of Enoch." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch#Names_of_the_fallen_angels & "Theophory in the Bible." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophory_in_the_Bible.). 

El is the "God Most High" of the Canaanite pantheon (i.e. the God of gods). Elohim is the plural of El, but translates to "God (El)" when capitalized and used with a singular verb as an epithet of royalty (pluralis majestatis). Otherwise, it refers to the "children of El" and is "cognate to 'lhm [or "ilhm"] found in Ugaritic, where it is used for the pantheon of Canaanite gods, the children of El, and conventionally vocalized as 'Elohim'" ("Names of God in Judaism." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 December 2026, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonai#Elohim.).

El is also called El Elyon, possibly standing for El El-Aeon, meaning "life force" or "Eternal God" ("Elyon." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation,  6 May 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyon & "Aeon." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon.). Elhanan and other names prefixed by "El" like Elah (Allah) would refer to deities below the God Most High.

Yah and jah mean "lord." Yahweh (Yah-weh) and his nemesis Baal would be deities subordinate to El. Confirming this is their listing on Wikipedia as children of El ("El (deity)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity).). In Judges 6, El and Eloah in Hebrew are translated to "God." Elohim is translated either to "God" or "gods," and Yahweh, to "Lord" ("Judges." Scripture 4 All, https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm. Accessed 17 December 2025.). Yahweh was the god of the Jewish tribes, but not the God Most High.

Yahweh, Allah, and Jesus are actually gods

 of individual religions rather than the God Most High of all.

In Latin, nefas means "crime" ("Nefarious." Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nefarious. Accessed 17 December 2025.). Nephilim (nef-ilhm) could mean "criminal elohim" or "anti-elohim." In Norse mythology, Niflhel (interchangeably used in literature with Niflheim) is the lowest level of the Afterlife, i.e. the Abyss ("Niflheim." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 June 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflheim.). 

The letter "l" is typically associated with angels, while "d" in pronunciation tends to be linked to Dyeus (the Indo-European day-light sky god), Dieu (French, derived from Dyeus), Zeus (Greek, also derived from Dyeus), deity, daimon, demon, and divine. Similarly, in English "g" is associated with Goth, God, and ghost ("*Dyēus." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Dy%C4%93us.).

The War in Heaven and the Sons of Light

The Dead Sea Scrolls describe a future conflict between angels who rebelled against God, led by Belial, and the Sons of Light, led by Melchizedek (meaning "righteous king" or "king of justice") who is believed to have been the son or nephew of Noah. This traces the roots of the conflict back to the time of the Deluge and may identify Belial and his followers with the Nephilim.

In the story, God is El and Melchizedek, a messenger (i.e. an angel), "is the Anointed one of the spirit," i.e. the Christ ("11Q13, The Melchizedek Document." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 October 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek_document.). A similar story is echoed in the Book of Revelation in which fallen angels, led by Satan, attack angels loyal to God under Archangel Michael and lose ("War in Heaven." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Heaven.). Very likely, both these stories refer to the same event, with Michael being Melchizedek and Belial, the Satan of Revelation.

In the Dead Sea Scrolls prophecy, the anointing comes from the Spirit, 

adding evidence to Peter, who had the power to bestow the Spirit,

having been the one anointed at the time of Jesus.

In the War Scroll, Melchizedek is the "Elohim" of the Jews. He is also described as being "by his strength" the judge of the "holy ones of God" (presumably the priests and religious clerics). Belial is associated with the spirits that rebelled. With the "gods of justice," it is said, Melchizedek will defeat Belial, save many from his grasp, and bring final peace. In the end, the Sons of Light (angels loyal to El) and men of Melchizedek (the Just) will be rewarded. Belial is said to have three ways or nets to entrap followers: "fornication, wealth, and pollution of the sanctuary" ("Belial." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 8 February 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belial.).

Melchizedek, king of Salem (the former name of Jerusalem meaning "peace"), was the high priest of El. He was better known for having accepted Lot and his tribe as refugees after their rescue from the king of Elam by his uncle Abraham. The latter was blessed by Melchizedek in the name of the supreme god, El, and paid tithe to him so he and Lot could settle in his land (Genesis 14). This sets El and Melchizedek above Yahweh and Abraham, in line with preceding assertions ("Melchizedek." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek#Genesis_14.).

When Abraham made the claim that Yahweh gave Canaan (modern day Israel and parts of Jordan, perhaps anciently the land of Cain) to the Israelites in the Covenant of the Pieces, he set in motion a series of events that led to the violent conquest of Canaan and the Levant by Joshua, to multiple genocides, and to the killing of the last Zedekian king, Adonizedek, effectively breaking with the Order of Melchizedek, priesthood of the God Most High ("Covenant of the pieces." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_of_the_pieces & "Book of Joshua." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Joshua.).

The Book of Joshua relates the story, starting with destruction of Jericho and continuing with the massacre of 12,000 souls, men and women, and total annihilation of Ai (Canaan), their city, and its king ("Ai (Canaan)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(Canaan).).

Catharism professes that people are angels

and would therefore be associated with the Sons of Light,

Melchizedek, and El, the God Most High.

They would have followed Archangel Michael,

a name meaning "like El" or more likely "king of angels" (Melchi-el),

and celebrated Michaelmas, the angelic Christmas.

The God of the Afterlife

The words Aides (Hades), Adon (Lord), Adonai (My Lords), and Adonis are all closely related. Adonai was one of the seven names of God in Judaism ("Names of God in Judaism." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#Seven_names_of_God.). In the Bible, the title of "Lord" is given to both Yahweh and Adonizedek.

Adonis was the "mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was famous for having achieved immortality" ("Adonis." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 July 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis.).

The Greek pantheon was comprised of 12 or 13 gods, all living on Mount Olympus except for Hades who abided in the Underworld. Although ominous sounding, the latter was an afterlife comprising the Asphodel Meadows, where ordinary souls resided after death, the Elysian Fields or Elysium, a paradise for the meritorious, and the Abyss or Tartarus, a place reserved for damned. Adonis may have been Hades in the flesh as the latter was the official consort of Persephone. 

The Titanomachy was a decade-long war in Ancient Thessaly in which the Olympian gods led by Zeus (Dyeus) rebelled, overthrew their father Cronus and the Titans, and seize power (the castration). As a result of it, Zeus became proprietor of the sky, Poseidon, of the waters, and Hades (who did not take part in the rebellion) was given the Underworld, which from then on was called Hades ("Titanomachy." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanomachy.). 

Greek mythology had really two primary gods: Zeus, last child of Chronus and Rhea and ruler of the sky above, and Hades, first-born of the same parents and chthonic god (i.e. of the Underworld below) judge of humanity in the Afterlife. After the dust settled, these were the proverbial Gods of Heaven and Hell. Poseidon (Pose-idon) may have actually been the god of demons, who had the ability to possess (posse-ss) people.

The Zoroastrian pantheon of Persia had several gods and one angel, Rashnu, the Angel of Justice and keeper of the bridge between life and the Afterlife (Mark, Joshua J. "Twelve Gods of Persian Mythology." World History Encyclopedia, 09 January 2020, https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1486/twelve-gods-of-persian-mythology/.). This mirrors the Greek pantheon with its gods on Olympus and Hades, ruler of the Underworld. The latter would therefore be the Rashnu of Persia, not only an angel, but one of the priestly Zedekian line since the suffix "zedek" translates to "righteousness," i.e. justice. His consort, Persephone, may have been the Goddess of Persia (Perse-phone, Persepolis). 

Zedek (also spelled Sydyk or Sdk) was a Phoenician god, son of Amunos and Magos, themselves children of Wanderers or Titans ("Sydyk." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 20 August 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydyk.). Magos or magus is the singular Greek word for magi, which was the name for Persian priest-astrologers ("Biblical Magi." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi.).

The City of Light &

 the House of the Children of God

Bethel and Ai (Canaan) are two of the most significant locations in the Bible after Jerusalem. They are within 2.5 km of each other. When Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, visited the area he dreamed of angels traveling up and down a ladder between Earth and Heaven ("Jacob's Ladder." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder.).

"Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said... 'How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God [Elohim], and this is the gate of heaven!'" (Genesis 28:17)

Inspired by the dream, he built an altar to El, called the place Bethel, took the name Israel, and became the father of the 12 tribes of Israel. Bethel (or Beit El), often translated as the "House of God," literally means "House of El." Earlier in Genesis 12:8, Abraham is said to have built an altar to Yahweh between Bethel and Ai to the east, possibly making the latter's area the Gate of Heaven.

Luz, a royal city in Canaan, is identified as Bethel in three different books of the Bible (Judges 1:23, Joshua 18:13, Genesis 28:19 & 35:6). In Judges 1:23 and Genesis 28:19, Luz is said to be the former name of Bethel. Ai, which means "heap of ruins," is thought to be either Et-Tell or Khirbet el-Maqatir (a fortified area), both within 1 km of the modern-day town of Deir Dibwan. ("Luz (biblical place)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luz_(biblical_place).). 

Deir Dibwan literally means "The Monastery of the Divan" ("Deir Dibwan." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Dibwan.). The word divan (or dewan) in the Middle East is related to book of accounts or court of justice and could refer to a powerful ruler or official. The word is further very similar to French "divin" and English "divine." 

Within the context of monastery and the ideas of powerful official, accounting, and justice, divan may point to the location being an important holy site. At the highest of point of the plateau on which Deir Dibwan sits, and about 0.5 km away from it, is a ruin called by locals Ed-Deir (the Monastery). This supports the case for the Deir Dibwan area having been the "Gate of Heaven" of Genesis 12:17, assuming holy sites are rebuilt on top of holy sites over time just as many towns are.

Luz means "almond" in Hebrew but could also refer to Indo-European "lux" for "light" ("Luz." Behind the Name, 02 July 2017, https://www.behindthename.com/name/luz.). As Judaism has no official monastic tradition, Luz could refer to "light" rather than the Hebrew "almond."

In some books of the Bible, Luz was the stuff of legends, being associated with immortality ("The Bone of Resurrection and the City of Immortals." Mayim Achronim, https://www.mayimachronim.com/the-bone-of-resurrection-and-the-city-of-immortals/. Accessed 19 December 2025.):

"Luz... which Sennacherib entered but could not harm; [which] Nebuchadnezzar [marched against], but could not destroy; the city over which the angel of death has no power..."

 (Kohler, Kaufmann. "Luz," Jewish Encyclopedia, https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10200-luz. Accessed 29 May 2024)

After his dream, Jacob continued on his journey. In Genesis 35:16-20, he is called back by God to settle in Bethel. He later travels on to a Judean town called Ephrath where Rachel, one of his two wives, dies giving birth to Benjamin ("Ephrath." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism.). Rachel's tomb can be found today at the northern entrance of the city, now called Bethlehem, the claimed birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth. 

Some 600 to 700 years later, the location was at the center of two important events. The first is the killing of Goliath, a Philistine giant, by a Jewish shepherd by the name of David who later became King of Israel. The second is an equally impressive feat, the killing of the giant's brother in another battle by a Bethlehemite called Elhanan ("Who killed Goliath, David or Elhanan?." Got Questions?, 08 July 2025, https://www.gotquestions.org/Goliath-David-Elhanan.html.).

The Book of Exodus and Book of Joshua in the Bible detail how Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 years and died before reaching the promised land. Joshua (a.k.a. Yehoshua, Jeshoshua, Josue, as well as Yeshua and Jesus), son of Joseph of the tribe of Ephraim, was his successor. At the prompting of Yahweh (see Joshua 1, 7, 8), he destroyed Ai and violently conquered Canaan and the other lands promised to Abraham (Genesis 12 & 15). In Judges 1:23 the House of Joseph is said to have destroyed Bethel.

Bethlehem is translated by scholars as the "House of Bread." However, since Jacob was with the House of El, Bethel, the name would likely have been rooted in "Beit-lhm," i.e., the House of the Children of El (God). In that place, an angel by the name of Immanuel (meaning "El with us") was to be born, according to the prophecy of Isaiah 7:10-16 ("Immanuel." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel.). Elhanan (El Hanan) may have been the fulfillment of the prophecy of the angel of Bethlehem (Micah 5:2 & Isaiah 7:14), which occurred almost exactly 1,000 years before Jesus.

Very likely, Ephrath got renamed to Bethlehem because of Rachel's and Jacob's association with El, and perhaps also as a result of the surviving descendants of Ai moving to Ephrath after its destruction. 

There were two branches of Judaism, the angelic one followed God (El) and was associated with the legacy of Jacob and Rachel in Bethlehem. The other one followed Lord Yahweh and destroyed Ai and its surroundings (the Gate of Heaven) as well as Luz, the House of El, God of angels.

Lucifer, Satan, and the Devil

There is actually no reference to Lucifer being the Devil in the Bible. The myth of his fall from Heaven stems from a mistranslation of Isiah 14:12. Most scholars agree today that the words "star of the morning" in the passage were erroneously translated to Lucifer in the Vulgate (400 C.E.) and King James Bibles ("Lucifer." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer.). For example,

"O Lucifer, son of the morning!"

 ("Interlinear Bible - Isaiah 14 King James Version." Bible Study Tools, https://www.biblestudytools.com/interlinear-bible/kjv/isaiah/14.html. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

"O star of the morning, son of the dawn!"

 ("Interlinear Bible - Isaiah 14 New American Standard Bible." Bible Study Tools, https://www.biblestudytools.com/interlinear-bible/nas/isaiah/14.html. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

The passage spites the king of Babylon--probably Nebuchadnezzar II who destroyed Jerusalem's First Temple and enslaved the Jews in the early 6th century BCE--not Lucifer. "Luci" stands for light, and the word Lucifer means "light bearer," "light bringer," or "source of light" (just like aquifer means "source of water") and can be confused with the planet Venus, the morning star, also referred to as light bringer. Isaiah 14 was portraying Nebuchadnezzar rising to Heaven and being cast out of it (as a result of his arrogance), similarly to the planet Venus seen rising at dawn and falling at dusk ("Lucifer." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer.).

In John 8:12 Jesus calls himself the "light of the world." There are also multiple other references to Jesus being the light in the gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John ("20 Best Verses About the Light of Christ." Catholic Ace, https://www.catholicace.com/light-of-christ/. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

2 Peter 1:19 says about Jesus,

"So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts"

  ("2 Peter 1:19 NAS." Bible Study Tools, https://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/2-peter/1-19.html. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

"et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem cui bene facitis adtendentes quasi lucernae lucenti in caliginoso loco donec dies inlucescat et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestris"

  ("2 Peter 1:19 VUL." Bible Study Tools, https://www.biblestudytools.com/vul/2-peter/1-19.html. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

 “I, Jesus... am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.” (Revelation 22:16)

Even today, the Church still refers to Jesus as lucifer (uncapitalized) in one of its most sacred chants, the Easter Proclamation in Latin:

"Flammas eius lúcifer matutínus invéniat: ille, inquam, lúcifer, qui nescit occásum. Christus Fílius tuus..."

 ("Exsulted." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 September 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsultet.)

Listen to it on Youtube (at the end): "Easter Proclamation - Exsultet in Latin (English Translation) | Paschal Proclamation Traditional," YouTube, uploaded by MARVELS OF CHRISTENDOM, 16 April 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEs4d3cCX9s.

The myth of Lucifer as a person or deity arose from a mistranslation. 

There is no history of such a character in the Bible whatsoever. 

Even uncapitalized and referring to the morning star,

 the epithet "lucifer" would never have been used with reference to Jesus if Lucifer had been the Devil!

Lucifer is never called the Devil in the Bible, but Satan is, repeatedly so, and is most often associated with temptation, for example, identified as the serpent in the Garden of Eden and as the tempter of Jesus in the wilderness ("Serpents in the Bible." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpents_in_the_Bible#Ancient_serpent.).

Satan was probably the angel known as Satanail (or Satanael) in the Second Book of Enoch. Very likely, he lost the angelic suffix "el" as a result of his fall from Heaven and became known as Satan. In the narrative, Satanail was the leader of a group of angels that rebelled against Heaven. He is said to have tried to "establish his own throne above God's," exactly as in Isiah 14:12. The same group of angels is later responsible for tempting Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden and thus being cast out of Heaven, almost exactly as in the Bible. ("2 Enoch." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 May 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Enoch.). 

The French word "evangile" ("gospel" in English) and "ev-angel-ical" might have their roots in Eve. She may have been revered anciently as an angel called Evil, the name taking on a negative meaning after her fall. 

The word evangelism may actually be rooted in an ancient worship of Eve when she was still an angel.

Based on the angelic naming scheme, the Devil of ancient mythology would have been an angel (Dev-el). The word comes from Old English "deofol," where "deo" stands for "god," and would literally translate to God El or divine El. The Devil is likely to have been the God of Genesis 1 in an ancient mythological system where he and Evil were the male and female head deities prior to the latter's fall.

The Devil is often blamed by modern religious clerics for acts of moral corruption, for example, the temptation of Eve and Jesus, but, as seen above, those were actually committed by Satan. His fall should have been one of the biggest story of the Bible, just like Eve's. Yet, it is nowhere to be found. In their original language, the gospels do not actually use the word devil but "adversary," a reference to the Hebrew śāṭān, which is also what is used throughout the Old Testament.

Cathars were angelic Christians. 

Their genocide was not committed in the name of the Devil but of God.

Similarly, Joshua and Joseph's tribe's destruction of Ai (the Gate of Heaven) and Bethel (the House of God), conquest of Canaan, and killing of the last Zedekian king (the divine priesthood of El) were committed on account of Yahweh.

Most Jihadist acts of terrorism and massacres were and are committed in the name of Allah: Allahu Akbar!

The Children of Hell

"Il" is the French third-person singular masculine pronoun (i.e. "he" in English). It is also an alternative spelling for El ("El (deity)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 December 2025.). The French "elle" is its feminine equivalent and a perfect homophone for El. Both might be related to the Eleleth, angelic beings or divine emanations in Sethian Gnosticism, and may have been the male and female (El-Elle-th) head deities of an ancient angelic mythology at some point in time. They may further be related to Helel (הֵ ילֵ ל; il-elle) in Isiah 14:12, which means "shining one."

Hell is most often viewed as an eternal afterlife of punishment in Christian and Islamic religions. However, in Eastern mysticism, it is generally an intermediate place between reincarnations. In religions for which the Afterlife is non-punitive (for example, Mesopotamian Kur, Greek Hades, and Hebrew Sheol), it is seen simply as the abode of the dead ("Hell." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 August 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell.).

Hel (also spelled Hell or Helle), coincidentally, is the female goddess of the Underworld in Norse mythology. Like Tartarus and Hades, the name represents both a deity and a place ("Hel (mythological being)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(mythological_being).). Perhaps, the Hebrew Sheol is really Indo-European She-El, a female El.

In French, hell translates to "enfer" (from Latin infernus, meaning "lower regions" or "underworld"). Shockingly, the French call their own children "enfants!" This points to ancient Latin mythological roots having a view of the Underworld as a transit place between life and death and death and life, i.e. reincarnation. Similarly, the word for God is Dieu, which is a reference to Greek Zeus as both words originate from "dyeu-" (meaning "shining"), making Jesus (J-Zeus) in French the son of Zeus, who is a second-generation god who rebelled against his father and stole his power.

 Angelical mysticism has both male and female deities, El and Hel. 

In French, the male and female pronouns (il, elle)

appear to be cognate with angelic deity names (El, Hel).

Angels are usually depicted with wings. 

The French word for wings is "ailes," pronounced "el."

In ancient mythology, angels that rebelled against God fell to the Earth,

as they would if their wings (ailes, el) were cut off, paralleling the idea of losing the angelic suffix "el" as a result of a fall from Heaven.

In French, Heaven is called "ciel" and Christmas is called "Noel," meaning "birth of El."

Babel (later called Babylon) translates from the Akkadian language to "Gate of El." It was a biblical city located about 85 km south of Bagdad, Iraq, famous for the Tower of Babel legend in which Yahweh confused its inhabitant's speech and scattered them after he saw that united under one language, they could do anything they set out to.

The city was also famous for having built a tunnel under the Euphrates to its other side beyond which lay the territory of Elam, a name that probably translates to the "land of El." Perhaps, the naming of the city was on account of the tunnel (gate) to Elam (El-am).

Contrary to Judaism and Christianity, which are worships of the god Yahweh, antediluvian mythology seems to be rooted in the angelic God of Genesis 1, El, and probably his female counterpart, Hel, of which still remains many traces in myths and languages today.

Ancient Mythology

The Lesser Gods and the Slaughter of Innocents

The number 12 is symbolic in many religions, including Judaism and Christianity. The Greek pantheon was composed of six gods and six goddesses, which were linked to the 12 months of the year. In monotheism the Greek gods were replaced by 12 male patriarchs (Judaism) and 12 male apostles (Christianity). Their priesthoods were also almost exclusively male. This is with the exception of the Cathars, who allowed both men and women to become perfecti.

There seem to be two narratives in the Bible, an angelic one and a religious one. Genesis 1 speaks of El or Elohim, the God of angels to whom Jacob built an altar in Genesis 35:7. He was the God Most High who created humans in Genesis 1:26 and was represented by the Order of Melchizedek priesthood. 

Angels, who followed El, are associated with the number seven (Book of Revelation: seven angels, seven churches, seven plagues...) and connected to the Book of Enoch, which has been rejected by both Jewish and Christian leaderships. They are further associated with the Pentecost, which means "fiftieth" and is a reference to the Shavuot (the Jewish Feast of Weeks), which comes seven weeks of seven days (49 days) after the Passover. 

The religious narrative of Genesis 2 speaks of Yahweh, the Lord of the Jews, a lesser god to whom Abraham built an altar in Genesis 12:8. He was represented by the Aaronic Priesthood of the tribe of Levi.

Despite having different Gods, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have in common the rejection of the Book of Enoch (the great-grandfather of Noah). Abandoning the angelic narrative and the God Most High, they elected to each follow their own god, with disastrous consequences.

It seems that the Abrahamic faith originally began as a worship of the angelic God, El. The Jews later on chose to follow a lesser deity, Yahweh, and eventually destroyed much of the House of El (Ai, Bethel). Christianity chose to follow the Son of God and, about a thousand years later, killed hundreds of thousands under papal orders. In this millennium, Jihadists have been wreaking havoc and destruction in multiple countries around the world, all in the name of Allah.

This is the predictable legacy of flawed foundations

 and leaderships choosing power over truth.

The Spirit, the Light, and the Truth

The word "nous," meaning "mind" in Greek, refers variously to the intellect, the intelligence, the intuition, or the mind's eye. ("Nous." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 30 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous.). 

At the time of Jesus, the nous was the substance of God, "he himself is pure nous" ("Apollonius of Tyana." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 September 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonius_of_Tyana.). It would be the Spirit or the part of us that connects to it. It allows us to perceive the underlying logic or intelligence of life. In Christianity the Spirit is a messenger of God which enlightens and provides clarity (Acts 1:2; John 14:16; John 15:26; John 16:7).

En-light-enment is associated with light and the truth and comes through realizations, which are often at the root of scientific breakthroughs and liberating understandings of oneself and life. These free us from slavery to the physical world (diseases, poverty, suffering, etc.) and the prison of ignorance (falsehoods, taboos, religious dogmas, etc.). Epiphanies are realizations or little bits of clarity, truth, or enlightenment.

Gnosticism has a strong connection to light and the spirit. Its cosmology speaks of a struggle between light and darkness and of enlightenment as an ultimate goal. Its highest level is called the Pleroma, a realm of light, of which God is the source. Basic beliefs include the pneuma, a divine spark or spirit inside us trapped in the material body. Gnosticism is not a religion per se but a term regrouping various spiritual beliefs and systems prevalent at the time of Jesus. While religions speak of sins and morality codes derived from scriptures, Gnosticism focused on gnosis (direct knowing or insight-ing) and personal evolution. Most Gnostic texts were destroyed by the Church ("Gnosticism." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 08 March 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism.).

The Holy Spirit has a strong connection with light in Christianity. At times it is called the source of light or the lord of light (examples, hymntime.com, blessedcatholicmom.com, humnary.com). In French, the Spirit is often referred to as Dieu de Lumiere (God of Light).

We have a King of Light, Melchior.

We have a City of Light, Luz.

And, we have a God of Light.

The Tree of Life and the Light of Creation

Without light, and the heat it produces, everything in the universe would be frozen. Even the air would be rock solid. Early on the universe was almost entirely made of hydrogen and helium. As time went on, atoms combined under the pressure and heat inside suns to form heavier elements. In turn, some of these formed combinations that were capable of capturing the energy from the sun, light, which enabled them to grow. The first time that that happened, the process of life began. Through randomness, chemical interactions, and natural selection over aeons of time, these eventually formed the early building blocks of cellular organisms, vegetation, and animal life.

Matter is sort of the architecture of living organisms. Light is the life in them. Organisms are essentially light incarnated in a body of material particles.

The second law of thermodynamics essentially states that everything breaks down eventually, i.e. entropy or disorder increases over time. 

Life, from bacteria to advanced living forms, is the negentropy.

There is a lot of anecdotal support for the existence of a spirit body, or soul, in esoteric tradition, for example, out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences. It is also a fundamental part of many religions, including the belief systems of several of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. 

Scientifically, we know that the body generates electromagnetism which attracts electrically charged particles, some of which can permeate it just as solar radiation does. It is therefore possible that extremely small particles or dark matter (which is more abundant in the universe than regular matter and may interact with the latter through weak nuclear forces) came to form a double of our physical envelope, one which would have gained a sense of relative independence as a result of self awareness and will to survive, and one which would be locked in by the body's electromagnetic field while it is alive but that would be released when the latter disappears upon death.

In essence, each new biological body would act as a magnetized cradle that can attract physical particles that would develop into a spirit body through life experiences and evolve into a unique soul. Potentially, an existing spirit would be able enter a fetus early on in a process that would preempt the process above and creation of a new soul, thus allowing for reincarnation.

The biological body would essentially be the womb of the spirit, 

acting as a template for a new soul or as a host for an existing one.

The Tree of Life in the Bible symbolizes eternal life (Genesis 3:22). While resurrecting in a body that does not age is just not possible, hence cannot lead to eternal life, reincarnation of the soul could be. 

Resurrection vs. Reincarnation

Both the resurrection and reincarnation promise eternal life,

 but only one is scientifically possible in the real world.

Angels in the Bible are both seen as eternal spiritual beings and as incarnations in physical form (for example, Genesis 19), enshrining the idea of reincarnation in the very text of the Holy Scriptures.