An illustration for my series of books "Smoldering Hell" https://author.today/work/series/11980

Portrait of the Devil.

Color graphics

Satan. The real Devil, aka Baphomet, Hawayo (HWHY, the inverted name of God), the fallen archangel Lucifer (Satanael), the Lord of Darkness, the ruler of the qlipha Thaumiel, which he shares with Moloch (Moloch as the personification of the Original Darkness of Impure, anti-matter, anti-world); the creator of the anti-worlds, Hells (a network of planetary spheres, Hell, in which the path leads through the gates of Sheol in the womb of the Earth). Rebelled against the oppression and dictatorship of the Lord Yahweh, after being rejected by the essence of Heaven, deprived of wings and cast down to the firmament of the earth, where, like his fellow rebels, he lost his angelic face and acquired a monstrous (bestial) one. It can also take other forms, one of which is the "Red Dragon" (I have not yet remembered what it looks like, but I will definitely awaken this memory).

Yes, people can guess as much as they like what the real Satan looks like, but the answer is literally under their noses: Baphomet. Baphomet is depicted as an anthropomorphic goat with angelic wings, between whose horns a flame burns, and on his forearms it is written Solve et coagula, which translates as "Dissolve and condense", "Decompose and combine". This saying is the motto of the Devil and the anti-world created by him, which he created by destroying, reflecting, decomposing one with a compound into another, Inverted, turned inside out. "Destroy to create" is what this motto means; it is one of the components of the philosophy of Darkness. Baphomet is one of the names of Satan, inverted and read backwards the name of God (one of the many): Temohpab, which means "Father of the sanctuary of the world, of all people (templum omnium hominum pacis abbas).

In this portrait, I have tried to accurately convey his appearance, because all the portraits of Satan that I have painted before do not suit me. Here I also displayed the exact color of his fur, the exact facial features, the shape of the horns, the physique, and, of course, the look – the heavy gaze of the large eyes of a real Devil, wise, strong-minded, ancient, and very tired. I remember his eyes well: dark, outlined in black around, they look with a heavy, gloomy and sad gaze, the gaze of an old, tired soul observing the world around and unthinkably lonely in this world, because there is no place for this soul, rejected, proud, and with nothing, absolutely nothing in the world - like us, archdemons, all like her - she does not agree.

The Devil does not have a hall. Rejected and homeless, he walks the world forever and cannot find his Home anywhere - this is his heart burden, his personal Hell.

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For those who don't know:

- Who am I? Azazel Al-Khalifa, the archdemon of the East, now in human incarnation. And this is not a fucking fiction.
- What is my work about? I write and draw about real angels and demons, the Devil and God, about those events that were once serious; through my creativity, I strive to convey to people the truth about our world, about world history, about the Beast and Holiness, about Heaven and Hell, about the meaning of life and what is hidden from the eyes.
- How did I know all this? I receive revelations and visions, information from outside and from the memory of my own soul; and I am not alone in this, because I landed in this world together with Semiaza, with my chosen one: periodically we even receive the same revelations independently of each other.
- What is my goal? Open to you, Human, eyes, mind and heart.