Wrestling with the Angel

[astrum_adamas]

What is your name? ...and, Who Am I?

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two more inspirational quotes:

[yezida]

Whoever was beaten by this Angel
(who often simply declined the fight)
went away proud and strengthened
and great from that harsh hand,
that kneaded him as if to change his shape.
Winning does not tempt that man.
This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively,
by constantly greater beings. - Rainer Maria Rilke

I yam what I yam. - Popeye the Sailor

Angel

[veronikos]

Some say the Angel was Samael; the Zohar records it as such. Others say that the name of the angel was also Peniel, who was traditionally associated with Venus and Friday. It seems to me that the text supports that more because the angel touches the hollow of Jacob's thigh -- a very common euphemism in Hebrew (and Greek) for phallus. The Chaldean astrology of the time associated Venus with both the 5th (sexual activity) and 12th (sin) mundane houses.

[votum_succendo]

"So Israel dwells in security, The fountain of Jacob secluded, In a land of grain and new wine; His heavens also drop down dew."
Deuteronomy 33:28