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Dear Margaret,
in the "Secret book" of bogomils is described a revolt of Satanael against God. When God Almighty throws the traitor in the abyss one third of the angels who were his (Satanel's) allies have fallen down with him:
"...et traxit eum cauda tertiam partem angelorum Dei, et projectus est de sede Dei et de villicatione coelorum."

"...and with his tail he dragged away one-third of the angels of God, and he was banished from the throne of God and from the overlordship of the heavens." (http://www.bogomilism.eu/Other%20authors/Thomas%20Butler.html)

Best wishes:

Georgi Vasilev, Ph.D., D. Litt.

Professor of European and Medieval Studies

State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies

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From: "Cormack, Margaret Jean" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, March 8, 2011 8:56:46 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] fallen angels

medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture

I recently ran across a tradition to the effect that when the angels
were created, 1/10 of them were actually SUPPOSED to serve
Lucifer. Has anyone heard of anything like this?
Meg

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