If you read "Introduction to Writing and Characters" in my Robin Layne account, you know who Israfel7 is. I just call him Israfel. The 7 was because there was another Israfel on the site. I figured it was another person who made up the name, like I did back when I was in junior high. I invented the name as one for an angel. A couple years ago I developed that angel character further and made a Gaia account for him. As I set out to make him an e-mail, I found the name Israfel was already taken on Yahoo. Another inventor of the same name, or did the word have a foreign significance?
For a while I talked with my character Israfel often. He had a soothing affect on me. One time the Lord said to me, "How do you know Israfel isn't a real angel?" I almost laughed. I didn't believe that real angels went inside people and posed as their invented characters. But God can do anything . . .
I thought little more about it, until the discovery I made in a bookstore last week. I was shopping for Poe poetry because two of my novel's characters, Hugh and Carletta, are fans of his poetry and I needed to know more of it for my story. In Poe's Selected Poems is a poem called Israfel. And it is about an angel! This angel Israfel, according to Edgar Allan Poe, is highly talented at making beautiful music. Although I had not thought that about my Israfel, writing and playing music has for many years in the past been a strong spiritual influence for me. Almost as if I had a muse guiding me when I sang and played my guitar?
I don't know whether Poe also "made up" the name Israfel or whether he heard it from some other source. Please, if you have heard of this angel, or of any other creature or thing by that name, please tell me about it, okay?
I also posted this entry in my Robin Layne account.
 Israfel7 · Sat Apr 08, 2006 @ 09:52pm · 0 Comments |
