While the episode didn’t offer the closure that all of the sun hunter fans had hoped for, the focus tonight was on Gus (Miguel Gomez), nevertheless. CR: Michael Gibson/FXĪfter the shocking turn of events in last Sunday’s episode and the deaths of the hooded fan favorite, Vaun (Stephen McHattie), and his SWAT team, I had wondered where the writers would take us next. These formed another race, the UrSkeks, which ascended to a higher realm of being.THE STRAIN - “The Silver Angel” - Episode 204 (Airs August 2, 10:00 pm e/p) Pictured: Miguel Gomez as Gus Elizade. The Oz and Henson film, ' The Dark Crystal' (1982), comparably ends where the splintered races of Mystics and Skeksis were brought together and merged in a great cataclysm of light.The rending of Ozryel, who contained in tradition as many bodily features as there are souls on earth, could be related to the shattering ( shevirah) in the Kabbalah of primordial man, Adam Kadmon, who contained every soul who would ever be born on earth.Intriguingly in ' The Fall', the Ancients credited themselves with facilitating human development towards its own demise this ultimately proved to be a phyrric victory for the Ancients, in large part due to the rash acts of the Master. Sariel is also identified as a primordial Power and, in the apocryphal Book of Enoch, taught humans to interpret patterns in Nature such as regulating time. Azrael the Angel of Death became conflated with the fallen angel Sariel in certain traditions such as Enochian mysticism.Finally released from earthly bonds and reconstituted as a single entity, he was reclaimed by heaven. When the last of the Ancients, the Master, was vanquished, his remnants merged with those of the other Ancients gathered by Quinlan as they had instructed him. Ozryel is also referred to by the Ancients as "Sariel" (with whom they collectively identify) among themselves through their shared consciousness. But you see, that only speaks of how he can multiply, how he can spread…" (from ' The Fall') " has as many eyes and as many tongues as there are men on earth. This is symbolic, in 'The Strain' story-verse, of the boundless contagion contained within the Ancients and unleashed by the Master against all of humanity: Silver is the color of angelic blood, which Ozryel drank from Michael and thus earned God's wrath.Ībraham Setrakian explained that the number of bodily features of Ozryel found in traditional representations corresponded to the number of souls upon the earth.Sunlight is the closest manifestation of God's "face" on Earth, which is why it is lethal to vampires.
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