Azazel Part Two - Lunch Time with Demons

Season Two (Ep 31) Azazel Part Two : This episode of Lunchtime with Demons opens with Bella sharing that she's been moving through grief in her personal life while leaning on her spiritual practice including Azazel for support. She then shifts into the episode's main focus: a historical walkthrough of Azazel drawn from her forthcoming book, tracing his appearances from Leviticus and the Yom Kippur scapegoat ritual, through the Books of Enoch (where he's cast as a chief Watcher who taught forbidden knowledge), Jubilees (positioned as the origin of demons), the Apocalypse of Abraham, and a lesser-known apocryphal Islamic reference under the name Iblis. Along the way she and Ryan discuss how monotheistic traditions tend to frame divine knowledge-sharing as corruption, using it as a lens to critique religious authority more broadly, with a tangent into Mormonism and Joseph Smith as a modern example of religion taking on governmental power. The second half moves into Bella's personal UPG (unverified personal gnosis) about Azazel describing him not as a fallen angel but as a primordial being and an early evolution of Lucifer, independent of him but spiritually linked, with Elohim framed as having supported rather than opposed the Watchers' descent. She closes on a more emotional note, reflecting on how grief has drawn her toward tragic literature (Hadestown, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet) as an unexpectedly healing practice, before previewing the next episode, which will cover practical work with Azazel altars, offerings, tarot, and planetary associations. Cover art created by Casey at BellTarot.com