Semihazah

Pronunciation: seh-mih-HAH-zah

Who He Is

Semihazah is the first of the twenty Fallen Watchers, an enemy of the righteous. His name means “My name has seen” — he declares of himself, “My name is Semihazah, which means My name has seen, for I have seen the wonders that lie beyond” (I Achee, p. 34; Handbook, p. 553).

His Names

Mowtsoor the Decadent is the name God calls him (Enoch, Seth 1:38). The Lord said of the fallen stone: “What fell to the earth was a stone that flew in the midst of the heavens, and his name is Mowtsoor the Decadent, for he is a rock that is fallen into decay, and he thinks he is God” (Enoch, Seth 6:19). Mowtsoor, pronounced MOHT-soor, is “the original name for Satan” (Enoch, Seth 1:38, note 14).

Satan — through Cain, “Semihazah takes the identity of Satan” (Moses 2:15–18), and he is “Semihazah who now is named Satan” (Moses 2:87). “Mowtsoor the Decadent One came to be named Satan, which name means the accuser” (Handbook, p. 98).

Bad — a Voice from heaven said: “He calls himself Semihazah but your name for him is Bad, because he is separated from life and apart from the truth, and he is joined to the sounds of death” (Melchizedek 3:98). “Bad said I am Semihazah” (Melchizedek 2:58).

Belial — “Semihazah is known as Belial during the tribulation times, because he is the head of all sorcerers,” a position that came about when Michael cast him out of heaven (Little Book 2:47–48). “Semihazah who is Belial” (Little Book 3:3). Belial is also among his many names in I Achee (p. 38) and the Handbook (p. 553).

A note on the name. The books do not agree on who bears the name Belial. The Moses record gives it to Asael: “his new identity and name became Belial” (Moses 2:19), and “Asael who now is named Belial, and Semihazah who now is named Satan” (Moses 2:87).

The meaning of the word may be the clue. The Little Book ties Belial to Strong’s #1100 and #1097 and says “Belial will be shown to be a worthless failure” (2:48). Strong’s defines the Hebrew beliya’al as “without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness.” The Handbook teaches that “the Hebrew language defines the feelings” of the life in creation (Handbook, p. 27), and the names of the watchers “came from what they felt, not words” (Grandmothers, p. 393). Read this way, Belial names a feeling, worthlessness, that could describe either of them. The difference may also be an editing error. Both readings are given here as written, so the reader can weigh them.

His Nature

He is bound to the element of meteorite, a traveler who has wandered the far reaches of creation. He looks down on the ordinary rocks around him — the Eerkodeshoi — taunting them: “I am beautiful and colored with iridescence, but you are just plain old brown and gray rocks, and your mother is an old broken down mountain” (I Achee, p. 35; Melchizedek 2:58).

His Place Among the Fallen

He stands first of twenty Fallen Watchers, each tied to an element and an evil teaching. His teaching is Pleasure (Handbook, p. 552; II Achee, ch. 9).

Master of Senaseol

Semihazah presides over Senaseol. He is “the master over temptations,” taking delight in base and gross and ignorant sins, in selfishness, lust, greed, lying, and theft (Moses 1:42–43). Yet he is afraid to go to Shakath, the bottomless pit over which Asael presides, “because his base ignorance cannot compete with the cunning and deceptions practiced there” (Moses 1:46).

His Confrontation with Yaatsekawd

He came to Yaatsekawd as the first father mourned after the Fall, calling himself “the son of the comet.” Yaatsekawd rebuked him: “Get yourself away, oh deceiver of men” (Enoch, Seth 1:25).

The Maker of Shame

Semihazah whispered in the ear of Kenneh and delighted in his hatred. When Kenneh was stricken with shame, Semihazah — who “did not know that such a thing as shame existed” — became fixated upon it, and made shame “the central feeling he would seek to feed on among mankind upon the earth.” Through shame he established Senaseol. When Cain’s family departed, Semihazah was obliged to follow, and he declared, “All these are mine… they will be my kingdom, and I shall rule over them.” And “with the hatred of Cain the dimensions of his kingdom were set for the duration of the earth” (Moses 2:12–17).

His Corruption of Lamech

He taught Lamech the element of wickedness, leading him to take a second wife not rightfully his and conceive a child of wicked vision — the child called Niphilim. The Decadarchoi aided him in this. Lamech made a pact with the son of the comet, and Semihazah came to him and said, “You now have two wives. One can be for you and one can be for me” (Enoch, Seth 1:38–39).

His Other Deeds

He changed the meaning of Abel’s name, from “gift of God” to “vanity or unsatisfactory,” trying to blot out Abel’s great vision — but he was disappointed in his design through Seth (I Achee 2:33; Enoch, Seth 3:65). He stands behind the great and abominable religions, through which every criminal and heinous act has been done in the name of God (I Achee 12:45–48).

Against the Holy Family

By the means of a comet, Semihazah sent three sorcerers bearing gifts for burial and for the dead to find the infant Messiah and curse Him, that He should die; but Joseph was warned in a dream and fled with the Child (I Achee 7:57–58). In later years Semihazah came hard against Joseph, and men of influence falsely accused him when a portion of a house fell down (Moses 16:42).

His End

“In desperation Semihazah will open the pit of the abyss,” opening the gates of the smoke of burning, seeking assistance there and finding none (Little Book 3:62). “And the wicked will begin to revolt against Semihazah and his band,” and their kingdom will begin to fail (Little Book 3:65).

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