The obvious response to getting the word seraph of seraphim in a dream for someone with my background is to do a little research. Despite all the hoo-ha it seems seraphim are only mentioned twice in the canonical bible. It occurs in Isaiah 6.
For something that only gets two call outs or mentions there is a lot about seraphim in the collective consciousness.
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Isiah 6 – King James Version
1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
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If you look on the web there is a great deal of near verbatim cut and paste about the root of the word seraph pertaining to burning and perhaps some kind of serpent / snake. Plagiarism?
I immediately thought of naga or nāgas in the Indian and Buddhist traditions.
The seraphim are angels mooted variously as a messenger of God and/or powerful non-mundane beings. There are some weird ideas about angels and much art dedicated thereto. Often where there are angels devils and demons are mentioned too. There can be some kink associated. You can buy costumes…
Our collective views of angels etc. perhaps stems from centuries old religious painting and has been expanded by modern media. You can get training on how to converse with angels 😉…
Seems that there is one huge over interpretation. A couple of words in “the book” have spawned much.
« La plupart des historiens de la Bible considèrent que les seraphim bibliques sont dérivés des uraei égyptiens, ces cobras dotés d’ailes symbolisant la fonction protectrice. »
The uræus protecting the pharaoh is not entirely unlike the nāgarāja protecting Siddartha Gautama.
The spooky part of my dream
I realise that the script is in fact Angelic script and that the “s” is silent phonetically therein. Thus the word is seraph of seraphim. I place the now silky-linen cloth in to my left hand shirt pocket after having inhaled it while lovingly holding it in both hands. It is close to my heart.
Has a similarity to verse seven of Isiah 6.
“And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.”
Although I once did read the entire bible it most certainly is not on my bedside table. I found it mostly boring. I am unlikely to have remembered and I don’t recall it being a question on “University Challenge” {Since we have been watching a lot of historical episodes I have started to remember some of the questions and answers.}
The angelic script in my dream looks like none of the ones you can find claimed on the web and is more akin to ḍākinī script than Hebrew or roman. It certainly had tadpole like hanging down “tails”. It reminds me of when I bought a book on the Indus valley script and spent a while exploring therefrom. I did play with hieroglyphs for a while.
It is all a bit strange…
I am really surprised to find that the word seraphim is seemingly down to only two direct quotations in the canonical bible. Seems a lot has been extrapolated…..
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