Samael, also spelled Smil, Samil, or Samiel, is an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic tradition—a figure who is the accuser or adversary, seducer, and destroying angel.
Angel of Death I (1880) by Evelyn De Morgan
A relief of the Archangel Samael in red robe, shown on the left side of the altar at Saint Bartholomew's Church, in Sydenham, London.
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Gustave Doré (1855)
A lion-faced deity found on a Gnostic gem in Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures may be a depiction of the Demiurge, Samael.
Belial is a term occurring in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament which later became personified as the devil in Christian texts of the New Testament. Alternate spellings include Baalial, Balial, Belhor, B
A woodcut of Belial and some of his followers from a German edition of Jacobus de Teramo's book Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum (1473).
Blake Book of Job Linell set 6