#mr Gaiman please i think it might be the garden of Eden but if you don't confirm it for me How will i Ever Know?

[thedreadvampy]

I try not to be a hater and I recognise that a lot of them are literally kids but the people who send specifically Neil Gaiman asks on this website are the stupidest motherfuckers alive and it's endlessly hilarious to me.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Hi. I read the question about Aziraphale, Angel of the Eastern Gate being a Cherub or a Principality. I couldn't help but remember that the book of course will make everything more confusing and has all this to say: The Buggre Alle This Bible was also noteworthy for having twenty-seven verses in the third chapter of Genesis, instead of the more usual twenty-four.

      They followed verse 24, which in the King James version reads:

      “So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life,” and read: 25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying Where is the flaming sword which was given unto thee? 26 And the Angel said, I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next. 27 And the Lord did not ask him again. It appears that these verses were inserted during the proof stage. In those days it was common practice for printers to hang proof sheets to the wooden beams outside their shops, for the edification of the populace and some free proofreading, and since the whole print run was subsequently burned anyway, no one bothered to take up this matter with the nice Mr. A. Ziraphale, who ran the bookshop two doors along and was always so helpful with the translations, and whose handwriting was instantly recognizable.

Now, if this Mr. A. Ziraphale had been consulted as to the contents of this version of this Bible, we may assume that he probably would have approved of it in its entirety, it was the proofreading step after all. Then later the book says: TECHNICALLY AZIRAPHALE was a Principality, but people made jokes about that these days.

This... I won't even try... 😉 But that is the book. If you only want to focus on the show, you can forget all about this LOL Maybe deep inside he is really a cherub given the title of Principality just because he lives on Earth and that is the realm of principalities, kind of like Gabriel may be a seraph but given the title of Archangel?

Hiya :), I'm not sure Aziraphale would change the already 'known' and set lines :) - he might have only been comfortable with adding :).

I searched Neil's blog for this and found two entries:

First, from 2011 Neil says: I think you can comfortably assume that he’d been promoted several levels in the meantime.

Second, from 2019 Neil seems to consider Aziraphale being only a Principality.

I think now Aziraphale is a Principality and we can headcannon him either being it all the time or being a cherub and promoted? :)

@neil-gaiman Can you shed some light on this please? Thank you. :)