# Digest urth.v026.n002 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 24 Apr 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *24 Apr 1999, 13:36* > Jack Lyons wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Alice Turner wrote: > > :Now wait a sec here. Tzadkiel is not Michael but s/he > :certainly is an angel, not an archangel like Michael, but a > :sufficiently great and important being for Urth/Ushas. > > Angels are supernatural beings. Tzadkeiel (acknowledging > that this is fiction) is not a supernatural being. And just what is your definition of supernatural? I don't think I need to go into detail with this group, but please consider the many manifestations of Zak/Tzadkiel: are these "natural?" > :(My info comes from Gustav Davidson's -A Dictionary of > :Angels-, Free Press 1967, which is not one of those idiotic > :gift-books of angels, but a scholarly work). > > A scholarly work on supernatural beings? There are scholarly works on mythology, on folklore, on the Bible, on the Kaballah and (gasp!) even on novels and the plays of Shakespeare. Wolfe is clearly familiar with many of these, and, if you visit the library, one day you may discover them too. > I contend that F. Murray Abraham is an angel. Chacun a son gout. -alga --- ### Jack Lyons *24 Apr 1999, 19:51 · follows Alice Turner* On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Alice Turner wrote: :Jack Lyons wrote: :> :> On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Alice Turner wrote: :> :> :Now wait a sec here. Tzadkiel is not Michael but s/he :> :certainly is an angel, not an archangel like Michael, but a :> :sufficiently great and important being for Urth/Ushas. :> :> Angels are supernatural beings. Tzadkeiel (acknowledging :> that this is fiction) is not a supernatural being. : :And just what is your definition of supernatural? F. Murray Abraham. ---