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'''[[Devil's Gate Dam]]''' is a flood control dam in the Arroyo Seco in northern Pasadena between La Cañada Flintridge and Altadena. The location is the narrowest spot on the Arroyo Seco's course below Millard Canyon. [[Occultist]]s [[Jack Parsons]] and [[Aleister Crowley]] believed the site of the dam was a portal to [[Hell]]. The area surrounding the dam has officially been renamed "Hahamongna," a Tongva phrase meaning "Flowing Waters, Fruitful Valley," although this is not the original Tongva name for the site.
'''[[Metatron]]''' is an [[angel]] in [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and [[Islam]] mentioned three times in the Talmud, in a few brief passages in the Aggadah, and in mystical [[Kabbalah|Kabbalistic]] texts within Rabbinic literature.


In the 1930s, possibly at the behest of [[Aleister Crowley]], who believed the Devil's Gate Dam was one of the seven portals to [[Hell]], physicist and [[occultist]] [[Jack Parsons]] began practicing [[ritual magic]] at the site. His early rituals were intended to invoke the nature god Pan, but he also performed experimental ritual evocations with [[L. Ron Hubbard]].
The figure forms one of the traces for the presence of dualist proclivities in the otherwise monotheistic visions of both the Tanakh and later Christian doctrine. In the Jewish kabbalistic tradition, he is sometimes portrayed as serving as the celestial scribe. The name Metatron is not mentioned in the Torah or the [[Bible]] and how the name originated is a matter of debate. In Jewish apocrypha and early Kabbalah, 'Metatron' is the name that Enoch received after his transformation into an angel.


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Metatron is an angel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam mentioned three times in the Talmud, in a few brief passages in the Aggadah, and in mystical Kabbalistic texts within Rabbinic literature.

The figure forms one of the traces for the presence of dualist proclivities in the otherwise monotheistic visions of both the Tanakh and later Christian doctrine. In the Jewish kabbalistic tradition, he is sometimes portrayed as serving as the celestial scribe. The name Metatron is not mentioned in the Torah or the Bible and how the name originated is a matter of debate. In Jewish apocrypha and early Kabbalah, 'Metatron' is the name that Enoch received after his transformation into an angel.

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