reasons why i headcanon crowley as raziel (directly from my tumblr):
[ with way too many "do you think a depressed person could make this" memes ]

1. The Book of Raziel (ספר רזיאל המלאך), in latin “liber razielis archangeli”, is a grimoire that’s been given from Raziel to Adam when the latter was thrown out of Eden. It contains angeolology, magick, the Names of God and the “Book of Secrets”.

2. Do you really think the angel like this wouldn’t ask so many questions that the Almighty had to make him Fall to have some peace?

3. In the Book of Raziel, God sends the “most important angel” (pride much?) to teach Adam the laws of living on the Earth, “knowledge of the cosmos” included.

4. Raziel teaches Adam how to speak the Human Tongue, and I find it very fitting with the fact that Crowley uses the phrase “that went down like a lead balloon” when those words really didn’t mean anything yet.

5. There’s a part about the importance of the name, in the Book, which I connect with the whole Raziel/Crawly/Crowley, since he’s the only character we see going around and changing his name.

6. honestly just want to add this and it’s not connected but, at some point the Book arrives to Abraham, and 80% Abraham wasn’t his real name, but a word coming from אָב (father) and ra'âmu ("to love") or rwm ("being above") and, once again, changing names to go down in history.

7. When Raziel gave Adam the book, some “envious angels” (demons) took it and threw it in the sea. Rahab (probably Raphael) was the one who got the Almighty’s order to fish it and give it to Abraham, which isn’t really important for the headcanon but it’s just funny.

8. In this headcanon, Raphael might be simply a name Crowley uses when he has to do Good Deeds, and the name “It is God who heals” is just a word pun because? God heals? Crowley knows the humans were created to help themselves.

9. or may be another angel, I am thinking maybe Raziel’s twin, the person who created the stars with them (“I helped build that one”, not “I built that one”), who may help Crowley with doing Good by letting him drop his name or doing things he can’t do anymore because he’s a [+]

[+] demon, or maybe he’s around in the stars somewhere and just told his brother “have fun” and gave him his name to protect (maybe the talked when the demons took Crowley’s Book from Adam? Or when Crowley was following his Book and found it with Abraham?)

10. Raziel is a cherub, which means that he’s spent his life in Heaven maybe building some stars first and then 24/7 in the presence of the Almighty. I think an angel like this wouldn’t even think to ask the Metatron to speak for God, because they have been near Her. They’ve [+]

[+] never needed some other angel to create the connection. So the whole “Okay, I know you're testing them, you said you were going to be testing them. You shouldn't test them to destruction. Not to the end of the world,” makes more sense. If he were to be one of the angels [+]

[+] that have to stay with Her all the time, then he totally would speak to Her like She were right there in front of him.

Here’s the link to the original post because I need people to read and rb it and also some tags so maybe someone will read this thread?? https://booleman.tumblr.com/post/639285756921298944/reasons-why-i-headcanon-crowley-as-raziel-big
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