
In the first part of Angels 101, I set out the lessons I received from Annex about what mankind calls the Spirit.
In essence the Spirit is the "first manifestation of the Thought of what we may call the Universal Mind." I feel it is perfectly acceptable to call this Universal Mind by the title, God. Though we need not refer to God as he she or it. I just call God, God. One cannot say that God is genderless, for if God is All then God is all genders.
Gender only exists as a physical manifestation for the act of procreation. There are dozens, maybe even thousands of "genders" including hermaphroditic, non-gendered clones, male and female, etc. Anything alive procreates versions of itself. From the cellular to the complex multi-cellular. Since God is in all things and all things are a part of God then God is every type of procreation, from two atoms combining to form a single new atom, to viral reproduction, (the assumption of other cells by a virus which injects its own DNA into them to clone itself.) This includes Cellular splitting, casting of spores, seeds, animal reproduction, and etc. This is God invested into the manifestation of the physical, multiplying God's Self in All and through All.
In the Realm of the Spirit God simply creates with God's thoughts. Things come into existence because they are created into existence from the primordial Spiritual "stuff." (I cannot think what else to call it. It is like a thick, white fog or mist. Physicists are calling it the Universal Foam. I've seen the process in dreams.) Once a thing exists it first exists in its perfect form in the spirit. If it makes the choice to descend into matter it begins to function under the various physical laws of the Universe which at the base is called the Law of Cause and Effect. Matter is pushed an pulled by gravity, bombarded by nuclear energy, it fuses or fissions, it explodes, implodes, collapses, grows, coalesces, burns or gives off particles, light waves, energy waves, etc. Each of these things in turn acts upon something else. In this way new patterns of creation develop. Stars are born, die or become black holes, brown dwarfs, vast diamonds or they become like our sun, or Red Giants, Yellow Giants, White Dwarfs, Blue Dwarfs, etc. There is an almost infinite variety of types of energy giving matter in the shape of what we call Stars. The condensations of these stars become planets, comets, asteroids, planetoids, moons, etc.
In the Spiritual Realm however these things do not exist except as perfect ideals. The Spiritual does not expand or contract. It is perfect and whole and complete and is not acted upon by any force except that of the Mind of God. This Mind, is what we call the "Image of God." Mankind is not made in the image of an anthropomorphic deity. We are not our arms legs, organs or brains. These are just physical things being acted upon by what we truly are, which is pure spirit. Therefore it is our essential "beingness" which is a reflection of or one could even say a clone of God. In the Spirit realm the physical does not exist. It is a state of existence of condensed spirit considered very unstable, almost illusory, by the angels.
What are angels? They are the manifestation of the Intellect of God. We call them "messengers." However they are more than this, they are the consciously aware motivators of the physical world. Some say for instance that Cherubs and Archangels and Seraphs "rule" certain things, like the wind, planets, cities, stars, oceans, rivers etc. This is in effect a truth. There is a conscious entity involved in the manifestation and "keeping" of these various physical manifestations, from atoms, quarks or gluons, the smallest of particles even yet to be discovered, to the immense clouds of hot gasses which birth stars, to the flowing sheets, quintillions of light years wide of "dark matter." Each thing has it's "angel."
Most of these types of angels could be called Seraphs or Cherubs. They have of course,there own names and appellations or designations. Most of these angels, from those who were first manifested and closest in being to God, to those who we might call "Arch Angels" have little or nothing to do with us as a species or form of manifestation. However they certainly can be communicated with, or can communicate with us. Though it would be like talking to the Sun or a mountain. Still, these beings can share pertinent information from the point of their origin to the present time, if queried.
Most queries come from our sub-conscious mind. This is how scientists or theologians or any thinking persons make pertinent discoveries about a certain physical law or particle or planet or culture, etc. First one becomes cognizant of a thing. Let us take bacterium. Then one studies the physical form of the bacterium, establishing various types, genera, families, etc. Then one investigates the constituent parts of the bacterium, the cellular structure, the way it relays messages to other parts of itself, the way it grows, reproduces, moves etc. Yet all this is what can be *seen*. What cannot be seen, the very life of the thing, holds its own records in the Spirit Realm as a higher form of itself, one can call this the Higher Self, everything alive has a Higher Self. This record or knowledge can be accessed by the subconscious mind while in an unconscious state. This is how many intellectual giants have come up with the information we have today about things as they appear to us. For instance the atomic structure of Benzene was literally "dreamt" by the scientist working on its complex structure. The more open the mind is to the possibilities of the subconscious and unconscious, the more information can be passed from the unseen, unknown realm of the Spirit to this realm. These messages are literally passed by what we call "Angels" the messengers of the Spiritual Knowledge we need to completely understand and begin to utilize to control and create within the physical.
Of course there are angels which guide our human lives. Angels which tell us the things we need to know about living, society, the structure of religion, culture and other complexities. These we used to call "Ancestors," "The Dead," "gods," "Spirits," "Daemons," and other things like sprites, elves, faeries, water spirits, etc. etc. They are all a type of angel. This means that they do not garner their lives and energies from us. We garner ours from them. Many of our motivations, desires, concerns, cares, loves, destinies, etc. are being constantly guided through our subconscious mind, from the unconscious world of Spirit to our waking lives and consciousness'. The Spirits or Angels live from the energy of God. They need no other resources. Everything they need is provided them. (Later we will talk about those who need our energy to survive. These are not called "Spirits" by the angels or other spiritual beings.)
Now, those beings which we call angels, A word which simply means messenger, (call them heralds, daemons, spirits or what have you. Angel is as good a name as any, especially for the types who are Human Spirits. . .), are very often composed of groups which guide a person's life in the way that particular person's spirit has asked to be guided. This is a very important aspect of angelhood. They serve. They do not direct without being asked. Which means your spirit, before it came into this life, asked for specific things to happen to it, or specific aid, help, knowledge, direction, application of intellect or physical body, etc. The angels help guide and direct. You knew them before you ever came here to the physical. This is very important to understand. You too are an angel. You are, at the root, a pure spirit, born of God, created from the same stuff as any noncorporeal angel. You were and are equal to the ones who you cannot see. They are very often your brethren, your parents from other lives, people who had a relationship with you in the past. They can also be simply concerned citizens of the "Other Realm" who hold specific knowledge you will need on your life's journey or are concerned at some level with your well being, health, growth, etc. There are other angels as well, those whom have never taken on a physical body, in some cases these can be very high angels indeed, like the Arch Angels. Or still others may be influencing your life, who have been what people call "aliens" here on earth. They are spirits who took corporeal form on other planets in other lives. (Where you yourself may have had a past life or might have a future one.) The angels all have something to add to your life because somewhere along the way you asked them to add these things! The important things to remember here are that All Thinking, Conscious or Unconscious Beings are Creations of God. God is in them and they are indwelling in God. Therefore on the level of Spirit there is no Evil. There is only eternal balance, harmony and integrity. God is never "divided" God is only "multiplied." In the Spiritual Realm there can be no darkness, there is no Hell. And further, no Angel ever "rebelled" from God. There are no fallen angels, unless we regard ourselves, manifested into the very harsh world of the physical universe as "fallen" in some manner. However angels consider all those willing to take on the physical as heroes and warriors of the first water! You see, the Spirit is complete and perfect and contains the very endless bliss of living within the protective love of an Infinitely Loving God. With us here on the earth plane, we often become saddened and miserable with our false sense of "separation from God." We see ourselves as individuals and as such often loose touch with one another and our conscious understanding of God and the Spirit.
The entire spiritual journey is one of "remembering" our true state. Just as the Prodigal Son went away with his inheritance, squandered it. wound up with miserable company, lonely, afraid and beaten by life. Yet, turning homeward, repentant and willing to take the status of a servant, he finds himself once again welcomed with open arms of his father, renewed in his estate, and emotionally and physically matured enough to now control and handle his estate. This one parable of the teacher Jesus, is the key to understanding the entire "secret" of the spiritual journey. (If there ever was an "enmity" between ourselves and the incorporeal angels, it is that they, like the father's other son in the story of the Prodigal, may have felt that such as we, whom have squandered our spirituality in the physical do not really "rate" as true sons and daughters of God over them. However I believe this to be a myth.) What we were, were creations of the Most High. What we are is angels in the incarnation of the physical. What we shall be is High Spirits of the Most Holy Place, fully trained to take our place with the other angels in helping and serving all those in need who are on their spiritual journeys. Any other fear, misunderstanding, misapprehension of this state of our true natures is illusory and a misrepresentation or forgetting of the facts.
Once we recognize our spiritual natures it is significant that we can then have open, conscious communication with God, any number of angels and spirits, and access to all knowledge of ourselves and sometimes others (If that is what God within us wants or needs to accomplish.) This is what makes people "Psychic" or "Sensitive," etc. This is what opens them to the healing powers of the Spirit. A connection with spirit always is at the root of all "good" we call "spiritual." It is a short hop to speaking with angels, once one is open to the energies of love, healing and understanding of the Spirit.
Another thing to recognize about the Spiritual Realm is that time, as we perceive it does not exist there. Everything happens at once, but in some form of controlled circumstance which we do not presently have the intellectual capacity to totally understand. That is why certain people can "see the future" or "reveal past lives" or see destinies or understand what most a person needs in the way of relationships, opening of the unconscious, directions, etc. This is because they are in communication with the Angels and the angelic. (Sometimes consciously, other times unconsciously or like Edgar Cacey, the "Sleeping Prophet" subconsciously.) Some would ask "Why wasn't Cacey or other psychics accurate one hundred percent of the time?" They were, on different interdimensional levels. There are lives upon lives. Dream worlds, worlds that intersect with one another on various levels and with the spirit and those which are far distant from one another. An unconscious psychic may be picking up information about lives yet to be lived or those lived in some other dimension. In the Spiritual Realm, everything happens at once and everything that ever happened, ever happens, ever will happen, happens in the present moment, at all times, in all spaces, in every way imaginable. Our "fears" that "heaven" might be boring, monotonous or restrictive are therefore untrue fears. To the dwellers in Spirit this place we inhabit now is ghostly, dull, monotonous, unreal, ever changing/shifting, dark, sometimes silly and saddening mostly morbid and is viewed as a kind of a labyrinth where one can in fact lose his or her way. It takes the ministrations of many mighty powers and angels to help us make our way through physical existence.
Because we can become lost, there are many "Lost Souls." What we call spirits sometimes, but which the angels call, ghosts, spooks, uneasy souls, vampyres, poltergeists, or what some would call "demons" (Though in effect this is a misinterpretation of the word Daemon, which also means messenger.) We at times call them evil or malign spirits, malefic devils, "the Dead" or simply wandering souls. These are people who had certain ideas and beliefs which became imperative to them, obsessive. Some are full of lusts for sex, gambling, violence, etc. Others are corrupted by their own mistaken ideals, like Nazis or racists or devil worshipers, still others are suicides, murderers, the murdered, the terrified of death, the exorbitantly guilt ridden, those who feed off of fear, delusion, anger, hatred or whatever because they lost their focus and their love of the light. Some are simply wandering, afraid of judgement or the Light because to them it is unreal, ghostly and angels seem to be apparitions! Imagine that ! A ghost afraid of ghosts!!! (Which is why most cultures invented religious ghost chasing terror masks and dances and noises to go with their sacred rites. These things actually do clear out unwanted ghosts who hang around causing trouble!) These beings do not exist within the Spiritual Realm They have lost all contact with it. Yet their life energy can be supplemented by stealing it or begging for it from others! They at times appear to us to be either magical or powerfully masterful. They can hypnotize, they can cause or spread fear, they can suck the energy from a person and drain them of vitality in many cases. In most cases however ghosts are harmless half-alive spirits in need of contact with God and renewal of purpose and understanding of their destiny. In a way, we who are psychics, healers, etc. can do the most help by guiding these towards the light, because the angels themselves are too "high energy" to bring them back to God. In a way our "fallen" estate is the best place wherefrom to deal with Lost Souls.
Another type of being are those called "Sleepers" by the angels. From the Biblical or traditional idea of those "who have fallen asleep." These are beings who dwell on the level of dreams, hypnogogic or hypnopompic visions. They manifest or awake from time to time to offer a lesson or a teaching. They can appear as protective or even monstrous entities. They are old, old spirits indeed, what we call Archetypes. But rarely can we deal with them except in the dream state. They will awaken, (or are already awaken in some sense as time in the Spirit is meaningless,) when the time for all of us to be with God in the Spirit is here. This means that yes, of course, one day mankind and all his works will vanish from this world and even the world will vanish. But all of it will be kept by us in the spirit for as long as we need it and it serves our purposes. Nothing is totally "lot" in the universe So all sleepers will awake and the lost shall be found.
The most important issue when dealing with angels are these" Angels do not need your energy, sacrifices, blood, heightened emotion or anything else. If they ask for these things, they are not angels. Angels love calm, meditative minds and concentration. They love to give valuable information and will always help in anyway they can when you ask. They ask only for thanks. Angels serve you. You do not serve them They have absolutely no need of your service. You cannot teach them anything they do not already have access to. In the best definition of the ideal of service, angels do their work to make you a better person and help you to grow. This is why Jesus devoted himself to his disciples and washed their feet. He was saying, "when you become like me and the angels and one with God, you will serve, not rule. You are not a king, you are a caretaker."
Many people laugh when I tell them this because they believe that beings with such infinite, holy powers must needs forcefully take over or guide our lives, even against our wills. This is not true. The more power one has the more duties and services one performs in the Spiritual Realm.
At certain times, if a person decides to get in the way of God's master plan for the Universe, (and please, don't ask me what that is!) Angels might very rarely find it necessary to move that person either out of the way or back into position without their express will or permission. This is rare. Usually it occurs in order to end wars or keep wholesale slaughter and destruction from eradicating all of us. We can get out of hand sometimes, especially when we start becoming lost. Hitler is a good example of this. He lost his direction, hurt his people, ceased to be a good leader and turned in directions he thought others would approve of him for, like eradicating all Jews. He could have been a good leader. But instead his life had to be redirected and his soul released from the earthly plane, in order to keep his works from manifesting a sort of living hell on earth. So his rulership was gradually taken from him and he left this plane in an awful choice. Still, wherever he is, God loves him and wants him to take the course again and make the right decisions. Even Hitler will go to "heaven" if you can accept this, your soul is definitely growing towards maturity.
Next time I will talk about heaven, hell, myth legend, religion, where the angels come into all this and more about spiritual healing and maturity.
Namaste,
David T. St. Albans
c. 2005 All Rights Reserved. No part of this may be reprinted electronically or otherwise without my express written permission.
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