CHESMAYNE
Angel music link
A Little Faith: Artist: Dona Gelsinger. Jigsaw Pieces:1000. Size: 20” x 27”.
A backer of a play, campaign, actor etc. A messenger - the Vaunt
Courier. Hark the Herald! Their depiction in religious painting far
outweighs their recorded presence in either Old
and NT stories . Even clerics concede that beauty is
a surer magnet to the impoverished eye than textual accuracy. Belief in angels provides an acceptable
alternative to either theological commitment or corn circles and
aliens in UFOs, whose innocence and messenger role mirror and mimmick that of
angels. However, extra-terrestrials of
the angelic kind score over the UFO variety both historically
and aesthetically. Since the time of
Botticelli angels and music have been inseparable. St. Cecilia is the patron
saint of music. The truth is that humans need angels and always have. These winged
go-betweens have their origin much earlier than Christian art. Winged figures
have been found in pottery in
Plato said “God does not deal directly with men;
it is by means of winged spirits that all communication of God with man is
carried out”. The Hebrew word for angel
is ‘malak’ which means ‘go-between’. In
the Bible, Jacob had a dream
while sleeping near the
Gabriel
appeared to the shepherds outside
The Aztecs had angels, and so do American Indians, Hindus and of course Muslims,
who share Christianity’s top ranking angels.
The Greeks were particularly keen on their messengers from the
gods. Hermes was not the only one, and
Nike, the ‘Winged Victory’,
is the classical antecedent for all those exultant Renaissance angels that
continue to define our image of them now.
Winged angels are largely a New Testament
phenomenon. Old Testament (Judaic)
angels tended to appear as ordinary mortals, without haloes or
wings. The most important source of
angelology is not the Bible at all but extra-Biblicial Jewish, Christian and
Gnostic texts written between 200 BC and 200 AD, which present a cosmos teeming
with angelic activity. They are the
guardian of sacred things.
Chimes
Literary works inspired by
angles include Dante (Catholic) and Milton (Protestant). Stories of the miraculous intervention of
angels or strangers offering life-saving help and vanishing are as nebelous as
UFO reports. Angels traditionally act
as divine messengers and represent a higher form of consciousness emenating
outside the human mind. The angel Gabriel (Strong One
of God) acted as enunciator to Mary.
The Kabbalah was received through angelic revelation. Koran: Gabriel, the angel of revelation, who
writes down the divine decrees. Michael,
the champion, who fights the battle of faith.
Azrael, the angel of death and Israfel, who is commissioned to sound the
trumpet of resurrection.
“Child Angels and Christ Child”, Louis le Nain,
France
Examples of these beings are:
Uriel, Raphael, Michael and Gabriel mentioned above. Holy Guardian Angel (the Higher Self). Their function (role) is to carry out the
will of God for individuals or nations.
‘Angel of Yahweh’. They are known as the
‘Heavenly Host’. They are also said to
be the guardians of individuals and churches.
They are created beings.
Maimonides equated them with Aristotle’s incorporeal intelligences. In Islamic
Gabriel (Muslim): chief of
the four favored angels and the spirit of truth.
“Angels Bearing Symbols of Passion”,
William Blake’s (1757-1827)
pictures convey a moral purpose by the use of his own symbolic devices. In ‘The Good and Evil Angels’ (1793), he
depicts a battle between two angels which symbolize the opposing qualities of dark and
light, beauty and ugliness. He is now
recognized as one of the giants of the Romantic period who lived in the world
of the imagination and the spirit. He claimed he
was visited by angels!
Ave Maria: the ‘Hail, Mary’, a prayer in the RC
Church, based on the salutation of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary and the
words of
From ‘Educa’s Museum Series’ of quality jigsaw
puzzles comes this wonderful 1,500 piece puzzle depicting Fra Angelico’s “The Annunciation”. Completed puzzle measures approximately 24” x
34”. Manufactured in
In 1994 Lloyd Glenn’s son, who was three years
old at the time, was crushed under a heavy garage door because of a failure in
the electric system holding it in place.
The door had completely closed on his sternum, right over his
heart. Something made the mother run out
of the house to see what the child was up to and it was she who found him. The only thing she could do after releasing
the door was to whisper to him: “Don’t leave us Brian, please stay if you
can”.
Left: Angelfish. Right: Blue Angelfish
Six hours later Lloyd arrived at the hospital to
find his child unconscious on a respirator with tubes and monitors
everywhere. By now his heart was doing
all right and they were only worried about the damage that shortage of oxygen
to his brain would have caused. Twenty
four hours after the father arrived, the child regained consciousness, looked
at his father and said: “hold me Daddy”.
Exactly, a month to the day later, Brian woke
from an afternoon nap and began to speak, but not in the childlike format he
had always used before. “Sit down Mommy,
I have something to tell you. Do you remember
when I got stuck under the garage door?
Well, it was so heavy and it hurt really bad. I called to you but you couldn’t hear
me. I started to cry but then it hurt
too bad. And then the “birdies” came. They made a whooshing sound and flew into
the garage. They took care of me. One of the birdies came and got you. She came to tell you that I got stuck under
the door. The mother realized that
though the speech was grown up, Brian had the mind of an infant. She asked him to describe the “birdies”. “They were so beautiful. They were dressed in white, all white. Some of them wore green and white. They told me the baby would be all right:
the baby lying on the garage floor. You
came out and opened the garage door and ran to the baby. You told the baby to stay and not
leave”. This stunned the child’s
mother. At the conscious level of
remembrance the child couldn’t have known what she had asked it to do. Then Brian said: “We went on a trip, far, far away”. His mother noticed he was getting agitated
as he tried to get the right words to explain what happened. “We flew so fast in the air. They’re so pretty Mommy, and there is lots
and lots of birdies”. He was then told
to tell everyone about the birdies. He
said that they brought him back to the house where he saw a fire truck and
ambulance. He tried to tell the man who
was carrying the baby that the baby would be all right. He said he didn’t want to come back but the
birdies asked him to go in the ambulance.
Then he saw a very bright light and a man in the light put his arms
round him and told him he had to go back.
The man said, “I love you”. Then
he heard the whoosh sound and they all went into the clouds. Brian spoke for a full hour in this state of
awareness and told his parents how the birdies whisper good ideas to us all the
time but we can’t hear because our ears are not able to. They told him that we all have a plan and
that we have to live the plan and keep our promises. He said the birdies help us to do this
because they love us. After this Brian
told all kinds of people he met about the birdies, whenever his parents took
him anywhere and surprised the mother, because the child was always listened
to. He never once changed any of the
details of the original story. From:
‘Newsletter of the
Left: French Angelfish. Right:
Queen Angelfish.
Skeptics Dictionary:
Angels are bodiless, immortal spirits, limited in knowledge and power.
The Bible-based religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - believe
God created angels to worship Him. Not
all God’s angels acted angelically, however.
Some angels, led by Satan, rebelled
against a life of submission, and were cast out of Heaven. These bad angels were sent to Hell and are
known as devils.
Not all angels are created equal. From top to bottom, the celestial hierarchy
includes seraphim, cherubim, thrones; dominions, virtues, powers;
principalities, archangels, and angels.
Angels have different functions.
Some do nothing but worship their Lord.
Others are sent to deliver messages to creatures on earth. Some are sent as protectors of
earthlings. Still others are sent to do
battle with devils, who are viewed as initiators of evil temptations.
Even though angels are spirits are devoid of a
physical nature, believers in angels have had no problem depicting and
describing them. Angels, say their
advocates, are invisible but can take the form of visible things. Angels are usually depicted with wings and
looking like human adults or children.
The wings are undoubtedly related to their work as messengers from God, who lives in the sky. The anthropomorphizing is
understandable. Depiction enhances
belief. But a bodiless creature cannot
be depicted. A depiction of a creature
of less than human stature would be undignified and unworthy of celestial
creatures. Nevertheless, it is puzzling
how a bodiless creature thinks
and feels. To talk of a spirit as a non-bodily creature seems to be akin
to talking of a “round square”. Trying
to imagine thinking or feeling occurring independently of a body is like trying
to imagine the spherical shape of a ball occurring independently of the
ball.
Since angels are invisible but capable of taking on
visible forms, it is understandable that there have been many “sightings”. Literally anything could be an angel and any experience could be an angel-experience.
The existence of angels cannot be disproved. The down side of this tidy picture is that
angels cannot be proved to exist, either.
Everything that could be
an angel could be something else. Every experience that could be due to an angel could be due to something else. Belief in angels, angel sightings and angel
experiences is entirely a matter of faith.
Close up Study of Sky Object in Carlo Crivelli’s
“The Annunciation”
Crivelli’s “The Annunciation”
Even if they exist only in the imagination, however,
angels can be very useful. They can serve as monitors of behavior and
protectors of children. A parent can
try to control a child’s behavior by convincing the child that an angel is
always watching over him or her. The
angel is presented as being a kind of guardian, but the child will hopefully
realize that the angel is also keeping track of all deeds, good and bad, even
those done when mommy and daddy aren’t around.
The guardian angel is a comforting and versatile concept, and is the
basis for many myths. Much entertainment in books, films and television
programs is based on the concept of the guardian angel, often transformed into
a superhuman master of occult powers.
Traditional religionists are not the only ones who
love angels. New Age mythmakers have made an industry out of angels. Dozens of books connecting angels with
everything from guidance in daily life to talking to the dead to psychic
healing are published every year. Sales
of angel figurines and other material products are brisk. As one lofty soul put
it: “Gently guided by angels, we nurture and cherish the creative soul that
heals itself”.
See related entries on angel therapy, astral
projection and souls.
further
reading
- angels
in the Bible
- Contacting
Your Personal Angels with Hypnotherapy by Susan K.
Stevenson, DCH
ABUNDANCE (Shefa)
Not what we have but what we
enjoy constitutes our abundance - John Petit-Senn
Finding Abundance
This
symbol was received in direct transmission from Archangel Metatron by Dvora Pearlman. It was received as a teacher and a tool - to
learn, to use and to connect with divine flow and its manifestation in three
dimensional realities. The Hebrew word for abundance is Shefa.
Sacred Hebrew language
In
the Jewish tradition, Hebrew is the sacred
language of creation. The Hebrew
language is so sacred that it wasn’t spoken for the day-to-day actions. Aramaic and later Yiddish were used as the
spoken languages while Hebrew was dedicated only to prayers and holy work. In
the Kabala, Hebrew is a language of creation.
It is a language that can be used to create reality. In fact, it is believed to be the tool used
by the Creator to create this universe.
The power of words
The
sacredness of spoken language is not singularly Jewish. The Indian sacred language - Sanskrit, holds the same power and
holy attributes. It is the innate
ability to create that makes both Hebrew and Sanskrit holy languages. This is what the SHEFA symbol comes to teach.
SHEFA
is a word in its highest most profound meaning, a tool for creating abundance.
It holds a powerful kinetic energy that when coupled with intent for the
highest good and aligned with Divine will, can move mountains or feed the world.
Abundance
Meditation
Close
your eyes and find a peaceful quiet place inside yourself. Ground yourself well and open your Crown
charkas to allow the energy of higher light to come into your body. See the SHEFA symbol with your inner eye and
allow it to enter your body. Start
rotating it, this way creating a 3-D object.
Allow it to move up and down in your body. Let it shrink so it can rotate in your cells
and let it grow so it can imbued your whole auric field with SHEFA. Let it teach you the ways to work with it,
let it answer your questions. Let it be
the kinetic force behind your actions.
MAY YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE WITH SHEFA
SHEFA – ABUNDANCE
Spiritual wind inflating the personal sails that each one of us holds
Fire of God igniting and exciting our hearts
Water that contains and embraces, carrying us onwards on our path
Earth, Mother of man, supporting and nourishing, receiving and giving in an
endless dance with all Beings.
Light of Unity rejoicing its infinite colors
A Living name who, on its way back to the sacred language with the code of fire
gets ignited and with the source united.
An endless Divine Abundance to the one who receives without grasping