We can speculate along with Theodora Ward, the author of Men and Angels, that the idea of a spiritual being who travels between the world of spirit and the material world has evolved from the Polytheistic beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians and Persians. One belief was that the angels governed the movement of the moon, the sun, and the stars. Much of what we know about ancient beliefs in angels we have learned from early artistic depictions of spirits. Mainly in the form of winged creatures. The Egyptian Goddess Isis, protector, virgin, and mother was portrayed as an angel with wings. To the Greeks, the images of sleep and death were also represented as angelic figures. Plato and his writings have indicated that both the gods and souls of men are winged.
The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up into the region above where the gods dwell. Of all things connected with the body it has the greatest affinity with the divine. - Plato.
Look well for I am a form difficult to discern, I am a new moon, I am an image in the heart. When an image enters your heart and establishes itself, you flee in vain. The image will remain within you, unless it is a vain fancy without substance, sinking and vanishing like a false dawn. But I am like the true dawn; I am the light of your lord. - Rumi
An amazing number of books with the word angel in the title were published between 1890 and 1925, and in the past few years, we have seen a resurgence of this phenomenon. Today their images appear on postcards, birth announcements, and Christmas greetings, decorations, ornaments, and other dolls.
There are many ways to experience angels and each of them is as valid as the other, the most important thing is that works for you in life and you recognize it. You don't have to see them or have an angel save you from a life and death crisis to have them be active in your life. They are there for us now and have always been there whether we believe in them or not
The Meaning of the Reawakening of Our Interest in Angels
Psychologist Carl Jung says that angels personify the coming into consciousness of something new arising from the deep unconscious. Jung opened the door to looking at angels as symbols of our recognition of our inner world. What does the angel archetype mean to us today?
We resonate so vehemently to the wing, to the concept of wing, Kasanzak's quote "life on earth means the sprouting of wings" that's where we as human beings come from. So when we feel the spirit flow into us and we start seeing it actually appear before our eyes, the fact that it would relate to our highest aspiration and come to us in that fashion is I think no surprise. I think it would be surprising in a way if it came in any other form.
And is there something now emerging from deep within our psyches? At least to the extent that we perceive the energy of God, the loving aspect of God tends to come to us in forms that we have historically referred to in most cultures as some sort of angelic spirit. The sense of that which is precipitated by God, that which is provoked by God comes to us more in a tangible form. And so although it's all a part of a whole that evades our thinking, it is helpful sometimes to see how different types of entities come from a different aspect of that whole.
Why now? Why at this time in our history?
It's harder these days when traditional religious forms don't hold people in the way they did at one time. Some say our need to believe in angels is our recognition of the need to look at the world in a more spiritual way.
The world is experiencing an increasing appreciation of the spiritual, an increasing capacity for people to be with spirit, to co-create. There is so much work that needs to be done, that we really need spiritual help in getting it done. Some would say it's a part of the evolution of our collective soul, leaving us to look inside ourselves and to seek God.
We are at the threshold of a spiritual awakening. More and more Christians are being born into the church of God. The feeling and the belief that Angels are real is more prevalent today. We are more accepting to the appearance of angels and our cognizance of spiritual life, there is no reason to believe it isn't the next step in the consciousness of human beings to regularly be in tune with the gifts of God, the knowing that He is there with all His heavenly hosts to guide us, help us, heal us, protect us when we need them or when we ask for them.
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