The History of Angels

[Monika~Tree*Of*Creation~]

From Christine Core

The History of Angels

An Empowering Revelation

I want to take you on a journey from myth to fact.

Today many people are connecting to angels and they are becoming an important part of many people's lives. Pictures of angels are seen everywhere in
spiritual magazines, books and angel card Taro packs. Writers like
Doreen Virtue have popularized angels in an amazing way. I'm sure that
many people reading this have experienced angels themselves or know of
someone who works with that energy. I am also sure that there are some
of you reading this who feel you are missing out because you do not see
angels or you feel that you have not experienced this special contact.
In this article I want to sweep away some of the myths and reveal to you
that we are all intimately contacted with angels.

Today many people are connecting to angels and they are becoming an important part
of many people's lives. Pictures of angels are seen everywhere in
spiritual magazines, books and angel card Taro packs. Writers like
Doreen Virtue have popularized angels in an amazing way. 'm sure that
many people reading this have experienced angels themselves or know of
someone who works with that energy. I am also sure that there are some
of you reading this who feel you are missing out because you do not see
angels or you feel that you have not experienced this special contact.
In this article I want to sweep away some of the myths and reveal to you
that we are all intimately contacted with angels.

The story goes back to ancient Egypt, some 10,000 years ago, but first of all I would
like to talk about "Images and symbols". Throughout the whole of human
history we have used images as a representation of something that we
cannot understand in any other way. For example today, we would find it
difficult to be constantly expressing our devotion and love for our
partner, so we wear a ring to symbolize our ongoing connection to that
person. All big businesses use images or symbols to specifically try
and convey a more powerful message than that of simply using words could
express. You may find it interesting to start to notice what the
various symbols convey to you over and above the words that are used in
advertising. For example your bank! Images and symbols are very powerful
portrayers of messages. Images and symbols have always been used to
represent spiritual concepts that we humans cannot totally understand.
One of the most enduring symbols of spirit in many, many cultures, has
been the feather. American Indians use both feathers in their
ceremonial dress and the image of an eagle to represent spiritual
wisdom.

Now to go back to Ancient Egypt. One of the oldest symbols or images that I can find that uses the imagery of wings
attached to a human form to represent a spiritual concept is the Goddess
Maat. All the Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, known as The Neteru,
represent a key archetype or principal. The Goddess Maat is depicted as a
slim woman with outstretched wings which are at least as long as she is
tall. She wears a single feather on her head. Maat is not the only
Egyptian Neteru to be depicted with feathers or wings, but she is the
one most linked to the story of the history of Angels.

All the wisdom and knowledge that underpins Western society came out of Egypt.
Many influential figures and great teachers went to Egypt to learn.
Moses, Pythagoras, Plato, Jesus, and many more. The centers of learning
were the temples, but in the year 3000 BC the key centre was the library
at Alexandria. With the desecration of the temples and the destruction
of the library in Alexandria immense knowledge was lost. In 48 BC the
library was partially destroyed by fire by Julius Caesar and in the
third century AD the Roman Emperor Auielian caused significant further
destruction during the wars at that time.

So the ancient wisdom of the true spiritual significance of the imagery and symbology of feathers and wings was lost.

The story continues at the Treaty of Nicaea in 325 AD when the Roman
Emperor Constantine, in order to keep his power, made a political
decision to merge the Pagan and Christian beliefs of his empire into one
religion; The Roman Religion. The Emperor Constantine had a Pagan
mother, but Christianity was so powerfully sweeping his empire that he
needed to embrace this new philosophy. At the Treaty of Nicaea all
documents and writings that did not support the new religious philosophy
were destroyed.

At the Council of Rome of 745, Pope St. Zachary, intending to clarify the Church's teaching on the subject of angels and
curb a tendency toward angel worship, condemned obsession with angelic
intervention and angelolatry, but reaffirmed the approval of the
practice of the reverence of angels. This synod struck many angels'
names from the list of those eligible for veneration in the Church of
Rome, including Uriel. Only the reverence of the archangels mentioned in
the recognized Catholic canon of scriptures, Michael, Gabriel and
Raphael, remain licit.

Before 300 AD there is virtually no recorded reference in the Christian church to angels, but by the 13th
and 14th century great artists like Michelangelo and Raphael were using
angelic symbology in religious paintings. These pictures were of men
with wings and as we know there had been a shift from the dominance of
female energy to dominance of male energy in the last two thousand
years.

In the New Age we have simply elaborated on the Christian image of an angel. As this story illustrates, this image has come from a
lack of knowledge of what an angel really is. The information as to the
true nature of angels is part of the wisdom of Atlantis and was passed
to the great civilization of ancient Egypt.

So to understand the truth behind the images and symbols that we use to represent angels we need to go back to find out what the ancient
Egyptians were representing through their goddess Maat.

The Goddess Maat symbolized Cosmic Law. So what is Cosmic Law? It is the
Laws or Archetypes of Creation. They are the rules or designs that God
or The Divine Creator used to create all. Everything has to come from
basic principles and the basic principle of this creation is three.
This is represented in all philosophies, The Holy Trinity, The Father
Son and Holy Ghost, Isis, Osiris and Horus, Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.
In a way Cosmic Law is very simple. It is number and the relationships
of numbers which we represent as geometry. Unfortunately our education
in mathematics has been very poor. We have not been taught the magic
and poetry of number, so many of us shun away from mathematics and feel
it is too complicated. It is not it is very simple. The three main
numbers that create the law for our universe are 3, 7 and 12. Seven
days of creation, 12 signs in the zodiac etc.

So if the true meaning of the image of wings is the creative principle of the universe,
then angels are a representation of the law of the creative energy of
number and shape. The highest Archangel has always been recognized as
the Archangel Metatron. This energy is mentioned in the Bible, for
example in Genesis 5:24. The simplest geometry that we know is the
sphere and the whole of this creation is based on the sphere. The earth
is round, we go round the Sun, we lived through cycles and had DNA is a
spiral. It is all circular energy. If we draw one circle, then three
circles, then seven, and then at twelve we end up with what is known as
Metatron Cube.

It does not matter whether all this make sense to you are not, but what I am saying is that the truth behind the imagery
that we use to represent an angel is simply the patterns of creation. It
is the Divine in motion. If you have ever felt the energy to create
something, whatever that might be, you HAVE connected to the angelic
realms. You do NOT have to see the image of an angel or feel tingling in
your aura to know that you are connected to the angelic realms. Every
creative idea is an angel, all the principles of creation are angels. In
a way there is nothing that is not angelic, because if it is created it
has to fulfill the Divine laws of creation and this is the Angelic
Kingdom.

Those who see the image of an angel are experiencing something beautiful, but you do NOT need to see the image to know and be
totally connected to what that image represents.

So please celebrate in the knowledge that you are now and always have been
intimately and totally connected to the Angelic Realms and are indeed a
walking, living expression of the creative principles of the Divine, THE
ANGELIC KINGDOM. Seeing is only one way of connecting to the creative
principal of ALL. The Divine Design.

© Christine Core. Τhe Foundation of Cosmic Fire.

www.angelicreiki.gr

[Sonja Myriel]

Thank you so much for posting, dear Monica!

Your blog has inspired me to finally set up the Angel Group :-)

Will you post your blog there and share with all the members of lightgrid?

THANK you, dearest si-star :-)

[Monika~Tree*Of*Creation~]

DONE :)

[Patrice Baker]

I love the piece about the history of the angelic realm.  I am obsessed with angels and wings.  Draw angels all the time and never stop thinking about them but I always felt bad because they would not let me see them, so this makes me feel comfort.  I even have the Dorean Virtue tarot cards and they work very well, I have read a few of her books and she is a amazing woman, very beautiful soul.