Angelic Overview
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ANGELIC OVERVIEW: "Angels are spirits," proclaimed St.
Augustine!
St. Thomas Aquinas believed that angels were pure
spirit, having no matter or mass, and taking up no space; but Thomas
believed angels could assume bodies at will. The purpose of angels
is the same as mankind: to love and serve the Lord. However, being
that angels are not material beings, and possibly from a different
dimension, they can serve the Lord in many different ways. Angels
have far greater will and intellect than we have. Whereas mankind
must sift through and experiment with natural laws, angels can grasp
all natural laws with a single thought. Eventually we find that
angels cannot work miracles per se, but they can perform many
special effects that appear miraculous, such as protecting Daniel
from the lions in Daniel 6. When angels appear to man, they usually
appear with wings, but the wings are not the method of loco- motion.
The angels seem to slip in and out of the fourth dimension; thus
travel is more or less instantaneous. If you have access to a
Catholic Bible (it MUST be Catholic), check out Daniel ch. 14, to
read how the prophet Habakkuk was instantly carried, via angel, from
Judea to Babylon, a distance of 600 miles.
The primary general duty of angels is as messengers of God. (The
word "angel" means messenger in Greek.) But angels can do God's
chores, such as busting Peter out of jail in Acts 5, or destroying
Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19. But some angels obey only the
devil, and those angels are known as "demons", as is Satan himself.
Satan had been an angel, but decided to do his own thing. Angels
can see all aspects of a situation instantly, since they are so very
wise.
Angels, and the dimensions they live in, were apparently created
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