What do Angels Want from Us?

Like anyone else who works in a large organization I get hundreds of e-mails per day - maybe 2-300, and it's getting worse. Does a business, like a publisher, work any the better for this? of course not! We are becoming more and more enslaved to the machine - and to scientific materialism.The thing about this relentlessness is that is gives you almost no time to think. If you gave 5 minutes to responding to each one, you literally wouldn't have time for anything else. E-mails also mean more meetings can be arranged more easily. i have perhaps on average 2 hours of meetings per day. A friend recently remarked that he used to walk past my office and see me staring happily out of the window with a vague expression on my face. These days my face is baking in the light of a hot screen. I'm no more or less successful than I was then.

So more words are exchanged more efficiently, but i reckon that in the midst of this fewer thoughts are exchanged - certainly fewer fresh, original thoughts.

What's the good news then? I think it comes in the form of the thought-beings, the angels who are constantly swimming into our mental space and trying to prompt us. New ideas, new imaginings, hunches, intuitions, awakening feelings. This is the tide sweeping in the other direction to the tide of materialism, infusing life into what is being deadened by materialism.

And what do they want from us? Of course they want us to be good and loving, and to show many of their own attributes. But there is one thing we can do they can't. Because unlike them we have a centre of consciousness that is enclosed from the cosmic mind - in Plato's cave of bone - we are not swept hither and thither in the great cosmic flow.

If you think of people who have passed on to humanity the thoughts of angels with the greatest immediacy - Enoch, Milton, Blake - these thoughts are expressed in great powerful images, poetic symbols. This is how angels think..

What they find difficult perhaps is systematic, abstract thought of the type that is unique to us. Ironically, perhaps, it has been refined by materialism. The philosophy of science instigated by Bacon was a big factor in this refining. We have put a lot of thought into what counts as a good, clear thought. We can think much more clearly than ever before - and that, I think, is the present task -to apply this to the spirit worlds.

I was prompted to think about this by a brave blogger who sent a personal story to this site, who joins me in this task. I've been heartened, too, by testimonies from people who have had regular vivid communications with the the spirit worlds, who say that the book helps them to see a structure, to make sense of it and see it as a whole. Makes me even more aware that i've had a lot of help, both bodied and disembodied.

Comments

[Saaphiel]

I've read your book and found it very interesting. I've currently got a friend of mine reading through it. The guy is suffering a bit of a spiritual revelation because of it... especially since i've opened his eyes to another possibility that might confirm a lot of what is in your book:

The possibility being that the earth is expanding.

I know science and theology don't really mix, however in this particular instance, the idea that the earth was at one time a lot smaller and that all the continents were joined together... would explain why all the early ancient religions are strikingly similar.

If there weren't the great ocean gaps like there are today, migration between communities was possible, and so knowledge was able to travel.

On a smaller globe, all the continents fit together perfectly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgidAICoQI

Have a look.

Certainly it's 'food for thought'.

[mark booth]

Thanks, Saaphiel, that's a weird idea I hadn't come across before. Maybe if the Earth is becoming spiritualized and matter is thinning, heading towards becoming more mist-like, that ties in?

I'm reminded of another weird idea - one of Steiner's - that time is slowing down.

I'll check out that site.

[Nick]

Hello there!

Do you happen to have an email address that I may contact you personaly on?