WORLD OF ANGELS
by George E. Yurchison
(220 pages)
The Angel is the most excellent of all creatures because among all creatures he bears the greatest resemblance to his Creator. - Thomas Aquinas
____________________________________________________________________________
WELCOME TO WORLD OF ANGELS
Here you will find a work on the most noble of subjects, a must read for every scholar and theologian, as well as those curious about the existence of Angels.
What is an Angel? In the course of answering that particular question, we will cover virtually every available piece of research on the subject, delving far further afield than the Old and New Testaments. Our studies will extend to Islam and the the religions of the Near Far East (including Zoroastrianism) as well as diverse latter-day churches of modern Christianity.
_____________________________________________________________________________
INTRODUCTION
Have you ever been to an event wherein many spectators were present and in the course of the occasion, you just happened to notice a face in the crowd that, for an instant, happened to glue your gaze to his? Generally a good-looking, sometimes striking young man, his gaze was fixed on you. In that "instant of eternity" the encounter was slightly unsettling. Later, maybe only minutes later, you returned our gaze to that entity...only to find him gone, vanished.
What was that encounter? Who was he? Or was it your imagination? I must be seeing things you chided yourself. But reassuringly, you knew he had been there.
Events similar to this are legion throughout the world. Stories occur and reoccur in the retelling of these strange encounters. What was its purpose?
History from its beginning abounds with other nonearthly entities: angels, arch angels, guardian angels, fallen angels, dark angels, devil's angels, demons, ogres, pixies, leprechauns, sirens, genies, witches, ghosts, spirits, aliens, martians, ad infinitum. Is this colossal hoax now in its six thousandth year? Or is there something to these stories.
It is very difficult for any author, researcher or fact finder to ferret out the truth about this subject. Whatever the resultant production, it will be controversial, suspect, and so forth. Yet surely in this great, technological age where facts and truths are being spewed forth in a deluge, we cannot remain in ignorance concerning celestial beings. The who, what and why should be answered, as far as it is possible to answer. This far the world has not fully been exposed to the story of these beings. We cannot dally any longer, the events of history are rushing to a colossal climax. Because Angels are among us, it is time to tell the story.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
PREFACE
World of Angels is not a theological work. Neither is it an occultist treatise nor an exercise in the psychic sciences. As a result it can be said to be none of the above. But in another regard it actually encompasses all of the above and beyond.
Since the beginning of time or since man first cast his eyes unto the heavens, the knowledge of advanced beings has been of questionable content and impact. Much like a thrown stone skipping across waters, man's contact with, of knowledge of or interest in, Angels has skittered across his consciousness for a brief moment only to bounce off for another century or two to return for another brief contact, only to skitter off again for more countless years. Thousands of years have expired, and today in the waning decades of the twentieth century we find sophisticated Western man no more knowledgeable about Angels then were the common folk in biblical times. In fact it might even be said that knowledge of Angels to the Jews and Gentiles of that era was greater than it is, to the well-read thinking man of today.
Just as God created mankind, man also, in his stead, has created God. Our Heavenly Creator has been given to the world in all shapes, sizes, colors, and prices, like all other common merchandise. And particularly in these times we find God being discarded by some like so much used and worn merchandise. We even read that God is dead, a hypothesis advanced more boldly with each day. Others of us have pathetically or stoically concluded that, indeed, God never existed. A tragedy now confronts us in these times, for the confusion of immeasurable gulf between man and God stretched to such inestimable degree that man cannot reach his Maker anymore. Either man is lost to his God, or, more tragically, God is lost to man. The resulting breach is too wide for mankind to reach out to his Maker. What a fitting climax to this most illustrious of the world's ages and centuries. And as modern man sits bewildered amid his plastic creations, chromium-plated toys, and epoxy-enameled weapons, in spite of his intelligence, technology, power, and will, the void remains.
Yet, from the eons of creation, the very foundation of the world, indeed another world has existed. The world of spirits, or Angels, has been with us, in us, coexisting all around us. Their very existence has been ordained, from the onset, by the divine plan to fill this void between man and his God. Yet man, in all his vanity, concentrates on the quick easy grasp to eternity and having failed, retreats dejected into pathos. Man seeks "instant salvation" much like his morning coffee. He taries not to contemplate his awesome world of Angels, these lesser beings. He does not realize the great avenues presented by them on his quest to his Maker.
It has never occurred to man to realize the purpose, and therefore, meaning for the existence of this world of Angels - that all things from the vast universe itself to the lowliest atom are under the direction, control, and order of these mighty Angels and that if they were to resign their charge all existence including man would instantly cease. All things attributable to God are achieved through this wonderful world of Angels. All intelligence, energy, order, and purpose are the sole charge of these Angels, by divine decree. Angels thus are the manifestation of God's intelligence and power, the "God presence" in every material and mortal being.
Were man to realize this, he would willingly and eagerly seek out all knowledge and wisdom of these divine messengers. Through his comprehension of this select and august company the gulf between heaven and earth can be bridged.
To his surprise man would find that Angels, much like himself, were created; they have a history repleat with momentous successes, as well as collosal failures. They have their heroes and villains, the energetic and the wasteful, the dutiful and obedient, and the rebellious. And much like man, they have their spiritual progression and strive earnestly toward that celestial goal. The big difference being that Angels, unlike man, abide in, and thus have access to, Heaven and the Supreme Being. The veil to the understanding of the divine purpose that enshrouds all mankind does not envelop the Angels. In their celestial realm they work at their assignments more exhaustingly than we. Their labors never cease, and they do not rest. Having no graphic scale, they could overshadow the solar system yet stand ten thousand in the head of a pin. Yet man's knowledge of these Angels could likewise be imprinted on the same pin. His ignorance regarding these being is equally as colossal as the cosmos.
If only man would heed the Angels, learn of them, for that is their purpose. If only each one of us, men and women, realized that every second of our lives is being observed and recorded and we are being aided. Not one event of our individual lives was without the support, guidance, or sometimes intervention of these Angels. All mortals therefore have a purpose, a time and a future in Eternity. Our individual lives were no accidents, an in like manner, our mortal existence while on this earth indeed is meaningful - to you, to the entities above you, all the way to the Lord Himself.
To this purpose were the Angels created and charged. World of Angels is a commitment to this story.
by George E. Yurchison
(220 pages)
The Angel is the most excellent of all creatures because among all creatures he bears the greatest resemblance to his Creator. - Thomas Aquinas
____________________________________________________________________________
WELCOME TO WORLD OF ANGELS
Here you will find a work on the most noble of subjects, a must read for every scholar and theologian, as well as those curious about the existence of Angels.
What is an Angel? In the course of answering that particular question, we will cover virtually every available piece of research on the subject, delving far further afield than the Old and New Testaments. Our studies will extend to Islam and the the religions of the Near Far East (including Zoroastrianism) as well as diverse latter-day churches of modern Christianity.
_____________________________________________________________________________
INTRODUCTION
Have you ever been to an event wherein many spectators were present and in the course of the occasion, you just happened to notice a face in the crowd that, for an instant, happened to glue your gaze to his? Generally a good-looking, sometimes striking young man, his gaze was fixed on you. In that "instant of eternity" the encounter was slightly unsettling. Later, maybe only minutes later, you returned our gaze to that entity...only to find him gone, vanished.
What was that encounter? Who was he? Or was it your imagination? I must be seeing things you chided yourself. But reassuringly, you knew he had been there.
Events similar to this are legion throughout the world. Stories occur and reoccur in the retelling of these strange encounters. What was its purpose?
History from its beginning abounds with other nonearthly entities: angels, arch angels, guardian angels, fallen angels, dark angels, devil's angels, demons, ogres, pixies, leprechauns, sirens, genies, witches, ghosts, spirits, aliens, martians, ad infinitum. Is this colossal hoax now in its six thousandth year? Or is there something to these stories.
It is very difficult for any author, researcher or fact finder to ferret out the truth about this subject. Whatever the resultant production, it will be controversial, suspect, and so forth. Yet surely in this great, technological age where facts and truths are being spewed forth in a deluge, we cannot remain in ignorance concerning celestial beings. The who, what and why should be answered, as far as it is possible to answer. This far the world has not fully been exposed to the story of these beings. We cannot dally any longer, the events of history are rushing to a colossal climax. Because Angels are among us, it is time to tell the story.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
PREFACE
World of Angels is not a theological work. Neither is it an occultist treatise nor an exercise in the psychic sciences. As a result it can be said to be none of the above. But in another regard it actually encompasses all of the above and beyond.
Since the beginning of time or since man first cast his eyes unto the heavens, the knowledge of advanced beings has been of questionable content and impact. Much like a thrown stone skipping across waters, man's contact with, of knowledge of or interest in, Angels has skittered across his consciousness for a brief moment only to bounce off for another century or two to return for another brief contact, only to skitter off again for more countless years. Thousands of years have expired, and today in the waning decades of the twentieth century we find sophisticated Western man no more knowledgeable about Angels then were the common folk in biblical times. In fact it might even be said that knowledge of Angels to the Jews and Gentiles of that era was greater than it is, to the well-read thinking man of today.
Just as God created mankind, man also, in his stead, has created God. Our Heavenly Creator has been given to the world in all shapes, sizes, colors, and prices, like all other common merchandise. And particularly in these times we find God being discarded by some like so much used and worn merchandise. We even read that God is dead, a hypothesis advanced more boldly with each day. Others of us have pathetically or stoically concluded that, indeed, God never existed. A tragedy now confronts us in these times, for the confusion of immeasurable gulf between man and God stretched to such inestimable degree that man cannot reach his Maker anymore. Either man is lost to his God, or, more tragically, God is lost to man. The resulting breach is too wide for mankind to reach out to his Maker. What a fitting climax to this most illustrious of the world's ages and centuries. And as modern man sits bewildered amid his plastic creations, chromium-plated toys, and epoxy-enameled weapons, in spite of his intelligence, technology, power, and will, the void remains.
Yet, from the eons of creation, the very foundation of the world, indeed another world has existed. The world of spirits, or Angels, has been with us, in us, coexisting all around us. Their very existence has been ordained, from the onset, by the divine plan to fill this void between man and his God. Yet man, in all his vanity, concentrates on the quick easy grasp to eternity and having failed, retreats dejected into pathos. Man seeks "instant salvation" much like his morning coffee. He taries not to contemplate his awesome world of Angels, these lesser beings. He does not realize the great avenues presented by them on his quest to his Maker.
It has never occurred to man to realize the purpose, and therefore, meaning for the existence of this world of Angels - that all things from the vast universe itself to the lowliest atom are under the direction, control, and order of these mighty Angels and that if they were to resign their charge all existence including man would instantly cease. All things attributable to God are achieved through this wonderful world of Angels. All intelligence, energy, order, and purpose are the sole charge of these Angels, by divine decree. Angels thus are the manifestation of God's intelligence and power, the "God presence" in every material and mortal being.
Were man to realize this, he would willingly and eagerly seek out all knowledge and wisdom of these divine messengers. Through his comprehension of this select and august company the gulf between heaven and earth can be bridged.
To his surprise man would find that Angels, much like himself, were created; they have a history repleat with momentous successes, as well as collosal failures. They have their heroes and villains, the energetic and the wasteful, the dutiful and obedient, and the rebellious. And much like man, they have their spiritual progression and strive earnestly toward that celestial goal. The big difference being that Angels, unlike man, abide in, and thus have access to, Heaven and the Supreme Being. The veil to the understanding of the divine purpose that enshrouds all mankind does not envelop the Angels. In their celestial realm they work at their assignments more exhaustingly than we. Their labors never cease, and they do not rest. Having no graphic scale, they could overshadow the solar system yet stand ten thousand in the head of a pin. Yet man's knowledge of these Angels could likewise be imprinted on the same pin. His ignorance regarding these being is equally as colossal as the cosmos.
If only man would heed the Angels, learn of them, for that is their purpose. If only each one of us, men and women, realized that every second of our lives is being observed and recorded and we are being aided. Not one event of our individual lives was without the support, guidance, or sometimes intervention of these Angels. All mortals therefore have a purpose, a time and a future in Eternity. Our individual lives were no accidents, an in like manner, our mortal existence while on this earth indeed is meaningful - to you, to the entities above you, all the way to the Lord Himself.
To this purpose were the Angels created and charged. World of Angels is a commitment to this story.
