Paranormal Books

Angel Series

An angel is a spirit or spiritual being, employed by God, according to the Scriptures, to communicate God’s will to man.

An angel is a ministering or guiding spirit.  They can be imaginings, intuition, or insight that give people their insights/visions, or solutions to their problems.

Intuition—sudden knowledge, sudden insight—a connection made suddenly and unexpectedly.

Angels rescue, give aid, or anoint us with calm and serenity.  They deliver messages of warning or of hope.  They guide us, teach us, answer our prayers, and lead us to death.  But always, they are at the service of God, and not themselves.

Angels can change all the physical laws, but they cannot prevent something from happening.  They can, however, deflect the blow, call for the doctor, bring the ambulance quickly, guide the surgeon’s hand, warm, comfort, and heal.  They cannot interfere with free will.

Angels were considered to govern the four elements—earth, air, water, and fire.  They moved the stars, tended plants, graced the procreation of all living creatures.

Angels have no bodies, but live to do God’s will.  They are created beings.  Angels are messengers.  They are faithful, intermediaries, but not equal to Christ.  They speak, they are seen and touched, and they dazzle or dissemble.  Angels have power over nature; they can change the laws of nature.  They add praise, they are immortal.

Angels were created to serve God.  They were given reason and free will.  They are far superior intellectually to humans.  They are not dependent on sense experience or imagination and have wills with freedom of choice but without being subject to the influence of bodily passions.  Because they don’t have bodies, their emotions lack “the feelings” of human beings.   They are endowed with love, however.  Every one of the faithful is assisted by an angel and these angels behold the face of the Father continually.  An angel is assigned to every believer, unless we drive him away through sin.  He guards the soul like an army on alert.

St. Thomas Aquinas believed that every newborn draws the attention of both an angel and a devil and that at baptism, it gave the angel the advantage.

There are nine orders of angels:  Angels, Archangels, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Dominations, Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim.  St. Thomas divides the angels into three hierarchies each of which contains three orders.  In the first hierarchy he places the Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones, in the second, the Dominations, Virtues, and Powers, and in the third, the Principalities, Archangels, and Angels.

Dominions, virtues and powers wear long albs (or gowns) reaching to their feet, hitched with a golden belt and adorned with a green stole.  They carry golden staffs in their right hands and the seal of God in their left.

Dominions or dominations regulate angelic duties.  Through them is manifested the Majesty of God.  They hold an orb or scepter as an emblem of authority.  Chief of this order is Zadkiel.

Virtues work miracles on Earth.  They are bestowers of grace and valor.

Powers stop the efforts of demons to overthrow the world, or else they preside over demons, or perhaps (according to St. Paul) they are themselves evil.  Ertosi, Sammael, or Camael is Chief of Powers.

Principalities, archangels and angels are dressed in a soldier’s uniform, with golden girdles, hatchets, and javelins.  Principalities are protectors of religion.  Nisroc is the prime one here.

Archangels and angels are guardians of people and all physical things.  Raphael is Chief of guardian angels, but a Seraph himself.  He is the angel of providence and watches over all humanity “Divine Healer,” he is concerned for those on pilgrimages toward God.

Evil Spirits

Satan is a fallen angel who in his fall drew multitudes of the heavenly host with him.  He is termed “Prince of this world” and is the tempter of the human race and tries to bring them down as well.  His mission is to steal, to kill, and destroy souls.