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The shining ones
by Author::Benedictus Montecrossa
In the middle ages, angelology, or the science of ‘heavenly beings’, was a flourishing branch of higher learning. Whole libraries were filled with books on it, describing, classifying, cataloguing the aggeloi, the heavenly hosts. A specially important branch of theology was reserved for them, and one could even become a doctor angelicus by specializing in the study of angels. Now was there a country on the whole earth which doubted the existence of these spirits of the heavens, variously represented in art as birds with human heads, or half bird and half woman. The first discoverers of their popular modern form (a human body with eagle wings) were the ancient Etruscans. In this form they entered into the Christian church.
The oriental belief of the Jewish people was that any strong-looking fellow could be an angel. He didn't need any wings. The wings were reserved for bulls (the cherubim) or lions (seraphim). In India there exists even today a curious mixture of winged horse-lion-elephant called vali. In southern India they can still be seen on temple gates.
Under the relentless pressure of an extreme monotheism, child of intellectualismand the trend towards abstraction, the lovely children of the clouds, the wind-haired ghandarvas, disappeared. And by the end of the 19th century one would have searched in vain even at the Papal University for a doctor angelicus. And the big Protestant Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics in thirteen volumes doesn't even have an entry under angels, though it has one under demons! The angels clearly have become victims of rationalization, though the belief in them still remains in the dogma of the Anglican and the Roman churches.
Now Cardinal Bene Trovato, Systems Manager of the great Vatican computer (which some students at the Gregorian university somewhat irreverently call the holy computer) and Head Librarian of the Vatican Library, has computerized the entire angelic section of the Vaticana and programmed the computer to translate the scholastic Latin into modern scientific language and mathematical formulas. He was assisted in his programming by the Jung Institute in Zurich and the results have been sensational.
Angels, it was found, do exist. They have bodies of plasma and inhabit the magnetohydrodynamic currents of the galaxies. Their consciousness ranges high above that of men, from planetary to solar to galactic. Contrary to popular belief, their bodies are clearly visible though the great telescopes, but have up to now not been generally recognized because they do not have anthropomorphic or zoomorphic forms. Their bodies are powerful centres of cosmic radiation, and their metabolism is entirely nuclear and in accordance with the phoenix reaction cycle.
Their play and other activities range from the novas and supernovas to the loving encounters, the great galactic meetings, of entire galaxies, and to the great atomic holocausts that occur when a whole galaxy transforms itself into pure radiation.
Their voice is clearly audible in the big radiotelescopes as the loudest sound in the universe, but can be understood only when it is analyzed by the new type of analog computer. Their message to men is still: “Gloria in excelsis et pax hominibus”.
Contrary to popular belief, they are also easily accessible to human beings, and many of our astronomers have met and entered into lasting friendships with these beatific beings. But they keep their conversations to themselves for fear of being ridiculed by their non-astrophile contemporaries.
Yet in a certain state of consicousness which is described as ‘openness’ it is extremely easy to enter into a total contact and exchange of happiness.
The angels refute the ‘big bang’ theory, insisting that it is they themselves who continuously create matter out of pure spirit in their huge shining maternal bodies, thus causing the universe to expand.
Only they can contemplate that which is beyond the universe, and this they describe as a source of constant joy and inspiration.
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