Connecting With Angels
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
please feel free to visit the school website)
Introduction
What Is An Angel?
What Is The Purpose Of Angels?
Why Are Angels Here?
What Do Angels Look Like?
Orders Of Angelic Beings
How Angels Work
Blocks To Angelic Connections
Ways To Communicate
Exercise 1: Healing Love Meditation
Exercise 2: Opening Your Heart
We Are Angels, Too
Conclusion
Audio Meditations
Bibliograghy
Written by Carolyn Hoppe, MA
Introduction
The cultures of the earth plane all have countless stories of angels contacting, rescuing, and bringing messages to us. The historical record, in the bible and in the oral traditions passed from one generation to the next, is full of accounts of connections made from entities appearing and communicating in profoundly meaningful ways. The wisdom of the divine has, by all of accounts, been given in such purposeful ways as to reveal an agenda of unconditional love and concern for our well-being and evolution.
In her book, The Angel Book (1988), author Karen Goldman says "Angels have been spoken of by all the greatest saints, prophets and poets through history. They've been sung about and dreamed of, sculpted and painted, and hung from windows and ceilings through the centuries. Angels are mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible. There is an unmistakable and profound reason why every culture, every religion, every nation down through the ages and in every part of the world extols angels as fit representations of man's highest conception of love and goodwill." This constant reminder of the divine presence in the stories of our cultures is empowering. It brings us the hope to feel the connection of ourselves to the spiritual realm we all share.
Goldman continues with a poetic exploration of how this contact with the divine impacts us: "They affect our highest senses, inspire our noblest thoughts, reflect our greatest aspirations. We cannot overlook them as a part of our existence. Angels can come in our dreams or a sudden flash of inspiration. They can come as a ball of light or through a stranger that shows up just in a moment of great need." These inspiring words show how we can be nurtured by reaching out to our guides, to the presence that loves us without judgment and with mindfulness to our connections with each other.
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What Is An Angel?
What is an Angel. In the book, Ask Your Angels (1992) by Alma Daniel, The word "angel" comes from the Greek word "angelos," which means, "Messenger." Angels are an order of created spirit beings who belong to God and who are engaged in His service. They are holy and elect. They perform specific divine tasks, they are ministering spirits ("minister" means "to serve") that bring messages of hope and joy. They do not have bodies but may appear in human form.
Angels are intelligent beings, capable of feelings, yet a different species than humans. Their existence is in a slightly finer vibrational frequency than that which our physical senses are tuned to. This means we can't perceive them ordinarily with our eyes or ears, but they can perceive us. Our realities interpenetrate one another with their reality encompassing and enfolding ours.
The word Angel is generic name for the collectives group of beings, citizens of inner space whose responsibilities include the harmonious organization of the inhabited universe. Some people believe angels are the thoughts of God, while others hold that they are the creation of the divine Mother Spirit.
Angels are messengers of our creator. Within them they contain the basic patterns of creation that become manifested as a three-dimensional world. They are literally messengers who are themselves the message. Angels work with our souls in conjunction with the universal mind, to help us raise our sights and spirits by reminding us of the truth, purity, and goodness that exist within everything.
All three major religions of the world, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and virtually all the world's other systems of religion, include celestial cosmologies. Their scriptures all contain references to angelic interventions.
(Hebrews 13:2), "Be careful when entertaining strangers, for by so doing, many have entertained angels unawares." You may have interacted with angels who look like humans without being aware they are heavenly beings. Thus, anyone who acts angelically is an angel. The Talmud says that every blade of grass has an angel bending over it saying, "grow, grow." Every flower, tree, raindrop and living thing has an angel overseeing its life cycle. According to Sophy Burnham in her book, A Book of Angels (1990), George Washington is said to have seen an angel at Valley Forge. He fell out of a boat and could not swim. As he was sinking he felt hands push him up to the surface which saved his life.
A group of six Russian Cosmonauts-atheists sighted twice a band of angels up in space. They were performing medical experiments when suddenly they were blinded by a brilliant orange glow. They saw seven giant figures in the form of humans, but with wings and mist-like halos. They appeared to be hundreds of feet tall with a wingspan as great as a jetliner. Their faces were round, with cherubic smiles and they were all identical. The band of angels followed the space capsule for about ten minutes and then vanished. Twelve days later all seven angels returned and this time three more scientists saw them as well. They were smiling as though they shared a glorious secret.
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What Is The Purpose Of Angels?
The heavenly purpose of our angels is to give comfort, guidance and protection, as we journey through the stages of our lives. Each one of us has at least two angels with us. One is our guardian angel, present with us from birth till death. The other is a guide, usually an ancestor, who has chosen to inspire and assist us in remembering our life's purpose and in discovering our gifts and talents in how to serve the world. No one is without guardian angels in any lifetime. There are always at least two assigned to every human.
Angels are here to show us our own possibilities. They are here to let us know we haven't been forgotten. They are here to extend a hand to us whether we need a lift or not. They are here to reacquaint us with everything wonderful about living. They are here as a gift. They are reminders of what we came here for. When an angel reminds us for even an instant of our own journey home, our place of origin our lightest self, it causes a miracle within us, and that is the greatest poetry ever known to the soul. Our angels sing with joy when they see us feeling peaceful and happy. If we let them, they can amplify that joy.
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Why Are Angels Here?
They are here to help us raise our loving understanding and they connect with us at the highest level at which we are capable of functioning. Contact and conversation with your angels is filled with all the tenderness, love, and wonderment of discovering a best friend you have known forever, but not seen in years. Talking with angels is an entirely natural relationship, although over the centuries it's become obscured by the belief that if you can't see something or touch it, it isn't real. The angels are here. They are with us whether we believe in them or not.
"The angels are here to help you heal your life, and they want you to ask for help." According to Doreen Virtue in her book Healing With The Angels (1999), an increasing number of people are reporting encounters with these heavenly beings. In their encounters, angels deliver timely messages, healing remedies, and lifesaving measures. Why are angels circling our globe so much lately? Partly because of our prayers for heavenly assistance, and partly because God and the angels know that it's time for us to heal ourselves, our lives, and our world. As we move through the millennial shift, the angels are helping us heal the challenges and ills that keep us from living our highest potential. The angels are here to teach us that God's love answers all questions and challenges. They are here to heal us from the effects of fear. The angels are powerful healers, and you can work with them to speed up your healing efforts. The more we invite angels into our lives, the more readily our lives reflect the splendor of heaven. There are no limits to angels' healing power.
Angels are here to help us in many ways, helping us in our issues and challenges. The healing task of angels is to help us shift vibrational frequency to its highest, finest rate. They want us to shift for two reasons: one is that this is the process of ascension. We are all on the pathway of discovering that we are one with God. When we truly understand and live with this knowledge, we are in the state of ascension. This knowledge profoundly effects every interaction with others. Think for moment how your life would be if you were consciously aware that everyone with whom you talked was the divine aspect of your God-self. You would feel complete and total love for these individuals and for yourself. You would experience life as a heaven on earth.
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What Do Angels Look Like?
Angels are seen as radiant pulsing beings of light, multi-dimensional spheres of light, spirals of light, cones of light ranging in size from a dot to a galaxy. This would be something like holding many slides of the same person up to bright light, so you could view them all the same time. In the midst of this overlay of bodies, you'd see intricate tracery of fibers, like Meridians. The fibers of flowing energy extend outwardly, timeless and spaceless, to every part of the universe. These fibers are perceived as wings or halos. The larger they appear the more collective their function. This halo or aura is spiritual in nature. Angels are androgynous. They have both male and female qualities along with their individual characteristics. They come to us on their own terms appearing in ways that are highly personal to each individual.
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Orders Of Angelic Beings
The first sphere is "Seraphim" which is the highest hierarchy. They regulate the movement of the heavens as it emanates from God. "Cherubim" are proclaimers and protectors of God's glorious presence. Next is Thrones, which are companion angels of the planets.
The second sphere are angels who works as heavenly governors. "Dominions" govern activities of all the lower angelic groups they are to serve and integrate the spiritual and the material world. Next is "Virtues" able to beam massive levels of divine energy. "Power Bearers" are the keepers of the collective's history, or akashic records.
The third sphere is a heavenly messengers principality. This includes guardian angels of large groups, from families to cities to nations.
Archangels are over lighting angels. A few archangels are described below:
Gabriel: (God is my strength) He is the angel who came to Mary and her cousin Elizabeth pronouncing the birth of their sons. In matters of the arts and any kind of creativity, call on Gabriel. He is the guardian of emotions and relationships.
Michael: (He who is like God) He champions the people of God in warfare and opposes God's enemies. He appeared to Moses and rescued Daniel form the lion's den. He is the guardian of the house of spirit and dreams and is working with cooperation and reconciliation. Michael weilds the "sword of truth," which cuts through illusion and reveals what is truth.
Raphael: (God has healed) He is charged with healing earth and medical missions. It is claimed that Raphael gave Noah the much prized medical book after the flood. He is also called the guide in hell, which is where healing is needed the most. If you are a healer or need healing, invoke Raphael. This power can be brought to bear on physical, mental and emotional illness.
Uriel: (Fire of God) Archangels of salvation stood at the gate of Eden with a fiery sword. They were sent by God to warn Noah of the impending flood. Uriel brings transformative energies to the mind in working with science, economics, politics and anything that involves organizations, systems, structures and all work-related issues.
Ariel: (Lion of God) This angel controls the demons. He is one of the seven Princes who rules the waters and is known as earth's great Lord.
Nature spirits are angel's cousins. They are in a different wavelength. They are the divas, fairies, and gnomes. They are the presiding patterns that oversee all plants and minerals. They nurture physical environments which they do independently of human efforts. You can connect with the nature spirits whenever you tend to your plants, follow impulses to hug a tree, walk in a garden, or eat anything that has been grown.
Our human bodies also have nature spirits or divas. The divas of our bodies are the organizing principles that coordinate the immense amount of information constantly flowing through the physical body. You might think of these spirits as tinkerers who keep the physical body tunes and in working order, working at the microscopic level.
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How Angels Work
Angels work in subtle and natural ways. They work through our thoughts, dreams, music, art, drama and the written word. They also connect with humans through flowers, sunshine and rain. They plant seeds in the mind, guide protect, comfort, inspire, heal and enlighten. Angels come into dreams and visions. Angels make their presence known through our senses, such as a sudden soft breeze or a scent of flowers. Humans might feel goose bumps or a tingling sensation when angels are near. Angels are literally waiting for you to ask and will not interfere with your life plan. They don't intervene in our world unless we ask them to.
Sophy Burnham says in her book A Book Of Angels (1990), "Angels come as visions, voices, dreams, coincidences and intuition, the whisper of knowledge at your ear. They come as animals or other people, or as a wash of peace in an ailing heart. Sometimes a stranger may come up and give you just the information or assistance you need. Sometimes you yourself are used as an angel. When we ask our angels we open ourselves to a level of wisdom and understanding that is rarely available to us in ordinary consciousness. The angels come into all of our lives in a variety of ways. Some people meet them directly in person or in visions and dreams. Others have felt their scintillating presence or hear them speaking or singing. Still others have experienced them as muses who inspire them creatively for a moment, either knowingly or not, speaking words you did not know you knew. But sometimes these beings come as angels, in the very form that artists show as beings of light."
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Blocks To Angelic Connections
Negativity is a big block to feeling and connecting to the angels around us. If we are clogged up with negativity we can't open to our angels. When we let go we free the energy to receive the wisdom and love they bring us. Angels ask you to unburden yourself by forgiving in order to set yourself free. Forgiveness is a way of freeing your spirit and becoming an unlimited being. They want you to let your light shine so you can be a blessing to the world, and also be an angel for others. Ask the angels to surround you, your family, and your home with white light.
The calmer you are emotionally, the clearer you can inwardly perceive. Turn off external sensing and turn on internal heart sensing. Look to your heart rather than your head. Imagine how frustrating it must be to be around a loved one all day long who never notices you or tries to communicate with you. This is how it feels for an angel sometimes, especially when the angel wants to help, but cannot unless you ask for the help. When you trust and tune in to your angel you will be divinely protected and guided in life in the most heavenly ways.
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Ways To Communicate
Find ways to go within. Meditate, be in nature, pray and write in a journal. A few suggestions to tune into your angelic team is to first find a quiet place, away from all distraction, perhaps in nature. Imagine your angel in your mind. Simply talk to your angels about your problems as if they were your best friends. Then listen to the thoughts and feeling that come. Be specific in your request. Visualize brilliant light surrounding the problem or situation. Believe and receive this blessing. See yourself and others through the eyes of an angel.
In a quiet meditative moment you may tune into your angelic wisdom by asking a question, such as: What do I need to learn? What are my gifts and purpose? Listen for a whisper in your heart. They may also simply send the right person or experience to give you the answer, so be observant throughout your daily activities.
Ask to have their help in solving a problem in your dreams. Before you sleep at night say: "I am open to you, angel. I invite you into my dream."
Create a heavenly hang-out in your home, an angelic oasis of peace, love and harmony with beautiful objects, music, fragrance, plants, and an atmosphere of loving feelings.
In the video, Speaking With Your Angels, Trudy Griswold and Barbara Mark teach:
Four Fundamentals
- Ask
- Believe
- Let it happen
- Express gratitude (gratitude connects us to God)
Steps to Communicating
- Pray for truth and a gift of spiritual healing
- Breath deep
- Listen
- Write what you hear in your mind and heart
- Accept what you write
- Trust the guidance
- Take three deep breaths
- Do one of the following:
Affirm: "I am now surrounded by angels, I call upon God and angels to help guide me" . Pray- for guidance and wisdom to enlightened me today Angel invocation: "eee nu rah eee nu rah eee nu ra zay" (I bring all of myself, mind, emotions, body and soul together in the company of angels.) Write thoughts that flow in faith.
Dearest Angels, (Write out your questions and write the answers to your questions when you feel divine wisdom coming through you.) Questions to ask the angels: What are my gifts? What is my purpose? How can I serve? What do I need to know?
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What Is An Angel?
With your eyes closed, and in a comfortable position, take two or three very deep cleansing breaths. Visualize a beautiful cloud of emerald green light surrounding you. As you breathe in, you take this healing energy into your lungs, your cells, and into your heart. Concentrate upon your heart a moment, as you allow the emerald green light to cleanse away any negativity which may have caused you to feel pain.
With a deep breath, allow the light to carry away any fears you may have about love. Be willing to release the fear of feeling love. You need do nothing else except breath and hold the intention to heal yourself of the fear of love. Just be willing to be healed, and God and the angels will do everything else.
Take another deep breath, as you become willing to release the fear of being loved, including the fear that if you are loved, you could be manipulated, tricked, used, abandoned, rejected, persecuted, or in other ways, hurt. Ask for the courage to be loved and risk pain again.
With another deep breath allow all the fears from any lifetime to be lifted and carried away. Now, allow the light to cleanse you of any fear you may have about giving love. With a deep breath, be willing to release the fear that if you give love, you could be controlled, abused, deceived, betrayed, maimed, or hurt in any way. Allow these fears to be lifted completely, and feel your heart expanding to its natural loving state. Allow yourself to release any old unforgiveness you may be harboring toward those who seem to have hurt you in a love relationship. Become willing to release unforgiveness toward your mother, father, other parental figures, siblings, childhood friends, Adolescent friends, first loves, those whom you dated and loved and anyone with whom you lived or married.
Allow all of your hurts and disappointments associated with love to be cleansed and fully carried away. You don't want the hurt, you don't need it, and with another deep breath, it is lifted to the light where it is transmuted and purified. Only the lessons and the pure essence of love continue since that is the only thing that was ever eternal and real within each of your relationships. Now, with another deep breath, allow the light to cleanse you completely.
Be willing to release any unforgiveness you may hold toward yourself connected to the issue of love. Be willing to forgive yourself for betraying yourself, for ignoring your intuition, or for not looking out for your highest interests. Give yourself a hug, either in your mind or with your arms. Reassure your inner self that you will never again engage in self-betrayal. You now commit to following your intuition and discernment, so that you could never be or stay in any relationship which would hurt you. Fully release the unforgiveness for any mistakes which you think you may have made in any relationship, including your relationship with yourself. With another very deep cleansing breath, feel yourself healed, whole, and ready to enjoy the love that is the truth about who you really are.
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Exercise 2: Opening Your Heart
Do a grounding meditation first. Repeat this exercise whenever your heart feels shut down. It may be useful to do over a number of days. You can use this to come to a more loving state with yourself.
- Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Begin to breathe slowly and deeply. Relax your shoulders and forehead. Open your wings.
- Sense the presence of your angel. Feel it sitting in the chair facing you. Feel your angel breathing with you, opening its wings to you.
- Bring your attention to your heart and feel it beating in the center of your chest. Place your hands on it and feel it pulsing for a few minutes. Continue to breathe slowly and deeply with your angel.
- Tune in to the feelings in your heart that you want to heal. Allow yourself to experience them fully.
- Sense your angel's heart, directly across from your own. See and feel it pulsing with a warm, joyful light.
- Out of this pulsing light that is your angel's heart, a ray of light begins to shine forth, beaming directly toward your heart. It is a warm, wonderful light. Notice what color it is. Feel that light beaming into your heart, warming and filling it.
- As your heart fills with this light, the walls of your heart and each of the four chambers are glowing. The light moves into all the wounded places in your heart, melting your protective armor, healing old heart wounds.
- If there is anyone you need to forgive, beam out this light to them. Picture the person receiving the healing light.
- Let the light within you work to melt the specific feelings that you've been holding and bring you to a place where you can forgive yourself for any pain you've caused others.
- Let this light pour out of your heart and fill your entire body. It is the light of angelic love, and you are now infused with it. It overflows and spills out of your body, surrounding you in a radiant cocoon of light.
- Thank your angel for its gift of healing love. Be aware of your breathing and of yourself sitting in the chair. Gently open your eyes.
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We-Are-Angels-Too
The divine presence makes use of our goodness to do his work and serve as human angels. You, too, can be an angel by inspiring someone or by sharing your smile, your laughter, your time, your energy, or your caring heart. You can be an angel by touching and hugging someone, and sharing your warmth. Be ready to listen to the impression that comes to you to lend a helping hand or a listening ear wherever you go. You are being called to do an angelic favor and will be blessed for following through. You never know the difference a small act can make in someone's life.
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Conclusion
The angels uplift and inspire us to recognize our true divinity. They minister to our needs by bringing us messages of hope and joy. Angels are always ready to lighten our load in life by helping us carry the weight of our responsibilities and problems. The angels are waiting to be asked into our lives. You can call in expert angels for anything you need help with. For example, if you want help with such things as career, romance, or parenting you simply ask for the angel experts in that field to come in and tell them exactly what you would like them to do and then thank them. In the book, Ask Your Angels (1992), Alma Daniel states, "Living with angels allows us to simply be the person we always knew we were inside. The angelic connection expands our human capabilities and extends our capacities. As you move through your world, let your inner light shine forth for everyone to see. Claim your radiance. Honor your visions. Know that you and everyone you see are vibrant and radiant beings, connected in a luminous web of light that encircles our dear planet and shines out to the farthest reaches of the universe."
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Audio-Meditations
(meditation by Christine Breese D.D., Ph.D., music by Michael Hammer)
Meditation 1: Experiencing Your Angels (30:00)
Meditation 2: Visit The Angels (30:00)
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Bibliograghy
Burnham, Sophy 1990
A Book Of Angels. Ballantine Books; New York, NY
Daniel, Alma, Timothy Wyllie, Andrew Ramer 1992
Ask Your Angels. Ballantine Books; New York, NY
Goldman, Karen 1992
The Angel Book. Simon & Shuster; New York, NY
Griswold, Trudy, Barbara Mark 1997
Speaking With Your Angel. (Video) Virtue Doreen, Angel Therapy. Hay House Inc.; Carlsbad, CA
Griswold, Trudy, Barbara Mark 2001
Blue Mountain: You Will Always Have an Angel Watching Over You. Sps. Studios; Boulder, Colorado
Virtue, Doreen 1997
Angel Therapy. Hay House; Carlsbad, CA
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