World of Angels

By George Yurchison

What is an Angel? The ultimate, and arguably the only, reference on the most noble of subjects is now available as an eBook. This book covers every resource available to bring you the answer to the question. A must have for every scholar, theologian and those curious about the existence of Angels.

• Language: English
• Publisher: George Yurchison
• Release date: Jun 23, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452455990

George Yurchison

Although George E. Yurchison was a licensed architect in fifteen states and the head of his own firm in New York and Florida, he was also a world traveler and architectural historian who researched and studied the remnants of antiquity throughout the world. When he was not busy designing buildings, the author studied theology and the occult. An avid student of religions, he was dedicated to bringing forth the knowledge that is not widely known. It is the publisher's hope that those that read this noble accomplishment will share it with others so that they too may know the truth about the Angels among us.

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World of Angels

By

George E. Yurchison

Illustrated by

Richard E. Balsamo

Published by Scott Yurchison of Smashwords

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To Joanne, Teresa, Scott, and Josie Lynn

The Angel is the most excellent of all creatures because among all creatures he bears the greatest resemblance to his Creator.

—Thomas Aquinas

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.

From the beginning of time or since man first cast his eyes unto the heavens, the knowledge of celestial beings has been of questionable content and impact. Much like a thrown stone skipping across the waters, man's contact with, or knowledge of and interest in, Angels has skittered across his consciousness for a brief moment only to bounce off for another century or two in return for another brief contact, only to skitter off again for more countless years. Thousands of years have expired, and today in the beginning decades of the twentieth-first century we find sophisticated Western man no more knowledgeable about Angels than 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 and immeasurable gulf between man and God has stretched to such an 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, and coexisting all around use. 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 tarries 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 diving 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 replete with momentous successes, as well as colossal failures. They have their heroes and villains, the energetic and 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 is 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 on the head of a pin.

Yet man’s knowledge of the Angels could likewise be imprinted on this same pin. His ignorance regarding these beings is equally as colossal as the cosmos.

If only man would heed the Angels, learn of them and from 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, and 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.

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 also fixed on you. In that instant of eternity the encounter was slightly unsettling. Later, maybe only minutes later, you returned your gaze to that entity…only to find him gone, vanished.

What was that encounter? Who was he? Was it your imagination? I must be seeing things, you chided yourself. But, reassuringly, you know 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, demons, ogres, pixies, leprechauns, sirens, genies, witches, ghosts, spirits, aliens, Martians ad infinitum. Is this a colossal hoax now in it 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. Thus 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. It is time to tell this story.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Part One: Angels in General

Chapter 1 Angels at the Beginning

Chapter 2 Angels, Elohim, Hosts of Heaven

Chapter 3 The Basic Angel: Halos and Wings

Chapter 4 Archangels: The First Four

Chapter 5 Other Archangels

Chapter 6 The Heavenly Number

Chapter 7 Lesser Angels

Chapter 8 Guardian Angels

Chapter 9 Fallen Angels

Chapter 10 Other Angels

Chapter 11 The Mystery Surrounding Angels

Chapter 12 An Epilogue on Gender

Part Two: Angels in History

Chapter 13 Prologue

Chapter 14 The Adamic Race

Chapter 15 Babylon and the Multi-Gods

Chapter 16 Angels and the Hebrews

Chapter 17 Yahweh, Angels, and Israel

Chapter 18 Angels Elsewhere

Chapter 19 Angels and the Messianic Era

Chapter 20 Angels and A.D., Anno Dominum

Chapter 21 The Angels and the New Church

Chapter 22 The Angels and Islam

Chapter 23 Angels and Demons in the Next Thousand Years (700-1700)

Chapter 24 Angels and the Americas

Chapter 25 Angels Today

Epilogue: A Needed Postscript

Appendix: Angels in Scriptures

Bibliography

Part One: Angels in General

Chapter 1

Angels at the Beginning

We would probably all be astounded to realize the number of people in the world today who can explain just what an Angel is. Indeed, more people know of Angels than of Christ Himself. In fact just about everybody knows what Angels are.

Well, the basics anyway. They are celestial beings in Heaven somehow related to God, goodness, beauty, and related items. But after this simple profound statement, the facts and information begin to peter out. After these basics, which most of us know, don't ask for any details. None of us know anymore. Like baseball, or the U.S. Marines. Household words, a few generalizations, and then a big void. After that look to the fans, students, the knowledgeable, or those who need to know. If you need to know more, look to those fellows, not me is the usual reply.

Like the common adage the smarter we get, the dumber we get, modern man somehow is concerned with his God and little concerned for any other celestial phenomena.

In fact, only in recent years, have our troubled souls, consciences, and/or serenity awareness caused us to look outward or inward or anywhere for a purposeful answer to our own existence. We attribute this conveniently to the progressive decline of our organized religions today. Not capable of dealing with the times. Outdated, senile, or no longer effective. We stampede from our churches in alarming numbers seeking a new way. The trouble in our churches is now at epidemic proportions. The printed media take turns at analysis, each probing, explaining, diagnosing, with no real answer. Today we are more familiar with devils than Angels.

The occult, satanic curiosity, the mystical, psychic, even oriental ways of old, are being explored, exploited, experimented with, and developed into great cultic movements. Encounters, self-awareness, meditation, group sex are all manifestations of our need to know and our divine right to know and thus deny ourselves no conceivable experience.

All this is akin to the great magic diet that the world seeks. Almost every week we see, hear, or read about the latest ultimate diet, guaranteed to work or your money back. The diet industry is almost as large as the entire pharmaceutical industry today, itself under scrutiny for its effectiveness, or worth. Indeed the ultimate diet still eludes us. We haven't found one yet that works. Could it be that this diet of diets does not exist?

Can it be that we do not want to eliminate the cause; we strive to correct the effect? Like the common cold, modern technology and medicine cannot cure the cause, only the symptoms. Our intent in the final analysis is that we do not want to cure the cause!

That requires too much of a sacrifice, and this word is rapidly receding in modern society today. Likewise with the spiritual way; we seek and do not find. Thus we find ourselves in our self-seeking, sophisticated, all-knowing society more knowledgeable about devils than we are about Angels.

These generalities having been dispensed with, let us encounter our subject forthwith.

Actually quite an extensive storehouse of information exists about Angels today—who they are, the specifics of the entities, and their purpose and effect upon mankind. Since the earliest times and the onset of the written or printed word, man has included Angels in his records of past civilizations. In China, India, the Mideast, and literally on all continents, records and archaic writings have included references to celestial beings of a lesser station than God. The great mythological or epical works such as the Avesta, Upanishads, and the Books of the Dead of Tibet and Egypt offer extensive description and insight into the acceptance of a world of Angels.

Extending backward in time to 3000 b.c. these works acknowledge and accept the existence of these lesser beings and their significant role in the dual realms of existence and Eternity. Although the works mentioned predate our Western Bible by thousands of years they have little effect on the average man today. In fact most of humanity does not know of the existence of any literature prior to our Bible. To them history begins with the first book of the first or Old Testament. To the average man all things began with Genesis. And since this is the case and as such is the most comfortable arena in which to begin our exercise, we likewise begin with Genesis.

By this we do not mean to discard the earlier epics of ancient days; these too will be reviewed. But current Western theological foundations rest so firmly on our accepted Bible that, with due respect to Western man, we begin our story in his court, in Genesis, at the beginning.

We forewarn the reader, however, that our topic will undoubtedly be subjected to controversy, as indeed controversies may become rampant within these pages. Ergo, we might as well face off headlong into the first of these.

In the beginning, God created heaven and earth (Gen. 1:1). Not really, as you will see.

In the beginning, God created the Angels. This is not a contradictory statement. If you were to investigate the Bible and its earliest accounts of God’s creations and the first seven days, it becomes apparent that the Angels already, in fact, existed.

In the Book of Job, further on in the Old Testament, does it not say that upon creation of the earth, Angels shouted with joy? (Job 38:7) Indeed, they already were!

God, who always was, without beginning or end, obviously did not create Himself. This very essence of God's eternal and infinite existence is not disputed by any of the world's known religions or major philosophers. Coincidentally (or not so coincidentally), they all logically conclude that this is so.

Whether it is religion or modern-day science; whether one espouses the big bang theory of the creation of the universe, or alternately the continuous evolution theory of expanding and/or contracting cycles, one thing is certain: God already was . . . and always was. Even the most extreme of the skeptics will admit that "if there is a God, then indeed he always was!"

Thus of all the things in this universe only one entity is given this honor, designation, and exclusivity. This confirms that He is God. His eternity not only projects forward but backward in time as well. He is the singular truly eternal One.

Ergo all other things or entities, whether spiritual, physical, or ethereal, were created. By God, of course. Who else?

Countless volumes of millions of words, in all languages of the world, from the earliest known writings of civilized man—all these are in conclusive agreement as to the ever continuing presence of the Supreme Being, the all-knowing intelligence from whence all things come. We know therefore that God indeed created the Angels. And by His own hand.

But when? Earliest accounts of creation of the universe and our own earthly orb all indicate that God was not alone in His celestial domain. The fact that God indeed created these heavenly beings before all other creation has not been determined by the simple process of elimination; i.e., since it could not have been any other way, therefore it must have been thus.

No indeed; it is much more conclusive than that. In fact, Genesis states literally that these beings already existed, as already cited in the Book of Job. But further, even in the New Testament the writings of Paul and Peter remind us of this fact. Yet, for some strange reason or reasons, down through the millennia since both Testaments were written, the Western world somewhat neglects to truly appraise this statement of fact. Our Western minds have somehow missed this significant point.

In the first chapter of Genesis it is stated that God created the heavens and earth. No one else apparently. This was a supreme deed of the Supreme Being. Yet in the very next chapter for all to see is the statement regarding the creation of man. And God said, 'Let us make man in our own image.’ Let us; our image. There before our eyes God refers to us and to our image. Whose image? His? Who else was there with him? Was it Christ, or the Angels, the Devil…or other gods?

Genesis does not really, at that point, go further into detail on this matter. But in succeeding chapters of the Creation story the Angels and the heavenly hosts appear. And, of course, the fallen Angels are very early introduced to the scriptural reader. But indeed simply stated was the fact that God was not alone and, equally as important, that those others with Him were not unlike Him. Who then are these other heavenly inhabitants? Angels or gods or both? Let us look into this further.

All the world's basic religions from the most primitive to the most sophisticated fall into two basic ideological categories: monotheistic or multitheistic. Most of the earliest known religions, including the oriental and Mideast religions, could be classified as multitheistic. The heavens were populated by multiple gods of varying stature, including even the evil gods. Conversely the Jews of the Old Testament have been credited with the establishment of the singular omnipotent God in the evolution of religious beliefs. But in observing this matter more closely it becomes apparent that even in the multi-god concept, there invariably appears a degree of importance or rank to these gods, dividing into major gods and lesser gods, and almost in every instance there was an indisputable head of the gods. The Greeks had their Zeus; the Romans, Jupiter; the Egyptians, the all powerful Ammon-Ra. The recognizance of a leader seems to be present in all these ideological and mythical godheads.

Even in the Judaic scriptures of the one-God concept, when Moses was given the Law or Ten Commandments, do we not all know the commandment Thou shall have no other gods but me? This simple statement in context almost seems to admit to the existence of other gods. If not, why would Yahweh have not stated more directly, I am the only God, therefore all other gods do not exist, and thus you should worship me?

This seeming contradiction is not what we would expect from the Supreme Being, certainly not in the gift of the Commandments given to all mankind for the life of our present earth. Were this so, then the multi-god versus single-God conflict would continue forever. Our mortal reasoning could not accept this nor would God intend that it should be thus. The contradiction is man's doing, not God's. Consider Yahweh's commandment stated thusly: Thou shall have no other Gods (as you call them) but me. In this context there is not contradiction, for it is we who have called the other beings gods. When we consider the celestial hierarchies as being of many ranks with the Supreme Being as God at their head, then the true meaning of Genesis becomes apparent. This can easily be proven by a return to the first chapter of Genesis. For herein lies the heart of the basic confusion.

The Western reader should look to the Bible as the principal source of his information. But he should also recognize that on the measuring scale of time the Bible, as we know it, is a relatively recent book. Historical events dating back as far as 5000 b.c. and pre-Flood days were handed down orally for thousands of years. The first complete writing of the Old Testament is credited to the prophet Ezra in the year 535 b.c. when the complete thirty-nine books were compiled. However, the earliest known manuscript of the Old Testament that we possess is only dated to about a.d. 850 and is written in Latin. Only recently, with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1949 and the years of translation required, are we now in possession of documents back to early Christian times, approximately 30 b.c.-a.d. 200.

Although earlier books than the Bible are available in Babylonian, Egyptian, and Sumerian records, basic Western thoughts on the Godhead rely on the Bible. (We will cover these earlier books in succeeding chapters of this book.)

For the moment, however, we will concentrate on the biblical references for the proper introduction to our story of the Angels.

We must realize therefore that our current modern-day Bibles have gone through a series of translations down to the English version we now read. The prebiblical tongues were presumably Adamic (or celestial in nature, being a heavenly language). After the Flood and the introduction of diverse tongues, the language became Sumeric, thence modified to Semitic after the invasion of the Semites. The Semitic branched into ancient Hebrew, thence to Aramaic (an Assyian language spoken by Jesus). These Hebrew and Aramaic languages of the Bible were translated into Greek after the Macedonian occupation of 250 b.c., thence into Latin under the Roman Empire. Luther translated this into German in a.d. 1434, from which Gutenberg printed the first Bible. In fact the common King James Version read today was a complication of the works of forty-seven translators, only three of which were Hebrew scholars and they themselves died before this version was completed.

It is only natural that as remarkably accurate as our current Bibles are today, there are however some significant discrepancies lost through translation. The name of God is one of the most important. For the IHVH or Yahweh is the name of the Lord as known to Moses occurring in the third chapter of Exodus. The earlier name used in the Bible is the key to our story, and you will see now just how important it is.

In the first chapter of Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, the hierarchies of Heaven are introduced as Elohim. This is the actual Hebrew word employed in the Hebrew originals of the Scripture.

Even in the earliest Greek translation, such word being untranslatable into Greek, is therefore carried in its Hebrew form and is likewise continued as Elohim.

This is a Semitic base-word from the original Sumerian, from which the Hebrew Amorite and Canoanite evolved, being sister languages. And logically the word Elohim exists untouched in all three tongues. The word Elohim therefore is a word extended from the Sumerian base root El, meaning God, or Most High, the highest El evaluation attainable, supreme—or in other words, God.

The balance of the word, the remaining letters o-h-i-m, denotes sex, a suffix characteristic inherited by Greek as well as all Latin based languages still in use today.

As used in the scriptures, beginning with Genesis, this ancient Hebrew word Elohim signifies a host of beings (plural)…and literally of both sexes! Or more simply possessing both genders in the same being!

Since this at first is considered astounding let us analyze the word form. Base: El, root meaning God

Thus a singular male god would be Eli, several male gods would be Elim, as likewise with the feminine singular and plural. However, Genesis states that these hosts of heaven were "the Elohim," meaning:

They were many (plural).

They were of both sexes, or, more correctly, they possessed both genders.

The first part of the word is Eloh which is a feminine noun, the H signifying gender. Yet to this word is added the plural masculine suffix of Im, giving us the unique word Elohim, a single plural word with two genders.

Nor is this a mistake, for the word continues to be used throughout the Old Testament, always used in this format. For the reader's benefit, the bewildering dual-sex question will be relegated to a later chapter for special study. Sufficient for now is the conclusion that indeed the Elohim were many! And thus the well-known Biblical term Yahweh, Elohim, does not mean Lord, God, but Lord of the Gods.

A further testimony of this is offered by no other than Christ Himself. When dying on the cross he called unto heaven these words: "Eli, Eli, laltat sabacthami!"

Admittedly in Aramaic, a later sister language, the word remains: Jesus called the male most high singular God the Father.

The confusion of the onlookers who thought Christ was calling Elijah the prophet should not be continued by us. Christ, being the person He was, knew whom He was calling. For were He calling Elijah He certainly would have not mispronounced his name! Indeed the scriptures are correct. And so is Genesis.

In the beginning, therefore, "the Elohim created the heavens and earth," the first of the many eternal truths revealed