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7 Steps to help you connect with your Angels

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:23:58 +0100

Asking an Angel for help is one of our most powerful spiritual practices. We can ask the Angels for immediate help at anytime and in any place.

A Jewish proverb says that...
“Every blade of grass has an Angel bending over it saying,
'Grow, Grow!'"

Just as every person has one or more Guiding Angels that help and assist them, every human activity—partnerships, businesses, organizations and relationships—also have one or more Angels that preside over offerings of grace, assistance and blessings for them. Call upon your Angels whenever you are in need.

Here are Seven Steps that will help you:

1 Ask for help
Angels offer us help 24/7; the more receptive we are, the more help they can give us. If you diminish your receptivity, you limit the Angels' ability to help you. Create your own invocations, or prayers, that specifically call for the help you need. Realize that when you call upon an Angel, what really happens is that you open yourself into greater receptivity to their assistance.

2 Realize yourself as fully worthy of Angelic assistance
Angels work with everyone regardless of personal histories and beliefs. Angels are infinite and omnipresent – your request does not diminish them in any way, nor does it affect their ability to be with and help everyone else at the same time. They exist beyond our experience of time and space. They respond to everyone with complete unconditional love.

3 Connect with your inner divine child
Connect with your inner divine child as you call upon the Angels and ask for help. Your inner divine child is whole, innocent and true — and recognizes Angels as true and trustworthy gifts of Creator. This will help create openness, receptivity, excitement, eagerness and wonder as you prepare to receive the gifts your Angels have prepared for you.

4 Hand everything over to the Angels
Practice doing this especially during your time of invocation and prayer. Place every issue, problem, worry, and fear, as well as every good intention and positive outcome you imagine as the result of your request, into the hands of your Angels. Let go and release all expectations of how your request will be answered.

5 Express Appreciation and Gratitude
Find and express genuine appreciation and gratitude for your life exactly as it is. If you are struggling with this, ask the Angels to help you to find the love that is present in whatever difficulty you are facing. Have patience with this and let go of any expectation of how the love may be revealed to you. Love is infinite and you will find ever-deepening levels of your awareness to presence of love as you follow this practice.

6 Know that it is done
Every prayer is answered and grace is always given. If you fear that your prayer will not be answered, then ask for help in understanding and seeing your answered prayer more clearly. Trust that you will see the love in every answered prayer. You are known completely and loved unconditionally by the Angels. Nothing that will serve you is ever withheld from you.

7 Act quickly on the guidance you receive
Accept the opportunity and act upon it immediately. Angelic help is infinite and unlimited—you can not use it up or run out of it. You cannot ask for "too much" and the Angels are joyously happy to give to you without limit. The faster you act, the faster you receive more assistance!

Then Remember to ....

Celebrate yourself exactly as you are in the moment.
Leave any critical judgments or negative feelings about yourself, your life, or others in the hands of the Angels for healing. Even if it is just for a few moments, let go of everything that is not of love for yourself and everything around you. In this moment of surrender much more can done for you by the Angels than you can accomplish on your own. Acknowledge yourself for making a choice of love and reaching out for the Angels. Thank the Angles for thier assitance. Set your intention for a loving deepening of the Angels relationship with you.

The Miracles of Archangel Michael

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:29:46 +0100

If you think no one is listening, try calling on this heavenly helper…

Archangel Michael is a powerful nondenominational angel who provides protection and clear answers to your questions. He’s also unlimited, and therefore able to be with everyone simultaneously, having unique and individual experiences with every person. Like the other angels, he respects your free will, so he won’t intervene without your permission. But once you ask for his help, he’s there in every way.

Archangels are the managers of our personal guardian angels. Each archangel has a specialty, and Michael’s is to provide protection—for that reason, he’s the patron saint of police officers. Michael also lends courage and strength, as well as offering us guidance through life changes.

Additionally, Archangel Michael knows the details of your Divine life purpose, which every person has. This means that you have a mission, based upon your natural talents and interests, that’s helpful to others. If you’re confused about the purpose or higher meaning of your life, Archangel Michael can give you clarity and guidance.

Archangel Michael’s name means “He who is like God.” When you work with him, you’re actually working with the right hand of the Creator, the ultimate messenger of Divine will and love. He’s 100 percent safe and trustworthy, and his guidance is always crystal clear.

Michael has inspired leaders and lightworkers since his time in the Garden of Eden, where he taught Adam how to farm and take care of his family. Joan of Arc told her inquisitors that it was the Archangel Michael who gave her the impetus and courage to lead France during the Hundred Years’ War.

Archangel Michael is extremely tall and handsome, and he usually carries a sword, which he uses to release us from the snare of fear. When he’s around, you may see sparkles or flashes of bright blue or purple light. Michael is a fiery energy, and his presence is enough to make you sweat.

Michael also has an incredible knack for fixing electrical and mechanical devices including computers. I’ve called on him a number of times to help me with errant telephones and other types of electronics and he always comes through.

Countless legends, particularly in Christian, Judaic, Islamic, and Celtic traditions, discuss Archangel Michael’s renowned strength and wisdom. Yet, this archangel isn’t merely relegated to the pages of sacred texts. He’s very much alive and among us today. In fact, chances are good that he has helped you, especially if you’ve called upon him. He may have even guided you to read this article.

Michael helps everyone who asks, and you don’t need a formal invocation or special training to gain his assistance. A sincere request is all he needs.

The Angels Best Known To Us

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:50:56 +0100

Description Of The Angels Best Known To Us

MICHAEL (Archangel):
Michael is surely the best known of the archangels. Michael is acknowledged by all three Western sacred traditions. He is believed to appeared to Moses as the fire in the burning bush, and to have rescued Daniel and his friends from the lions' den.
To Christians, he's the angel who informed Mary of her approaching death.
Islamic lore tells us that his wings are the color of 'green emerald and are covered with saffron hairs, each of them containing a million faces and mouths and as many tongues which, in a million dialects, implore the pardon of Allah.'
In the Dead Sea Scrolls Michael emerges as the 'Prince of Light' fighting a war against the Sons of Darkness in which he leads the angelic battle against the legion of the fallen angel, Belial.
Michael is the protector of the Christian Church, guardian angel of Israel, and commander-in-chief of God's angel armies. He led them during a war in heaven in which Satan and his fallen angels were driven out of the clouds.
Even though he lives in the seventh heaven. Christian art and iconography shows Michael with a sword or with a scale weighing the souls of the dead.

GABRIEL (Archangel):
Gabriel seems to be our most frequent visitor from the higher realms. He astonished Mary, and her cousin Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, with the pronouncements concerning the births of their respective sons.
To the followers of Islam, Gabriel is the Spirit of Truth who dictated the Koran to Mohammed.
In Jewish legend it was Gabriel who parted the waters of the Red Sea so that the Hebrews could escape from the Pharaoh's soldiers.
According to court testimony of the time, it was Gabriel who came to Joan of Arc and inspired her to go to the aid of the dauphin (the eldest son of the king of France).
Gabriel's apparent ongoing interest in this planet is most probably due to his function as heavenly awakener, the angel of vibratory transformation.
Gabriel in Hebrew means 'man of God', and is seen as God's messenger.
Described as a human figure with long hair and multi-colored wings and often seen holding a scepter or lily.

RAPHAEL (Archangel):
Raphael is perhaps the most endearing of all the angels, and the one most frequently depicted in Western art. His image is featured on the canvases of such masters as Botticelli, Titian, and Rembrandt. He appears to be the high archangel charged with healing the Earth. Raphael is the travelers guide, guardian of youth. The ruler of the second heaven shows up in Christian paintings carrying a pilgrim's stick, a wallet and a fish. The poet Milton has Raphael eating supper with Adam and Eve in Eden.
Raphael's career seems to be peppered with medical missions. He healed the pain of circumcision for Abraham as the old man had not had the procedure done when he was young.
Raphael was then sent by God to cure poor Jacob's thigh after he'd bee n roughed up by Samael. And it's also claimed that Raphael gave Noah a much-prized 'medical book' after the flood. There's a legend that when Solomon prayed to God for aid in building the great temple in Jerusalem, Raphael personally delivered the gift of a magic ring with the power to subdue all demons. It was with this 'slave labor' that the Hebrew king completed the construction. Raphael has also been called 'a guide in hell,' which after all is where healing is needed the most.

URIEL (Archangel):
Uriel is ranked variously as a seraph, cherub, regent of the Sun, flame of God, presider over Hades and, in his best-known role, as the Archangel of Salvation.
Like Metatron, Uriel is said to be one of the angels of the Presence, a most high posting since only the highest voltage angels can sustain the presence of God. Uriel is thought to have been
"the spirit who stood at the gate of the lost Eden with the fiery sword."
The Book of Enoch tells us that it was Uriel who was sent by God to warn Noah of the impending flood, and elsewhere it is written that he disclosed the mysteries of the heavenly arcana to Ezra, and that he also led Abraham out of Ur in the Chaldean region.
Some have claimed that the divine art of alchemy was brought down to Earth by Uriel, and that it was also this angel who gave the Kabbalah, the Hebrew mystic tradition, to humankind.

METATRON (Cherubim):
In the world of Jewish mystics, came to hold the rank of the highest of the angels despite his not being mentioned in the Scriptures. The meaning of his name has never been satisfactorily explained although one interpretation of it is "one who occupies the throne next to the Divine throne.
In a number of traditional sources, Metatron is said to have been the prophet Enoch, who was taken up to Heaven and transformed into an angel of fire, with thirty-six pairs of wings, to continue his days as a celestial scribe.
Metatron has also been identified as the Liberating Angel and the one who wrestled with Jacob; the one who stayed Abraham's hand from sacrificing his son Isaac; and the one who led the Hebrews through the forty years in the wilderness.
In certain schools of mysticism, Metatron, said to be the tallest of all the heavenly beings, became known as Lesser YHWH. In Hebrew, the letters 'LHWH' stand for the most sacred and unpronounceable name of God." "As God has many names, so, too, Metatron was thought to have many names, the use of which was believed to offer the user protection and access to this great angel's powers. Yahoel, Yofiel, Surya, and Lad are just a few of his other names."

MELCHIZEDEK:
Lived and taught 2000 years before the Christ!
Melchizedek, the Sage of Salem, is another of the few known cases of a high angel taking a human, very male, body. He appeared fully formed, some two thousand years before Christ, announcing that he was a servant of El El yon, the Most High. He then set up a teaching center over which he personally presided for ninety-four years.
It was Melchizedek who delivered God's Covenant to Abraham and introduced the revolutionary concept of salvation through pure faith to the thinking of the planet. He established an extraordinary wide-flung missionary program, centered in Salem, the ancient site of Jerusalem, sending out thousands of missionaries who literally circled the globe.
Melchizedek was believed to be the father of the seven Elohim (Angels of the divine presence).
In the third century a.d. a group of 'heretics', calling themselves Melchisedans, claimed to be in touch with 'a great power named Melchizedek, who was greater than Christ'.
His sojourn here as the Sage of Salem was said to have been a concerted effort on behalf of the celestials to bring some much-needed light to a dark and chaotic time, and to set the seeds for the coming of the Christ.

ARIEL (Throne):
Some confusion exists as to exactly whose side Ariel is on. He's ranked as one of the seven princes who rule the waters and is also known as Earth's Great Lord. To the poet John Milton, however, Ariel is a rebel angel who is overcome by the seraph Abdiel on the first day of the great war in Heaven.
Jewish mystics used Ariel as a poetic name for Jerusalem.
In Gnostic lore, Ariel is the angel who controls the demons. Ariel has also been associated with the order of angels called the thrones and is known to have assisted the archangel Raphael in the curing of disease.

ISRAFEL:
Israfel, whose name in Arabic folklore means 'The Burning One', is both an angel of resurrection and of song. By these same accounts, Israfel paved the way for Gabriel by serving three years as a companion to Mohammed, whom he'd originally initiated into the work of being a prophet.
In an Islamic variant of the Genesis account of Adam's creation, Allah sends Israfel, Gabriel, Michael, and Azrael (the Angel of Death) out on a mission to fetch the seven handfuls of dust needed to make humanity's progenitor. According to legend, only Azrael returned unsuccessful.

RAZIEL (Power):
Raziel is believed to be an 'angel of the secret regions and Chief of the Supreme Mysteries'.
There is a legend that Raziel is the author of a great book, 'wherein all celestial and Earthly knowledge is set down.' When the angel gave his tome to Adam, some envious angels stole it away and threw it in the ocean. After it had been recovered by the primordial angel/demon of the deep, Rahab, the book passed first to Enoch, who apparently claimed it as his own, then to Noah, who learned how to make his ark from it. Solomon, too, was thought to have possessed the book, which allowed him his unusual knowledge of magic and control over the demons.
The Zohar, the major work of Jewish mysticism, claims that set in the middle of Raziel's book there is secret writing 'explaining the fifteen hundred keys (to the mystery of the world), which were not revealed even to the angels.'
Other Jewish mystics report that 'each day the angel Raziel, standing on the mount of Horeb, proclaims the secrets of men to all mankind'.

The Spiritual Hierarchy of Angelic Beings

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:23:55 +0100

The 9 orders of Angelic Beings (1 being the highest order)

The First Sphere -- angels who serve as heavenly counselors
1 - SERAPHIM
2 - CHERUBIM
3 - THRONES

The Second Sphere -- angels who work as heavenly governors
4 - DOMINIONS
5 - VIRTUES
6 - POWERS

The Third Sphere -- angels who function as heavenly messengers
7 - PRINCIPALITIES
8 - ARCHANGELS
9 - ANGELS

The Nine Orders Explained

SERAPHIM
The highest order of the highest hierarchy are the seraphim, the celestial beings said to surround the throne of God, singing the music of the spheres, and regulating the movement of the heavens as it emanates from God.

CHERUBIM
Beyond the thrones are the cherubim. They are the guardians of light, and of the stars. Remote from our plane of reality, still their light touches our lives, the divine light that they filter down from Heaven.
Lucifer (Satan/Devil) is known as the 'angel of light, whom God's light shown through' - before his 'sin against God'.

THRONES
The first order in the third sphere is the thrones. They are the companion angels of the planets.

DOMINIONS
The dominions are the heavenly beings who govern the activities of all the angelic groups lower than they are. Divine bureaucrats, they also serve to integrate the spiritual and the material worlds. Although they take their orders from God, and rarely contact individuals, their work is connected to our reality.

VIRTUES
Beyond the powers are another group of beings, the virtues. They are of particular importance to us now because they are able to beam out massive levels of divine energy.

POWERS
The first order of the second sphere are those beings who have been known as powers. They are the bearers of the conscience of all of humanity, the keepers of our collective history. The angels of birth and death are in this category. They are able to draw down and hold the energy of the divine plan the same way trees draw down the energy of the Sun. In this way, the powers can send all of us a vision of a world spiritual network.

PRINCIPALITIES
Beyond the group of archangels are the principalities. They are the guardian angels of all large groups, from cities and nations to recent human creations such as multi-national corporations. These might more accurately now be called integrating angels.

ARCHANGELS
Beyond the angels are the beings we are used to calling the archangels,they tend the larger arenas of human endeavor. These beings are from a different family from the angels. There are many different kinds of archangels in this larger family. The four we are most familiar with are Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, and Uriel.

ANGELS
The angels that we are most familiar with are those in the last order. They are the ones who are closest to humanity, the ones most concerned with human affairs. Within the category of angels, there are many different kinds, with different functions. The ones that we know best are the guardian angels.
Because of shifts in their functions and our consciousness, it is useful to think of these celestial beings as companion angels. As we enter a time of increased light and love on the planet, they will not need to guard us, but rather will be our guides to greater and greater consciousness.

The Seven Great Archangels

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:03:44 +0100

The following is a list of the Archangels, their Divine feminine counterpart and their appointed Seven Great Rays:

Ray    Archangel      Divine Counterpart
  1        Michael         Faith
  2        Jophiel          Christine
3       Chamuel          Charity
4       Gabriel            Hope
5        Raphael           Mother Mary
6        Uriel               Aurora
7        Zadekiel          Amethyst

Archangels reach their exalted position by first passing through human evolution in any System of Worlds. They start as mere angels and, like the elementals, grow from the lower rungs of the ladder of evolution through study, work and service. After they reach a certain stage, they do descend into the world of form and like any other human being in that particular planet, work their way up, eventually winning their ascension. This done, they return to their first estate as members of the Angelic Kingdom. An interesting example is that of Mother Mary, Mother of Jesus, who originally belonged to the Angelic Kingdom. With her ascension, thirty years after Jesus' ascension, she assumed her previous estate as the Twin Ray of Archangel Raphael, of the Fifth Ray. The Archangels and Angelic Kingdom have broken their Cosmic silence for the first time in many thousand years and opened the door to their realms of Consciousness and radiation to all those of humanity who choose to accept their presence and their gifts. Now, as the New Age is dawning on the Earth, with it comes a fiat from the Eternal to unite the Kingdoms of Angels, humanity and the Elementals in conscious cooperation in an endeavor to fulfill the Divine Plan. In obedience to this Fiat, the Archangels are coming closer to us, bringing not only THEIR LOVE, THEIR RADIATION AND THEIR SERVICE, but also a description of their world, their works and activities, helping us to remember our heritage, lineage and from whence we came. The world of angels is a world of love -- a golden sea of pulsating, breathing, radiant flame. The only way to actually experience their personal presence is through love - but this love must be clothed in great inner peace and tranquility. Love, color, nature's perfume and the basic virtues of God's feeling draw them like a magnet. The feeling world is the magnetic power that attracts the angels. Faith, love and absolute obedience to their creator are their basic qualities. Respecting human free will, they will never impose or interfere in the affairs of humanity. They are only attracted to those who have faith in THEM, THAT LOVE THEM AND SEEK THEIR COOPERATION.

Archangel Michael and the "First Ray" of Divine Will and Power

A true master of the "First Ray" walks softly, speaks his\her truth, is assertive, not aggressive, and carries Archangel Michael's symbolic flaming sword of power and strength, tempered by love and compassion Accepting the gift of Lord Michael's sword of Divine will, truth and valor means always using god's word and law to eliminate error and overcome adversity. It will guide and protect you as you move through the shadows of illusion into the eternal light of truth. After you have earned the right to, once again, use the energies of the "First Ray," you can activate and enhance its powers by visualizing a ray of brilliant blue light, tinged with flames of deep red. Bath yourself in this beautiful energy by standing in a beam of this Divine light. Use with moderation, however, as this ray can be very intense.