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Do angels have wings?
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I was on the phone with my sister one evening, talking about a very spiritual subject. When I looked over to my right and saw an angel walking from my kitchen into my livingroom. The time of actually seeing him must of lasted all of one secound, but that secound will stay with me all my life. When I saw him I gasped like I had never gasped before, I literally couldn't breath at first. I had to strugle to take air into my lungs, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I was totally in shock. The last thing I ever thought to see in my house was an angel. I'm very certain about what I saw and it would be very hard to have someone convence me otherwise. While I didn't see his body or face, I did see the profile of his wings. Actually just his left wing. First of all the color is white. unlike any white I've seen on earth, please don't make them any other color. They're wings are definatlly white, Heven White. I find the best comparison of appearance in color, texture, and the way it feels to the touch is that of fine dull porcelain. Like a porcelain dolls face. While they appear as wings they are not made of feathers, chiken feathers are no comparison. However they do hold the majesty as an eagle in soaring flight. As for the size, they were just shy of ceiling height, (8ft.) . The wing was three to five inches from the top of the ceiling and draged just slightly on the floor. This guy I saw was no wimp. If I had to describe what I saw in-just one word that word would be "Might". The wing exude God's strenght. It was like looking at a very muscular arm. He was definatly a warrior. |
(As written) by Gabriel Santiago Houston, TX 10/93 Angel Experiencer |
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"I was asleep, dreaming when suddenly I was taken out of the dream and found myself somewhere, bathed in a glorious light. To my utter surprise, I was staring into the eye of another. He held me in a force field, and I couldn't see out of my right eye, but this being's face was pressed up close to my face. I didn't feel anything but I could only see his eye Left eye). He was a living being. I saw his brown orbed eye, his dark lashes and fine brow. He had radiant olive skin. His eye moved, only slightly, and I wanted to see his whole face but I couldn't move. He didn't speak but I felt he wanted me to understand something. Then, after what seed at least half a minute, he released me and the glorious light vanished and he was gone." "I was back in my bedroom. I sat up in bed. The dawn was just beginning to pale the darkness. To my great surprise, everywhere I looked, I saw his eye in after-image I It was as though I had stared at the sun I He had burned the image of his eye upon my retina! I saw these after-images in fine detail for fifteen minutes after I was awake, before they gradually faded and went away." "Five years later, he came through to me again. I am an artist and a writer (not published). I was drawing faces from imagination and one face in par- ticular bothered me for I had drawn the left eye too large. So, I erased the eye, and drew in another. The whole face changed when I did that and I felt a shock go through me as I stared at the sketch." "I had drawn the face of the being who had left his eye burned upon my retina! I recognized him!" I knew him! He was someone dear to me. It was like amnesia I I knew I knew him and he was someone beloved but I had not known him in this life! I wept, and as I did I felt that holy light and the portrait seemed alive as I felt his thoughts enter my head. He said, 'How is it you do not remember me? I have been with you all through your life.'" "...My son entered the room and saw me weeping. I couldn't speak of what was happening." "There was a sharp pain in my lower chest and it persisted. So, I went to the doctor the next day and they ran tests. Two weeks later I was told I must have surgery or I could die. This angelic experience happened on November 19th. On December 14th, received a phone call from my son in Oregon. I had not been in contact with him for at least three months. His first words were, 'Morn, are you all right?' I answered, 'Yes, I am very ill'." "He then told me he had on Dec. 2, dreamed his deceased father had come to see him to tell him I was ill. Later, he confessed what his father had really said was that he had seen me two weeks ago 'over there' -- so I knew Bob (my son's deceased father) had witnessed my angelic contact of November 19th! And assumed I was also deceased! And had gone to tell his son!" Mary Seiler, 7/94 Pahrump, NV Angel Experiencer |
"Angel of (Tame) Animals - Hariel, Behemiel. Hariel - Angel with domination over tame beasts. Hariel is invoked against impieties. He rules science and the arts and is of the order of the cherubim." "Behemiel - An angel with dominion over tame beasts. Behemiel is chief of the order of hashmallim, an order equated with that of the cherubim. " A Dictionary of Angels Gustav Davidson, 1967
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Each order of animals, vegetables, and minerals has its guardian angel. This has seemed to be the only explana- tion for the wonderful guidance everywhere obvious in the processes of existence, growth, and propagation. The heavenly kingdom includes them in its wisdom and compassion. Each form of life which has not yet been individualized has a group spirit guarding and guiding its destiny. The hierarchy of souls, the next division below the angels, is humanity which was given dominion over all the creatures of the earth. The angelic beings that direct the inner growth of the various species depend upon mankind to guard the physical rights of the various kingdoms and their subdivisions. In the mineral kingdom, the stones and metals, gems and elements, all have their rights and privileges. The Blessed Angels (a monograph) Manly P. Hall, 1980 |
"...Also, there being lesser and higher angels, -they can appear as ordinary people. Angels also have -the power to appear to the dying as large lights which speak in thought or mind to mind. Angels can appear to the ill or dying in whatever form serves the cultural expectations of the mortal visited. So, in this sense, they can effect wings (be seen as having wings) if this is what is expected, because no Angel of God wants to be mistaken when he or she appears to a mortal! Oh yes. Angles are either male or female like we are. The Godhead does not create an incomplete thing." Mary Seller Pahrunp, NV 10/93 Angel experiencer |
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Ann is
convinced that her prayers were heard. Even years later, the memory re- mains as vivid as it is out of this world. One morning, three days before she was to enter the hospital for surgery, Gary answered the doorbell. Standing on the step was a large man, a good inch taller than her 6-ft. 5-in. husband. "He was the blackest black I've ever seen," Ann says, "and his eyes were a deep, deep azure blue." The stranger intro- duced himself simply as Thomas. And then he told her that her cancer was gone. "How do you know my name, and how did you know I have cancer?" stammered Ann. Then she turned to her husband and asked, "What do we do, Gary? Should we ask him in?" Thomas came inside and again told them she could stop worrying. He quoted scripture to them Isaiah 53.' 5: ". . . and with his stripes we are healed." Ann, still confused, looked at the man and demanded, "Who are you?" "I am Thomas. I am sent by God. |
WHICH BEST DESCRIBES WHAT YOU BELIEVE ANGELS TO BE? Higher spiritual beings created by God with special powers to act as his agents on earth 55%___________ |
HAVE YOU EVER PERSONALLY FELT AN ANGELIC PRESENCE IN YOUR LIFE? Yes____________32% No 35% DO YOU BELIEVE IN |
The spirits of people who have died1 15%___________ |
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An important religious idea but merely symbolic 18%___________ |
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Figments of the imagination 7%____________ |