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| The Book of Angels, excerpt 1 PRAYERS FROM THE ANGELS TO MEN
Beyond the human senses, beyond the counting of the hours, in a place that is no place at all for it has no dimension, yet is, in itself all Dimensions, there are beings of vibratory Nature who once were and will be men. They are God’s array, His Legions, His Angels, the vibratory dimensional Beings who move between Reality and the Unknowable, dreaming men into existence and forging the way for their own future emergence as inheritors of Earth. They are our ancestors and descendants and their destiny is inextricably linked to Man’s.
En mass, they hover at the portals, the passages between their “Keeping” and yours, and their chorus of voices pierces the blank nothingness with crescendos of vibrant intent and wonder. So they speak to men who will listen to madness:
The angels ask, “Why do men seek to be ‘perfect’”, even if such a word had meaning outside of Man’s vernacular, which it does not. “Perfection” does not exist in angelic tongues. Whales and elephants do not know of the concept. So they ask, “What is ‘perfection’”. Who decided that there was a state of being, called “perfect”, that was worthy of seeking above serving Love and living with purpose? The dimensional vibratory beings wonder, if one imagines that “perfect” means never making a mistake, then why would one seek perfection? Without mistakes, how will you learn and grow souls?
Hunting the heart of any average Christian priest, dimensional vibratory beings find that “perfection” is defined as a state of being as God, Who is within Christian teachings, the only example of perfection in all of Creation, and that everything else, especially people, are not perfect. Seek within a priest’s privately held understanding for the definition of what being perfect means, and he will either believe that no man can ever hope to be perfect, for that would entail never making any mistakes, OR that one must be God to be perfect. But, of course, he will then admonish himself for thinking that any man could ever be God, unless the priest is a Mormon, for it is understood by the Hosts that Mormons seek to become god-like and/or gods and goddesses in their afterlives.
Perfection as God defines it, and Perfection as Christianity defines it are two different things.
To be perfect in the eyes of God, one must do his best to serve Love above all things and live with purpose. That is all.
Within Christianity, perfection is an unattainable, yet universally-held fervent desire promoted by Christian morality. The angels suffer along with confused and frightened Christians as they try to comfort them in their futile self-depricating struggle to obtain this impossibly unrealistic state. This awful search has wasted so many otherwise purposeful lives. It has withheld the wonder of truly being free to live in harmony with God’s wondrous and ever-changing Creation from millions upon millions of souls. Perfection is a human concept which, the angels wish to point out, in no way serves right use of will.
If asked directly, a Christian priest might answer querying angels that men can learn all they need to know from the Bible and the Doctrine. Yet, instantly versed in any written word man has ever penned, an angel can find that neither the Bible nor the Doctrine contain detailed instructions for living life one moment after another as a human being in harmony with oneself, one’s community, one’s environment and one’s Creator in a state of perfection. Only living a life of purpose teaches these important lessons through imperfection and only a life lived with the risk of making mistakes or misstepping along the way will fulfill one’s individual purpose. And no two lives will serve Love in exactly the same way, so who will provide the blueprint for a “perfect life”? Certainly not God, for that would interfere with individual freedom to serve Love, with Love.
It is inherent to your Natures to risk and “fail” at times and risk and “succeed” at others. Yet how would you define “fail” and “succeed”? The angels would have you know that most of you confuse the two more often then you would imagine. To do anything else but take a chance on living as Love guides you to live would be inhuman and not a service to Love, Which is God, your Creator, Who Himself, even according to Christian thought, has perfectly designed each and every one of you to perfectly be perfectly who you are, perfectly. The god of Christianity is incapable of creating anything that is NOT perfect for as the epitome of Perfection, all He does, can only be Perfect. And this Christian way of perceiving God is not entirely erroneous. It’s just difficult for the human mind to reconcile that men making mistakes is “perfect”. If God did not want men to make mistakes, He would have created them in such a way that they wouldn’t or He would have seen fit to leave mistakes out of your Reality. God has created that other Reality in some other Existence as anything you can imagine, God has manifested somewhere either in or outside of his Creation. So it follows that making mistakes is part of God’s perfect design for you in your Reality and not to be scorned as a flaw. To serve Love, you must turn away from those religious authorities who would ordain shame and self-loathing for the mistakes you make. For a man to feel shame and self-loathing for his mistakes is a distraction from the practical lessons mistakes provide. As far as needing forgiveness for your mistakes goes, it is up to each man to do the things, such as make amends or grow and learn from his mistakes, so that he can forgive himself. No man needs God’s forgiveness for anything. God does not judge. He Loves each of you unconditionally. And Absolution from the consequences of your mistakes, as is offered in the Sacrament of Confession, merely puts off the lessons your mistakes provide. If you feel that saying a few prayers will cleanse your Soul of the guilt you harbor for the mistakes you have made, then you will never know the gift of Enlightenment. The growth and maintenance of individual Souls is entirely the responsibility of each individual man. |