Knowing Your Psychic Angels

Angels are a popular image in modern culture. A lot of this popularity comes from popular culture: images of kindly psychic messengers running around helping the underprivileged and giving those who've been through dark times a chance at redemption. This psychic image isn't new. The Bible has had quite a few angel tales in it. Everyone knows the story of Mother Mary and there's an entire book, Tobias to be specific, in the Old Testament where an angel pretty much sets up a man for marriage.

Psychic Angel Stories 

But Bible stories are sparse compared to the whole field of literature and study that has sprung up around psychic angels. The idea of angels has been around since the Old Testament and quite a few scholars, starting from Jewish tradition in the Biblical times, have taken up the opportunity to study this field of theology, calling it angelology. They're all pretty passionate about this, and it shows in the large amounts of information they have managed to come up with from the ancient times onwards.

Mystical Psychic Sources About Angels

Since angels are kind of hard to find, much of their ideas of angels come from the Bible and more fanciful sources like the Apocrypha, technically non-official books of the bible, along with more mystical psychic sources like the Kabbala. All of those sources are mixed in with personal theories, assumptions and a few choice bits of folklore. It all seems a bit of a mish-mash of ideas, but like fine wine, the development of angelic theory has pretty much settled down through the ages to a definitive set of beliefs.

Angels and Three Spheres

Medieval Christian theologians pretty much set down the definitive angelic hierarchy. Since they were pretty much enamored by the number three, the holy number of the trinity, these theologians divided the angels into three spheres, basing most of their beliefs from New Testament books like Ephesians and Colossians. Each sphere was then divided into another three sets. The first sphere is composed of the angels seen in the Old Testament: the Seraphim, Cherubim and the Thrones.

Angelic Protection

These angels worked to guard God's divine throne. The next sphere were governors of the heaven, making sure everything ran smoothly. They are divided into the Dominions, the Virtues, and the Powers. Finally, the last sphere dealt the most with humans, delivering messages to them and guarding them against demons: the Principalities, Archangels, and just plain Angels.

Angels and Theology

General divisions like these helped systematize the theology behind angels. It was all very serious business back then. Both the Fourth Lateran Council and the First Vatican Council each had definite things to say about angels based on the research of angelologists. Even then, study did not stop of course. Shifting on individual angels, especially the named ones in the Bible were another part of angelology.

Seven Archangels and Magical Ritual

The popular belief in seven Archangels is pretty much one of the results of these studies. The archangels, according to angelologists, were charged with the protection of nationes. Also, each had a specific name that could be used to invoke their protection: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel, Zerachiel and Remiel. Psychic occult imagery has co-opted some of these ideas and usually use them in magical rituals of protection.

The term "guardian angel" may conjure up visual impressions of ethereal psychic beings, but if and when you ever see yours, you may be surprised to discover how ordinary it looks. The important thing is to believe and trust in the work guardian angels do on your behalf. And remember, they are not simply invisible welfare workers.

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