BEIRON'S WAY: THE WAIT WATCHER

Dedicated to Kelvin, Craig & Sarah-Ann – for your fascination with Angels. When Yahweh’s creative Word was born (" God from God, Light from Light, One in True Being With The Father "), and all creation came into form, among the primal creation to attend to the divine Word were the choirs of spiritual forces, which we can recognise as angels. The Divine Word, or in Greek Logos , identified by John as Jesus, present in fullness of the Father's glory as the Son. To the Mind of the Most High, and attending to the Word that brought into being all creation, these attendant spirits form a particular function or intelligence. Now the intelligence we speak of here is supernatural, and as spirit is non-corporeal, these species are illuminated solely by Divine grace. Supernatural intelligence is fueled by the Divine Mind, and hence, these catch and reflect the divine light of Yahweh, whereby they have specific presence and abilities. These angelic intelligences have no particula...

Tuesday, 23 August 2005 Recently, I have been asked about angels, and after having overheard some evangelical Christians musing at Borders saying that the hosts of angels were not integral to belief, I feel compelled to put some information on these species for others to review. Referred to in Hebrew as mal’ak and in Greek angelos , or messenger, their function is immediately recognised in Judeo-Christian literature and tradition as being the functionaries of the Divine. Yahweh had created them in the same breath that he formed the cosmos, with his creative Word. Hence, they share in his life by being subject to him, and act according to his will. Biblical, post-biblical and extra-biblical sources form our present speculative philosophy known as angelogy, and Thomas Aquinas summarily formulated much of our accepted notions of the Christian understanding of these supernatural beings. Today, influence from other folk traditions and cultures have added to the spectrum of angelogy, but I ...

T he one distinguishing mark of catholic Christian faith, is the story on which it hinges, where a tribal God, YAHWEH, seeks out his own, and establishes the convenant with the semitic tribe of Abraham, and brings about the singular event with cosmic consequences: the impossible and unthinking incarnation of the Divine into the material world. We think of Christianity as a modern, western faith, and forget its true origins in the Orient as a tribal faith, born firstly in the belief of one God, nameless and unknowable, whose nature is mysterious to men. Yahweh is indeed unique and alone; there is none like Him , as the Psalmist sings. The ancient Hebrews were fearful to profane this sacred name, and therefore, in their oral traditions and later on, scriptures, recorded this name but pronounced the word Adonai or Lord, in its place. Therefore, for thousands of years, the name would remain unspeakable, unknown, and almost forgotten. The word itself is a phrase, oddly created, which co...