by Andrew Crownover

Created on: March 04, 2008

Good angels are known as the beautiful heavenly beings with perfect completion, immortal bodies, and powerful wings. Bad angels are epitomized and deified as Lucifer (Satan) and his legions of demons. Both of these extra-biblical imaginary characters are entrenched in most modern-day Christian doctrines.

Zoroaster, the Iranic prophet could be credited with the illusionary angelic beings that pervades religious thought. Christianity openly acknowledges angelic spiritual beings as a part of "Gods" creation. The various English translations of the Bible that continue to promote these false spiritual beings and perpetuate mystical religious beliefs in fact provide a excellent metaphor for the process of choice between destructive and productive behavioral thoughts that occur within an individuals mind.

The word angel is a transliteration of the Greek word angelos. Transliterated words are very different from words that are translated, because the focus is not on transferring the meaning of the words. The word transliterated "angel" did not transfer the meaning of the original Hebrew word Mel'ak that literally means messenger and thus allowed for the mystical interpretation of a spiritual being.

Ha'satan transliterated as Satan holds the meaning of the adversary, the evil inclination or inclination to do evil. Images and the personality of Satan are shaped in Dante's Inferno and continued to pervade the Christian faith.

Cherub is again another transliterated word that means guardian. In Torah the guardians of the arc of the covenant were two wings or triangular shapes like what is found in the Star of David. These wings are representative of the 231 white gates and 231 black gates written about in the book of formation (Sepher Yetzirah). The 231 gates are the combination of the 22 original Hebrew letters. Each letter corresponds to a number. A small numeric example of these gates would look like this:

9,1 8,1 7,1 6,1 5,1 4,1 3,1 2,1 8,9
9,2 8,2 7,2 6,2 5,2 4,2 3,2 7,8 7,9
9,3 8,3 7,3 6,3 5,3 4,3 6,7 6,8 6,9
9,4 8,4 7,4 6,4 5,4 5,6 5,7 5,8 5,9
9,5 8,5 7,5 6,5 4,5 4,6 4,7 4,8 4,9
9,6 8,6 7,6 3,4 3,5 3,6 3,7 3,8 3,9
9,7 8,7 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6 2,7 2,8 2,9
9,8 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 1,9

The original 10 commandments and Torah writings from Mount Sinai were kept in the Arc of the Covenant. These powerful writings were protected by two wings or 2 sets of 231 gates that were located on the lid of the arc of the covenant and fixed as guardians. In order to unlock the code of these powerful writings someone had to decipher the encrypted Hebrew shoreshes (two letter combinations), then combine each shoresh with a third letter of the Hebrew alphabet to produce a primary key.

There will continue to be much debate over the realness or fakeness of Angels. As for me and my house we will continue to view them as fictional characters. Angels, Cherubs, Demons, Satan and Lucifer although interesting characters should be reserved for books, movies, and theaters, and should be kept in an imaginary context.

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