Aaahh, so I am, in your view, terribly misled because I don't believe in
the stereotypical popularized concept of God's glowing white (humanoid)
angels, some with blue eyes, golden hair and wings, fluttering around?
Others seen as various other glowing shapes, colors (and sizes) floating
about. In fact, the angel encounters are amazingly similar to UFO/alien
encounters. But, you'd not want to think on that fact too much. It might
compel you to think beyond the box.
In 1991 author Keith Thompson wrote a most illuminating book, "Angels
And Aliens" which drew many startling parallels between UFO/alien
visitations and those of angelic entities.
Let me educate your narrow mind: (quote)
“The image of angels as intermediaries between God and humanity,”
Thompson wrote, “has its roots in pre-Christian ideas about ‘daemons’
and the ‘daemonic world.’ Plutarch, in his essay ‘On the Cessation of
Oracles,’ speaks of ‘a family of Daemons, intermediate between gods and
men, and after a certain fashion bringing thought together and uniting
in one the society of both.’ In Plato’s ‘Symposium,’ Diotima describes
Eros as ‘a great spirit [daemon] and like all spirits he is intermediate
between the divine and the mortal.’ Eros ‘interprets between gods and
men . . . he is the mediator who spans the chasm which divides them, and
therefore in him all is bound together, and through him the arts of the
prophet and the priest, their sacrifices and charms, and all prophecy
and incantation, find their way.’ Diotima concluded: ‘These spirits or
intermediate powers are many and diverse . . . .’”
According to Thompson, the understanding of “daemon” shifted to mean
“evil spirit” after the advent of Christianity.
“It is crucial to note,” he adds, “that prior to Christianity’s
‘demonization’ of the daemonic world, daemons did not have an exclusive
evil coloring. Writes Angus Fletcher: ‘Very early in history the term
demon had a religious and spiritual signification, and referred to the
other-world.’ In pagan antiquity, ‘demon’ (interchangeable with daemon
or daimon) was used in a threefold sense: ‘for gods, for intermediaries,
and for the souls of the dead without any direct connection with
intermediaries,’ Fletcher notes. Thus we begin to glimpse common ground
between the modern imagination of aliens and the traditional imagination
of angels and daemons.”
“In the last several decades,” they begin, “a number of experienced UFO
researchers have drawn parallels between the nature of angels, demons
and the UFO occupants. Indeed, some-including Jacques Vallee, John Keel,
and others-have even suggested that our alien visitors may indeed by
fallen angels or demons themselves. To determine whether aliens are part
of the angelic or demonic realm, we must first examine some of the
attributes of angels and demons.
“It is commonly believed,” they continue, “that fallen angels and demons
are one and the same. In fact, they are frequently used as synonyms in
the Judeo-Christian literature of the last several hundred years.
However, it turns out that the ancient rabbis and the Early Church
fathers believed that they were separate and distinct entities. When we
examine the Biblical record, we see that the attributes and activities
of angels and demons are different. Angels (literally ‘messengers’) are
creations of God that have their own physical bodies. They are able to
manifest in time and space, and when they do they are usually confused
with men!
“For example, when God and the two angels appeared to Abraham in the
‘terebinths’ of Mamre in Genesis 18, they are described as having the
appearance of men. In fact, they were so convincingly human that the
homosexuals of Sodom and Gomorrah wanted to have intercourse with them.
It is unlikely that that the men of Sodom would have been sexually
interested in the angels had they been semi-transparent, glowing
apparitions with wings and halos!
“In the New Testament, two angels who were confused with men were at the
empty tomb of Jesus after the resurrection. Luke the Apostle stated,
‘And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold,
two men stood by them in shining garments’ (Luke 24:4). After Jesus
ascended into heaven, the disciples looked on. ‘And while they
steadfastly looked toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by
them in white apparel’ (Acts 1:10). These ‘two men’ were angels with
physical bodies who advised the disciples that Jesus would return ‘in
like manner.’”
https://anomalien.com/angels-and-aliens-is-there-a-heavenly-relationship/
In modern times, UFO aliens were commonly seen as much like humans but
then the 4-ft. reptilian-like 'aliens' became more commonly reported and
today, it's fairly rare to have witnesses describing aliens as like
typical humans. And that helps support my argument that the superior
humanoid species has a powerful counterpart, the "bad aliens"
(reptilian) are in an eternal struggle with the "good" humanoid aliens.
The countless "medical exams" reported by abductees could be a form of
torture and sadism that the reptilian aliens enjoy, and often including
sexual violation in the form of "exams." (An altered version of this
hypothesis identifies the reptilian aliens as actually androids that
hide their creator's humanoid appearance - which is the same as the
"good" aliens and our species).
I propose that "angels" might be today's "aliens" but may well have a
terrestrial origin, not necessarily exclusively extraterrestrial.
Whether ET or terrestrial, angels and aliens still appear today, and
even many ghost encounters are similar. Thompson reasoned that there
might exist a common link between angels and aliens (but ignoring the
ghosts), and that both phenomenons have a very uplifting, stimulating
effect physiologically that encourages experiencers to widen their
paradigm of "reality" beyond status quo.
A certain level of enlightenment sets in and many never see "reality"
the same way again. And that is basically a good development.
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