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    • Encyclopedia of Angels

      by Richard Webster

      (Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

      A couple of months ago, my wife and I sat by the shores of Lake Annecy in the French Alps. We had come to this beautiful place, nestled in the Alps, because many years ago someone had told me the lake was formed from the tears of an angel. As the story goes, thousands of years ago, an angel who lived in this part of France had been summoned back to heaven. He loved living in the French Alps and didn't want to leave. He cried so much that his tears created two lakes. It's a charming story, and the beauty of the lake and its surroundings make it easy to understand how this legend began.

      The purpose of the trip made perfect sense to me, but some people expressed surprise when I told them we'd gone all the way to France to see a lake created from an angel's tears. I then had to tell them I'd also been to Belgium, not for the chocolate or the beer, but to visit Mons, where angels had apparently helped the allied soldiers during a battle in World War I. I sometimes also mentioned that I'd visited Assisi in Italy, to visit the place where St. Francis communicated with a member of the Seraphim and received his stigmata. I even visited Peckham Rye in South London on a cold and wet day purely because William Blake, the poet and artist, had seen a tree there covered with angels when he was just nine years old. I could have continued indefinitely, as almost every time I travel, I try to include a place where an angel visitation occurred.

      My interest in visiting these places goes back more than forty years. I was living in London at the time, and my girlfriend (now my wife) was working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Mortlake beside the River Thames. The bus I traveled on to visit her passed the site where Dr. John Dee (1527-1608) lived in Elizabethan times. Dr. Dee was a famous astrologer, magician, mathematician, and philosopher. He was a highly influential man in his day, and was involved in many areas, including calendar reform, cartography, and navigation. He even advised Queen Elizabeth on the most suitable date for her coronation. However, his main interest was angelic communication, and this is what he is remembered for today. Dr. Dee claimed to have seen Archangel Uriel on at least two occasions. Dr. Dee's home was demolished hundreds of years ago, but there is a path through his former property leading to the river. One day, I got off the bus to stand by the river at the approximate spot where Dr. Dee waited to greet Queen Elizabeth and other important people when they came to meet him. It was fascinating to stand on land that had been owned by Dr. Dee, and imagine how he must have felt when he looked out the window of his study and saw Archangel Uriel for the first time.

      I remember my grandmother teaching me children's prayers when I was very young. Some of these involved angels. I went to a parochial school and must have frustrated the chaplain with my endless questions, especially when I learned that my Catholic friends had their own special guardian angel. I vividly remember gathering up enough courage to ask him about them. He explained that Catholics needed a guardian angel, but we didn't. Even at the time, this seemed unfair to me. It wasn't until I was in my mid-twenties that I discovered that I not only had a guardian angel, but also definitely needed him.

      At that time, a small business that I owned collapsed. The timing was terrible, as my wife was expecting our first child. We had to sell our home and move to a small rented apartment. For a while I worked in a warehouse to pay our bills. The work was not very demanding, and I had plenty of time to think about the situation I had landed myself in. I gradually came to accept that what had happened was largely my own fault. Once I understood this, I realized that I had constantly received advice, but had ignored it. The advice was from that still, quiet, inner voice that we all hear every day. It took me a while to accept that this inner voice was my guardian angel.

      I was also fortunate enough to live in the same city as Geoffrey Hodson (1886-1983), a leading Theosophist, clairvoyant, and prolific author, who had been contacted by an angel named Bethelda in 1924. This angel appeared to him while he was meditating on a hillside in Gloucestershire, England, and told Geoffrey about seven groups of angels in heaven. Geoffrey Hodson ultimately wrote five books using the information Bethelda had passed on to him. I attended many of Geoffrey's lectures over the years, and he was always very kind to the young man who was fascinated with angels and wanted to be an author.

      When I was a boy, angels were considered almost an embarrassment to many people. They were an anachronism from the past, and few people were prepared to talk about them. However, over the last thirty or forty years, more and more people have again become interested in the concept of angels. Mortimer Adler (1902-2001), the American philosopher, can take much of the credit for this. In 1943, he decided to write an article on angels for a proposed series of books on the great ideas of Western civilization. His editors were unhappy with his choice of topic, and tried to make him change his mind. Mortimer Adler was adamant, and his article was published. Almost forty years later, in 1982, he published The Angels and Us, one of the pivotal books that helped start the present day interest in the subject. Today, more people than ever before are communicating with the angelic realms.

      When I look back over my life, it seems almost inevitable that I'd eventually write the Encyclopedia Of Angels, as I cannot remember a time when I wasn't interested in angels. It was probably also inevitable that my wife and I would eventually spend a few hours sitting beside a lake created from the tears of an angel.

      Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2009. All rights reserved.

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    • Double Vision: Chakra Connection with Lost Pet?
      cutedog

      I had a strange experience recently and I hope you can help me with it. My dog has been lost, and I have been praying a lot for her return. A few days ago, I had what I believe was some sort of spontaneous chakra experience. I suddenly felt and SAW a tremendous rushing green energy pouring out of my chest to my dog, and then more energy rushing from her to me. It was very overwhelming – I was laughing and crying at the same time! This continued for about an hour, when I couldn’t maintain it any longer. It was exhilarating but exhausting. I’ve never had anything like this happen before. Unfortunately, my dog still isn’t home. Do you have any idea why I had this experience, what caused it, or what it means? Is there any way I can use this experience or energy to find my dog or urge her to come home? Thanks for any help you can offer!

      – Carlotta

      Dreamchaser:

      I am so thankful that you shared this incredible experience with us. Everyone knows how I feel about animals and their special relationships with humankind. They can be incredible teachers for us, as you can see from how your dog is teaching so many people about the passing of energy between two living beings right here in this column.

      You didn’t tell us which part of your chest this light and energy came from. There are two chakras in your chest area: one is the solar plexus chakra, which is located where your ribs come together. This is the chakra that governs our own personal energy.

      For example, we use the expression “butterflies in my stomach” when we are feeling nervous. We also process energy from other living things via the solar plexus. It is like our “filter” to the outside world. Sometimes we hold our stomachs and say, “Something is not right. I can just feel it.”

      The other chakra in the chest area is the heart chakra, which is located between your breasts. I imagine this energy came from your heart, for green is the color associated with this chakra. As befits the heart, this chakra governs love and everything related to love. I believe the love you feel for your dog and the love your dog feels for you was flowing through this chakra.

      I feel very strongly that the green light was pure LOVE energy. Your dog needed your love. Animals don’t have human logic to prevent them from having deep spiritual experiences.

      Dogs know when it is going to storm, when someone is not a good person, etc. They work strictly on instinct. Humans have the ability to pass this type of energy back and forth to living things.

      Dr. Paul Pearsall is a published author and speaker who was on the staff of a major hospital here in the United States. He was once diagnosed with incurable brain cancer and told he had about two weeks to live, but despite this, he was healed.

      He attributes his healing to the love energy sent to him by his family and the staff of the hospital that he helped run before he became a patient. A nurse even walked in his room and saw arcs of blue light coming out of his family and going into him, just like you describe the green light between you and your dog.

      There is nothing you can do to help your dog come home faster. The green light was her saying she was fine. She was trying to help heal YOUR sadness. All you can do is ask the Universe to provide for her and keep her safe from harm.

      I know you are sad, but you can trust that your dog is being provided for wherever she may be.

      I wish you many more amazing energy exchanges with creatures of all kinds!

      *****

      Astrea:

      We have an old stray cat that comes to eat with us, and when two days go by and I haven’t seen him, I worry that something has happened to him. We can’t bring him inside because he would hate it in the house, so I have to trust the Universe to take care of him while he’s off “catting around.”

      Satin, Father of Many and Owned by None, is on his own when he’s not here chowing down. After three years of feeding him, he’ll let me pet him occasionally. His Spirit is Free. Since he isn’t mine, I try to release his Fate to the Universe, but when you’ve lived with and loved someone for years, it’s hard not to worry about them when they’re gone.

      There is nothing in the world as emotionally draining as losing someone you care for and not knowing what happened! That worry and anxiety about how they’re doing is horrible.

      Your experience with your doggy is wonderful and magnificent. Some connections with animal friends can feel much more powerful than human relationships. The difference, of course, is our ability to communicate telepathically.

      I’m so sorry to tell you this, but I feel your dog isn’t coming home to you again. She’s in Heaven with all the other animals you’ve loved and lost in your life. You’ll see her again when you get there. Please know that she didn’t leave you on purpose, but that it was her time to go. She didn’t want you to know she would die, so she didn’t do it in front of you. In her own way, she was trying to spare you that.

      When she died, her little soul passed through you, and the green healing light that she sent to you was her best way of saying goodbye to you. In those moments you shared your whole Beings with one another, and then she was gone. Since she was a dog, this was her best way to let you know that no matter how sad both of you are at this parting, she is fine and happy and all right in Heaven, where she waits for you.

      I don’t believe that her spirit will return to you in another body in this lifetime. What the two of you shared was way too special for that. Hold tight to her Being in your heart, in your dreams, and in your memories.

      One wonderful thing about being in Heaven is that we don’t feel longing because we miss someone who was close to us here. One awful thing about being here on Earth is that we do miss those we have loved who have crossed over before us.

      Your pup overcame countless obstacles to share her ascension into Heaven with you, in order to soften the pain of your loss. Be brave here until you see her again, and most importantly, love others as you’ve loved her. It’s the hardest and the easiest thing you’ll ever do.

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