2. Angels as 'Visible' Cosmic Energy.

Angels as 'visible' cosmic energy

From the archangels of the Zodiac (constellations), I myself, born through the constellation of Virgo, am inspired and infused with the realms of Archangel Vaël. Vaël is both the mysterious Lady of Earth, mistress of Devas and nature spirits, and the “invisible” Queen of the Heavens.

Devas are celestial beings; higher or lower angels as personified forces of nature. Like humans, they are subject to mortality and sometimes return through their spiritual rebirth into their new life form.

The archangel Vaël's element is earth (mother earth). The planetary planetary angel, the Shekinahcharon (the moon of Pluto) cooperates with this archangel Vaël in the higher cosmic energy fields that descend to the earth and act less deeply on the souls of humans and other living beings. Animals with higher senses, such as the revered cats in ancient Egypt “see” and “experience” these and other subtle energy fields as living beings, as angels of the planets. Clairvoyant and initiated humans also communicate with these manifestations, in a similar way.

The Shekinah is the archangel of spiritual liberation, and it is born through complete surrender to the “Source of all life.

Azrael is the inspirer of Pluto and, along with Kemuel, rules Tuesday and Scorpio. Pluto is the planet of providence and “the foresighted,” and Azrael therefore constantly works for the spiritual transformation of all humanity and the development and cooperation of the various folk souls and human races. He fights against the dangerous reactions to Pluto's energy, such as fanaticism and structures of dictatorships.

The traditional name of the Shekinah is the liberating angel, Rachael, Matrona. He brings wholeness and spiritual fulfillment to a world of fragmentation and division.

The feminine aspect of God, the mother of the universe, is described in Jewish mysticism as the Shekinah. According to these traditions, She is God the Mother, the consort of God the Father.

In Hinduism, we see the same spheres through the dancing god Shiva and his divine consort Shakti. This cosmic dance is constantly going on in our own deepest and highest Self.

In India they speak of the Lords of Karma and in Egypt of Maät; she is the goddess of justice who decides the karma of the dead. These cooperating cosmic force fields are reflections of the God and His Goddess, albeit in lower energetic principles constantly circling around our Mother Earth.

One also recognizes similar principles in astronomy and the natural sciences, as Albert Einstein wrote about them; “Anyone who studies physics long enough will inevitably arrive at metaphysics.”

Within various currents of theosophy (Theos=God and Sofia is the goddess of wisdom), the original man, Adam Kadman, is a bisexual being, split in two; the male part (also called animus in Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology) is called the Messiah. The female part (the anima) is described as the Holy Spirit. With this we also consider yin and yang which, from ancient Chinese mysticism, constantly flow through each other.

Also important within this theosophy is the description of the seven heavenly halls, or the Hekaloth, and the mysteries of nature. This leads to the second element, the cosmological.

From the earlier Kabbalistic philosophy, a system can be mentioned in which five intermediate beings arise between God and matter: the will of God, an emanation of His Being revealed in creative power; universal form and matter; the universal spirit; the thinking souls; physical nature.

In another system of consideration, nine primary substances occur: the One (both God and Goddess, or also as the Source of all Life); the Intellect; the World Soul; Original Matter; Active Nature; secondary matter; the world of Atmospheres; the Elements; and the physical world.

But now we return to the angelic atmospheres.

Many spiritual people believe in “guardian angels,” these fine material heavenly beings protect some places, from whole countries and their folk souls, to also families with their “higher family spirit,” to altars, churches, temples and numerous sacred places, such as springs or consecrated grounds. According to the view of Rudolf Steiner, (the 20th century Austrian doctor of philosophy, theosopher and spiritual father of anthroposophy), our guardian angel follows us through all reincarnations and knows the complete history and spiritual path of our soul and spirit. He is the inner teacher and reflection of our own higher self.

These guardian angels also protect the spiritual man walking his life path.

The “enlightened man” may occasionally live as a drunk along with the God Bacchus, as he was called in ancient Rome. In ancient Greece, he was seen as the God Dionysos and identified with the Old Italian God Liber.

The drunken man is then enchanted by the Greek God of wine and the growing power of nature. Dionysos is primarily the youthful folk god of wine, who travels around in the company of bacchanters and satyrs. Through viticulture, he brings not only intoxication, but as the hermaphroditic wine god of Olympic tranquility and beauty, he also brings civilization and inspiration in the fine arts. The Dionysos cult included, in addition to Bacchanalia, the Dionysos festivals celebrated at Athens, including Dionysia in December and March, according to the strong astrological influences. These festivals were accompanied by performances of tragedies, among others, at the Dionysos theater, against the south slope of the Acropolis. Also in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Dionysos was revered alongside Dèmèter, and at Delphi he had his cult as a savior in spiritual distress. Because of the ecstatic nature of his worship, he was associated in Asia Minor with Cybele and the nature demon Sabazios.

The Bacchantes followed their Greek wine god Dionysos as voluptuous nymphs. We can see these nymphs as the erotic manifestations of this deity's erotic energy.

Later these nymphs and earthly women dressed in animal skins and in a state of ecstatic frenzy they ran through forests and fields half naked. Hence the name maenads (from Gr. Mainas= raging). They indulged in witchcraft and magic in sexual group rituals. They are depicted with loose hair, sometimes with bare breasts and naked vagina, waving a cane wrapped with vines and ivy.

These bacchanals or lavish ritual feasts, with their wild nocturnal parades, were infused with strong masculine energy by the satyrs. These men took the appearance of this ancient Greek forest and mountain demon, represented as a grotesque man with bucking feet, horns, hooves and a tail.

The erect penis or phallus was significant and the symbol of fertility and creative power. These festivals usually took place in the mountains and forests of central Greece. Where Thebes, in Boeotia, was a cultural center. Since the early 2nd century BCE, these cult festivals were also celebrated in Rome. These orgies got so out of hand that the Roman Senate banned them in 186 BCE.

Viewed from depth psychology, in the subconscious of man, (and the collective unconscious), in these cults “lower energy fields” were released, channeled and transformed to higher levels of consciousness.

In these transcendent rituals, higher gods and goddesses were worshipped, by believers, priests and priestesses in the ancient Greek temples.

Soma among the Hindus and Hamoa among the Persians were ritual drinking rituals involving alcohol from fermented juices. The God Indra drank large quantities of soma and alcohol mixed with cannabis and said, “I have drunk Soma, I have become immortal.

Thus even the spiritual man, enchanted by Bacchus, can sleep in the shabbiest places, among vagrants and drunkards, on a flattened cardboard box or in an empty wooden wine barrel, when necessary. He is then, despite his descent into the “psychic underworlds,” protected by guardian angels, his own guardian or higher Self and other higher invisible beings.

He can just as easily, like the shaman or initiated magician, use all kinds of consciousness-enhancing substances, if the higher realms allow him to do so.

But just as well can the 'enlightened magician' allow himself to float on the waves of wealth and masquerade.

Then we see him as a kind-hearted benefactor, “the gentlemen,” who, despite the blindings of earthly splendor, transfers his pure spirit to fellow man and other living beings. The “enlightened man” may travel with his subtle spirit through the consciousness of his fellow man, the higher animal species, the essence of plants, celestial beings, archangels and angels, gods and goddesses, in order to become once again one with the beautiful radiant Source of all Life.

-Karel Meul (in loving memory)

Published in the summer of 2008

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