Angels

Angels

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Angels can be found in many religions around the world. Different cultures have their purpose is different, but usually these supernatural creatures act as the messengers of the Lord. Do you believe in them or not, these modern interpretations of angels are surely going to cause you any emotions. Just think about the loneliness of angels! Looking at them, as if we look in the mirror of their own hopes and dreams.

Angels

Angels

Very often depict angels as security guards on the gravestones of Christians. They are also decorated with many monuments.

Angels

The concept of a guardian angel, who watches over the mortal subject, is found in many cultures. Many believe that each person has a guardian angel, who guides him through life.

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Angels usually considered an emanation of the Lord. The Supreme deity sends them to earth to complete some actions and to help the mortals. In some traditions, the angels have their own will, but more often they are considered servants of God. The angels do their own will or not is still a controversial issue in Christianity.

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Although the appearance of the angels may differ in different traditions, they are most often present in the form of a man with wings, which is a sign of their divine origin. It is believed that the angels who have offended the Lord, will lose their wings and will be driven to ground, or even in hell.

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However, as will be shown below, the tradition of wings came much later – only to 33 BC

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Although the etymology of the Greek word "angel," which went all the variations, the unknown, the original meaning of this word is "envoy". In the Bible, angels often appear as messengers from God.

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The English word "Angel" comes from the German "Engel". In French it's "ange", the way it comes from the Latin "angelus". The Romans introduced the word in the other languages. But the Latin word comes from Greek.

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In Jewish and Arab cultures are also present angels, where more used the term "malach," which means "to send". Took from him the man's name Malachi. There is another term – "crow" which is associated with children, he came the word "cherub".

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The angels there is a hierarchy, although the Talmud, the Koran or the Bible about her said nothing. Senior angels are known as archangels.

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In Christianity, believe the archangels Michael and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Uriel.

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So where I went the idea of an angel with wings? The Bible never said about the winged angels. The earliest example of the image of the angel dates back to around 250 BC, it found the catacombs of St. Priscilla.

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This angel didn't have wings. And on any item that period was not an angel with wings.

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The first image of an angel with wings came to us from the 5th century BC They were depicted on the tomb of the Prince, and found near Istanbul, in the 1930s, it is believed to be the tomb of the time of Theodosius I (379-395) was. It was during this period in religious texts begin to see angels with wings. John Chrysostom explained the symbolism of the wings of angels. They do not show what the angel could fly, rather, that they have reached the highest spiritual status that only a man could reach. Hence the wings. Since then the angels began to appear, mostly with wings.

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In Hinduism also has the peculiar form of angels. Virgo – being of the world – live in the astral world and is considered a newly dead people in a state between life and reincarnation.

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They can not be reincarnated, and to take a step up. These angels do not worship, they are mortal in life. In this culture it is believed that a person can be more than one angel, and many, perhaps even thousands.

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The bahá'í faith, the angels are the people who break all human limitations and received the spiritual attributes of the Lord. They are free from passions and selfishness. In different cultures the idea of an angel is different, but all of them have traced some common features.

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In popular literature and film featured a lot of angels that says that people need to believe. In one of the popular movies "it's a wonderful life" with James Stewart was an angel who was sent to earth to prove to the main character, what it beautiful to live. And in the popular TV series "Highway to heaven" Michael Langdon starred as the angel sent to earth to do good and help people.

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Angels cannot be contacted, but many people think otherwise and often pray to their guardian angels. This can be attributed to the same controversial issue of free will of angels.

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People often buy a cheap fiction, books like "100 ways to draw an angel", etc., has no theological Foundation. In the Bible, no mention of the weeping angels, with which they are often portrayed in cemeteries.

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There are also bad angels, the fallen.

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About one-third of the angels according to the Bible, rebelled against God and was thrown down from heaven.

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The chief fallen angel, of course, the Devil, Lucifer, Satan. He has many names.

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The Bible says a lot about angels, but little about who they really are. This is the subject of fierce debate. Whether it's the people who righteously lived his life, whether angels were created by God.

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It is believed that those who managed to get in touch with angels, really obsessed with fallen angels, demons.

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In Islam, angels are the creation of Allah created them from light. As in Christianity, angels are constantly praising the Supreme deity. They are doing the will of Allah, and they have wings.

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Do you believe in angels or not, but they were, are and will be a source of inspiration for many people. The belief in them is so strong that it niektorych napakalupit.

Keywords: Culture | Religion | Peace | Emotions | Hopes | Mirror | Loneliness | Photomanipulation

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