Angels And Humans

The angel handed me a book, saying, "This contains everything you wish to know." He disappeared... The book melted into this world that is about us. Paul Valery I wonder sometimes, "Do I really need their help? " Often they fly passed me, or high above me so quickly, I can only conclude that they won't swoop down and share my reality for a spell. Their missions which require such high flight and headlong speed are more urgent than anything troubling my single soul. Or perhaps I am ahead of others crawling between earth and heaven, and angels deign to let me see their maneuvers across space and time to calm my heart and grant my soul patience. And they have planted in my mind a seed which will send forth spiritual tendrils of growth that will in due time flower into cosmic knowledge. Meanwhile, angels secure the cables holding mountains to their bases, repair flaws inside the gigantic machinery of continental drift, replace all systems of freeze and thaw which will hasten the arrival of spring in wintry climates. They have already adjusted the signals billions of birds receive to begin migrations... All of this activity restores a cosmos of change and charge, in which adepts - both angelic and human - receive messages how we are to inhabit and amplify the Mystery of Things. Different degrees of light emanate from angels and humans, and both are necessary to illuminate the world and make the earth radiant. Let me play the angelic role for humanity, and unseal a great secret that was never meant to be a secret. We humans are not just bone and skull, just muscle and sinew, just flesh and skin. We are radiant beings whose inner glory some twist of fate occluded and made us foul and fallen in our own eyes. Angels have opened our eyes to that inner glory, now pouring forth into the world and brightening earth with the double radiance of angels and humans.