ANGELIC OVERVIEW: "Angels are spirits," proclaimed St. Thomas Aquinas believed that angels were purespirit, having no matter or mass, and taking up no space; but Thomasbelieved angels could assume bodies at will. The purpose of angelsis the same as mankind: to love and serve the Lord. However, beingthat angels are not material beings, and possibly from a differentdimension, they can serve the Lord in many different ways. Angelshave far greater will and intellect than we have. Whereas mankindmust sift through and experiment with natural laws, angels can graspall natural laws with a single thought. Eventually we find thatangels cannot work miracles per se, but they can perform manyspecial effects that appear miraculous, such as protecting Danielfrom the lions in Daniel 6. When angels appear to man, they usuallyappear with wings, but the wings are not the method of loco- motion.The angels seem to slip in and out of the fourth dimension; thustravel is more or less instantaneous. If you have access to aCatholic Bible (it MUST be Catholic), check out Daniel ch. 14, toread how the prophet Habakkuk was instantly carried, via angel, fromJudea to Babylon, a distance of 600 miles. The primary general duty of angels is as messengers of God. (Theword "angel" means messenger in Greek.) But angels can do God'schores, such as busting Peter out of jail in Acts 5, or destroyingSodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19. But some angels obey only thedevil, and those angels are known as "demons", as is Satan himself.Satan had been an angel, but decided to do his own thing. Angelscan see all aspects of a situation instantly, since they are so verywise. Angels, and the dimensions they live in, were apparently createdbefore our visible world and universe. (The Bible tells us inGenesis ch.1-2 that mankind was created (or evolved) last.) Thenumber of angels are countless. One reason they are count- less isthat the Bible holds that each person who is...
