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Archangel Gabriel aka "Hero
of
God"
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Without
rewriting
this definition, and simply going with what it conveys (using it as
a springboard from which to dive into this inquiry),
consider
this:
human beings
who
speak
their
word
as new
possibilities
for
the world:
are they not angels? More to the
point
(even more pertinent): what's the
possibility
of
ordinary
Joe
people like you and I,
being
angels? What's the likelihood that by rigidly and unknowingly
conceptualizing what angels and their supposed abilities are, we
not only severely curtail the
possibility
of angels, but we also deny
human beings
the
possibility
of having angel-esque abilities? Just sayin' ...
Now the problem with a
conversation
like this is the more esoteric it sounds, the quicker
people lose
interest,
and glaze over. But this
conversation
is only secondarily about whether the abilities of angels are
available to
ordinary Joe
human beings
like you and I. Primarily it's about how we're mired so deep in a
world
of concepts, that we've all but ceased to live
out-here
in
the world
of our
direct experience.
Distinguishing what the abilities of angels are or aren't, and
questioning
further if the same abilities are available to everyday
ordinary Joe
human beings
like you and I, is merely the sub-text of this
inquiry.
While fundamentalists may have a hard
time
with it, I assert you and I are
God in our
universe.
That's a flat-footed, bone-numbing assertion coming from inquiry,
examination, and
direct experience,
rather than from a concept. So a "messenger of
God"
in this
context,
is anyone who has the ability to
speak
possibility
for
the world.
And who might that be?
Why,
ordinary Joe
human beings
like you and I, that's who (notice this assertion also shines light
on two of the four unexamined concepts in the definition).
Without differentiating between knowing from concepts, and knowing
from
direct experience,
we're left with only symbols ie representations of the
real thing but not the thing itself. Concepts of angels
kill off the
possibility
of angels. Symbols of what angels represent, effectively
eliminate the likelihood of
ordinary Joe
human beings
like you and I
being
capable of performing
extraordinary
acts
like a
possibility,
acts
ordinarily
only assigned to angels like a concept. And yet I suggest
it's no
accident
that all of our great
artistic
representations depict angels with
human
faces.
Hey!: perhaps Gabriel really is just an
ordinary Joe
like you and I, yes? ... I'm just sayin'.
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