To try and grasp The Creation of the angels, Gregory Nazianzen tells us, means to step beyond the “visible”, to “pass the first veil” of visible creation and step into the “invisible”, “stepping beyond the realm of sense”; it means looking into “the Holy Place, the Intellectual and Celestial creation.” This subject is dizzy, and it is impossible to advance much beyond this point.
Points discussed include:
1. The invisible, angelic world was created by God and created before the visible world.
2. God made the Angels in His own image, with free will, and they choose to speedily and hungrily obey His commands with keenness.
3. Angels are rational, intelligent, active, fleshless spirits, endowed with free-will, that cannot be seen by our bodily eyes.
4. Angels are created, they are not immortal by nature but by grace.
5. Angels do not exist entirely independent of space and place, and according to the Holy Fathers, each of the heavenly powers is in a definite place.
6. Angels can, so to speak, pass through vast spaces with extreme rapidity, but again they cannot be in two places at once, and not in heaven and earth at the same time. Saint John Damascene tells us that they are not “hemmed in by walls and doors, and bars and seals."
7. Guardian Angels.
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10 сен 2024
