This post is about our potential for gathering messages, insights, lessons from our life experience that can lead us to serenity, satisfaction, discernment and even wisdom.

I use the name “Angel” because the word means “mesenger”and as such this messenger is energized consciousness whose source is the core of the universe and as such acts as a “messenger” between all that is good, honest, genuine, and sacred and us.

These Pan-spiritual experiences, a term coined by Steve Taylor in his book Spiritual Science are essentially communication forces similar to gravity and electromagnetism.

The  messengers or guardians are  traditionally associated with many of the world’s religions but under different names such as Tutelary beings, or guardians, spirits, angels, oracles, and even signs akin to intuition, telepathy, perception.

In ancient Greek belief, a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans is known as a daemon or demon. Not evil as the modern word “demon” implies but go-betweens. They mediated forces and intuitions between different realms, particularly the realms of mortals and gods.

“Socrates had a daemon, according to several different sources, a bit like a guardian angel. It was partly this access to seemingly otherworldly wisdom that caused him so much trouble at his trial, when he was condemned to death for “introducing new gods to the city”, a treasonous offence during times of civic unrest and war.” Socrates and the angels | Idler

“Though he was often critical of the gods of the Greek mythology– especially of all their lying stealing, fighting, and cheating– Socrates was a deeply religious man. Ever since his boyhood, he tells us, he had a special guardian spirit watching over him. The spirit would never tell him what to do (he had to think that through for himself), but he claimed it would warn him with a divine sign when he was about to do or encounter something bad.” Socrates and His Guardian Angel? – The Wine-Dark Sea

Socrates spoke of hearing the voice of his personal spirit or daimonion:

You have often heard me speak of an oracle or sign which comes to me … . This sign I have had ever since I was a child. The sign is a voice which comes to me and always forbids me to do something which I am going to do, but never commands me to do anything, and this is what stands in the way of my being a politician. Plato. Apology of Socrates. 40 b.

“How might we experience the angels today? Music is one way, To sink into these tunes, allowing them to lift and saturate you, is to experience the shifts of the divine in nature, also known as the daemons or angels, Plato suggests. It’s to let go of the distractions of the visible realm, and feel the tugs and pulls of the invisible.” Socrates and the angels | Idler

From Wikipedia

Tutelary deities who guard and preserve a place or a person are fundamental to ancient Roman religion. The tutelary deity of a man was his Genius, that of a woman her Juno. The view that Juno was the feminine counterpart to Genius, i.e. that as men possess a tutelary entity or double named genius, so women have their own one named juno, has been maintained by many scholars, 

Chinese folk religion, both past and present, includes myriad tutelary deities. Exceptional individuals, highly cultivated sages, and prominent ancestors can be deified and honored after death. Lord Guan is the patron of military personnel and police, while Mazu is the patron of fishermen and sailors.

Tu Di Gong (Earth Deity) is the tutelary deity of a locality, and each individual locality has its own Earth Deity.

Cheng Huang Gong (City God) is the guardian deity of individual city, worshipped by local officials and locals since imperial times.

A similar concept in Christianity would be the patron saint example of archangels “Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, etc.” or to a lesser extent, the guardian angel. A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation. Belief in tutelary beings can be traced throughout all antiquity. The idea of angels that guard over people played a major role in Ancient Judaism. In Christianity, the hierarchy of angels was extensively developed in the 5th century by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The theology of angels and tutelary spirits has undergone many changes since the 5th century. The belief is that guardian angels serve to protect whichever person God assigns them to.

In Hinduism, personal tutelary deities are known as ishta-devata, while family tutelary deities are known as Kuladevata. Gramadevata are guardian deities of villages. Devas can also be seen as tutelary. Shiva is patron of yogis and renunciants.

A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation. Belief in tutelary beings can be traced throughout all antiquity. The idea of angels that guard over people played a major role in Ancient Judaism.

In Christianity, the hierarchy of angels was extensively developed in the 5th century by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The theology of angels and tutelary spirits has undergone many changes since the 5th century. The belief is that guardian angels serve to protect whichever person God assigns them to.

oracle; plural noun: oracles a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity. from Latin oraculum, from orare ‘speak’.

intuition-the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.

Heu·ris·tic   /hyo͝oˈristik/ enabling someone to discover or learn something for themselves.

Telepathy (from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) ‘distant’, and πάθος/-πάθεια (páthos/-pátheia) ‘feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience‘) is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person’s mind to another’s without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.  A variety of tests have been performed to demonstrate telepathy, but there is no scientific evidence that the power exists.

Thermodynamics“[T]he principles of thermodynamics have been in existence since the creation of the universe”

The term comes from two Greek words: therme, meaning “heat,” and dunamis, meaning “force” or “power” (American Heritage…, 2000, pp. 558,1795).

“Thermodynamics can be summarized essentially as the science of energy, including heat, work (defined as the energy required to move a force a certain distance), potential energy, internal energy, and kinetic energy.” Jeff Miller Archives – Apologetics Press

God and the Laws of Thermodynamics: A Mechanical Engineer’s Perspective

 There are only three possible explanations for the existence of matter in the Universe. Either it spontaneously generated, it is eternal, or it was created. Atheists use the theory of evolution in an attempt to explain the existence and state of the Universe today. In order for the theory of evolution to be true, thereby accounting for the existence of mankind, either all of the mass/matter/energy of the Universe spontaneously generated (i.e., it popped into existence out of nothing), or it has always existed (i.e., it is eternal.). Without an outside force (a Transcendent, omnipotent, eternal, superior Being), no other options for the existence of the Universe are available. However, as the Laws of Thermodynamics prove, the spontaneous generation and the eternality of matter are logically and scientifically impossible. One possible option remains: the Universe was created by the Creator. God and the Laws of Thermodynamics: A Mechanical Engineer’s Perspective – Apologetics Press

Related Scripture passages

Paul writes, “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” Hebrews 11:3

Paul declared , “Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.” Acts 14:17

The psalmist affirmed, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.” Psalms 19:1

Paul assured the Romans, “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.” Rm 1:20

Lord Kelvin, the Father of Thermodynamics said:

“I cannot admit that, with regard to the origin of life, science neither affirms nor denies Creative Power. Science positively affirms Creative Power.

It is not in dead matter that we live and move and have our being [Acts 17:28—JM], but in the creating and directing Power which science compels us to accept as an article of belief….

There is nothing between absolute scientific belief in a Creative Power, and the acceptance of the theory of a fortuitous concourse of atoms…. Forty years ago I asked Liebig, walking somewhere in the country if he believed that the grass and flowers that we saw around us grew by mere chemical forces.

He answered, “No, no more than I could believe that a book of botany describing them could grow by mere chemical forces”….

Do not be afraid of being free thinkers! If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science to the belief in God, which is the foundation of all religion. You will find science not antagonistic but helpful to religion. Smith, Wilbur M. (1981), Therefore Stand (New Canaan, CT: Keats Publishing).

Angels of God in the Bible: (Luke 12:8), “sons of God” (Job 1:6), “sons of the mighty” (Psalm 89:6), “heavenly host” (Psalm 148:2; 1 Kings 22:19), “holy ones” (Psalm 89:5), “holy watchers” (Daniel 4:13), “rulers” (Daniel 10:13), and “heavenly beings” (Psalm 29:1).

Named in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Urial, Azrael, Phanuel, Zadkiel, and more: Names of angels in the Bible and their duties (with infographics) – YEN.COM.GH

Additional resources

The Second Law of Thermodynamics Shows that God is Real by Jon Rod Christie

The Physics of Angels by Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake

The Spiritual Significance of Thermodynamics