Angelism: The Religion of Angels

Angelism: The Religion of Angels

Copyright © Jack Tanner 2016

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Introduction

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. – Shakespeare

The world would be an entirely different place if religion were based on angels rather than gods. We imagine terrifying gods creating us and then standing in judgment of us, as if we were their property and slaves. We must do what they want, or face appalling retribution. They claim they love us, yet we know that if we don’t do their bidding they will plunge us into hellfire forever. Where’s the love in that?

Imagine instead that all the souls in the universe are angels without any Creator, that they not only interact with each other but are actively dependent on each other, and are evolving on an angelic spectrum that takes them from minimal spirituality to maximal, and that optimal spirituality equates to divinity.

Imagine that the Big Bang was collectively engineered by angels, and was a so-called involution event whereby more complex things give rise to simpler things. This event was necessary to create the scope for evolution, whereby simple things give rise to more complex things.

You cannot make the most of yourself without a resistance to overcome, without limits with which to contend and surpass. You don’t progressively grow to perfection by refusing to meet and beat the most difficult challenges. Our perfection lies in the quality of the opposition we must defeat to succeed. The best teams are produced by the best opponents.

What could be more resistant to spiritual development than an anti-spiritual universe of dead, recalcitrant, machine-like matter? Matter has no aims, purposes, meaning or point. It is the perfect medium for nihilism, atheism, skepticism, relativism and cynicism. It’s no surprise that so many scientific materialists believe that humans are mere biological automata with no free will, whose lives achieve nothing and mean nothing. The ancients, by contrast, believed that the material world was the prison or tomb of the soul, and that our mission was to escape from matter (hence from science).

In order to control such a hostile, unpromising environment as the physical universe, you would need to become a god. A soul undergoes apotheosis by overcoming the strongest opponent there is to spiritual enlightenment and liberation: dead matter. Science – the hopeless gospel that dead matter is all there is – presents the fiercest intellectual challenge to spiritual progress.

Walter Benjamin wrote, The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.

The challenge facing all of us is to triumph over both matter and science (which is the ideology of matter, and the intellectual justification for materialism). And that’s exactly what happens over the lifetime of the universe. Angels, subsequent to the Big Bang, start off in the lowest spiritual condition possible, namely that of prime matter. This is the basic stuff of the physical universe in which the spiritual component is fully suppressed. Over a long period, spirit is released, painfully slowly at first, but then faster and faster, and finally at incredible speed towards the end of the universe’s lifetime, where mind fully overcomes matter.

On Earth, we go from the lithosphere (the rocky domain of the planet’s crust), to the biosphere of plants and animals laid over the lithosphere, to the Noosphere (the thinking sphere) of conscious humans laid over the living layer, to an Angel Sphere of superconscious beings that exists over and above humanity. These gods then create Heaven on Earth.

Will you be a slave to God forever, or can you see in yourself the capacity to evolve into an angel-god? You are already on your journey. You just haven’t realized yet.

Angelism is a religion without Creator gods. Instead, it’s full of countless angels evolving into gods. It’s not a Creationist religion, it’s evolutionary. Religion should not be opposed to evolution. In fact, evolution must be the motor of any plausible religion. There’s all the difference in the universe between gods as creators of the universe and gods as the final products of the evolution of the universe.

Like caterpillars turning into polychromatic winged butterflies, we are all metamorphosing from grubby, earth-bound human vessels into radiant, iridescent, winged angels. Goethe said, Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. What dream could be greater than that of humanity transforming en masse into angels?

The angelic universe is free and self-determining. The real world is a world of mind/spirit, not a world of inert, lifeless matter. Matter is a mental construct that the mind created in order to oppose itself so that it would have to expand to the fullest extent to overcome it. Matter is the means through which mind optimizes itself and achieves maximum self-expression.

Freedom would be empty of meaning unless there was something hindering the exercise of freedom. Matter is that which stands in the way of freedom, hence is that which must be transcended by anything that aspires to be free.

Matter is the non-mind that mind establishes to resist itself, to limit itself, to present a barrier to itself. The material world is the world of opposition in which mind must contend, struggle and compete to the fullest, and in doing so it grows more and more powerful, and comes at last to complete consciousness of itself.

Matter is the sine qua non of consciousness. The universe could not become conscious without defeating the ultimate force of non-consciousness: matter. The material world is a world of rigid laws, where everything happens according to set rules. Nothing could be further from freedom.

The world only seems to be material. In fact, it is wholly mental, and matter is simply the lowest expression of mind, hence the greatest opposition to the fullest expression of mind.

Henri Bergson argued that science does nothing but analyze, and can never get to the dynamic, vital essence of things. Science dissects and separates the holistic, organic, living reality. If life is the force that holds atoms together in living bodies then to analyze atoms by themselves, as science does, is to automatically and blindly miss this unifying force. The life force is present in the whole. You won’t find it in any part that you have isolated from the whole, i.e. any part you have killed.

In Bergson’s philosophy, a vast living, creative impulse called élan vital struggles against uncreative, inert matter, and drives what Bergson termed creative evolution. He argued that the universe has two tendencies: a spiritual reality which is making itself, co-existing with a material reality that is simultaneously unmaking itself. Matter supports entropy (disorder) while spirit supports negentropy (order). The spiritual reality is life, while the material reality is that which is opposed to life (the force of death, the Thanatos force as opposed to the Eros force). Bergson’s ideas are fully compatible with Angelism.

It’s said that people are made of stars. In fact, they are made of angels. Angels are the authentic star beings. Stardust is angel dust. The whole universe has been sprinkled with it. The archetypal medium of angels is light, the electromagnetic spectrum. Light is the living, mental essence, overcoming darkness (matter).

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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. – Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! – Goethe

Angelism versus Scientism

Scientism is the materialist religion of scientists. Angelism is the spiritual religion of those who think humans can evolve into angels. Scientists say you are less than human, just elaborate organic machines. Angelists say you are more than human, an angel trapped in a physical body, waiting to be released. You have latent angelic powers that can transform your life. You can escape from the physical plane.

Scientism claims that matter is primary and mind secondary. Angelism says the opposite. The fundamental reality is mental, while matter is the collective projection of all minds via ontological mathematical holography.

Goethe said, One only sees what one looks for. One only looks for what one knows. This is the problem with scientism. Scientists blind themselves to anything beyond the reach of matter, the senses and experiments.

The philosophical background to Angelism is provided primarily by Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Saint Bonaventure, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Descartes and Leibniz. Leibniz’s Monadology is the ultimate expression of Angelism. It asserts that the whole universe is made of angels and their thoughts and perceptions, and nothing else. Isn’t it time to accept the reality of angels?

If humans turn to imperfect science, angels turn to perfect mathematics.

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Angelism, in the mouths of its enemies, is the fallacy of attributing to man attributes or powers that belong only to a spiritual substance. Angelism is regarded as a repudiation of an embodied, human life.

Since Angelism contains a distaste for the material body, it can result in two