The brotherhood between angels and men (Part I)
To prepare you for living in the new millennium, there are about 21 books about angels I have browsed in the local bookstores. Angel Answers – A Joyful Guide to Creating
Heaven on Earth authored by Andrew Ramer is a particular handbook which will “transmute ourselves from fearful, limited destructive beings into the radiant children of God that we are.” Ramer coauthored with Alma Daniels its companion book, Ask your Angels: A Practical Guide to Working with the Messengers of Heaven to Empower and Enrich Your Life.
Today, angels appear to ordinary persons
Annie Besant, the famous lecturer of Ancient Wisdom in the Theosophical Society, stated: “At this period of human evolution, we are the influence of natural force, which works for cooperation between angelhood and humanity. It seeks to build bridges by which the two great races, human and angelic, may combine for their mutual good. These bridges are ceremonies, chiefly in religion…”
Actually, upon birth, every person on earth has been assigned his special angels. However, not all have learned to tune in to his holy companions. A hopeful note, though, has been intoned by the computer age. TIME magazine reports that 69 percent of Americans believe in angels while 32 percent have felt an angelic presence.
Geoffrey Hodson, a well respected mystic and clairvoyant, wrote the book, The Brotherhood of Angels and Men, a scientific treatise on angels. On the preface of its fifth reprint in 1991, he recalls: “…in the woods of the small village of Sheepscombe in Gloucestershire in 1924, I was recording descriptions of the nature spirit life (gnomes, fairies, etc.), I suddenly found my consciousness translated (changing) by which I beheld the great member of the Angelic Hosts, who named himself to me as Bethelda.”
It was Bethelda, who dictated to him five successive books, namely: The Brotherhood of Angels and Men, The Angelic Hosts, Be Ye Perfect, Man the Triune God, and The Supreme Splendor.
The essential steps in crossing the bridge to the angelic kingdom
Following are messages which Hodson received directly from the Heavenly Kingdom.
Since the Great One has drawn so close to our world of the angels, it is of importance that the bridge between the two should be fashioned, that the time may be hastened when it may be used freely from either side.
The first essential on the side of men is a belief in their existence. To that end, more information about angels must be given, and presented in such a manner that it will be acceptable to the scientist as well as to the poet, the artist and the dreamer. In the scientific studies of men, as they are taken deeper into the superphysical realms, they should be ever observant of the place of angels in the manipulation and adjustment of nature’s forces.
The second essential is an increase in the number of human beings able to contact angels. Perhaps the easiest means of approach will be found to be through the love of nature, which springs, from a recognition of the presence of the Divine. From such an appreciation will arise naturally a realization of the sacred nature of all beauty, and a desire to draw near to the divinity within.
The message goes on to say that the excitable emotional, or unbalanced individual may not be safely brought into contact with the great force working behind and through the angel evolution. Men and women with extremely practical and controlled minds, possessing also capacities for idealism and positive imagination, are ideal workers. These types should be sought for the initiation of schemes where human angel cooperation is to be employed.
The third essential emphasized that the true artist must first gain the necessary techniques of the laboratory and the textbook. Then, forsaking these for a time, he must be allowed to meditate, preferably amid the beauties of nature.
The fourth essential comes the way of ceremony, where divine ideas, words of power and precision of action are combined.
Setting up the angels center in office, home and community
For those persons or communities who want their work increased in spiritual value, range and power, learn to recognize the presence of angels and the practice of cooperation with them. Angelic Host Bethelda provides the instruction on how to set up the angel center in the office, community hospital, school and home.
The power would be greater and the angels’ presence more real if magnetized centers where provided in the home to include a single object of great beauty, mentally associated with the angels and with nature (like a statuette of a beautiful angel), a bowl of flowers, freshly gathered everyday, and the use of incense. The use of short prayer or invocation each morning and a Benediction of each evening, a complete cleanliness, an atmosphere of utter purity, and the single motive of cooperation for mutual help are essential. Added to the simple ceremony might be appropriate reference to the Founder of religion of the house, and a prayer, perhaps, for His blessing upon both angels and men. (For example, Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim.)
What the angels ask from you
The angels ask from us, not worship – for that would be inappropriate – but love; asking only to be allowed to join men in praise and thanksgiving to Him, who is the Father of us all.
While these practices would not immediately produce a large number of people capable of direct communication with the angels, they would gradually effect a change in the consciousness of the people – a change which would tend to make such communication more easily possible.
It should also be made clear that the daily exercise at the magnetic centers must be preserved in its simplest form, entirely free from all sensationalism or elaborate ceremonies. No attempt should be made to obtain a close personal contact with individual angels, or to employ them from motives of personal gain or curiosity. This would almost inevitably lead to disaster.