Angels & Demons
Back to Demons Back to Angels
Today, many believe angels to be winged beings that live up in the
sky somewhere; and demons to be hideous creatures that hide
behind rocks, waiting to seize their next victim. The term “angels” in
the Greek means “messengers.” Anything can be a messenger,
especially people in their most basic form – “thoughts.” So, angels
are messengers…people, or even their thoughts. Seemingly in
contrast, the term “demons” was originally a Greek term for “wise,
guardian spirits.” That definition almost sounds like what many
believe angels to be. But what if angels & demons are closely
related? Again, a messenger bears the thoughts of the message;
and a wise spirit would bring forth wisdom through thought. Perhaps
a demon, which later took on the idea of being an entity of malicious
intent, could just be thought that as less than true…less than what
most would call “good.” In this sense, a person with thoughts based
upon untruths would be considered a demon, or unclean spirit.
Let’s try and wrap our minds around this idea of angels and demons.
Angels can be a person who brings forth a message; an angel could
thus be thoughts. Have you ever had an idea or thought come to you
from seemingly no where? Perhaps a messenger or an “angel”
delivered the thought to your mind. But what if some “angels”
mistakenly bring forth wrong thinking? Maybe this could be what
many call “fallen angels” – thoughts of untruth, such as fear,
condemnation or guilt. Could that also be what demons
are…thoughts of fear, condemnation and guilt? This would certainly
make sense of what the bible says concerning one third of the angels
having fallen from their first estate of being enlightened. Could that
“falling” have occurred within the mind of mankind? And would it be
such a bad thing, if that mis-thinking was by accident…a simple,
correctable mistake? If we are what we think, then could angels and
demons really be mankind in two different states: enlightened and un-
enlightened?
What all this would lead one to conclude is that humans are not
powerless, for we are in charge of our thoughts. Are we looking at life
through eyes of truth from within, or are we being blown about by every
fear, every worry, every concern through wrong thinking…call them
demons? Heck, if we know someone who has an issue, we some
times say they are battling their demons. Maybe we instinctively know
within ourselves that this is the case; that everything proceeds forth
from within each of us. Maybe it’s as simple as choosing truth over
fear in our minds; and maybe that is what life is about: learning to
choose wisely and correcting our mistakes. Maybe we can either
choose correctly or incorrectly; thus becoming what we choose to
believe.
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