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  SYLVIA BROWNE’S

  Book of Angels

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  SYLVIA BROWNE’S

  Book of Angels

  HAY HOUSE, INC.

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  Copyright © 2003 by Sylvia Browne

  Published and distributed in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com • Published and distributed in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au • Published and distributed in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk • Published and distributed in the Republic of South Africa by: Hay House SA (Pty), Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.za • Distributed in Canada by: Raincoast: www.raincoast.com • Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

  Editorial supervision: Jill Kramer • Freelance project editor: Gail Fink

  Design: Jenny Richards • Interior illustrations: Christina Simonds

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public private use—other than for “fair use” as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews—without prior written permission of the publisher.

  The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Browne, Sylvia.

  Sylvia Browne’s book of angels / Sylvia Browne.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 1-40190-084-4 (hardcover) • ISBN 1-40190-193-X (tradepaper)

  1. Angels—Miscellanea. I. Title: Book of angels. II. Title.

  BF1999 .B716 2003

  291.2’15—dc21

  2002009339

  ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-0193-6

  ISBN 10: 1-4019-0193-X

  10 09 08 07 20 19 18 17

  1st printing, April 2003

  17th printing, November 2007

  Printed in the United States of America

  To Reid Tracy and Danny Levin . . .

  To Reid Tracy and Daniel Levin . . .

  not because they work for Hay House, but because they

  have been more than friends in every way, and I want

  to thank them for seeing me through many rough

  times when they didn’t have to.

  Contents

  Author’s Note

  I Why I Believe in Angels

  II The Angels

  III The Archangels

  IV The Cherubim and Seraphim

  V Two New Phyla: The Powers and the Carrions

  VI The Virtues

  VII The Dominions

  VIII The Thrones and Principalities

  IX Frequently Asked Questions

  X More Letters and Angel Stories

  Epilogue

  About the Author

  About the Artist

  Author’s Note

  EVER SINCE I was a little girl, I’ve been fascinated and curious about the whole premise of angels. Do they exist? Did the holy cards the nuns gave me portray their appearance accurately? Do we become angels when we die?

  Having been a Catholic at one time, I guess you could say I’ve always been partial to angels. Maybe it began with a prayer I learned as a small child:

  Angel of God, my guardian dear,

  to whom God’s love commits me here.

  Ever this day be at my side,

  to light and guard, and rule and guide.

  My interest in angels certainly continued throughout my Lutheran-Jewish-Episcopalian upbringing. (Didn’t I say I was Catholic? I was, but first I was Lutheran, Jewish, and Episcopalian—I started life as a walking theological study in progress.) Over the years, my curiosity about angels was compounded by two things even greater than childhood prayers and Sunday-school stories. First, for as long as I can remember, my spirit guides have constantly as a psychic, countless numbers of people have told me about their near-death experiences, astral projections, or even past-life regressions that included these beautiful beings of light who would guide these individuals, meet them, and stand at their bedsides.

  For those of you who have read one or more of my books, what I’m about to tell you may be a bit redundant, but for those of you who are preparing to read one of my books for the first time, a little background is in order. As you may know, I’m a psychic and trance medium with clairvoyant and clairaudient abilities. I was born in 1936 in Kansas City, Missouri, with these abilities, and have never consciously known a day in which my God-given talents have not manifested themselves in one way or another. I don’t know what it’s like to not be psychic.

  One of my psychic gifts includ
es the ability to communicate with my spirit guides, those beings from the Other Side who watch over me and help me live my life here on Earth. Every one of us has at least one spirit guide, maybe more. My primary spirit guide is Iena, an AztecInca woman whom I affectionately named “Francine” the first time she spoke to me—when I was seven years old and couldn’t pronounce her name right. She’s been with me my entire life, and nobody could have a better friend. I also have a guide named Raheim, from India, who spent his last life as a spiritual teacher. Using me as a trance medium (meaning that they use my body and voice to communicate to others while I’m unaware of what’s being said), these two guides have conveyed countless hours of information to me that now make up a considerable research library of knowledge from the Other Side.

  I can’t and don’t take credit for my abilities, for God made me this way. I’ve had my abilities tested time and again by doctors and scientists who come away amazed, but frankly, I’m my own worst critic and will be the first to tell you that I’m not 100 percent accurate—no psychic is or could be. In fact, at one time during my youth, I questioned my abilities and wondered whether I was mentally ill. After countless hours of self-doubt and consultations with psychologists and psychiatrists (they always said I was normal, with a high degree of paranormal ability thrown in), I just capitulated and went on living my life, using my psychic gifts to do good for others, devoting my life to that purpose, and trying to be as “normal” as possible. I’m beginning to think I’ve accomplished that last part, as I get thousands of letters and meet hundreds of people who constantly thank me for my work and for being “just folks.” To me, that’s the highest of compliments.

  Now, after more than 60 years of being psychic, more than 40 years of research throughout which angels constantly reared their heads, and more than 20 years of comprehensive study into the subject of angels, I’m happy to bring forth Sylvia Browne’s Book of Angels. Although I touched on the subject in some of my earlier work, this book includes even more definitive research into the description, colors, totems, and functions of angels, as well as new information about two additional levels, or phyla, of angels whose existence was previously unknown. I truly believe that anyone who reads this book will find many questions answered and many misconceptions about angels made clear.

  In the pages that follow, you’ll not only discover that angels are real, but also—through actual research and documented stories—how they operate and what they can do. This book is a compilation of academic study, as well as information delivered by Francine in a series of six weekly research trances. It was almost miraculous that, after each of Francine’s trance sessions, a huge stack of angel stories would come into my office, almost telepathically relating to the specific phylum of angels we’d discussed the week before.

  People scoff, but you can’t tell me that there isn’t a spiritual network in this world that resonates to truth. It’s as if a message goes out into the atmosphere, and the angels in attendance pick it up and implant it into the minds of their human charges, many of whom say they felt compelled to write. In the following chapters, you’ll get to read quite a few of those stories. I wish I could have included every word of every letter, but that would require a much bigger book than this one! Although the letters have been edited and the names have been changed to protect the writers’ privacy, I want to acknowledge each and every one of you who took the time to share your stories. You contributed immensely to my knowledge of angels and to the making of this book, and I will be forever grateful. Angels have always wanted their messages heard. Now, with God’s help and yours, they have a voice.

  As we travel down the path of life, we don’t have to yearn in vain for companions along the way—we already have them. In all my years of theological research into the other dimensions, I’ve discovered an amazing thing: Not only does a belief in angels make perfect sense, but the feeling of truth and peace it brings is a sign that we’ve been touched somewhere deep inside, a sign that we know they exist. My friend Taylor who works at Microsoft has said that when I tell her something that feels right to her, she gets a chill. I call it the “psychic chill of truth.” I’ve had chills many times while writing this book. I’ve felt the presence of angels more fully than ever before, and several times I was even aware of the slight rustle of wings. It seemed that the angels were, for lack of better words, eager or elated to get their information out. Even though angels don’t experience human emotions like we do, I can’t help but feel that they rejoice in our knowing who they are and what they can do for us.

  For my “veteran” readers, welcome again, and a blessed thank you for your continued love and support. To my new readers, may your spiritual path and especially your knowledge of angels be augmented by this labor of love. I do hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it, and I hope you’ll use the meditations at the end of each chapter to call upon the angels to enfold you in their caring wings. May all of your angels gather around you every day to help you in your life . . . for they are always there . . . just as God is.

  God love you, I do,

  — Sylvia

  I

  Why I Believe in Angels

  “Then I looked and heard the voices of angels

  around the throne and the living creatures and

  the elders, and the number of them was

  myriads, and thousands of thousands.”

  — Revelation 5:11

  NOT ONLY have I never repeated the following story to anyone, but it has been told to only a few people, including my sister and me. My grandmother, Ada Coil, a great and well-known psychic in my hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, related it to me, and it was later validated by my mother; by a woman named Katherine; and by Bishop Spencer, an esteemed bishop in the Episcopalian church.

  My grandmother had three children: Marcus Coil, her oldest son; Celeste Coil, my mother; and Paul Coil, the youngest son, who had Grandma’s gift of psychic ability. Paul had a tremendous love of God, heard voices, and relayed messages to people. At the age of 20, he had a contract to sing at the WDAF radio station in Kansas City—and he also loved sports.

  Paul had lettered in track and field and had won medal after medal in pole vaulting. He was 6'6" tall and lean, with huge brown eyes. One day he felt a small pea-like lump on his thigh. A doctor looked at it and at first waved it away. However, the lump started to grow, and the doctors began to take notice. Remember, this was 1930, and the medical profession, while improving all the time, was certainly not as advanced as it is today. Finally, at age 21, Paul was diagnosed with cancer.

  The surgeons literally gutted his leg, but despite their efforts, they knew that Paul was going to die. Katherine, his fiancée, was inconsolable, and my grandmother wouldn’t talk about it (until I came along in 1936, everyone said). Right before Paul died, he not only showed his psychic ability, but also the vision that was yet to come. Paul told my mother that she would have a daughter with large brown eyes who would have the “gift.” He wanted my mother to name her Sylvia, after the title of one of his favorite songs.

  On the day that everyone gathered—Bishop Spencer, Katherine, Mom, and Grandma—Paul was struggling for his last breaths. My grandmother was holding his hand when she said that he looked beyond her with a beatific expression she could never describe. Just then, the room filled with light. Even Bishop Spencer fell to his knees. Grandma said that complete peace and joy filled the room, and Paul told her, “Mother, this is an angel, and it has come for me.”

  Grandma said she felt rooted, not from pain, but from power and love. Paul, who couldn’t move, suddenly raised himself up and tried to get out of bed. At that moment, a nurse burst through the door, Paul fell backward, the light went out, and the room grew dismal and cold.

  Right before he died, Paul looked at Grandma and said that he knew his dad was in the same hospital, two floors below, with blood poisoning. No one had told Paul about Grandpa for fear of upsetting him. Paul then looked at Grandma a
nd said, “Dad will be over soon, the angel told me, and I will take care of him for you, Mom,” and then he died. Grandpa Marcus died two weeks later, as Paul had foretold.

  As Grandma later put it, although she’d lost a husband and a son, out of this immense pain she was, blessedly, privy to a visit from an angel.

  Angels Appear in Every Religion

  Although I’ve always believed in angels, I’ve usually been more inclined to call on my spirit guides for help or advice—that is, until about 20 years ago when I began to take a hard look at the stories and research. It was then that I started getting hooked on angels. In studying what the various religions had to say about them, I discovered that, through the morass of dogma from every corner of the spiritual world, angels have always held their own.

  There’s no religion (at least among the major ones) that doesn’t contain some reference to these celestial beings. They seem to be above scrutiny, uniting all religions in a universal belief. Greek, Egyptian, and Roman mythology feature an assortment of winged creatures, including the gods Zeus, Jupiter, Horus, and Mercury. Wicca and pagan groups are given to a belief in angels and use them frequently as messengers to carry out certain functions. Even among the most hardcore agnostics and atheists, there seems to be a belief in angels, a fact that should cause even the most scientific-minded person to sit up and take notice. Something is obviously operating on a superconscious or subconscious truth level that resonates with the comforting, sometimes silent, knowledge that indeed, angels do exist.