Sylvia Browne's Book of Angels Page 4
The functions, as listed, are areas of expertise for each phylum, but not necessarily as we humans might interpret. God made the angels, and His idea of a function might be completely different from ours. I would be hesitant to try and give His interpretation, but I do feel that we can pray to a specific phylum for assistance in their function area to perhaps get some help. For instance, in times of stress, we can call upon the Powers for healing (their purpose) as well as peace of mind (their function). Remember, though, that while every phylum of angels has a particular expertise, all angels interact with each other in carrying out their intended function, which is to help and protect all of God’s creations.
Does this mean that we have to wear a certain stone or color, or adopt a particular totem to call upon a certain angel? No, not at all. The information presented in this chapter is just presented for information and knowledge. The more knowledge we have, the more the angels know that we’re reaching across the dimensions to bring them closer, and our own faith and belief will help them get through. We can relax, enjoy, and use this new information to call upon the right phylum to help us accomplish even more.
So, how do we call upon our angels when we need them? At the end of each chapter, I’ve included a meditation like the one below. I recommend recording them onto a tape recorder so you can listen to the instructions as you do the meditation.
MEDITATION FOR CONTACTING YOUR ANGEL
Sit or lie in a comfortable, meditative position. Close your eyes. Relax your feet, your ankles, your calves, your knees, your thighs, and your buttocks area. Relax your body up through your trunk, arms, fingers, neck, and head.
Surround yourself with the white light of the Holy Spirit. Take three deep breaths and transport yourself mentally to the seashore. Make it visually as simplistic or ornate as you wish. As you sit by the beach, lean your back against a palm tree, and put your feet in the warm sand. Feel the waves warm against your feet as the water ebbs and flows. Feel the sun on your face, the wind gently blowing through your hair. Take three more deep breaths, and feel all the negativity seeping out of you with each ebb and flow of the tide.
Ask for an entity, an angel, to join you on the beach. Out of the shadows to the right steps a beautiful being. Invite your angel to approach. Leave imagination out of this. Feel it, sense it. Let the love of God from this messenger envelop you.
Stay as long as you wish. Then, with three deep breaths, bring yourself up from your feet to your head, asking that the light of Mother and Father God, the Christ consciousness, and the Holy Spirit stay with you.
II
The Angels
“For it is written, He shall give His angels
charge over thee, to keep thee.”
— Luke 4:10
IN 1988, I was driving with Amy, a girl who worked with me in my office. We were on our way to spend the night at my son Paul’s house, when we stopped to pick up some sodas and snacks. As we were leaving the parking lot of the store, I happened to look over to my right. Suddenly, I saw a white car bearing down on me from the left, coming too fast and too close for me to get out of the way. I prepared for the impact, and Amy screamed. The air got deathly still, as if time had stopped. There was no impact, no crunching metal, just an eerie silence. Then the everyday noises returned. I looked at Amy, whose eyes were as wide as saucers, and said, “We’re probably dead.”
I remember getting out of the car somehow, and Amy did, also. Still thinking that we must be dead, I fully expected to see our crumpled bodies, a mass of wreckage, and a tunnel leading to the Other Side. Much to my surprise, there wasn’t a scratch—but the car was completely turned around. Always the researcher, I said to Amy, “Don’t say a word. Get back in the car, and let’s independently write down what we experienced.”
Incredibly, our stories were absolutely the same. We both felt the silence and the dreamlike quality of the experience. We talked about it endlessly and knew that angels had truly saved us.
Later, Francine said, “How do you like the way angels can move objects?” And so they did. It wasn’t the final exit point for either of us, and our angels had been there to keep us from harm.
Lest you think my experience was unique, here’s a letter from a woman named Rose describing a similar event:
“In 1991, I was 22 years old and working in a nearby city. To get to work each day, I had to drive over a four-lane steep hill. A cement divider separated the two directions. This particular day it was a bit overcast, and there were many cars on the road. I was speeding as I came over the top of the hill (the only way to get my little car over it). When I was starting on my way down, the cars in front of me slammed on their brakes. As I slammed on mine, I must have hit some water and started to lose control. I remember sliding down the hill sideways, facing the cement divider. I don’t know how my car didn’t flip over.
“The next thing I remember, my car was about to slam headfirst into the divider. I closed my eyes and said aloud, ‘Please help me, God.’ The air got still, and time seemed to stop. I opened my eyes and saw the most beautiful angel, with blonde (almost white) hair, clothed in white—larger than a normal person—with huge wings that were glowing in a brilliant white mist. I blinked, and she was gone. My car was put back on track in the right direction, in the slow lane. I know I couldn’t have done it myself. I know it was my angel. I had always believed in angels, and that day I got proof.”
Rose’s story provides another example of angels moving objects, and it verifies the occurrence Amy and I had while driving to my son’s house.
Angels: The Primary Protectors
According to Francine, the first phylum to emerge from creation was the one known simply as the Angels. (Although all the different phyla are known as angels, when I refer to Angels with a capital A, I mean this first level or phylum.)
Like all the other phyla, Angels are beautiful and come in many sizes, but mostly they appear to be very tall. They radiate the love and glory of the Holy Spirit and, like all angels, are androgynous in appearance, not showing any gender. They appear in a manifestation of pure, brilliant, white light, almost fluorescent in nature, which emanates from their white, silver-tipped wings to reveal the outline of a beautiful being inside. Their symbol is the sun, indicating their brilliance, and their jewel is the pearl, which signifies the white color of purity. Their representative totem is the seagull, whose white color again symbolizes purity.
With a population of countless trillions, there are far more Angels than any other category, making them the most likely phylum to enter our lives. Angels are the ones who stand guard around us at night. In fact, they’re often referred to as “night angels” because they come around us more at that time than in the daytime. No, we don’t wander around during the day without angels, but night has always been the time of the spirit. It’s not that we have all kinds of evil spirits coming out of the cracks, but they do come out more at night while we’re asleep and at our most vulnerable. You know the old adage of angels being at the four corners of the bed? Well, it’s not too far-fetched. Angels do come and stand around our beds, watching over us as we sleep.
As Amy, Rose, and I discovered in our automobile experiences, the Angels’ primary purpose is protection. They will go to any extremes to protect their charges. The marvelous thing about Angels is that they can transform themselves more than the other phyla can. They can wrap themselves around the radiator of a car to keep it from exploding, and they can wake us up if there’s carbon monoxide in the room. Francine once told me about an Angel who wrapped itself around a tire to keep it from going flat.
Nancy in Houston writes:
“About five years ago, my husband and I were coming back from a once-every-ten-years weekend alone in Louisiana. Chuck was dozing in the passenger seat. I was driving and came upon some folks moving a washer and dryer in the back of a pickup truck. The steering wheel was jerked out of my hands, and we were driving into the other lane just as one of the appliances came flying off the back of the truck and would have landed in our windshield. Chuck was awakened by the noise, and I told him that we were just saved by someone. I felt the presence of an angel/superior spirit and knew that I had not driven the car at that moment. I can’t explain the forceful jerk of the wheel I felt or the cocoon feeling of the spirit around me. I kept repeating for a half hour: ‘We were saved, someone saved us.’”
Angels do have great power. They can move objects, jerk steering wheels, lift cars—and they do all these things with molecular disbursement. Even though we’re in a denser environment, Angels, with their higher electrical vibration, can, with God’s help, move us out of harm’s way. This first phylum has tremendous power beyond our wildest dreams.
Angels are also the phylum that protects children. All entities are protected by both God and His angels, but I feel that children have a special affinity for Angels and vice versa because they have so recently come over from the Other Side, or Home. Lloydine from Florida writes:
“In 1965 I was traveling from California to Colorado. It was the first time I had driven an automatic car, in the snow no less. I started to slide and didn’t know how to get the car to stop, but all of a sudden it straightened out. But then my mother-in-law hit the steering wheel, and we went down a 15foot embankment. When we got to the bottom, the car was facing the hill, there were no tracks in the snow, and we didn’t turn and bump around. We just came to sit gently on the ground. On the front seat between my mother-in-law and me was my baby, who was only four months old and had no seat belt or anything. Lying in the back was my two-year-old stepson. Neither of the little ones left the seat, and none of us even got a scratch or bump. I truly believe that my angels saved us. I think they sat that car down gently. I know they’re here. I can feel them, and they take ever such good care of me.”
Again, this is the same type of experience that Amy and I and so many others have had. Can you see why I get a little crazy when people ask, “What do angels do, anyway?” When we look over our lives, we can easily see near misses we’ve had that turned our lives around, or warnings we felt deep inside, which, because we heeded them, saved our lives. All of these are examples of Angels and their never-ending desire to protect and watch over us.
Communicating with Angels
Each of us has our own individual Angels. Once we call upon them, they’re assigned to us right away, and they don’t leave our sides during our lifetime. Francine says that she’s even seen some people who got so attached to their Angels in this lifetime that, after they crossed over, they just continued walking around on the Other Side with their whole band of Angels.
Anytime we want to send our Angels to aid or protect someone who needs it, we can. All we have to do is ask, and more Angels will come to watch our loved ones. Many of us have four or five angels around us and can easily get more. We only have to ask.
Angels are God’s helpers who come to aid us through this world of strife. Although Angels don’t speak, they’re telepathic. They can hear our voices, and they can read our thoughts—but only if we give them permission. No angel, entity, or spirit guide can get into our minds without our permission. But if we allow our Angels to read our minds, then we can call on them at any time without verbalization.
To communicate with our Angels, we need only speak as though we were communicating with our spirit guides. In fact, it’s easier to communicate with the Angels than with the guides, because Angels are pure love. Unlike spirit guides, who all have agendas (such as keeping us on track, watching out for our charts, going back to the Council to bicker about a certain issue, and so on), Angels have no thought processes in their minds except for us. They’re just pure, loving, protecting beings with open communication channels. We don’t have to be in a meditative or altered state to communicate with them. We can just talk to them in a manner in which we feel comfortable, whether it be in the form of a prayer or just everyday conversation. I guarantee that they hear us.
When we speak to Angels, our guides hear it, too. Conversely, if we talk to our guides, our Angels also hear. They all work in tandem. There’s no secrecy, covertness, or ego structure. One type of entity doesn’t take precedence over another in communication. However, sometimes Angels observe things that spirit guides don’t. When that happens, Angels will give information to our spirit guides. Francine says that many of my Angels have given her information that she wasn’t aware of.
Angels are both watchful and perceptive; they constantly keep their gaze fastened on us. They notice every quirk, every flick of an eyelash, every twitch of a nose. They’ve been known to tell the guide, “Wait a minute, I see a shift in the shoulder; I see a grimace,” and then the guide begins paying attention to something he or she hadn’t noticed before.
Why don’t more people use Angels as tools of protection? Probably because they’re unaware that Angels are so personal. They may not realize that each of us has Angels who are personally ours, just as we each have one or more spirit guides. Angels are tools of protection who stand as sentinel figures, ready to be the mirrors, the walls, and the swords against negativity. When we have something negative in our minds, we can call on the Angels to infuse us with positive thoughts or suggestions. If anyone can take away depression, it’s an Angel. Again, unless we ask, we won’t receive. The asking is where the power is. Seek and ye shall find; how many times did Our Lord have to say that? Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Angels can even rearrange cell memory, which is the memory of past illness contained in the cells of our bodies, either from earlier in this present life or from a past life. If we’re definite enough about some ailment, like a bad gallbladder, for instance, we can simply ask, “Can you please help me heal my gallbladder or take away the cell memory of having gallbladder problems?” We must be precise, however; saying something like “I don’t feel well” isn’t specific enough. And remember, this information is never intended to negate medical intervention.
Even an Angel Can Use a Little Help
Angels serve as the protectorates and activators of daily others. But sometimes even the most powerful Angels need a little help. Occasionally they encounter a situation that’s not within their realm of expertise, which is protection. When that happens, they call on other phyla to assist.
To explain further how Angels could need assistance, let’s suppose that one of their charges comes down with a severe illness. Unlike some of the other phyla, Angels don’t read our charts, so the person’s spirit guide would have to convey a warning. The guide might say, “My person is headed for a bad situation.” The guide would then call on the Archangels or the Powers (angels who are adept at healing) to assist, or ask the Angels to request help from the Archangels and Powers. Or, if necessary, the Angels could ask some of the higher phyla, such as the Thrones and Principalities, to call on the Council for assistance. Angels themselves can’t call on the Council, but in situations of dire necessity, they’re the ones who call in the cavalry, so to speak.
As I said earlier, Angels can give messages, but they’re not as effective at this as the Archangels. Because Angels are around us all the time—in the trenches, as they say—they relay what they’ve seen to the Archangels, who aren’t around as much. The Archangels can then transmit the message. Usually our guides spearhead all of this, but many times the guides might not be aware of something, so the Angel transmits messages for assistance instead.
Angel Sightings
We’ve all heard stories of Angels appearing in human form, but we don’t always recognize them as Angels at the time of their appearance. Sometimes it’s only after the fact that we realize we’ve had an angel experience.
Susan writes:
“This happened in 1957 or 1958. My husband at the time—we’re now divorced—was stationed in England. He and I had gone to the movies, and in the middle of the film, he said he was going to get a few beers, but he would be back to pick me up when the movie was over. When it was done, however, he was nowhere to be found. It was 10:30 at night, very dark and foggy, and I stood there until 12:30, waiting. I had no money at all for a cab, and I was about seven miles from home. While I was standing there, scared, this man appeared and said, ‘You shouldn’t be out here this time of night alone.’ He motioned for a cab, asked where I lived, and gave the cab driver some money. When I got in and turned to thank him, he’d disappeared. My husband came home at three o’clock the next morning, very angry that I hadn’t waited. If it hadn’t been for this man, whom I’ve always believed was an angel, I would have had to stand there all those hours.”
The actor Mickey Rooney told a story about a young man with golden blond hair who appeared to him in a restaurant when he was thinking about committing suicide. The waiter, who was wearing a red coat with brass buttons, just like all the other waiters, told him, “You don’t want to do that tonight. You don’t want to take your life.” Later, when Mickey told the maître d’ that he wanted to thank the beautiful young waiter with the blond hair, the maître d’ replied that no one working in the restaurant fit that description. Mickey went through the whole group asking everyone if they knew this person, but they all replied that they didn’t. Only then did he realize that an angel had appeared to give him a marvelous message.
Most people can recall an experience where a stranger came to them with a message of some kind or where they felt nudged to turn on a certain TV show or radio station and suddenly received an answer to a problem. Angels are much more powerful than we give them credit for. They’re probably some of the most underrated and least-thought-of aspects of creation.