Angels are a completely separate order of beings from men.
Angels are pure spirits whose natural state is to be disembodied.
These natural states correspond to the final destiny of the beings in question. The notion that a man is a soul contained in a body is a false idea that comes from Plato, who viewed the body as the prison of the soul. It would have been more accurate to say man is a ghost and a machine. Reprinted with permission from the September 1993 issue of This Rock magazine. Q. I have heard some modern Catholic scholars suggest that angels are not personal beings but archetypes or symbols of cosmic principles.