Angel

An angel of the Lord (Art by William Closson)

### Aliases

Malakh, the Messengers, Messengers of the Lord, Flügel, The Judges, The Winged Ones, The White Ones, Agents of God's Will, God's Messengers

## Origin and Status

### Classified as

Spirit

The **Angels**, also known as **The Messengers**, **The Winged Ones** and **The Judges**, is the name of the predominant race in the kingdom of Heaven, born and bred by the pure will and grace of God. The angels are the main rulers and ministers of Paradise, "biological" children of God and "adopted" children of Barbelo. They are divine beings, sexless and pure, with their bodies being made of photons.

## Overview

Angels act as the protectors of humans and servants of God. The description of the angelic hierarchies vary by sect and religion. Some angels like the True Archangels have specific names while others have titles. The term fallen angel is used to refer to those who are banished from Heaven and are no longer part of the Heavenly Host.

Angels make an appearance in the Bible and many other scriptures. They possess considerable power and forms of holy white light. As they are often recognized as warriors, they are often depicted with celestial armor. An angel’s true form is incredibly beautiful but so terrifying and overwhelming that it can kill many beings upon direct eye contact. They have several wings on their backs, four heads that resemble animals with halos surrounding them, humanoid bodies, several eyes all over them, and heights that rival that of skyscrapers. The True Archangels possess the most intense forms as Zadkiel’s true form once incinerated an Asian god.

## Appearance

Angels, in their human form, appear as gorgeous humans of unparalleled beauty and can only be described as "perfection incarnate". Their face and body is said to have set the foundation for the golden ratio, if not putting it to shame entirely, and are capable of captivating the heart and mind of all those who gazed upon them from first glance.

In this form, they possess multiple large and feathered wings, each with a wingspan of roughly 4-meters in length, with the number of wings an Angel possesses denotes their position within the angelic hierarchy: The most common 2-wings Angels are placed at the bottom while the 12-wings True Archangels are the most powerful out of all the Angels. They are also capable of retracting their wings back into their back as if they have disappeared entirely.

All Pure Angels possess a true, corporeal form, which many have referred to as their "eldritch form". According to Azazel, this form is extremely dangerous for the majority of beings to witness with their bare eyes, as their minds aren't capable of comprehending what they have just seen and will force them to spiral down into pure insanity.

In this form, they appear as colossal beings made out of pure holy light and shine a glorious golden aura, with numerous number of glowing eyes located everywhere across their body. Depending on their status, their appearance and size will change, but in most cases, they are either as high as some skyscrapers or even higher. They radiate an immense holy aura in this form, which is not only capable of dealing immense damage onto demonic creatures, but also distort the fabric of reality with every passing minute.

## Description

The number of wings an angel has is a symbol of their power and rank within the angelic hierarchy. A common angel has three sets of wings. The wings serve as seals for their power. The first pair seals their speed. The second seals their agility. And the third and final pair seals their strength.

While angels do possess immortality, they are not eternal as they will die at the end of the universe. Also, the number of angels is always the same. Even though countless angels died during the War in Heaven, God created more angels to replace them. Furthermore, thanks to the constant threat of the Outer Gods breaking free from their prisons, God formed a system that creates angels without needing for him to interfere.

As angels are very powerful and useful, many creation deities and chief pagans created their own angels. However, they are not as powerful as the ones God created.

When an angel leaves their divine role for their own sake, they become fallen angels, beings with less divine power than other angels, but who are not evil, they were just removed from the heavenly armies and their wings became black as night. However, when the fallen angels totally surrender to the darkness and decide to become abandon all the moral laws of God and even humans to surrender to evil and do what they want, the angels undergo a transformation and become a demon, because they were rejected by God as his messenger and accepted by Ayin as one of her slaves. This effect also occurs with humans, but so far very few humans have become demons.

## Angelic Hierarchy

* True Archangels - The Deity-like Angels who are the closest angels to God
* Seraphim - Highest choir of Angel
* Cherubim - Second highest choir of Angel
* Throne/Ophanim - Angels of Knowledge
* Dominion - Angels of Lordships
* Virtues - Angels of Miracles
* Powers - Angels of Advisors and Plans
* Principalities - Angels of Divine Ministry
* Archangels - Angelic Envoy/Officer
* Malakh - Common Messenger
* Angels of Death - Angels in charge of taking lives at the request of God
* Guardian Angels - Protectors of people, groups or nations
* Fallen Angels - Angels expelled from their offices in heaven that when fully corrupted become demons
* Reincarnated Angels - Human or Saint who were transmuted by God into a divine Angel. They are not considered Pure Angels, but can ascend to all choirs.

## Notable angels

* Michael - The Right Hand of God, and embodiment of Humility.
* Gabriel - The Left Hand of God, and embodiment of Chastity.
* Raphael - The Healing of God, and embodiment of Temperance.
* Uriel - The Fire of God, and embodiment of Patience.
* Lucifer - The "Shadow" of God, and embodiment of Pride.
* Sandalphon - The Scribe of God, and embodiment of Diligence.
* Zadkiel - The Righteousness of God.

## Trivia

* Although angels are usually depicted as having wings, they actually use their wings very little on Earth, as they often get in the way in battle on the earthly plane.
	+ The reason that humanoid-looking angels are depicted with wings is because of the influence of other mythological figure arts, such as Thanatos.
* Angels are able to speak all languages ​​except Aramaic. This helps a person to find out when they are an angel pretending to be a human or a human or demon pretending to be an angel.
	+ This is due to ancient history: when sacred texts were not translated and it was possible to pray only in Hebrew, Jews began to study other forms of speech, including Arabic, but prayer through them was prohibited. Theologically, this was justified by the fact that the heavenly messengers did not know other languages.
* The light produced by their halos is bright enough to light up a dark cave or even an entire room.
* Most Pure Angels are shown to be ignorant of human pop culture (books, movies, TV shows, etc.), and even aspects of speech such as sarcasm and expressions.
* The Angels working on Earth usually wear business suits or dresses.