ANgels

"Just as humans look "down" the chain at the animal and plant species, we should also be able to look up at the higher beings we call angels."
-David Connolly

"An angel, then, is an intelligent essence, in perpetual motion, with free will, incorporeal, ministering to God, having obtained by grace an immortal nature. The Creator alone knows the form and limitation of the angelic essence; but all that we can understand is that it is incorporeal and immaterial. For all that is compared with god, Who alone is incomparable, we find to be dense and material. For in reality only the Deity is immaterial and incorporeal."
Saint John of Damascus.
(675-749 AD)

St. Augustine says: "'Angel' is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is 'spirit'; if you seek the name of their office, it is 'angel': from what they are, 'spirit', from what they do, 'angel.'" [188] With their whole beings the angels are servants and messengers of God. Because they "always behold the face of my Father who is in Heaven" they are the "mighty ones who do his word, harkening to the voice of his word". [189]
 
As purely spiritual creatures, angels have intelligence and will. They are personal and immortal creatures surpassing in perfection all visible creatures as the splendor of their glory bears witness. [190]
 
Angels were born out of the Holy and Supreme Flame of God… so they are beings, creations or energies of fire, each bearing another hue of the rainbow. Possessing the powers of which that ray projects they have within their genetic code the power to refract into any shape projected in light. They can transmute into anything that has ever been created. They can fade into the oblivion of the unseen. They can cloak themselves in the spectrum of shadows.  They can instantly transmute into the frequencies of alter realities and dimensions. They move within every vehicle of light. They are creations of light… who were appointed to be the Universal Architects bringing into existence every wish and will of GOD.
 
It’s somewhat unclear how many angels were actually engaged in the war in Heaven and the exact number of the host open to conjuncture for many. In the 15th century it was estimated that 133,306,668 angels fell from the heavens in a total of 9 days according to the Bishop of Tusculum (c. 1273), and this was reaffirmed by Alphonso de Spina (c. 1460).
 
I am sure this number astounds even the most open-minded. I myself, was not surprised by the total figure of the fallen angels. I expected the number to be very big for the simple reason it is reported the number of angels is very big and one third of them fell, but I was and still am very skeptical about the accuracy of this number.

Praying wisdom on all who read these pages.