ALTHOUGH TRADITIONALLY ANGELS HAVE BEEN Portrayed as ethereal beings, who make announcements (for example see Luke 1:11—38 in the Bible) and bring blessings from God, Mary Baker Eddy's explanation of angels in the Glossary in Science and Health gives a spiritual view of angels that can be proved practical in any situation. She wrote: "Angels. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality" (p. 581).
We all have had encounters with angels, though we may not have recognized them as such. When we have a great idea come to us out of the clear blue, a solution to some problem, perhaps, or a good intuition or inspiration, these are actually God's thoughts coming to us. Every time you hear in your thought a message of love, hope, joy, peace, or good—these are angels of God's presence.
Angel messages can be so strong and clear that they can even sound as if someone is talking directly to you. And we can safely rely on these angels—God's thoughts passing to us—to deliver us from any kind of situation. Think about that for a minute. God is Spirit and perfect, so His thoughts to us always have to be spiritual and perfect. God is Love, so his thoughts to us are always loving. What a resource!
Too often, however, obstacles attempt to block these messages that otherwise could bring the healing intuition or inspiration we need—or even the reversal of situations we face. We may feel that we are unworthy of angel messages. Or we feel that a long-standing problem stands between us and thoughts from God. We may think that we heard angels in the past but not now. Or that maybe sometime in the future we'll hear them.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote this reassuring passage on the subject: "Into His haven of Soul there enters no element of earth to cast out angels, to silence the right intuition which guides you safely home" (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 152).
No element of earth—no unworthiness, no problem, no passage of time, past or future—can cast out or silence angels.
God's love is impartial and unconditional. The Lord's Prayer begins with the words, Our Father. In this prayer, Jesus recognized that everyone (including himself) is God's dearly loved child. This fact counteracts thoughts of inadequacy and unworthiness—thoughts which do not come from God—and opens us to blessings constantly brought to us by the angels of His presence.
Long—standing conditions or issues can't hinder angels from coming to our thought, either. We don't get rid of adverse conditions and then get angels. Instead, angels continuously give us the ideas we need. They reverse and counteract everything about any challenge to our health and well–being with the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality. We need only to keep our hearts open and expectant of receiving these messages.
One other big argument that attempts to separate us from God—given solutions is time. Whether we think we did hear angels in the past but don't now, or that we hope to in the future, we can eliminate these arguments by affirming in prayer God's omnipresence. God is always everywhere—and that means He is present during all time and fills all space. His presence always has been, is now, and always will be. This understanding wipes out the past and future and shows us the eternal present, the very presence of God.
Many people, when asked where angels, reside, would say in heaven or in God's kingdom. Christ Jesus told us that the kingdom of God is within us (see Luke 17:21). What a concept to ponder that the angels of His presence are within our own consciousness, just awaiting our acceptance. Remember every time you hear in your thought a message of love, hope, joy, peace, good—that's an angel, a thought directly from God. And each one brings a message of healing.
