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From the divine messengers of Western traditions to the devas of
Eastern traditions to the maleks and spirit beings found along the
Silk Road, angels are one of the unifying themes of theology
worldwide. But what is an angel, and why do they contact us,
believers and non-believers alike? In this in-depth study into the
mystery and purpose of angels, Normandi Ellis looks at the angelic
dimensions of spiritual traditions around the world from the
ancient past to present day. She explores well-known angels from
Judeo-Christian and Islamic faiths, the Hindu Devata and Buddhist
spirit beings, the neteru of ancient Egypt, the Peacock Angel of
Yezidism, and the yazatas of Zoroastrianism. She compares angelic
visions from medieval Christians like Thomas Aquinas and John of
Damascus with what Theosophists, Kabbalists, Sufi masters, Eastern
gurus, and modern mystics like Edgar Cayce have recounted about
angels. She looks at dark and fallen angels and their role in the
grand cosmological plan. Quoting from sacred traditions, narrative
myth, and contemporary angelic encounters, including her own
personal interactions with angels, the author clarifies the
divergent aspects of angelic beliefs but also reveals the common
points shared by all traditions. Ellis shows how, in whatever guise
they appear, angels are messengers. Sharing a wealth of evidence
from both Western and Eastern holy texts as well as modern
accounts, she explains that angels are beings of light
consciousness, part of the universal life force that connects all
beings. And not only are angels actively helping in our planet’s
cosmic evolution, they also help us see our own place in the cosmic
plan.
iheartblob avails itself of a new visual vocabulary of
architecture. Here designs are visualized not in the form of ground
plans and sections. Instead, renderings, mixed-reality objects
(which are depicted physically and in augmented reality) and
animations are the media which reflect the legacy of the
mathematician Lagrange. Visually, but also on the basis of short
theoretical texts, the book facilitates new discussions about the
contemporary theoretical and cultural framework - and thus also
about the "crisis of philosophy" faced not only by architecture.
While the theoretical framework here invokes the principles of
object-oriented ontology, in a subsequent step it attempts to
unravel the theoretical principles of postmodernity and
poststructural formalism.
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