ANGEL OF THE LORD
The Judeo-Christian Scriptures often mention the angel of the Lord. In the earliest passages in the Bible, this is often simply a phrase referring to…
Category: Angels Glossary
SONS OF GOD
There are two competing stories of the origin of fallen angels. The most familiar one is that Lucifer, prince of angels, out of pride led…
PROPHET, ELIZABETH CLARE
Elizabeth Clare Prophet is the author of Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch: Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil (1983). Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch addresses the…
PESTILENCE ANGEL
The Pestilence Angel is referred to in the First Book of Chronicles, chapter 21 as the angel who delivered the pestilence upon Israel as punishment…
PERETTI, FRANK E.
Frank E. Peretti is an evangelical Christian novelist whose works— especially his best-selling This Present Darkness (1986) and Piercing the Darkness (1989)—feature “spiritual warfare” between…
PADRE PIO
Padre Pio was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who suggested that people in need of spiritual help who could not come to him in person…
NURIEL
Nuriel (Fire) is the angel of hailstorms, as reported in Jewish legend, and was encountered by Moses in the second heaven. Nuriel manifests in the…
ANGEL OF DEATH
The notion of an angel who extracts the soul from the body at death seems to have developed from earlier ideas about divinities of death.…
ANGEL HAIR
Angel hair is a peculiar and rare phenomenon involving strands or clumps of a substance falling from the sky. This phenomenon is often, but not…
AEON
The aeons are superior spiritual beings in the ancient religious system known as Gnosticism. According to the Gnostics, the aeons were the first beings to…