Angels and religious continuities and discontinuities.
religions and their conceptions of intermediate beings
are found in all religions and beliefs very different about the existence of invisible beings other than God. The followers of these religions accept most often as evidence of the existence of these spirits. This belief comes not from a theoretical, but repeated encounters with the unexplained. We know that these entities do exist, there are different types, it takes to make friends and not to provoke their anger. Sometimes we reflect further on these beings is called globally spirits, angels, or simply human beings. It was then that categorizes the status variable, function differently, subtly varied. Taking this thinking to its limits, this has resulted in Christianity, for example, reflection of Pseudo-Dionysius the nine choirs of angels (sixth century) or the Treaty of Thomas Aquinas on Angels (thirteenth century).
In ancient India families existed non-human entities, some favorable, others ominous. Between humans grouped into castes and gods as Shiva or Vishnu, Hinduism has multiplied troops intermediate beings often headed by a Chief: The Aditya, the Vasu, Rudra the (deities), the Brahmarshi (sages ), the Prajapati (spawning), the Gandharvas (celestial musicians), the Apsaras (nymphs or naiads), and the Yaksha Yaksha (geniuses), the Vidyadhara (holders incantations), then other forces still more ambiguous as the Asura, the Danava the Daitya the Pishâca the Rakshasas, the Nagas (dragons), the Bhuta (of Ê very ), etc.. Most of these groups are innumerable. They exist more in myth that they are honored in worship. It is said they clash in epic battles and they eventually submit to a sovereign God. Hindus revere their villages already many deities of all ranks, some of these minor deities are lost souls as a result of death or male heroes or heroines who have earned a cult that they make. But the mere enumeration of all the castes of supernatural beings certifies that the gods and goddesses whose names are known not actually represent a small part of a world infinitely more complex. That said, and despite claims to the punch that can be read now, we can say without hesitation that these populations of spiritual beings, it is not strictly speaking of angels or sent by God in the sense that this term is used in Judaism, Christianity or Islam.
Buddhism from Sri Lanka retains for all practical purposes all the deities that were active in or religions which he has triumphed. "Years ago, Mohan Wijayaratna note that the Sinhala Buddhists have become used to living surrounded by gods and demons, but were still Buddhists." ( a) These gods, when they honor 'They need help in solving the problems of everyday life. By cons, to liberate the world of rebirth, is only the teaching of Buddha. It is said that these deities have broken with the ambient Hinduism: they have previously agreed to follow the Buddha, or exercise their powers in accordance the permission that he granted them during his lifetime. "This mechanism of" permission ", commented yet Wijayaratna, place all the gods, demi-gods and evil spirits under the authority of Buddha" ( 2). These different schemes allow all kinds of entities to continue to exist within Buddhism and receive worship from the laity. We live in a world that tolerates the existence of all beings, but refuses to flatten the powers that remain adequately prioritized.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead , who knows of an extraordinary vogue today, reflects a philosophical view that the existence of the universe depend on the power of the mind. At some point in the journey of a deceased person who is not yet fully released to appear his conscience all kinds of light and sound phenomena. This person sees even appear before her troops and peaceful deities wrathful deities, including Buddhists recognize its existence. Do not cling to these phenomena, the book warns, if you continue to wander in these worlds that misleading you aspire. These lights are obstacles to liberation. You have nothing to fear from the sound, light and radiation. You need only recognize them as projections of your mind. Let them come and go like any other phenomenon of consciousness. According to some Buddhist philosophy, the entire cosmic structure, including these intermediate beings, which must first collapse to make way for the ultimate experience.
Zoroaster undertook a major reform of the Indo-European polytheism which flourished in ancient Iran into the seventh before the Christian era. After this reform, a Wise Lord (Ahura Mazda) was promoted to the rank of supreme divinity with his side six abstract entities that are Accuracy, Good Thought, Power, Application, and Integrity Immortality. Hiding behind these abstractions still major deities of the past who, willingly or unwillingly, resisted the changes that they imposed the new religion. Sometimes called "archangels" series of entities which has thus emerged, although these are not messengers of God supreme. This group of deities rather was so named by analogy with the angels that will develop later in the Middle East.
It will be understood that this world of intermediate beings is extremely complex and variegated. Sometimes it leads to a hierarchy of powers that agreed to submit to God or harder to recognize the supreme experience of a great sage. Sometimes it forms a series of abstract entities with waning powers and having specific functions in a new economy of salvation. Some philosophies believe these intermediate beings as a series of actual entities that become finer and finer as they approach the Absolute. Other philosophies fail to consider these entities as projections of the mind, the illusions of the mind or religious symbols. While some traditions have these intermediate beings without strict order, other traditions insist they form a perfectly ordered hierarchy. These entities sometimes seem to have always belonged to the same tradition. The peaceful census invisible forces, however, often hidden struggles between rival gods of precedence. The theology of intermediate beings is also a machine to reduce the supernatural powers competitors.
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