WINGED SAVIOR

The first mention of angels can be found in the texts of the Old Testament, dated two thousandth year of BC. e. Around this same time of similar creatures are mentioned in the sacred books of other religions of the world. The ancient Greeks called winged creatures choirs - the goddesses of the seasons, and the Germans - Valkyries. In Buddhist angels are enlightened - people whose mind and spirit have reached the highest stage of perfection. If you have given life to the service of enlightened inherent values ​​- kindness, compassion, humility and selfless help people to achieve their ultimate goal. However, the Buddhist angels, like the Buddha himself, mortal. As time passes, metered way of life for them, they die to the death to gain a new incarnation.

In Chinese mythology, the spirits are called angels, dao, which in the recent past were men, but managed to reach extraordinary heights of moral. As a reward for it, such people receive immortality and amazing abilities - the ability to levitate, to travel between the worlds of the dead and the living, to work miracles, providing invaluable assistance to mere mortals.

Extremely diverse pantheon of angels in the pagan religions and beliefs. Thus, in the northern peoples - the Aleuts, Hunt, Eskimos, and the role of the winged defenders Itelmens perform spirits of dead ancestors who guard the genus and its individual members, in a dream warning them of impending troubles, or sending out a special world signals.
In Australian aboriginal and indigenous peoples of African angels are good spirits of different elements: water, deserts, and mountains of the earth. For example, if a resident of the tribe goes on a journey along the river, he asked him to send down the river spirits good voyage, bringing them in advance for all kinds of sacrifices.
In the Christian mythology of angels - a good incorporeal creatures that help people and protect them. Angels are subject to the four elements: water, air, earth and fire. Each season, week, day and hour have its patron, and every man, according to Christian doctrine, has its own, and often one 's guardian angel.

DISPUTES ABOUT THE DIVINE ESSENCE.

In the second half of XX century, attempts were made to question the divine nature of angels, and even their existence. Scientists materialists have argued that this phenomenon has a psychological basis and is a sudden manifestation of the hidden reserves of the human brain in extreme situations, as well as in border states: at the time of clinical death, mental disorder or the use of psychotropic or narcotic substances.
Supporters of the other versions are confident that the angels actually - this is not the messengers of God and aliens from other planets. Numerous witnesses described the phenomena of the angels of their golden-haired stalwart creatures that looks like the people with the skin a bluish color, dazzling silver or white clothing. These characteristics are very similar to descriptions of alien contactees made ​​in different parts of the world. In support of their hypothesis of extraterrestrial version of the supporters of the most striking result of the known cases of this kind, which occurred with the Soviet cosmonauts in 1984. Then on the 155th day of the next space mission to the orbital station ... Soon, a mysterious source of light was extinguished, and the astronauts could see that next to the station in outer space, seven hung white creatures with human faces and bodies. Behind the incredible satellite ... Each angel was the size of an airliner. Within 10 minutes of mysterious creatures accompanied by a spaceship, and then disappeared without a trace. Later, the 167th day of the flight, when joined the expedition arrived on Earth, Svetlana Savitskaya, Igor Volk, and Vladimir Dzhanibekov, the angels appeared again briefly.

So there are angels. This is evidenced by thousands of facts meetings with them and miraculously saved hundreds of lives. Very often with these phenomena faced by people in long-term and global cataclysms: in time of war, natural disasters and large-scale disasters. A large number of fantastic Salvation of Angels, it was noted during the Great Patriotic War. In particular, during the operation of taking a Konigsberg of the Soviet assault teams captured the dilapidated apartment building occupies an important strategic position. The Germans tried hard to dislodge our troops from home, making one attempt after another assault. At some point, the team leader Lieutenant Ivan Kestel, entrenched on the third floor of the building, heard the distinctive sound of flying toward him an artillery shell. Kestel pulled away from the window opening and the next moment, as if in slow motion, he saw the metal bars of the window breaks the opposite wall. At the same time right in front of a senior lieutenant in the air there was a white transparent figure of a man. An explosion, hail rained down shrapnel and broken bricks. In any other similar situation to survive a Soviet officer had no chance. But at that moment the mysterious stranger though invisible armor hid Kesteleva, which remained after the explosion, even the smallest scratches.
When ready to the worst, and shrunk into a ball Kestel opened his eyes, transparent figure before him was no longer.

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Facts about the wonderful help of the angels were noted during the terrible earthquake that struck Armenia in 1988. In particular, after the collapse of the Spitak five-story apartment building a group of residents was immured under the rubble. Four days of desperate people had captured in the stone. When the hope of salvation was no longer any one of the women began to pray. Soon after it joined all who were in ruins. Suddenly, somewhere in front of overhanging beams and slabs unhappy noticed a faint flickering light. At your own risk, obeying a sudden inner impulse, the prisoners began to creep in that direction, which glimmered from nowhere who undertook a light that seemed to have led them to close and dangerous maze. Soon people came across a small hole through which managed to escape to the surface.

Despite the fact that much is known about his encounters with angels - from the stories of priests, professionals involved in the esoteric sciences, and ordinary people - now the phenomenon is still very poorly understood. And this despite the fact that the majority of people continue to hope that the incorporeal God assistants are somewhere close to us. A survey conducted by the American writer Sophie Burnham - bestselling author of meetings of people with winged heavenly messengers - has shown that in Germany, believe in angels 48 percent of residents in France - 52, and in the U.S. - 69 percent. In Russia, 99 out of 100 people have stated that these wonderful creatures exist, and 86 of our citizens were convinced that they have their own guardian angels.
Today, more than a century ago, finding themselves in a difficult situation, we once again appeal for help to the higher powers, and leaving home, many of us secretly pronounced the hidden request: ...

Sergei Kozhushko.