Traditionally, there is a hierarchy of angels. Here is how the order was accepted and viewed in the 13th century with the Seraphim being the highest and then descending in order of class. 1. Seraphim, 2. Cherubim, 3. Thrones, 4. Dominations, 5. Virtues, 6. Powers, 7. Principalities, 8. Archangels, 9. Angels. Remember that in those times classifying people into hierarchies was a normal part of life, it was also a social order. 

An angel is a definite messenger of God. There are countless amounts of eyewitness accounts that can give credit to the positive existence of these divine beings. There are so many angels lost in history. Here are some examples of Angels throughout the ages:

The First Angel
The order of the Angels in the Christian bible makes a huge difference in their qualities and attributes. For example, Lucifer was created as the morning star guardian. Did God create the morning star first? Yes, according to the bible God created Light. So Lucifer quite literally could be the first angel. Some theorize him as being referred to as the planet Venus because of it’s brightness and representations. Perhaps he was the one to witness all the darkness and where it went. Either way, the bible documents him as the first to fall from the Heavens. Lucifer is the first fallen angel.

Venus and her Angel
Let us go now to Rome and explore the hidden history of Angels there. 
Well here is where the legend of the goddess Venus is, she is the goddess of love here. She is also known as many other names in many other cultures and many of them associate her with angels as well. Venus is the mother of Cupid, an angel. Astronomy has always been a very popular subject and comparing a goddess to the stars, planets and sky was a sign of respect for her great beauty was that like God’s who was unseen but nevertheless very powerful and real. Cupid, as an angel could also be viewed as a shooting star or some sort of celestial object. The sky is a symbol for the spirit world and it is said that from this world is where Heaven is and commonly when you ask people where Heaven is they point up at the sky.

Isis and her Wings
Isis is an ancient goddess of Egypt. Perhaps she may be the goddess of Immortality. Isis is depicted many times with the symbol of Immortality. 

Could she be the last angel standing at the end? There are many theories surrounding her and what we are interested in is what she has to do with the world in ancient times. In ancient times she was the goddess of birds of prey, leading her to have feathers and wings like that of a bird. The interpretation many would use today when creating a traditional angel.

Childhood Stories
Yet even my personal experiences have lead me to take some sort of conclusions on the concept of faith and the guardians of it. The story of the angel may have traveled many centuries to become so popularized as it is today yet oftentimes these people who were creating these angel stories had no connections with each other.
My father has shared an angel story. He has shared that he saw them as two telepathic beings of light and that one seemed female and one seemed male. He saw them when he was a child. He said that they were very beautiful and he had a feeling of shame and insecurity in front of them. 

He had made some conclusions about his faith and God when he saw these beings, as was his capacity to understand such things. Some could argue that today those beings could be referred to as extraterrestrial.

In my childhood I had also experienced something that has confused my faith. When I was a very young child, perhaps seven years old I had witnessed a giant eyeball above me and it was as large as many tall buildings and the eye was predominately blue in color, even the eyelids. 

It made noises like that of boulders rolling down the largest mountain in America. Flashed before my eyes was the image of a giant or perhaps the Egyptian eye of Horus as the symbols were uncannily similar. The eye had just appeared as if someone had picked the sky at some invisible point and removed it only to open up to another sky that was in another time because psychically I could feel it was in another time that reminded me of when giants roamed the Earth. I was putting it together with the symbols I knew then. Now, I know of the possibilities of UFOs and that the manner it moved it was actually similar to reported descriptions of UFO encounters. Yet, it was such a detailed eyeball, it was rolling its pupil into its head, it had eyelids that was unattached from anything like a face or perhaps because it could move some invisible shield from the sky it could keep its face invisible. I was so confused. I was actually abused right after that and it could most definitely have also been a premonition but it was realer than anything I could imagine.

Angels of the Apocalypse
There are many angels tied to the stories of the apocalypse. One being Abbadon who is an angel that holds the keys to the abyss where he is said to be able to bind Satan for a thousand years. In Greek mythology, they refer to him as Apollyon. Jehovah Witness believes that this same person is actually Jesus Christ.

Angel’s Everywhere
Stories of Angels are everywhere today. Whether we believe in the possibility of them or not we know that they are a huge part of spiritual faith so much so that even just their visualizations can comfort us. Whatever religion you are, there is an angel hiding there somewhere quietly protecting you in whatever form you feel most safe being around you.

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On the central southern shore of Long Island, NY is an interesting nexus of UFO sightings, which I like to refer to as the Great River Triangle.

The Great River Triangle is, loosely, a 4.5 sq./mile area that extends from Great River to Oakdale to Islip and back to Great River. This geographical area has had an interesting UFO history. A database search revealed that the municipalities within the 4.5 sq. / mile Great River Triangle have logged in excess of 40 UFO sightings in the past 96 years.

In the late evening, on a day in May of 1908, several residents witnessed “a string of lighted beads.”

One witness recalled that, “one of the glowing UFOs seemed to stop… when the other caught up with it they seemed to bump into it.”

As the objects “bumped into the first UFO” they seemed to merge with it. After the last of the glowing objects had merge with the first it’s reported that the assembly of objects “began to spin like a 4th of July pin wheel.” When the UFO stopped spinning, it seemed to pause then took off at great speed.

On a summer’s night in July of 1954, an Oakdale dad called his wife and grade school son Tom outside to see three highly luminesce objects in a “V” formation gliding through the night sky. The sighting terrified the young son but his father told him to look at them anyway.

Tom, now an adult, tells us his dad said, “You have to see this; you may never see anything like this again in your life.”

Tom remembers, “…As I watched the three objects I noticed something dropping out of the back of them it reminded me of the tinsel we put on our Christmas tree. This tinsel like substance was also glowing as it dropped out the back but soon disappeared a few feet under the objects. The family lost sight of the three glowing UFOs behind a wooded area.

In another Great River sighting, May of 1997, a motorist happened to look up into the sky and noticed six hovering glowing UFOs.

She described the objects as “all the same size and were a gold/yellow color… and had a blazing quality to them.”

She tells us that she got out of her car to watch the UFOs, as did a couple of nearby police officers who exited their cruiser to get a better look. The motorist tells us one other strange phenomenon that she observed.  “Several other persons from a nearby building saw what I saw, yet there were others who tried to look but couldn’t see anything.”

In July of 2014, several residents of Islip reported a bright orange fireball passing over Islip travelling in an East South Easterly direction at approximately 10:30 PM.

Source: http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/great-river-triangle-ufos/

One never ceases to be amazed at Timothy Green Beckley’s fascinating choices for exciting but overlooked books to republish. His latest gem, plucked from the murky hazes of yesteryear, is “Thirty Years Among The Dead,” written by a physician named Dr. Carl A. Wickland and first published in 1924. The book is still available in older, more expensive editions, but Beckley’s Global Communications version is the only one that can truly be called “complete and unabridged,” thus serving as an invaluable historical document.

“Thirty Years Among The Dead” is not, as the title may suggest to some, a dull account of hanging around a morgue somewhere. It offers instead a still vitally relevant approach to abnormal psychology that is based on the idea that extreme mental illness is caused – not by a harsh environment or muddled brain chemistry – but by the encroachment upon the innocent by the discarnate spirits of the evil dead. 

You may already be thinking that therein lies the stuff of a great horror movie, but you will be intrigued to learn that “Thirty Years Among The Dead” is a factual, well-documented account of actually treating the mentally ill by contacting the oppressing spirits within the sufferer and convincing those spirits to leave. 

To carry out this form of therapeutic spiritualism, Dr. Wickland worked alongside his wife Anna, an accredited medium who voluntarily allowed herself to be temporarily possessed by these wicked spirits in order to better understand their tormented motivations. The Wicklands would then use this information to treat the victims who so grievously suffered under these destructive otherworldly influences. Along with the mediumistic coercion of spirits conducted by his wife, Dr. Wickland would administer low voltage electric shocks to the patient’s neck and spine with a device called a “Wimhurst generator,” a wand-like instrument that worked to “dislodge” the dead spirit.  

In his introduction to this new edition of “Thirty Years Among The Dead,” Beckley writes about listening to a long running radio program – SpeakingOfStrange.com,  hosted by paranormal expert Joshua P. Warren – on the subject of psychotic mass murderers. Beckley found himself contemplating the mystery of how people can carry out the most egregious crimes and yet seem to have no conscience about their acts. How does someone commit a series of brutal murders and then take a quiet pride in having done so? This led him to remember Dr. Wickland’s book, which Beckley dimly recalled having seen advertised in one of the numerous paranormal-themed magazines published by Ray Palmer. 

Beckley writes: “The Wicklands theorized – no! they claimed to have absolute evidence – that these demented spirits of the dead liked to hang around the living so that they could continue their vulturine activities. In essence, they would leech onto those who were prone to similar fits of debauchery or were well on their way to a life of unabated revelry and eventual damnation.” 

As Beckley, half-jokingly, expresses Dr. Wickland’s concept in 21^st century terms, “If you hang around that sports bar or strip club, you eventually are going to be possessed by more than the likes of Derek Jeter or Blaze Starr.” 

In a way similar to the spirits of the departed in the hit movie “The Sixth Sense,” these “possessive” evil spirits seem to have no understanding at all that they are dead. How is this so? 

“Deprived of their physical sense organs,” Dr. Wickland explains, “they are shut out from the physical light, and, lacking a mental perception of the high purpose of existence, these individuals are spiritually blind and find themselves in a twilight condition – the ‘outer darkness’ mentioned in the Bible – and linger in the realm known as the Earth Sphere. Death does not make a saint of a sinner nor a sage of a fool. The mentality is the same as before and individuals carry with them their old desires, habits, dogmas, faulty teachings, indifference or disbelief in a future life. These earthbound spirits are the supposed ‘devils’ of all ages; ‘devils’ of human origin, thrust blindly into a spirit existence and held there in a bondage of ignorance. 

“The influence of these discarnate entities,” Dr. Wickland continues, “is the cause of many of the inexplicable and obscure events of earth life and of a large part of the world’s misery. A recognition of this fact accounts for a great portion of unbidden thoughts, emotions, strange forebodings, gloomy moods, irritabilities, unreasonable impulses, irrational outbursts of temper, uncontrollable infatuations and countless other mental vagaries.”

Dr. Wickland then points out that the “records of spirit obsession and possession extend from the remotest antiquity to modern times.” According to Dr. Tyler, a noted anthropologist of Dr. Wickland’s time who had studied indigenous peoples throughout the world, belief in demoniacal possession was still maintained by half the human race. Homer often referred to demons, saying, “A sick man pining away is one upon whom an evil spirit has gazed.” References to demons occur throughout both the Old and New Testaments, and “it must be admitted that a considerable portion of the work accredited to Jesus was the casting out of demons.” 

There are many ways to stumble into the realm where these spirits are free to obsess and possess besides just extremes of uncaring debauchery. Writing in the days when Psychical Research was still in its infancy, the 1920s, Dr. Wickland recounts the stories of some unfortunates driven to asylums in the aftermath of having been used in psychic experiments with automatic writing and Ouija boards. 

For example, a woman he calls “Mrs. Bl,” attempted some automatic writing, which led her to “mental derangement and altered personality. Normally she was amiable, pious, quiet and refined but became boisterous and noisy, romped about and danced, used vile language, and, claiming she was an actress, insisted upon dressing for the stage, saying that she had to be at the theater at a certain time or lose her position. Finally, she became so irresponsible that she was placed in an asylum.”  

Another similar case history is related, this time involving a woman Dr. Wickland calls “Mrs. Wr.,” who “became obsessed with hallucinations that God was constantly talking to her and condemning her for wrong acts of which he accused her; after attempting suicide at the request of this so-called God, she was taken to the asylum.” 

Mrs. Wr’s case is reminiscent of something the late abductee and author Karla Turner once wrote for Beckley’s now defunct newsstand magazine, “UFO Universe.” Turner was quite outspoken in her belief that the aliens and the abduction experience in general were not only evil but left in their wake a slew of debilitating aftereffects unjustly thrust upon perfectly innocent victims. 

As in the case of Mrs. Wr. and her delusional belief in a persecuting – but   nonetheless righteous – God who attempted to drive her to suicide, Turner wrote that, “The aliens have sometimes disguised themselves in order to gain the cooperation of the abductee, appearing in such forms as Jesus, the Pope, certain celebrities, and even the dead spouse of the abductee.” 

There is an understandable need, Turner said, for humans to believe in the power of good. The aliens understand that we hope for them to be benevolent creatures and they use our desire for goodness to manipulate us. Which is similar to what the suicidal Mrs. Wr. experienced – an evil spirit voice that convinced her it was God while also appearing to be a “good” accuser, counseling her that she should take her own life to expiate her “sins.”    

Turner also pointed to another aftereffect of abduction that has an even more clear resemblance to the spirits encountered by Dr. Wickland and his wife. 

“Some abductees,” Turner wrote, “experience a degeneration of their mental, social and spiritual well-being. Excessive behavior frequently erupts, such as drug abuse, alcoholism, overeating and promiscuity. Strange obsessions develop and cause the disruption of normal life and the destruction of personal relationships.” 

What Turner says here echoes Dr. Wickland and his wife nearly word for word. Note the use of the term “obsessions,” which one encounters with great frequency when reading “Thirty Years Among The Dead,” as well as the references to drug abuse, alcoholism, etc. These are the same maladies the Wicklands grappled with the spirits over and sought to heal in their patients. The evil spirits of the dead, who had led less than exemplary lives while inhabiting a human body – lowlifes, criminals, wife-beaters and the all around depraved – appear to exert an influence over their victims identical to the alien abductors described by Turner. 

As members of the UFO community, what are we to believe here? Surely the gray aliens are not the spirits of the deceased wicked come to prey on the weak-willed. Neither could the evil dead be said to travel in flying saucers or to conduct medical and psychological experiments on their “chosen ones.” Nevertheless, the alien abduction phenomenon has always been said to have occult overtones, and the lines between a nuts-and-bolts approach and a more paranormal, spiritual interpretation of abduction have always been blurred. The fact that both phenomena, alien abduction and spirit oppression, leave in their wake symptoms that often require psychiatric treatment ties the two together but does not really answer our questions about their ultimate nature. 

In any case, reading the new, unabridged Global Communications edition of “Thirty Years Among The Dead” will inevitably enrich one’s storehouse of knowledge of the strange and the supernatural and how we as human beings respond to those as yet still unknowable presences. As abnormal psychiatry and abduction research both progress, Dr. Wickland and his wife may eventually seem to have been prescient in their method of healing the mind by banishing the evil that stalks it. 

SUGGESTED READING

Thirty Years Among The Dead – Obsessions And “Curses” Removed Through The Work Of The Medium Mrs. Wickland. 

http://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Years-Among-Dead-Unabridged/dp/1606111760/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414718108&sr=1-1&keywords=1606111760 

UFOs – Wicked This Way Comes: The Dark Side Of The Ultra-Terrestrials 

http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Wicked-This-Comes-Ultra-Terrestrials/dp/1606111582/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415143387&sr=1-1&keywords=ufos+wicked+this+way+comes+beckley+casteel 

Round Trip To Hell In A Flying Saucer – UFO Parasites, Alien “Soul Suckers,” Invaders From Demonic Realms

http://www.amazon.com/Round-Trip-Hell-Flying-Saucer/dp/1606110918/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415143719&sr=1-1&keywords=round+trip+to+hell+in+a+flying+saucer+beckley+casteel