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Sto caricando le informazioni... Discovering Angels: Wisdom*Healing*Destiny (2005)di Christine Astell
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'Discovering Angels' is a beautifully illustrated celebration of angels and the assistance they can give to anyone prepared to open themselves up to forgotten inner truths. The book works in two ways: first, as a fascinating introduction to angels, looking in detail at their scriptural origins, their symbolism, and their guiding energies; and second, as a source of practical guidance in the form of self-help exercises, such as visualizations and meditations that tap into the divine loving energy embodies by angels. By tuning into their timeless symbolism, this book will help you to discover how angels can touch your life. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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There was a book that came out in 2006 (Rhonda Byrne, The Secret) which encouraged people to find a mentor who could assist their positive thinking about their lives. These people would inevitably bring about whatever you desired. If you didn't get your deepest desires of positivity, you weren't being positive enough. It was circular thinking but many people read the book. Finding a mentor became the true search goal. Not fulfilling your desires for peace and self understanding. Unfortunately, this left people open to having their trust abused by charlatans passing themselves off as gurus.
This book falls into that category as well, but not by intention of the author who seems fair-minded and somewhat knowledgeable. Astell seems to want to introduce people to the wide variety of literary sources, beyond the Christian tradition which reveres angelic beings the most, to reveal Muslim, Jewish, Transcendentalists, Assyrian, Greek, Hindu, Zoroastrian, and theosophist literary allusions.
This is a richly illustrated book but because most depictions of angels are from the Christian tradition, it is what it is. There is a moral equivalence given to all the traditions when of course the most accurate depictions are from the Christian writings or Christian interpretation of the Jewish scriptures.
There are instructions on how to contact an angel to become your guardian angel. I would not recommend these last chapters to christian readers since Christians already believe they have a guardian angel as this was explicitly stated by Jesus himself in the Gospels.
Angels are essential to the christian belief system and Roman Catholics have as part of their dogma the existence of angels which is necessary as part of salvation. This is due to the message of an angel to Mary of Nazareth that a son would be born to her and if she agreed would become the Messiah for all mankind.
This book is written from the perspective of comparative world religions, which I have also done some study in. (