{"id":488,"date":"2012-07-30T19:55:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-07-30T19:55:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T19:55:21","slug":"angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/flame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/flame-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"flame\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-489\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve never seen a metaphysical angel but the metaphorical ones who see with empathy, compassion and love are rare enough and may be the only angels we need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I continue the rather terrible habit of quoting things I have written elsewhere. This was a response to a quote on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HeavenAndHellSwedenborg\">Heaven and Hell<\/a> FB page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u017d&#8221;Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n-Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christianity, Vol. 2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t judge the reality of Swedenborg&#8217;s claim to have seen the Afterlife but I believe that we have the capacity to make heaven or hell right here; that we can be angels or demons. To be either an angel or a demon requires considerable personal power. Angels and demons both carry a flame but one enlightens and the other burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen a metaphysical angel but the metaphorical ones who see with empathy, compassion and love are rare enough and may be the only angels we need. I continue the rather terrible habit of quoting things I have written elsewhere. This was a response to a quote on the Heaven and Hell FB&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/angels\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}