Talking with Angels
If angels were real, how would they communicate?
When people pray to God, they are attempting telepathic communication, and many believe that God can hear and understand them. Many also believe that God and His angels can and do directly communicate telepathically with them.
It stands to reason that a completely different form of life would have developed a completely different form of communication, as the lower animals, insects and plants on earth do.
Though the communication among these lesser species is thought to be more primitive and basic, angels are an order of being more evolved than man, so what form might their communication take?
In The Last Angel To Fall, we learn that the normal manner of communication between angels is telepathy. When the Archangel Immanuel tries to communicate with the first human being he encounters on earth, Michigan Army National Guard Sergeant Todd Paine, it doesn't work:
Excerpt from The Last Angel To Fall:
It had a crazed look in its eyes. Paine felt images flashing through his mind. Too fast for him to process.
Was it trying to communicate?
Sergeant Paine isn't telepathic, so he doesn't understand that the images and other information being transmitted to his brain are the angel's attempt to talk to him. The angel's second attempt to communicate with Paine is no better than the first:
Excerpt from The Last Angel To Fall:
In his head, Paine felt more than heard a strangely lyrical voice, at once both soothing and threatening, both comforting and menacing, admonishing him to stop resisting and to remain quiet. A slight laugh and a throaty growl, as if this being's mood was constantly shifting, swaying like a blade of grass in a swirling wind. Or maybe it was just insane.
Excerpt from The Last Angel To Fall:
He looked around, uncertain of his surroundings or even why he was here. It took a moment for him to remember. His internal antennae was still damaged, so he couldn't transmit, but his internal receiver was functioning all too well, and the never-ending cacophony of transmissions all over this world were driving him insane.
In The Last Angel To Fall, angels speak only through telepathy, but that doesn't mean that is their only means of communication. It is simply the most efficient and comfortable method for them. It also has the benefit of privacy, since humans cannot intercept these transmissions unless the angel wants them to.
The first attempt by the angel is misunderstood and leads to violence, which is not uncommon when humans react out of fear of things they don't understand.
To be able to communicate one must first want to communicate. Instinctive fear, fight or flight reactions are illustrations of humankind's primitive nature. The animal either attacks or shrinks from the unknown, which instead of considering it an opportunity, just considers it dangerous.
To communicate with angels, you must first open your mind to them. Be open and willing, but be on guard, just in case the angel is on a mission. If he is, you'd be smart to cooperate, or you just might end up like the unfortunate Sergeant Paine.
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About
Brian
G. Walsh is the author of The Last Angel To Fall, volume one
of the Jubal Stone Series of urban fantasy novels.
Walsh is
also the author of No Place For Mercy: An Eclectic Anthology,
a collection of short stories readers have compared to the writing of
Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Rod
Serling and other masters of literature.
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