WHAT philosophy calls ideas, and mythology calls gods, receive
in revelation the name of angels ; but it is the peculiar
characteristic of the angels to be ever active for the Kingdom
of God. Ideas, the divinities of life, operate as angels then, and
then only, when their tendency is not in the direction of the kingdom
of this world, but in that of the Kingdom of God, as their
main object—when they are indicators for the Kingdom of Holiness.
--Bishop Martinsen.
As it is wisdom that makes the angels perfect and constitutes
their life, and as heaven with its good things flows into every one
in the measure of his wisdom, so all in heaven desire and hunger
for wisdom much as a hungry man hungers for food.
—Swedenborg.
An angel brought from heaven a new-born thought,
A tiny thing, with serious, sweet eyes,
That held within their depths a radiance caught
From starry midnight skies.
Within a poet's heart the angel laid
His burden. Hour by hour it grew more fair,
More beautiful, until his presence made
That heart, once dark and bare,
All aglow with light. Ere long with questions sweet,
Nurtured by Love, untaught as yet by art,
It climbed the stairs, so steep for childish feet,
That wind 'twixt brain and heart.
—Mable Parker Clepp.
