All angels have a tremendous aura. And the archangels, who are over the other orders of angels, have an aura that is extraordinary in size.
You can readily sense their presence in your feeling world—you pick up feelings of love, hope, faith, encouragement, support.
This is because they help us by using their auras to transmit or transfer to us a portion of the tremendous light that they have from God.
The angels have retreats in the heaven-world, as do Elohim and other beings of light. The retreats are well above the pollutions of earth on a level called the etheric plane.
These etheric retreats are older than the earth and are centers where tremendous light is released.
This is why people make journeys to special places on the earth—they sense and can access the vibrations of the beings of light who make their abode there.
The archangels’ retreats are open to souls of merit and your soul can travel there during sleep.
Just before you retire at night, pray to Archangel Michael and his legions of angels to escort you to realms of light to attend classes in these universities of the Spirit.
You may not remember what you have studied in one of the archangels’ retreats, yet your soul knows.
And little by little, the information trickles down to your mental awareness. Sometimes you might say, “I have an idea,” and it is a memory of something you picked up in those inner schools of learning.
Prayers and decrees are more powerful when you repeat them.
Many Protestants avoid saying prayers more than once, seeing it as the vain repetition that Jesus advised against (Matt. 6:7). “After all,” they say, “why should I have to ask God for something more than one time?”
However, the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches practice repetition of the Our Father, Hail Mary and other prayers.
Jewish mystics repeated the names of God. For some mystics, repetition truly becomes prayer “without ceasing” (I Thess. 5:17).
The reason it is more effective to repeat a prayer is that each time you say it, you are giving more light-energy to God and the angels.
The angels can use that energy as a seed, adding more light-energy as they go about answering your request.
If you want your pipes fixed, you call a plumber. If you want to be rescued from a mugger, you call to the angels of protection. If you want a relationship fixed, you call to the angels of love.
Angels have different jobs. And they use energies of different frequencies (corresponding to different colors) to accomplish those jobs.
In the following lessons you will meet seven kinds of angels, along with the seven archangels who supervise them. You will also learn which angels to call to for which tasks.
The idea of seven archangels isn’t new. Neither is the association of angels with colors or with spiritual fire.
As early as the third century B.C., the Jewish tradition wrote about seven archangels. And they believed that the angels were surrounded by spiritual flames and appeared in a variety of colors.
You can become more closely connected with the angels when you call to the archangel whose angels specialize in handling what you want done.
Angels answer your calls with precision, and they take pride in doing so. The more specific the request, the more specific the answer will be.
As long as you are living your life in harmony with the universal Source and devoting your energy to helping others, the angelic hosts will help you with the smallest details of your life.
One inspiring example is the penniless woman who turned over to God a grocery list during World War II.
She asked God specifically for the exact items she needed for her family’s weekend meals. Within a few hours, a man knocked on her door carrying a basket with everything she had asked for, right down to the veal, potatoes and pastry flour.
Here is how another woman worked with the angels to draw to herself the kind of truck she wanted.
Danette was looking for a used Toyota 4Runner but knew that she couldn’t afford the steep prices they cost. So she decided to leave it to the angels.
She wrote down the year, make, color, engine size, price range, mileage and type of rims and tires she wanted.
She also listed that she wanted a mechanically sound car with power steering, power brakes, power windows, power locks, air conditioning and cruise control.
She cut out a picture of the kind of truck she was looking for and carried it around in her wallet. Every day, she gave decrees and fiats to the angels for fifteen to forty-five minutes while looking at her list and picture.
After weeks of scanning the classifieds, Danette was a little concerned but didn’t give up. “I knew the angels were working on it…. I wouldn’t settle for less,” she said.
Finally, she decided to continue her search in another city, twelve hours away. Her friends there had told her that a 4Runner in her price range just wasn’t to be found.
But when she looked in the paper, there it was— “a 1990 Toyota 4Runner for $3,000 less than any other I had seen!” she said. The owner had just placed the ad that day and the car fit every one of her specifications, right down to the cruise control.
Her bank approved the loan and she drove home in her new 4Runner—thanking the angels all the way.
The more detailed your requests, the more satisfied you will be with the results.
You can increase the power of your prayer by maintaining a strong mental picture of what you want to have happen.
In addition, visualize brilliant light surrounding the problem or situation.
Sometimes concentrating on a picture, as Danette did, can help too. Here is another example of how visualization works.
A group of students were driving home after attending a spiritual seminar when their car began to overheat. Since none of them had any extra money to spend on car repairs, they decided to ask the angels for help.
“Each time the needle started creeping up hotter and hotter, I would make fiery calls to the angels,” said Kevin, the driver.
“I told the people in the car to hold the visualization of snow, of crystal clear, cold mountain streams and ice all around the whole engine. Then we would watch the needle immediately go right back down as the temperature dropped to normal.”
The group made it home safely, thanks to the angels—and an effective visualization technique! Of course, it is better to combine angelic assistance with professional help when possible.
The question occurs to just about anyone who has ever thought about angels: Why do the angels answer some prayers and not others?
Why does one person pray for ten years without getting what he wants while another gets it immediately?
Why are some houses destroyed by fire or flood while others are left untouched? Surely the angels hear everyone’s prayers.
One reason is that the angels’ ability to respond to our prayers is based upon the cumulative effects of our past actions—our good and bad deeds from this and previous lifetimes, also known as karma.
The angels are neither genies nor Santa Claus. They must play by the rules of karma.
When we pray and give devotion to the angels, they can sometimes eliminate the effects of karma, but often they can only reduce them.
The angels hear all of your prayers. But in order for your requests to be granted, they must fulfill three conditions:
1: they may not interfere with God’s plan for your soul (or with your karma)
2: they must not be harmful to you or anyone else
3: the timing must be right.
You could pray for years to win the lottery and not win. But you might get something you didn’t expect, like a higher-paying job that leads you in new directions.
Perhaps the angels couldn’t answer your prayer to win the lottery because your soul needs to learn the lesson of earning a living. But they did answer in the way that was best for you.
If you follow the steps in these lessons and still find that you don’t get an answer, the angels may be trying to tell you something.
It might be time to revise your prayer and try again. Keep praying, and know that the angels will give you the best answer that they can based on your soul’s needs. (See “A Call Is Answered.”) Prayer always bears fruit. You just have to know where to look.
When she was sixteen, Lucy Krasowski had a premonition that she would die a violent death at age thirty. The feeling didn’t go away with adolescence. At twenty-five, she began asking God to keep her from the death she felt was fated.
In the meantime, she had become a Montreal police officer. Although violence against police officers is rarer in Canada than in America, Lucy felt that she was in danger and asked God to lead her to prayers for protection. She had heard that Archangel Michael was the patron of police officers and so she was looking for prayers to him.
She was thirty when she first attended a Summit Lighthouse Study Group meeting. There she learned decrees and prayers to Archangel Michael as well as the fiat “Archangel Michael, Help me! Help me! Help me!” She quickly memorized the decrees and began giving them on her way to and from work and during breaks. “I was in almost constant communion [with the angels],” she recalled.
On May 22, 1993, Lucy gave two hours of decrees to Archangel Michael before going to work at 8 p.m. That night, she and her partner were searching for an assault suspect. They pulled up to a man and asked him if he had seen anything. He leveled a 9 mm pistol at them and demanded their weapons. When they hesitated, he shot them both—Lucy in the head, face and leg and her partner in the head.
Lucy opened her door and fell out, trying to take cover under the car. “Lord Michael! Help me! Help me! Help me!” she called aloud. Her call frightened the gunman, who ran away, thinking she was radioing for help. This gave her the time to actually get to the radio. (The gunman was later caught and convicted.)
Although Lucy had been seriously wounded, the bullets missed her spinal cord and major blood vessels. “She…was probably within millimeters of having something tragic happen,” said her surgeon, Dr. Philip Dahan.
She attributes the near misses as well as her swift recovery to Archangel Michael. She never went into shock and was walking around two days after the shooting. Ten days after that, she left the hospital. Although her hearing was impaired and some of her facial muscles were paralyzed, she was able to hear in the low normal range. Lucy called her recovery “awesome,” especially since the doctors originally told her that she would never again hear out of her right ear.
Why didn’t Archangel Michael keep her from being shot in the first place? She believed that her karma—the cumulative effect of her past actions—prevented him from stopping the bullets. But she thought her prayers enabled him to redirect them so that she was not killed. Although her karma may have destined her to die at age thirty, her determination to live and her choice to pray changed her “fate.”
“My karma didn’t allow the bullets to be stopped, but what Archangel Michael did was just as good. He saved my life,” she said. “God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we expect him to.”
Start your personal journal to connect with the Seven Archangels.
Try to answer some questions that can help you to improve your life with the help of the Archangels.
In the name of the I AM THAT I AM, I call to the seven archangels and their legions of light, I call to beloved Archangel ___________ and the angels of ___________. I ask you to [insert request].
I ask that my call be multiplied and used for the assistance of all souls on this planet who are in need. I thank you and I accept it done this hour in full power, according to the will of God.
Scientists are now researching sound’s impact on the brain and we all know of it’s impact on the heart.
Certain kinds of classical music, like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, have a range of positive effects, including temporarily raising IQ, expanding memory and speed learning.
Try to meditate on the archangels while listening to these composers. You may feel the presence of the Archangels.