Angel

An angel is an ethereal creature (meaning it is "of the air"), found in many mythologies, whose duties are to assist and serve God or the gods of many religious traditions.

Other religions

Angels are also a part of Zoroastrianism and New Age beliefs. Also, angel-like beings called Tennin and Tenshi appear in Japanese mythology

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Zoroastrianism - New Age - Tennin - Tenshi - Japanese mythology

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Thelema

Aleister Crowley, tried to teach people to attain what he called "the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel". Within the system of Thelema, the Holy Guardian Angel is representative of one?s truest divine nature. Citing Crowley, people have linked the term with the Genius of the Golden Dawn, the Augoeides of Iamblichus, the Atman of Hinduism, and the Daemon of the gnostics.Guardian Angel

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Aleister Crowley - Holy Guardian Angel - Thelema - Golden Dawn - Augoeides - Iamblichus - Atman - Hinduism - Daemon - Gnostics

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According to most Thelemites, the single most important goal is to consciously connect with one?s HGA, a process termed ?Knowledge and Conversation.? By doing so, the magician becomes fully aware of his own True Will. For Crowley, this event was the single most important goal of any adept:

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:It should never be forgotten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the Magician is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Once he has achieved this he must of course be left entirely in the hands of that Angel, who can be invariably and inevitably relied upon to lead him to the further great step?crossing of the Abyss and the attainment of the grade of Master of the Temple. (Magick Without Tears, Ch.83)

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Crowley felt that attaining Knowledge and Conversation was so important, that he staked the claim that any other magical operation was, in a sense, evil.

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