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<blockquote data-quote="Taraxia" data-source="post: 3017508" data-attributes="member: 42426">That's archons. Angels -- the astral devas, planetars and solars -- are different; they're direct creations and servants of the deities. It's an established difference between archons and angels that archons are related to good mortals and angels aren't.If you're talking about real mythology/theology rather than D&amp;D, mainstream Judeo-Christian theology never considered angels to be the souls of the virtuous dead, even though that was an idea that cropped up here and there -- Swedenborg popularized the idea in modern times, for example, and it's an idea that's essential to the Gnostic heresy.In the Bible, angels are themselves sexless and quite alien, even horrifying beings -- giant things made of eyes and wings all over, huge turning wheels, etc. When they take human form they generally take male form, though, and there is the controversial bit in Genesis that may be about angels interbreeding with human women (though it may simply refer to a line of God-worshipping human patriarchs interbreeding with pagan women). In the New Testament, though, Jesus uses the example of angels -- whom he and his audience both suppose to be sexless -- as an argument for why humans in Heaven will not possess genders and will no longer marry or have sex with each other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Taraxia, post: 3017508, member: 42426"] That's archons. Angels -- the astral devas, planetars and solars -- are different; they're direct creations and servants of the deities. It's an established difference between archons and angels that archons are related to good mortals and angels aren't. If you're talking about real mythology/theology rather than D&D, mainstream Judeo-Christian theology never considered angels to be the souls of the virtuous dead, even though that was an idea that cropped up here and there -- Swedenborg popularized the idea in modern times, for example, and it's an idea that's essential to the Gnostic heresy. In the Bible, angels are themselves sexless and quite alien, even horrifying beings -- giant things made of eyes and wings all over, huge turning wheels, etc. When they take human form they generally take male form, though, and there is the controversial bit in Genesis that may be about angels interbreeding with human women (though it may simply refer to a line of God-worshipping human patriarchs interbreeding with pagan women). In the New Testament, though, Jesus uses the example of angels -- whom he and his audience both suppose to be sexless -- as an argument for why humans in Heaven will not possess genders and will no longer marry or have sex with each other. [/QUOTE]

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