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Fr. Andrew: Right, so we sing, right in the anaphora of the Divine Liturgy, we sing what in Latin is called the Sanctus: Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Sabaoth, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. So this is one of those things we’re talking about here now: this is one of those things that’s right there, a core piece of our liturgical tradition—I mean, it is right there at the heart of the Divine Liturgy—we call God the Lord Sabaoth, the Lord of hosts. It’s there, and it doesn’t just mean that he’s got a lot of angels available to him—we’re going to be talking about all of that—but he is Lord of hosts. Fr. Andrew: Maybe. Right, exactly, because that’s one of the things that’s going to be going on. I’m ready to be corrected. I’m ready to learn. But I’m ready to say that good angels cannot be killed by bad angels, because they don’t have mortal bodies. Am I correct in that? We do have an episode we’re going to be talking about spiritual bodies in the future, but this is not it. Fr. Andrew: Yes! And we’re just sort of stumbling through this, too. I’m learning how to do this. So thank you for bearing with us. Chapter 3 (Vital Principle) is about the differences between animate and inanimate beings, between the living and the dead and the features of intelligence compared to instinct. Fr. Stephen: To even add to that, it goes on in verse 10 to talk about God crushing a sea monster and throwing its carcass to the earth.

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Raphael: Oh, absolutely. No, this is fantastic. I actually have tons of notes already on questions I could ask, but what I was really curious about, since we’re talking about angels and demons, is: How can I deepen my relationship with my guardian angel? That’s something I’ve struggled with through the past seven, eight years. I’m curious as to what you’ve got to say.I’m super interested in this show because I think that there’s so much about spiritual life that it’s easy for us, not just to miss, but to have kind of endless struggles with that we don’t necessarily have to have. We’re going to talk about this a lot as we go, and of course not just in this episode, but it’s going to be a perennial issue: the sense that we have that the 3D world that we experience is kind of like all we feel we can access most of the time, but as Christians we want to access something beyond this, and it’s very frustrating when you maybe reach out for God and the saints and you’re like: Where are you? What’s going on? Serving as a pastor for 11 years, this is a perennial issue, and I think any pastors that are out there listening to this, I’m sure you’ve had the same experience, but even just Christians, we all have this difficulty because we’re modern people living in a way of thinking and looking at the world that makes it difficult to access spiritual reality. My grandson, John Cassian (What a great name for a kid!), who is six years old, is going to be listening to your podcast on angels tonight from Scottsdale, Arizona. He is very interested in angels right now and wants to ask if good angels are able to be killed by bad angels. He’s curious about whether they can die or not.

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Kardec (2019) A biographical feature film depicting how The Spirits' Book and other books were published. Fr. Stephen: Whoops, we left all this polytheistic stuff in there. Our bad! So that’s a problem. And then the other thing to me that really blows it out of the water is that the plural form of “gods,” talking about “gods” in the plural, is actually more common in the Dead Sea Scrolls than it is in the Old Testament. And the Dead Sea Scrolls are written right before and during the time of Christ. They clearly hadn’t evolved in their language; they were still talking about a plurality of gods. Contents [ ] Legends of the Garou: Communion [ ] Introduction: Animism [ ] Chapter One: History [ ]Fr. Andrew:“Um, actually…” Exactly! Everyone, get out your animated gifs for that! We today, Christians today, we are monotheists. That’s the way we talk about it, and we’re not polytheists. So there’s the idea that we worship the one, true God, and those pagans, they worshiped many gods. But that, if you listen to the beginning of what we were talking about tonight, you know that that’s not the image that the Bible depicts. It uses the word “gods” to refer to all kinds of beings and doesn’t see a problem with using that same word to refer to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the one true God. “The one true God,” the phrase that we use, that doesn’t mean that that’s the only being we use the word “god” to refer to, because the Bible doesn’t do that. Fr. Andrew: I know we’re going to get into it in a future discussion, but, if I remember correctly, part of why this is important in this case is that in that time and place, a woman displaying her glorious hair openly was regarded as essentially a thing to do to attract men. Doubly inappropriate for church, but as to why that is considered attractive to men in that time and place we’re going to have to save it for a future episode. It’s going to blow your mind when you hear it, though, folks. Fr. Andrew: It’s just atoms bouncing off each other and that’s all there is, right? In some ways it’s kind of the ultimate deterministic universe, where everything that you think and feel and do and say was actually determined from the moment of, say, a big bang, which got all the atoms bouncing off of each other, and now they’ve bounced and they’ve made you for this one little blip in time. If that sounds ultimately kind of meaningless—that’s because it is! [Laughter] But we don’t believe that; we’re not materialists. We believe that there’s an immaterial character to reality.

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Some of you are probably familiar with the work that I’ve done with Ancient Faith Radio, and I’m sure that many of you are familiar with my co-host, Fr. Stephen De Young’s podcast and blog, which are both titled, The Whole Counsel of God. But especially for those of you who are totally new, I thought we’d begin by each telling a little bit about ourselves and especially why we’re doing this new show. Fr. Stephen, why don’t you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell them what you hope to accomplish with this program.

Axis Mundi: The Book of Spirits is a sourcebook detailing many of the myriad spirits serving Gaia. Here are the elementals, Enigmatics, Epiphlings, Naturae, and the broods of the great Tribal Totems themselves. Can you afford not to seek their favor? Fr. Stephen: That the word is something that God does. He is God. It has to do with his god-ing. It has to do with his dominion and his rule and his power. It’s interesting, and it also comes in if you’ve ever gone to Great Compline, which we especially serve during—at least in our tradition—Great Lent. But it shows up, of course, at other times of the liturgical year. There is a hymn in there called “Lord of hosts”: “O Lord of hosts, be with us, for we have no other help in times of sorrow but thee.” Which in the Byzantine tradition is just a wonderful, big, throaty kind of manly hymn. But what’s interesting is that in Greek it’s: “ Kyrie [ton] dynamaeon, Lord of powers,” but it means the same thing. I mean, isn’t that just simply the Septuagint translation of “Lord Sabaoth,” right? Dozens upon dozens of spirits, each with their own story, all ready for use with Werewolf or Mage Second Edition

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Fr. Stephen: And so these spiritual beings can be called gods—in English we’d do it with a small g, but they aren’t using capitals in Greek—can be talked about that way, because either, on the one side, God has chosen to share his rule and his dominion with them, and so with angelic beings they are sharing in and reigning with God, and God is exercising his rule and his dominion and his power and his authority through them, graciously sharing it with them; or on the other side, on the more demonic side, because humans in their rebellion and sin have elevated these spiritual beings and have chosen to worship and serve them and become enslaved to them, so they are functioning as gods in that sense. Chapter 2 (General Elements of the Universe) explains the difference between spiritual and material matter and why spirits are not believed by materialists.Fr. Stephen: Right, and that’s why we reiterate that in the Creed, that Christ is true God. It’s not just that he’s god, that he’s divine, but that he is true God. He exercises the same authority. A newly introduced main character in The Labyrinth of the Spirits, Alicia, a police agent in the fascist era, is explicitly a Spanish version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, who, just as typically, was also the inspiration for Ariadne, the protagonist of the eight lost Mataix novels. But Alicia is also compared to Cinderella; she has, like two of the women in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone (a favourite Zafón text) a physical disability; and, consciously or unconsciously, also seems to incorporate elements of Lisbeth Salander in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series. Fr. Andrew: Thank you very much for that call, Gareth. Next we have Michael who is in Arkansas, and Michael has a question or a comment about polytheism versus monotheism. Michael, are you there? So how do you interact more with your angel? Well, number one, a lot of prayer books, for instance, will have a prayer in there called “The Prayer to Your Guardian Angel.” If you don’t have it in your prayer book, then you could probably find an Orthodox prayer to the angel online somewhere; I’m sure that you can find something. That’s something that I would incorporate into your prayer every day. That’s something that actually I don’t know why I started doing this—not that long ago, I’m kind of ashamed to admit, within just the past couple of years—as I’m going to sleep, first of course we pray to our Lord Jesus Christ to preserve us and to save us, because we could die in our sleep, but also the next thing that I do then is I specifically say, “O guardian of my soul and body, protect me from all assaults of the evil one this night.” And then I also add, because I’m a husband and a father, “Protect my wife and my children,” and I name them in that prayer as I’m going to sleep. Book Four (Hopes and Consolations) is about the most common doubts people have about religion in general and tries to solve the most sensitive ones under new light.