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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

any event, it contradicts the Biblical
understanding of the angelic, which informs us
that we will "Judge the Angels."
It would seem that these ideas come from
early Wiccan folklore and fairy tales with roots in
a European pre-Christian era and later with the
Age of Enlightenment. This would no doubt be
the reason why so many Christians have rejected
their existence as childish notions unbecoming of
an intelligent adult, and this would seem to be so
with the advent of psychology into the Church.
On the other hand, this is not the case in
Mormonism where we find the Angel Moroni, not
a name from the Bible, and nowhere can I find the
meaning of the name as with all the other angels.
The only exception being the Greek word "Moron"
meaning; "Fool." To Latter Day Saints, Moroni is
the same one as the Book of the Mormon prophet-
warrior named Moroni, who was the last to write
in the golden plates. The book states that Moroni
buried them before he died after a great battle
between two pre-Columbian civilizations. After he
died, he became an angel, then the guardian of the
golden plates, and eventually directing Joseph
Smith to their location in the 1820s.
Notice that this says that after Moroni
died, ‘he became an angel,’ and so it fits well with
those other New Age beliefs. Because God created
the angels, and man will judge them, it is not
possible to die and become an angel, and we will
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