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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

continue to be unless supported by His
omnipotence. Conversely, we cannot locate an
angel surrounding it; an angel is a pure spirit.
To ask where an angel is, means to ask
where it is working - only thus is an angel in
place. Obviously, no place can be too small for an
angel, no place too big, no place too distant; for
with the angels, it is not a question of squeezing a
body into uncomfortable quarters or of spreading
its arms wide to cover more territory, or of easing
it out of a town quietly. No angel is everywhere,
for no angel is God, no angel is omnipotent, but
neither is an angel a human to be circumscribed
by the length of its arms or the horizons of eyes. It
is pure spirit, to be limited in place only by the
degree of the power and perfection proper to the
nature given it by God.
Saint Thomas packs so much into this
short commentary that it is worth opening up
because there are so many very important
concepts that covers much of what I have
explained so far. Not the least is his comment that,
“No angel is everywhere, for no angel is God, no angel
is omnipotent.” - This short sentence effectively
knocks Satan off his perch - he would have us
believe that he is everywhere and so omnipotent
to fool us that he is an opposite and equal of God.
If no angel is everywhere, then Satan
cannot occupy two or more people or places at the
same time. If Satan is possessing Jane for a
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