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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

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DISCERNING THE LIGHTS

& THE CREATION OF LUCIFER

T
he Sacred Scriptures give only four angels
names from the countless number created.
The named are Gabriel, whose name
means, God is Mighty, Michael, whose name
means, Like God, Raphael, whose name means,
God Heals, and Lucifer, whose name means, Light
Bearer, or, Angel of Light. All the angels - the
countless numbers were all, created good.
"How can Lucifer be good?" you may be
asking. - St. Thomas Aquinas taught that angels
are not supernatural - God and God alone is the
only supernatural being and angels are creatures
no less than you or me. Other than being pure
spirits - just as any living creature that God
created - we see in Genesis that God calls his
creation "good" and that includes the angels who
too are created with free will; a will to choose to
accept their salvation or not.
According to St, Thomas Aquinas, angels
were created sometime before the creation of the
world, and so it may well be that God created the

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