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I haven't had any personal contact with angels, as far as I know. Well, a little with the Feri Guardians, which some believe are Watchers. So I can't speak from personal experience, so I'll go from my (conflicting and paradoxic) personal beliefs based on what I've read and my own thoughts.
To me, angels are basically the agents of G-d to man, though He's always spoken directly to me, not through angels. It's hard to tell whether they're an extension of G-d with no independent will of their own or if they are independent beings who serve him. But then, that's a hard distinction with anything. Where does G-d stop and creation begin? I believe all of creation is made of the stuff of Him (or Her if you will; YVHV of the Jews is God Herself, the Star Goddess of Feri for me) and is actively maintained by Him. I am a reflection of Her, one with the gods, all of which are Her reflections, but a very real part of Her. I am Goddess. But I digress.
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...or extensions of the modern psyche? Once again, can I answer both? I had this discussion with someone on the same list a while back in a discussion about creation myths and about gods. Is there a separation between what's in here *taps head* and what's out there *points to the sky*? In Feri, the gods are very real distinct beings, yet they are in us and are us at the same time. Paradox. I think the psyche shapes the external, and the external shapes our pysche. I had a discussion with someone on another list back a bit about the child wind goddess I worshipped in my teens. He asked, was she not real just because you made her up? The gods (and angels) are both the product of our collective psyche and our collective psyche is a product with interactions with them. Our deepest fears are there because there really is something out there to fear (Poe, Lovecraft, and King were/are experts in playing with these fears), and there's something out there to fear because of our deepest fears. It's the same thing as with the Windago and other monsters. The monster without is really the monster within, and the monster within is really the monster without. But I digress again.
Fallen angels, I think, are very real, though they, like us, like other spirits, like the gods, have evolved over time as human experience has evolved.
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FFF,
~Muninn's Kiss
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