Are angels and archangels real individual consciousnesses, or are they some kind of energy constructs?
In Oriental cosmological viewincluding that of Christianity with is an Eastern religionthe individual consciousness evolves from the simplest form of manifested existence, the atom of hydrogen, to the most complexincluding angels and archangels. (In India they are known as various kinds of devasgodsgandharvas, asparas, etc.) They are all stages along the way to Infinity. Thus, archangels are graduated angels, who are themselves graduated human beings. In truth, there are no human, angelic, archangelic, etc., beings as entities in themselves. Rather, there are spirits (atmas) who are presently evolving through those forms. More simply: there are no beings known as hats, coats, shoes, dresses, and trousersthose are just the clothing assumed by us humans. In the same way there are only individualized consciousnesses that are clothing themselves in various states of embodiment for the purpose of evolution. The angelic/archangelic condition is just that: a condition or state of being which
