Angelic Visitations: Messengers From God, Alien Interference or Just Made Up?

If we are to believe many historic initiators of various religions, then it seems special messenger angels have taken it upon themselves to give divine encouragement, and even inspiration to the founding fathers of their faiths. Religious founders of this type include such notable examples as Mani, establisher of Manichaeism, Mohammed with Islam, Joseph Smith, father of Mormonism, John Ballou Newbrough, writer of OAHSPE and founder of the Universal Faithists of Kosmon, and most recently many so called New Age "trance channeling types", such as Benjamin Crème, who says he regularly receives communications from “Ascended Masters”, and runs his non-profit org. Share International to share the messages he obtains from them.

Typically these “prophets” claim to have been visited by bright luminous beings. These angelic messengers often delivered targeted messages to these prophets, declaring them to be bearers of God's word to many nations. The reoccurring theme here caused me to wonder about the root cause of this phenomenon.

With that in mind, I sought to create a list all of the possible explanations for what might be behind these believed angelic visitations. Were these “seers” really visited by messengers from God? Or could these visitors be of some other nature? Or for that matter, were there actually any visitors involved, at all? In my quest for an answer, I decided to not judge whether or not a possibility was probable or improbable, in an attempt to list all possible roots. I came up with three primary possibilities. I list them in what might seem reversed order, starting with the most skeptical to the least negative of possibilities. This order is not an attempt to prioritize, but rather a devise for clarity's sake, since the third of these options is further sub-divided.

1. Visitation Faked - {Flimflam Evangel Theory}
2. Visitation Delusional - {Harvey Syndrome Theory}
3. Visitation Occurred - But further sub-divided

• a. - {Deceived Seer Theory}
• b. - {Duped Seer Theory}
• c. - {Alien Interference Theory}
• d. - {Genuine Messenger Theory}

Explained in more detail, these are as follows:

1: The visitations really didn't occur, and the alleged recipients of these angelic visits were/are con-artists, who lied about these visits, and were/are themselves seeking to control and manipulate others by using bogus messages to give clout to their self-styled belief system. {Flimflam Evangel Theory}

2: Or these visitations really didn't occur, but the recipients of the nonexistent visits were/are delusional, perhaps hallucinations due to a schizophrenic condition, while they genuinely believed them real. {Harvey Syndrome Theory}

3: These visitations really occurred, as claimed and described:

1. But the messengers were actually demonic, nefarious, or deceptive spiritual entities posing as angels. In short, they were some other sort of spiritual entity seeking to muddy the waters of human spirituality. {Deceived Seer Theory}
2. But these messengers were human fakers posing as angelic visitors, perhaps evening drugging their “chosen prophets” with psychotropic hallucinogens. But, in reality these fake angel posers controlled and manipulated others through their duped seers. Their message was not of divine origin. {Duped Seer Theory} (possible example: In ancient Persia such a hallucinogenic herb was mixed in incense to alter spiritual perception. It was said to be used by Zarathustra and his followers. Today, the knowledge of this herb's identity has been lost to time, though it may have still been known in Mani's time period, for example. It may have even still been known in Mohammed's time.)
3. But these messengers were extraterrestrial or extradimensional beings with their own “play god” agenda, interfering with human spiritual thought, perhaps seeking to shape the evolution of our spiritual development. {Alien Interference Theory}



4. or last but not least, these messengers really were angelic entities with messages from God. {Genuine Messenger Theory}

Regardless of which of these possibilities may apply in any given instance, there is a very telling characteristic of this type of messenger angel. Repeatedly this variety of angel delivered complex messages that amounted to full blown theology in a box.

When we compare this type of angel to messenger angels as shown in Judeo/Christian writings, we find a curious difference. I can't say that I know what this difference means, nor do I imply such knowledge. I merely make the observation that this difference exists.

The vast majority of the times, Biblical messenger angels were not delivering such complex messages. For instance in Genesis 19:15-23, two angles delivered a warning to Lot to take his family out of Sodom. Gabriel's annunciation to Mary in Luke 1:26-38, and the birth announcement to the shepherds, Luke 2:8-15 are two more good examples of the type of communication most often coming from messenger angels in the Bible. In Matthew 2:12-13 angels appeared in the dreams of the Magi, and Joseph, each time delivering warnings. In the Bible we most frequently find the primary jobs of messenger angels seem to be announcements and warnings. These are typically quick short messages that bring clarity, or help move along the story of those playing out the biblical drama.

Yet by the time of Mani, in the third century CE, the roles of messenger angels appear to have expanded. According to Mani's claim, his "guardian angel" appeared to him several times throughout his ministry giving him guidance and instructing him what to write.

With Mohammed the messenger angel Gabriel moved on from birth announcements to “ghost writing” through his chosen prophet, a new "holy" book in the form of the Koran, which Gabriel dictated word for word to Mohammed.

Likewise, in similar fashion, in the nineteenth century CE, the messenger angel Moroni delivered the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith, already written down in an angelic language. Moroni also provided Joseph Smith with a translation key, in order to get the book into English, which he translated into a style not unlike King James English, even though that style of speech was about two hundred years outdated, at the time. While in 1881 CE, unseen and unnamed angelic spirits delivered to John Newbrough, through the channel of “automatic typing”, and drawing, a new Bible of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors, (Newbrough's spelling), known as the book of OAHSPE. This new "Bible" was also written in a style rather similar to King James English, (as if that style of speech somehow gave it more "religious" authority). For those interested in seeing this "channeled" work, the entire book of OAHSPE is now available online, along with it's odd esoteric sometimes surreal illustrations here .

Going from delivering short announcements and warnings to delivering entire theologies seems a rather dramatic change in the job description of messenger angels. However, whether the message be long or short, the same list of possible explanations applies, faked, delusional, or actual. And as with all these examples, if actual, the genuine identity of these messengers unfortunately remains an illusive unanswered question.