Rose Vanden Eynden - Metatron: Invoking the Angel of Gods Presence

About the Author

Spiritualist minister Rose Vanden Eynden earned her mediumship certification from the Indiana Association of Spiritualists in 2000. She is a founding member of the United Spiritualists of the Christ Light (USCL) Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she serves as a minister and instructor. She conducts personal readings and workshops across the country. Her book So You Want to Be a Medium? A Down-to-Earth Guide has been translated into two languages, and her work has been featured in national magazines, regional newspapers, and on radio and television.

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Metatron: Invoking the Angel of Gods Presence 2008 by Rose Vanden Eynden.

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This book is dedicated to my father,

William C. Finley,
who taught me many things about discipline
and faith, even if he isnt so sure about angels.
I love you, Daddy. Ill believe for both of us.

ontents

. Who Is Metatron?

. Personal Work with Metatron

. Ceremony with Metatron

. Metatron Speaks

: Endings and Beginnings

cknowledgements

The following people submitted questions for the A rchangel Metatron to answer in this book, and I want to thank them for their contributions: Shey Barnwell, Brenda Carpenter, T hembi Carr, Mary Lynn Crawford, Carol DellAlba, Liss Dickerson, A ngie Fellner, Shelley Goldman, T ammy Hodge, Lori Leach, Cindy Mullen, Ron Muskopt, Shannon Muskopt, Irene Olivier, Kandy Riley, Robert Rivard, Rev. Christine Sabick, Suzanne Segrati, A mber Siewertsen, Linda Simonsen, Cathy Switzer, Heather T homas, Keith V anden Eynden, Shellie W arren, T omi W eimer, and Michelle W isbith.

ntroduction

Angels have been around me since I was a child.

I dont mean that literally. T hroughout my Roman Catholic upbringing, angels were a part of my religious instruction and tradition. I attended Saint Michael the A rchangel parish and school, for goodness sake. From first grade through high school, I was taught that angels were watching over me. Every time I attended Mass, I passed a statue of A rchangel Michael, standing tall and righteous with armor and sword, his heel resting on the head of the serpent, the Devil in disguise. I listened to the stories from the Bible: A rchangel Gabriels announcement of Marys immaculate pregnancy, the dazzling appearance of angels proclaiming Jesuss birth and their pronouncement of Jesuss resurrection at his tomb, the war described in the Book of Revelation between the angels and the forces of evil. A ngels were referred to in the prayers recited and the songs sung at services. I never disputed their existence, but I certainly didnt believe they affected me in the least.

Perhaps, like me, you grew up with angels on the periphery of your world. A ngel stories are not exclusive to Christianity; they permeate many cultures and religious traditions. T hey are not confined to any one location on the planet or any single spiritual path. Islam holds that its holy book, the Quran, was dictated to the prophet Muhammad by the A rchangel Gabriel. T he Mormon religion was given to its founder, Joseph Smith, by an angel named Moroni. T he wings and influence of angels seem to stretch in many directions, lovingly overshadowing humanity in peace, compassion, and higher knowledge. Even a quick perusal of the Internet today reveals thousands of accounts of personal encounters with angelic beings. T hese bloggers and discussion group members come from all walks of life, from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and religious traditions. How is it that angels can influence so many different people in such remarkable ways?

Angels are not human, nor do they act with human habits. W e tend to give them human characteristics as a way of classifying and understanding them. By nature, we try to sort our experiences into tidy little boxes. Just look at the depictions of angels in popular culture. T he blockbuster film City of Angels told the story of an angel who, after falling in love with a human woman, chose to undergo a transformation to become a man. In the T V series Touched by an Angel, Monica, the angelic caseworker learning how to help her earthly charges, has a very human weakness for mocha lattes. Even Clarence, the angel-second-class in the Christmas favorite Its a Wonderful Life, carries around his favorite novel, Tom Sawyer. Althought these attributes might be endearing to the human audiences watching these characters, real angels do not fall in love, drink coffee, or read Mark T wain (or any other author) for pleasure.

But although we insist on humanizing angels, they were created by God as entities completely separate from human beings. T his is why angels can be in so many different places at once, serving a variety of needs and desires. T hey are not limited by a body, as we are, and they understand Natural Law, the axioms that govern Gods Universe, in ways that we dontwhich allows them to perform what we see as miraculous interventions. Such situations, where angels appear and save people from certain injury or death, can be mind- boggling to us. For angels, there is no miracle involved. Its just what they do.

Whether serving humanity on a large scale or attending to one person, angels act always in the highest, most Divine love energy. Small tasks are as important to them as large ones; one person matters just as much as the population of an entire country. Perhaps this is why belief in angels is so prevalent in society today. In a 2004 Gallup poll, 78 percent of A mericans indicated a belief in angels. A t our core, we recognize our spiritual connection to Creator, and we believe that His servants, the angels, wont desert usbut the belief is a dormant, inactive one.