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Fr. Andrew: Yeah, that’s a good question! I know you asked that to Fr. Stephen, but could I just begin to take a shot at this, if you don’t mind? Fr. Stephen: [Laughter] Not really correct it. I’ll fill in blanks. I don’t have to “Um, actually” you yet. Fr. Andrew: You don’t want to be. You don’t want to be superstitious. That’s not the same. We’re not teaching people how to be superstitious well. [Laughter] That’s not what we’re doing.

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My grandson, John Cassian (What a great name for a kid!), who is six years old, is going to be listening to your podcast on angels tonight from Scottsdale, Arizona. He is very interested in angels right now and wants to ask if good angels are able to be killed by bad angels. He’s curious about whether they can die or not. Because [when] you go to sleep, that’s kind of a vulnerable position to be in, and you want the guards up and doing their task in the night while you’re asleep, and that is one of the things that we know that the angels do. That’s not all that they’re about for sure—we’re going to be talking a And, as we read Zafón’s novel, his characters are reading hundreds more, real and imagined. The quartet’s umbrella title, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, refers to a focal location: a secret labyrinthine library in Barcelona, where cherished and threatened texts are protected, and from which visitors are allowed to take away one title. Fr. Andrew: That is a good and a very… That’s a great question and I think really important, because, if you look at the baptismal service, we ask God in the course of that baptismal service to assign a guardian angel to that person. We don’t say that because we just want to say it; we believe that that happens. We don’t ask God for things that we don’t think are going to happen, especially in services like baptism. Angels are assigned to us to guard us, to help us. Amid the game-playing with known and unknown stories, Zafón has a serious and angry political intent. The sections of The Labyrinth of the Spirits are named after the parts of the Roman Catholic church’s Latin requiem – Dies Irae, Libera Me, etc – which underlines the suggestion that the novels are a lamentation for Spanish (and especially Catalan) history. Zafón is a fine describer of city sights, vividly depicting both the touristic and obscure parts of Barcelona and MadridFr. Stephen: Right, and that’s why we reiterate that in the Creed, that Christ is true God. It’s not just that he’s god, that he’s divine, but that he is true God. He exercises the same authority. Axis Mundi. The World Tree. The spiritual center of the world. The Garou know it well, for they must place themselves at the Tree, the center of creation, to work their rituals. And in the branches and among the roots, the spirits await, ready to assist those who speak the right words... or to punish those who walk the wrong path. Fr. Stephen: But “Sabaoth,” the “-oth” ending is a feminine ending in Hebrew. “Saba-” means “to be many, to teem, to be many.” So that, in a nominal form in the plural, means like “big groups” or “hosts”: “Lord of hosts.” The King James Old Testament translated that.

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If the idea of having acid indigestion sounds like it’s too trivial to involve God in, then that means that you are a materialist by habit. And I am. I think everybody listening to this probably is. Now, it’s possible that there’s some very spiritual people who are listening to this who aren’t, and if you are, please pray for us! But I think most of us are materialists by habit. This question kind of refers to I guess any physical geography and the correlation it has to heavenly events and places. But what is it about Mt. Hermon that makes it a recurring physical place for events of such cosmic significance? Who is like you, O Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? Fr. Andrew: Right, so we sing, right in the anaphora of the Divine Liturgy, we sing what in Latin is called the Sanctus: Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Sabaoth, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. So this is one of those things we’re talking about here now: this is one of those things that’s right there, a core piece of our liturgical tradition—I mean, it is right there at the heart of the Divine Liturgy—we call God the Lord Sabaoth, the Lord of hosts. It’s there, and it doesn’t just mean that he’s got a lot of angels available to him—we’re going to be talking about all of that—but he is Lord of hosts.After this is a section on necromancy, involving magic circles and calling upon the aforementioned four kings, names of God, and different saints to constrain a called spirit. [16] The instructions on necromancy are followed by a means of finding hidden treasure that is similar to the method used by Edward Kelley, with spells to bind the spirit guarding the treasure. [17] Following this is yet another means of summoning King Leraje, [18] and then similar instructions to summon a spirit named Baron, and a spell named "an experiment of Rome," and spells to find lost items, steal items, see spirits (involving the invocation of King Arthur), and enchanting hazel rods. [19] But I wanted to start with this discussion of the question of materialism. I think in Christian circles we tend to use the word “materialism” as a synonym for greed. That person is very materialistic; they want to buy a lot of stuff, they’re obsessed with their stuff. But that’s not what we mean by “materialism” in what we’re talking about. So if you had to give a nutshell definition of “materialism,” Father, what would you say? All Spirits preserve their individuality, before, during and after each life ( incarnation). However, the amount of memory one retains depends on one's level of spiritual progression.

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Across four long English novels, such emphasis on the power and pleasure of books would risk being thought a gesture to conservative views on education or a diversion from more pressing societal issues. But in Spanish history, the fate of literature has consistently been a test of the severity of legislative and ecclesiastical politics. So the concealed libraries and hunted-for publications in the quartet represent Spain’s shameful piles of books that were burned, redacted, banned or hidden in secret stores because of the moral policing of kings, cardinals and dictators. Fr. Andrew: You get middle-aged, you eat hot wings and pizza and stuff, and your innards are going to let you know later in the day—maybe immediately—that that was not the best thing to do. So what do we do when we have acid and indigestion? You take antacids, chew up those little pills—I like the mint-flavored ones—and you feel better, and that’s all there is to it. You had a problem, so you took a medicine, and, boom, you’re better, right? There’s nothing wrong with that, but what point along that continuum of experience and response did I include anything having to do with God or the saints? Fr. Stephen: Well, just going along with what you were just saying, one of the questions that we will probably end up getting asked relatively frequently is sort of why people haven’t heard this stuff before.Fr. Stephen: So that’s why we’re going to talk about these kind of things. It’s not because we’re trying to shake anybody up or be firebrands or cause controversy. These spells are interrupted by a short treatise on the role of angels, demons, and magic in theodicy, before continuing with more spells to see spirits, [20] a collection of talismans, [21] and a selection of names of God, planetary seals and spirits, geomantic figures, fumigations, and notes on the Lunar mansions openly taken from Agrippa. [22] Following this are more instructions on ritual magic, and more spells to acquire unspecified desired items, and identify thieves. The additional spirits in this section include: Bilgal, Annabath, Ascariell, Satan, Baron, Romulon, Mosacus, and Orobas. [23] The instructions on summoning spirits continue with Oberyon and his followers: Storax, Carmelyon, Severion, Caberyon, Aozol, Restun, Ramalath, Zaseres, Castriel, Saziel, and Ydial. [24] Fr. Stephen: However, evil angels can die. We just read from Psalm 82. We didn’t read the verse, but verses 6 and 7. Chapter 3 (Return from Corporeal Life to Spirit Life) is about disincarnation ( the death of the Physical Body).