Angels ain't so high

Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Thu Mar 21 11:44:44 CST 1996



On Wed, 20 Mar 1996 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:


> What 
> rank do you think the Angel over Lubeck held?  He seemed a pretty nice, though 
> somewhat of a foreboding angel.  What do you think?  Throne?  Principality? Plain 
> old ordinary , though large, angel?  Can't recall page numbers but this is from GR, 
> right?


I can't remember exactly where in GR the Angel over Lubeck appeared. 
Seems like it was an experience Group Captain Basher St. Blaise had.
There was also something about "angels" to do with wireless
communication. Help!

Anyway, it sounds like this would be a job for the Archangel Gabriel. 
"He" was often charged in dealing with mankind, transmitting important 
information, etc.  Announcing the coming of John the Baptist and Jesus 
himself. Was it also Gabriel who appeared to St. Anne telling her she 
would be barren no more and should soon be expecting a little girl who 
would become known as the Virgin Mary? Could the angel over Lubeck
possibly be trying to announce the coming of the V-weapon (the Lubeck raid
being what really set Hitler off and itching for revenge). Kind of 
perverse imagery I would say. Does this tie in with "angels" over the 
wireless? Gabriel is the patron saint of communication I believe. And to 
toss one more stick into the fire, St Blaise, if I remember rightly, is 
the patron saint of _throats_. Or was it _sore throats_? Anyway you
pray to him to intercede on behalf of that ailment.

					P.



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